Wendy Acosta
Personal information
Full name Wendy Patricia Acosta Salas[1]
Date of birth (1989-12-19) 19 December 1989[1]
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)
UD Moravia
2015–2016 UD Granadilla Tenerife Sur 13 (1)
International career
2007– 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.

Career

University of Costa Rica

Acosta attended the University of Costa Rica.[5]

International

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]

Club

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]

Honours

Costa Rica

Winner

References

  1. 1 2 3 "List of Players – 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "Yo Soy". Federación Costarricense de Fútbol (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  3. ↑ "VCU Women's Soccer Awards". Retrieved 13 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "Canada vs Costa Rica in 2017 International Friendly". Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  5. ↑ "Futbolista Wendy Acosta simboliza a una Selección valiente y comprometida con su sueño" (in Spanish). Crhoy. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Soccerway profile". Soccerway. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  7. ↑ "Costa Rica vs Belize". Soccerway. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  8. ↑ "Costa Rica vs Nicaragua". Soccerway. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  9. ↑ "Costa Rica vs Martinique". Soccerway. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  10. ↑ "Costa Rica's Ticas one match away from FIFA World Cup Canada 2015". Tico Times. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  11. ↑ "Costa Rica women beat Bosnia in Istria Cup". CONCACAF. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  12. ↑ "Nuevo reto para la jugadora nacional" [New challenge for international player] (in Spanish). Sports. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  13. ↑ "Acosta has motivations beyond country". CONCACAF. Retrieved 30 March 2015.


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