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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Wendy Patricia Acosta Salas [1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 19 December 1989||
Place of birth | San Sebastián, Costa Rica [2] | ||
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) [1] | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Herediano FF | ||
Number | 20 | ||
College career | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Universidad de Costa Rica | |||
2012 | VCU Rams | (9 [3] ) | |
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2013-2015 | UD Moravia | ||
2016 | UD Granadilla Tenerife Sur | 13 | (1) |
2016-2018 | UD Moravia | ||
2019- | Herediano | ||
International career | |||
2007–2017 | Costa Rica | 59 [4] | (18) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Wendy Patricia Acosta Salas (born 19 December 1989) is a Costa Rican footballer who plays as a midfielder for Herediano FF and the Costa Rica women's national football team.
Acosta attended the University of Costa Rica. [5]
On 28 April 2010, Acosta made her international debut against Honduras. [6] On 7 October 2011, she scored her first ever international goal against El Salvador. [6] In the following matches against Honduras and Guatemala, she again scored a goal in each match. [6] Then on 22 January 2012, she scored a brace against Haiti. [6] On 7 March, she scored a hat-trick against Belize, with goals in the twenty-sixth, forty-fourth and sixty-fifth minute during a match in which Costa Rica won 14–0. [7] She would continue her scoring, as she found the net in consecutive matches against El Salvador and Panama. [6]
On 16 March 2013, Acosta scored twice in a match against Nicaragua. [6] There she found the net in the first half of the match, in the fourteenth and twentieth minute. Costa Rica won that match 4–0. [8] She again scored in a 6–1 victory for Costa Rica against Martinique, finding the net in the thirty-second minute before she was substituted for Carol Sanchez in the sixty-second minute. [9] Through victory in that match, Costa Rica was "one match away from" the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. [10] On 5 March 2015, Acosta scored a single goal against Bosnia and Herzegovina, which helped Costa Rica win a match in the Istria Cup. [11]
In 2015, Acosta was invited for a trial by Swedish club AIK. [12]
After scoring a goal, Acosta "always [points] to the sky" to remember her father, who died due to a heart ailment in 2011. She has also said that she plays football because her "dad played". [13]
Winner