Danilo Acosta
Personal information | |||||||||||
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Full name | Danilo Israel Acosta Martínez[1] | ||||||||||
Date of birth | 17 November 1997 | ||||||||||
Place of birth | San Pedro Sula, Honduras | ||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||
Position(s) | Defender | ||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||
2013–2015 | Real Salt Lake AZ | ||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||
2015–2018 | Real Monarchs | 26 | (0) | ||||||||
2016–2019 | Real Salt Lake | 29 | (0) | ||||||||
2019 | → Orlando City (loan) | 8 | (0) | ||||||||
2020–2021 | LA Galaxy | 2 | (0) | ||||||||
2021 | LA Galaxy II | 7 | (0) | ||||||||
2022 | Orange County SC | 5 | (0) | ||||||||
International career‡ | |||||||||||
2016–2017 | United States U20 | 16 | (1) | ||||||||
2021 | Honduras | 2 | (0) | ||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14:36, 23 October 2022 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 01:38, 6 September 2021 (UTC) |
Danilo "Danny" Israel Acosta Martínez (born 17 November 1997) is a Honduran professional footballer.
Club career
[edit]After spending time with Real Salt Lake's academy in Arizona, and United Soccer League affiliate, Real Monarchs, Acosta signed a Homegrown Player contract with the club on December 29, 2015.[2]
On December 28, 2018, Acosta joined Orlando City SC on a season-long loan with an option to make the transfer permanent at the end of the season, in exchange for $75,000 of General Allocation Money.[3] Orlando declined to make the transfer permanent.[4] Acosta's contract option with Real Salt Lake was also declined, leaving him as a free agent at the end of the 2019 season.[5]
On November 25, 2019, the LA Galaxy selected Acosta for the end of year Waiver Draft.[6] He officially signed for the club on January 8, 2020.[7] On February 15 Acosta tore his ACL and missed out on the entire 2020 season. Following the 2021 season, Acosta was released by the Galaxy.[8]
On January 7, 2022, Acosta signed with USL Championship side Orange County SC ahead of their 2022 season.[9]
International career
[edit]Acosta was selected in the United States U18 36-player training camp in October 2014, but has yet to represent the United States.[10] On January 3, 2016, Acosta was named in Tab Ramos' United States U20 January training camp.[11]
Acosta won the 2017 CONCACAF U-20 Championship with the United States, and represented the United States at the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup in South Korea.
He received his first and so far only call up to the U.S. senior national team camp in January 2018.[12]
With no senior caps to his name, Acosta remained eligible for his country of birth and was selected to represent Honduras at the 2019 Gold Cup.[13][14] Having failed to make an appearance for the team, Acosta declined to sign a letter of intent from FIFA confirming his one-time switch of allegiance to Honduras following their elimination from the competition.[15]
On June 16, 2021, the Football Federation of Honduras declared that Acosta had decided to, permanently, represent Honduras at the international level and that FIFA had, already, approved his petition.[16][17] He debuted with Honduras in a 0–0 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification tie with El Salvador on 5 September 2021.[18]
Club statistics
[edit]- As of July 18, 2019
Club | Season | Division | Domestic league | Domestic cup | Playoffs | Continental | Total | |||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
Real Monarchs | 2015 | USL | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
Real Salt Lake | 2016 | MLS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2017 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | ||
2018 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | ||
Total | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 0 | ||
Real Monarchs (loan) | 2016 | USL | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 |
2018 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
Total | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0 | ||
Orlando City (loan) | 2019 | MLS | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
LA Galaxy | 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Career Total | 63 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 0 |
Honors
[edit]United States U20
References
[edit]- ^ "40-Player National Team Roster: 2019 Concacaf Gold Cup: Canada" (PDF). CONCACAF. p. 2. Retrieved 20 May 2019 – via Bernews.
- ^ "Real Salt Lake Signs Academy Product Danilo Acosta | Real Salt Lake". rsl.com. Retrieved 2015-12-29.
- ^ "Orlando City SC Acquires Defender Danilo Acosta on Loan | Orlando City". orlandocitysc.
- ^ "Orlando City SC Announces 2019 End-of-Season Roster Decisions". Orlando City SC. November 21, 2019.
- ^ "Real Salt Lake announce roster moves; Beckerman, Plata and Silva statuses up in the air". mlssoccer.com. Major League Soccer.
- ^ "LA Galaxy select defender Danilo Acosta in 2019 MLS End-of-Year Waiver Draft". lagalaxy.com. LA Galaxy. November 25, 2019.
- ^ "LA Galaxy sign former Real Salt Lake, Orlando City SC left back Danilo Acosta". mlssoccer.com. Major League Soccer. January 8, 2020. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
- ^ "LA Galaxy announce 2021 roster decisions | LA Galaxy".
- ^ "Orange County Signs Honduran International Danilo Acosta". 7 January 2022.
- ^ "SoccerAmerica - U.S. under-18 men's national team roster 10/23/2014". socceramerica.com. Retrieved 2016-01-06.
- ^ "Flores Leads USL Players Named in U.S. U20 Squad - United Soccer League". uslsoccer.com. Archived from the original on 2016-02-23. Retrieved 2016-01-06.
- ^ II, Donald Wine (8 January 2018). "USMNT January Camp roster announced". Stars and Stripes FC.
- ^ "78 MLS players named to preliminary rosters for 2019 Concacaf Gold Cup | MLSSoccer.com". mlssoccer.
- ^ "Convocatoria oficial selección nacional de Honduras Copa Oro 2019" (in Spanish). FENAFUTH Facebook. 6 June 2019.
- ^ Danny Acosta se arrepiente, ya no jugar para Honduras; La Prensa. 23 June 2019
- ^ Hanson, Sharon (16 June 2021). "Danilo Acosta forgets the United States and decides to play for Honduras". Sunday Vision. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
- ^ Serrano, Rodrigo (17 June 2021). "Danilo Acosta will play for the Honduras national team". As.com. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
- ^ "Game Details". Concacaf. March 12, 2021.
- ^ "U-20 MEN'S NATIONAL TEAM CLAIMS FIRST CONCACAF U-20 CHAMPIONSHIP WITH SHOOTOUT WIN VS. HONDURAS". ussoccer.com. 5 March 2017.
External links
[edit]- Danilo Acosta at Soccerway.com
- Danilo Acosta at FBref.com
- Danilo Acosta at Major League Soccer
- Danilo Acosta at AS.com (in Spanish)
- USSF Development Academy bio
- 1997 births
- Living people
- Footballers from San Pedro Sula
- People from Sandy, Utah
- Sportspeople from Salt Lake County, Utah
- Honduran men's footballers
- Honduras men's international footballers
- American men's soccer players
- United States men's under-20 international soccer players
- Honduran emigrants to the United States
- Men's association football defenders
- Homegrown Players (MLS)
- LA Galaxy players
- Ventura County FC players
- Major League Soccer players
- Orange County SC players
- Orlando City SC players
- Real Monarchs players
- Real Salt Lake players
- Soccer players from Utah
- USL Championship players
- 21st-century American sportsmen