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Danilo Acosta

Danilo "Danny" Israel Acosta Martínez is a Honduran former professional footballer.

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Danilo Acosta
Personal information
Full name Danilo Israel Acosta Martínez1
Date of birth (1997-11-17) 17 November 1997
Place of birth San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position 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
Representing  United States
Winner CONCACAF U-20 Championship 2017
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 14:36, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals as of 01:38, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Danilo "Danny" Israel Acosta Martínez (born 17 November 1997) is a Honduran former professional footballer.

Club career

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 29 December 2015.2

On 28 December 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 25 November 2019, the LA Galaxy selected Acosta for the end of year Waiver Draft.6 He officially signed for the club on 8 January 2020.7 On 15 February Acosta tore his ACL and missed out on the entire 2020 season. Following the 2021 season, Acosta was released by the Galaxy.8

On 7 January 2022, Acosta signed with USL Championship side Orange County SC ahead of their 2022 season.9

International career

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 3 January 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.1314 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 16 June 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.1617 He debuted with Honduras in a 0–0 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification tie with El Salvador on 5 September 2021.18

Club statistics

As of 18 July 2019
Club Season Division Domestic league Domestic cup Playoffs Continental Total
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

United States U20

References

References

  1. "40-Player National Team Roster: 2019 Concacaf Gold Cup: Canada" (PDF). CONCACAF. p. 2. Retrieved 20 May 2019 – via Bernews.
  2. "Real Salt Lake Signs Academy Product Danilo Acosta | Real Salt Lake". rsl.com. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  3. "Orlando City SC Acquires Defender Danilo Acosta on Loan | Orlando City". orlandocitysc.
  4. "Orlando City SC Announces 2019 End-of-Season Roster Decisions". Orlando City SC. 21 November 2019.
  5. "Real Salt Lake announce roster moves; Beckerman, Plata and Silva statuses up in the air". mlssoccer.com. Major League Soccer.
  6. "LA Galaxy select defender Danilo Acosta in 2019 MLS End-of-Year Waiver Draft". lagalaxy.com. LA Galaxy. 25 November 2019.
  7. "LA Galaxy sign former Real Salt Lake, Orlando City SC left back Danilo Acosta". mlssoccer.com. Major League Soccer. 8 January 2020. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  8. "LA Galaxy announce 2021 roster decisions | LA Galaxy".
  9. "Orange County Signs Honduran International Danilo Acosta". 7 January 2022.
  10. "SoccerAmerica - U.S. under-18 men's national team roster 10/23/2014". socceramerica.com. 15 May 2013. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
  11. "Flores Leads USL Players Named in U.S. U20 Squad - United Soccer League". uslsoccer.com. Archived from the original on 23 February 2016. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
  12. II, Donald Wine (8 January 2018). "USMNT January Camp roster announced". Stars and Stripes FC.
  13. "78 MLS players named to preliminary rosters for 2019 Concacaf Gold Cup | MLSSoccer.com". mlssoccer.
  14. "Convocatoria oficial selección nacional de Honduras Copa Oro 2019" (in Spanish). FENAFUTH Facebook. 6 June 2019.
  15. Danny Acosta se arrepiente, ya no jugar para Honduras; La Prensa. 23 June 2019
  16. Hanson, Sharon (16 June 2021). "Danilo Acosta forgets the United States and decides to play for Honduras". Sunday Vision. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
  17. Serrano, Rodrigo (17 June 2021). "Danilo Acosta will play for the Honduras national team". As.com. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
  18. "Game Details". Concacaf. 12 March 2021.
  19. "U-20 MEN'S NATIONAL TEAM CLAIMS FIRST CONCACAF U-20 CHAMPIONSHIP WITH SHOOTOUT WIN VS. HONDURAS". ussoccer.com. 5 March 2017.
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