Leonidas Flores

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Leony Flores
Personal information
Full name Leonidas Flores Reyes
Date of birth (1965-01-24) January 24, 1965 (age 59)
Place of birth La Palma de Abangares, Costa Rica
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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]

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

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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