Noel Valladares
Valladares in 2014
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Noel Eduardo Valladares Bonilla | ||
| Date of birth | 3 May 1977 | ||
| Place of birth | Comayagua, Honduras | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Olimpia | ||
| Number | 27 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1997–2005 | Motagua | 368 | (3) |
| 2005–2016 | Olimpia | 427 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2000– | Honduras | 135 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2005. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of June 25, 2014 |
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Noel Eduardo Valladares Bonilla (born 3 May 1977 in Comayagua, Honduras) is a Honduran football goalkeeper, who currently plays for Olimpia, a Honduras football club based in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Valladares is Honduras' second most capped footballer of all time, after Amado Guevara.
Valladares started his career at local club Real Comayagua, but made his professional debut in 1997 with Motagua. In 2003, as a third-choice keeper at Motagua he entered as a striker in an injury-plagued derby with Olimpia. He scored a header and played few more games as a striker before returning into goalkeeper duties with Motagua and then Olimpia.
After for so many years playing for Olimpia, on November 7 2016 he announced that he would officially end his career, then after losing to Motagua in the semifinals of the Apertura 2016 on December 4 2016, he officialy retired from playing after 19 years since he began his career with Motagua in 1997.
He was a member of the national squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Prior to that experience he played as goalkeeper and forward for Honduras at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg.
Valladares made his senior debut for Honduras in a June 2000 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Haiti and has, as of February 2013, earned a total of 135 caps, scoring no goals. He has represented his country in 46 FIFA World Cup qualification matches and played in all three matches at the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He played at the 2009 and 2011 UNCAF Nations Cups as well as at the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup and the 2001 Copa América.
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