Amado Guevara
Guevara playing for Toronto FC in 2008
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Amado Guevara | ||
| Date of birth | 2 May 1976 | ||
| Place of birth | Tegucigalpa, Honduras | ||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||
| Playing position | Attacking Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1992–1993 | Olimpia | ||
| 1993–1994 | Motagua | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1994–2000 | Motagua | 140 | (47) |
| 1995–1996 | → Real Valladolid (loan) | 8 | (0) |
| 2000–2001 | Toros Neza | 26 | (7) |
| 2001–2002 | Zacatepec | 16 | (2) |
| 2002 | Saprissa | 19 | (9) |
| 2003–2006 | New York Red Bulls | 103 | (32) |
| 2007–2008 | Chivas USA | 4 | (0) |
| 2007–2008 | → Motagua (loan) | 21 | (5) |
| 2008–2009 | Toronto FC | 46 | (9) |
| 2010–2013 | Motagua | 113 | (20) |
| 2014–2015 | Marathón | 13 | (1) |
| Total | 509 | (132) | |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1995 | Honduras U-20 | ||
| 1994–2010 | Honduras | 138 | (27) |
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13 June 2013. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 21 June 2010 |
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Amado Guevara (born 2 May 1976) is a Honduran retired football player and manager who currently works for the Honduran national team in the role of assistant manager.
He is the all-time cap leader for the Honduran national team. He was selected as the Best Player of the 2001 Copa América, held in Colombia.
Guevara, nicknamed El Lobo, began his career in Honduras with Olimpia and Motagua, and subsequently played all over the world: in Spain with Real Valladolid, in Mexico with Toros Neza and CD Zacatepec, and in Costa Rica with Saprissa.
He was signed by the MetroStars of Major League Soccer on 11 April 2003, and immediately stepped in and produced. Although he finished the season with only three goals and ten assists (he added another goal in the playoffs), he became the focal point of the team; they were successful when the offense flowed through him. Guevara added four key goals and two assists in the U.S. Open Cup, leading the MetroStars to the first final of any sort in the team's history.
Guevara tallied ten goals (six on penalties) and ten assists in his second season. Guevara not only tied for the league lead in scoring, he was also named MLS's MVP. In 2005, he produced another solid season for the Metros, with 11 goals and 11 assists, and added a goal in the playoffs.
In early 2006, a conflict arose between Guevara and the MetroStars. The club allowed him to train with C.D. Motagua, but Guevara played for the Honduran club in a number of friendly matches, which might or might not have been permitted. Guevara lashed out in the Honduran press at the Metros' GM Alexi Lalas, but the two patched things up and Guevara remained in New York for the 2006 season. He received his green card in March 2006, thus no longer counting as a foreign player in MLS. During the last game of the re-branded New York Red Bulls season, Guevara scored a hat trick helping them win 3–2 and reach the playoffs.
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