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Leonel Moreira
Costa Rican football player (born 1990)
Leonel Gerardo Moreira Ledezma (born 2 April 1990) is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Liga FPD club Alajuelense and the Costa Rica national team.
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Moreira in 2018 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Leonel Gerardo Moreira Ledezma | ||
| Date of birth | (1990-04-02) 2 April 1990 (age 34) | ||
| Place of birth | Heredia, Costa Rica | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Alajuelense | ||
| Number | 23 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2009–2019 | Herediano | 293 | (0) |
| 2019–2021 | Pachuca | 0 | (0) |
| 2019 | → Bolívar (loan) | 23 | (0) |
| 2020–2021 | → Alajuelense (loan) | 57 | (0) |
| 2021– | Alajuelense | 46 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2011–2022 | Costa Rica | 24 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:08, 15 September 2022 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 2 June 2022 | |||
Moreira came through the Herediano youth system[2] and has only played for the Florenses.
Moreira was in Costa Rica's 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup squad.[3]
He made his senior debut for Costa Rica in a July 2011 Copa América match against Colombia[4] and has, as of May 2014, earned a total of 5 caps, scoring no goals. He was a non-playing squad member at the 2011 and 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cups.
In May 2018 he was named in Costa Rica's 23 man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.[5]
International
- Statistics accurate as of match played 21 July 2021[6]
| Costa Rica | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Apps | Goals |
| 2011 | 3 | 0 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 |
| 2019 | 5 | 0 |
| 2021 | 8 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 24 | 0 |
Herediano
- Liga FPD: Clausura 2012, Clausura 2013, Clausura 2015, Clausura 2016, Clausura 2017, Apertura 2019
- CONCACAF League: 2018
Alajuelense
Individual
- CONCACAF League Golden Glove: 2018
- CONCACAF League Golden Glove: 2020
- CONCACAF League Golden Glove: 2022
Moreira is married to Yuli Granados and they have a son, Santiago.[7]
- "2018 FIFA World Cup: List of players" (PDF). FIFA. 24 June 2018. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 June 2018. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
- Tricolor carecerá de experiencia en el arco 3 Jóvenes opciones Archived 6 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine – Nación (in Spanish)
- Leonel Moreira – FIFA competition record (archived)
- "Leonel Moreira". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
- Leonel Moreira, portero herediano, fue goleado por el matrimonio – Al Día (in Spanish)
- Leonel Moreira at National-Football-Teams.com
- Profile at Herediano
- Leonel Moreira at Soccerway
- Leonel Moreira at ESPN FC
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