Leonidas Flores
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Leonidas Flores Reyes | ||
Date of birth | January 24, 1965 | ||
Place of birth | La Palma de Abangares, Costa Rica | ||
Height | Script error: No such module "person height". | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1983–1988 | Puntarenas | (93) | |
1989 | Saprissa | ||
1989–1992 | Montreal Supra | ||
1992–1994 | San Carlos | ||
1995 | Limonense | ||
1995-1996 | Guanacasteca | ||
1996 | San Carlos | ||
Total | - | (118) | |
International career | |||
1984 | Costa Rica U23 | 2 | |
1984–1996 | Costa Rica | 30 | (6) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
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Leonidas Flores Reyes (born 24 January 1965[1]) is a retired Costa Rican professional footballer.
He played for Puntarenas, Saprissa, Guanacasteca and San Carlos.[2]
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Club career
Born in La Palma de Abangares, Guanacaste, Flores started his career at Puntarenas in 1983[3] and won the 1986 Primera Division de Costa Rica title with them. He is also the club's all-time leading scorer with 93 goals[4] and scored a total of 118 career goals,[5] placed in position 17th all time Costa Rican strikers. He was the league's top goalscorer in 1986 with 19 goals.[6]
He had a three-year spell abroad, at Canadian Soccer League side Montreal Supra.[7]
International career
Flores made 30 appearances for the Costa Rica national football team from 1984 to 1996.[1] He also played at the 1984 Olympic Games in two games as sub.[8][9]
Flores scored two goals as Costa Rica won the 1989 CONCACAF Championship, besides having his best performance, was left out from the Italy 1990 World Cup roster.[10] According to Flores, he has never been explained why.[11] Finally was able to return for the 1991 UNCAF Nations Cup and 1991 CONCACAF Gold Cup.[12]
His final international was a September 1996 friendly match against Costa Rica.
Retirement
After his football career he became a traffic policeman in Guanacaste.[13] In September 2012, Flores was arrested on suspicion of charging "bribes" to drivers in exchange for not fining them for violating the traffic law.[14]
Personal life
He is married to Iris Ocampos.[15]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Leoni corazón - Nación (Spanish)
- ↑ Regreso a un viejo amor Sorpresivo llamado de Leoni Flores a Selección - Nación (Spanish)
- ↑ Feliz cumpleaños al gran Municipal Puntarenas - UNAFUT (Spanish)
- ↑ Minor Díaz se integra a la lista - UNAFUT
- ↑ Puntarenas en breve - Nación (Spanish)
- ↑ Figuras del ayer: Leoni Flores - Nación (Spanish)
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[dead link]
- ↑ Leonidas Flores – FIFA competition record
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Leonidas Flores: ‘Quiero saber por qué’ - Al Día (Spanish)
- ↑ CONCACAF Championship, Gold Cup 1991 - Full Details - RSSSF
- ↑ El exjugador Leonidas Flores tiene 48 años y vive en Guanacaste. Desde 1997 trabaja como Policía de Tránsito - Al Día (Spanish)
- ↑ Exjugador de futbol y 12 agentes de Tránsito caen por ‘mordidas’ - Nación (Spanish)
- ↑ Leonny Flores rechaza cargos por los que fue detenido. “Hay que tener valor para estar solo en una celda de esas, porque es impresionante - Al Día (Spanish)
External links
- Leonidas Flores at National-Football-Teams.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- 1965 births
- Living people
- People from Guanacaste Province
- Association football forwards
- Costa Rican footballers
- Costa Rica international footballers
- Olympic footballers of Costa Rica
- Footballers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Puntarenas F.C. players
- Deportivo Saprissa players
- Montreal Supra players
- A.D. San Carlos footballers
- Costa Rican expatriate footballers
- Expatriate soccer players in Canada
- Canadian Soccer League (original) players
- Costa Rican police officers
- 1991 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
- Copa Centroamericana-winning players
- CONCACAF Championship-winning players