Carlos Pavón

Carlos Alberto Pavón Plummer ( born October 9, 1973 in El Progreso, Honduras ) is a Honduran football player at the position of a striker. He is one of the best football players of his home country and is also equipped with current (June 17, 2010) 57 hits scorer of the Honduran national team.

Currently, he plays in his parent club Real España in the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras, the top division of Honduras.

• 3.1 Individual successes
• 3.2 team successes 3.2.1 with Real España
• 3.2.2 with UAT Correcaminos
• 3.2.3 with Necaxa
• 3.2.4 with Monarcas Morelia
• 3.2.5 with CSD Comunicaciones
• 3.2.6 with LA Galaxy

Career as a football player

Beginnings at Real España

Carlos Pavón was born in the Honduran department of Yoro, the son of Blanca Nieves Pavón Macedo and former Costa Rican football player Allard Plummer, the highest scorer in the Honduran league was including in the year of birth of his son. Since Plummer emigrated to the United States shortly after his son's birth, his mother had to raise alone. At the age of 15 years Pavón was in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa to CD Olimpia, where he completed a nearly two-week trial under then coach chelato UCLES, but was ultimately not included in the team. Previously, he was already playing in a football team in the town of La Lima in the department of Cortés.

" Dejected and without money, but still full of hopes and dreams " Pavón was sitting one day on a street and watched the passing cars when he was approached by someone who knew a club for him. So it was that he began it soon in the offspring of Real España in the second largest city in the country, in San Pedro Sula, his actual career as a football player. After he went through various youth leagues there, he came to his first appearances in the reserve team of the club and came from this in 1992 in the first team with gaming operations in Honduras top tier. After numerous operations and a variety of goals the striker committed in 1994 moved to Mexico, where he signed a one-year contract with Deportivo Toluca.

First change to Mexico

After he and his team has been runner-up of the highest Honduran Football League 1991/92 he won with the team in the season 1993/94 but still the champion, but was not as successful with his local team after his move to Mexico. After 15 Championship inserts and seven gates, as well as appearances in the Copa México of the season 1994/95 was followed for the lively and fast Hondurans another change within Mexico. This time he moved for the 1995/ 96 La Liga 'A', the then second highest Mexican soccer league, which existed until the 2009/10 season under this system and was then detached from the Liga de Ascenso. At the Club San Luis Pavón came in second division of Mexico five times the goal is scored and transferred within the current season to another club.

Move to Europe and return to Mexico

This time it went to Europe, where he was taken in the Spanish Primera División Real Valladolid under contract and along with his compatriot and team-mate Amado Guevara was used. In the offensive series of Valladolid he came alongside Topscorern as the Croats Alen Peternac and the Spanish attacking midfielder José María Quevedo, which was used in this period frequently as a striker, only nine league games for use and then left the club again in the direction of Mexico.

In UAT Correcaminos from Ciudad Victoria, the capital of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, he completed his first season in just a few games in which he recorded two Torerfolge. The result of the season playing in the second highest Mexican soccer league professional football department of the Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas showed the Hondurans from his scoring prowess, scoring equal to twelve hits and was in addition to the other offensive players of the team this season, such as the former first division Ricardo Chavez, the veteran Argentine Luis Americo Scatolaro or the former International Francisco Javier Cruz, one of the top scorers of the team. After twelve goals in the League Pavón was with the team runner-up La Liga 'A' and was there one of the main carrier of this success. After a goal in the quarter-finals in the fight for the title of Hondurans scored in a 6-2 home win over UANL Tigres in the semi-final second leg two hits.

Due to the good play and the scoring prowess in Mexico 's second feature class some clubs from the top division of the country were aware of the coming offensive talent from Central America. At age 23, eventually followed Pavón for a return in the Mexican Primera División, where he signed a one-year contract with Necaxa and netted seven goals in 16 league games completed in the Invierno 1997. In the following section the Verano 1998, the scoring prowess of 1.78 m big striker was noticeably, where he remained scoreless in the nine completed championship matches, however, was with the team at the end of the season Verano - runner. In the final first leg against Deportivo Toluca Pavóns team won terse 2-1, but had to put in the return match a 2:5 away defeat. After a more or less successful time in Aguascalientes, the striker league transferred internally to Celaya Fútbol Club, where he became during his time there to a strong scorer.

Still in his first season he came in 16 Championship appearances 13 times for scoring and was one of the top scorers in the league. He repeated precisely this performance in the following season Verano 1999, in which he scored 13 goals in 15 league games and that was by far the team internal scorer. Within the league made ​​during this period, only three players score more goals than Pavón. In the following season the Torrquote the then took 25 - and 26 -year-olds from something he said in 14 appearances in Mexico's highest football league "only" five times met. Although the absence of the many gates, as in the vorhergegangengen seasons, Pavón helped the team many a time to create the league and was therefore an important support in the team of the central Mexican city of Celaya. After twelve games and three goals in the Verano 2000 followed by two years of club affiliation and 34 goals in 57 league games of the departure of the Honduran Toptorjägers. In his home country, he was chosen for its good performance Footballer of the Year 2000.

This time lured him again a club from Mexico's highest professional football league. In Monarcas Morelia of Hondurans took to a one-year contract and was next to his storm - partner, the Brazilian- Mexican attacker Alex Fernandès, one of the best strikers in the squad that played just at this time under the leadership of the famous Mexican coach Luis Fernando Tena. Especially good offensive performance of the two strikers, but also the rest of the team, it was thanks to them that the team led by a 3-1 home win in the final first leg against Deportivo Toluca and a win on penalties in the second leg (Toluca at the end of the season after regular time 2-0 ) secured the championship title of the Invierno 2000. Pavón, who retired due to a serious injury, but could not participate in the playoffs for the season end there. A further 13 League Appearances and three goals followed in the Verano 2001 before Pavón received a lucrative offer from Italy.

Lucrative contract with Udinese Calcio

The Italian Serie A club Udinese Calcio had his scouts attached to the now 27- year-olds who finally switched him to Italy, where he signed a lucrative contract with the club from Udine. With the Italians, he played a long time for the league and won seven league games and completed a goal at the end of the fight and managed with the team a point behind in 14th place just in the league in Italy's top soccer league. After only a brief stint in north-eastern Italy transferred the Hondurans still in the same season for the Italian second division club SSC Napoli. But here was the Latin Americans do with the completely different way of playing the Europeans and especially the Italians only slightly and remained largely colorless as well as in his twelve appearances goalless. A single game Pavón graduated in the 2002/03 season, after which he returned to Italian football back and changed it only briefly plagued by a serious injury to his native country to his footballing roots to Real España.

As Globetrotter by the international football

In his hometown club, he was back to his old scoring prowess, scoring seven league goals 2004, he once more took up the way to Mexico before the Clausura, where he was admitted for the umpteenth time Monarcas Morelia. When the Mexicans he stood in 16 championship matches on the court and came up with a goal balance of six hits. After only brief stint followed for Pavón a change to Colombia, where he was taken from the first division club Deportivo Cali under contract and scored two league goals for the team until the end of the season. Since he could not prevail on the side of safe air Moreno, Roberto Palacios, Álvaro Domínguez or Erwin Carrillo in gutbesetzten team, he left end of the season the club again. Also in the team at that time was the leading scorer Fredy Montero coming later, it changed hands a number of years in the United States and acted in Major League Soccer.

For the Mexican Clausura 2005 Pavón changed on the recommendation of the Argentine football coach Ruben Omar Romano, under whom he played even at Morelio, the Mexican club Cruz Azul, located in the south of the Mexican capital Mexico City. After the treaty of Hondurans was not renewed after one season in which he scored three goals in 13 championship matches and next to him in the offensive department alongside César Delgado, Francisco Fonseca and Miguel Zepeda were also some other good and talented offensive player and top scorer, he left the club in the direction of Guatemala. When CSD Comunicaciones with gaming operations in the Liga Nacional de Guatemala, the top division of the country, he was one of the most responsible for the good placement in the final table of the Apertura 2005. In 15 league games of agile Pavón was equal to ten times the goal is scored and has been with the Guatemalan team runner-up, after they played in the final first leg against the strong record champions CSD Municipal 0-0, but in the second leg 0-2 was defeated.

After a bad 2006 Clausura, in which the team performance did not fit, even though Pavon scored eight goals in his 16 appearances, the team was a little cut off at the end of the season to find the back of the table. When the club Pavóns content no longer wanted to pay, the player moved together with his friend and teammate Milton Núñez back in their homeland Honduras. There, the two signed a contract with Pavóns original club Real España. Only to use one of the Pavón was doing in his first season and completed another 14 games ( five goals ) as a consequence of playing time, the Clausura 2007. In this same season he was with the team Honduran champion, which meant the total ninth league title in the club's history. By season's end, he left his hometown club one more time to look for new challenges.

The time at the LA Galaxy and re homecoming

This time, he ventured into the highest North American Soccer League, Major League Soccer ( MLS), where in June 2007 he signed a contract with Los Angeles Galaxy along with the talented striker Edson Buddle. For LA Galaxy, he was doing as opposed to his last clubs a lucrative contract, where he had a base salary of $ 132,000 and guaranteed revenue of $ 141,500. For Galaxy, he scored at the legendary game on 18 August 2007 at Giants Stadium against the New York Red Bulls, before a crowd of over 66,000 spectators, the highest number of spectators of a match the Red Bulls, two goals by Originals by David Beckham. Although the game ended in a 4:5 defeat Galaxys, this game was a result of the number of viewers and the result in the history of MLS. Although it did not work so well in the 2007 season within the league, the team reached the second place in the North American SuperLiga in 2007, the very first edition of this petition.

In the same competition Pavon scored in a controversial match against FC Dallas, in the Galaxy has already led 4-0 after 18 minutes and in the end was won by very late goals 6-5, a hit. After a total of 18 completed games and three goals scored Honduran indeed received some offers from other MLS franchises, but decided to once again return to his homeland, where he signed a three -year contract with his hometown club Real España. At the same time Pavón also want to end his career as a football player decided by his former youth club. After five goals in eleven games in the Clausura championship in 2008 Pavón was in the Apertura 2008, in which he came four times in seven games for scoring, Honduran vice-champion. Also good performances brought the team around the Honduran top scorer the following season, the Clausura 2009, in which the team once again runner-up of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras was. The striker headed it two goals in at three inserts.

His stay at the club from San Pedro Sula was interrupted only by a few weeks or months, during which he became Players out on loan at Necaxa and there was used in nine games. At the end of the season but the team got down to the newly created second-class Liga de Ascenso, but could again after a year in Mexico's second division play in the Primera División back. At this time Pavón was, however, already was back at his old club, where he worked in eleven league games four times came to scoring in the Apertura 2009, and elected at the end of the season for the second time in his career for Honduran football player of the year.

During the Clausura 2010, in the Pavón was again clearly felt by his eye for goal, the striker was negative in the Honduran media. Reports on the Hompepage of Real España and various media said the scorer of the Honduran national football team violated the rules of the team, as he often dealt with disrespectful statements and his actions and as a disciplinary procedure had to be initiated. Furthermore went in February 2010, a complaints because Pavón violated requirements of the team sponsor as he traveled to just this time to Colombia and there was promoting a competing brand.

His current contract with Real España runs until December 2010, whether he will continue his career beyond is unclear.

In the National Team

The current (as of June 16, 2010) with 57 hits best Honduran national player of all time played his first international match for his country in 1993, He came in a group match of the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 1993 against the United States in 81 minutes for. Nicolas Suazo on the lawn; the game ended in a 0-1 defeat with a goal by Alexi Lalas. At his first goal in the jersey of Hondurans Pavón came in only his fifth international match on 29 November 1995 in a group match of the Copa Centroamericana Nations Cup 1995 in a 2-0 win over Panama. As the tournament progresses Pavon scored another two goals and was elected with a total of three hits top scorer of the competition. He also won with the team after 1993 for the second time in a row the Central American tournament, which is used to qualify for the CONCACAF Gold Cup each of the following year.

After a few more friendly internationals Honduran striker completed in 1996 five matches in qualifying for the 1998 World Cup in which he scored two goals. With the team he left in the group stage but just against Jamaica and Mexico, although Honduras had scored the most goals of the entire group. His next tournament he played in February 1998, after he had completed a single national game for his country throughout 1997. In the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 1998 in the United States, he scored the only goal of his team in the competition and was eliminated with the team as a group bottom of Group B from the current tournament. After he came to a total of only three international duty in 1998, he joined with the national team at Copa Centroamericana Nations Cup 1999 in Costa Rica. He scored two goals in five games, managed with the team but only to third place.

As team captain Pavón took part in the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 2000, where he has ever scored a hit in all three games and his team was eliminated in the quarterfinals against Peru. Shortly after the Gold Cup, the striker joined in 2000 and 2001 with the Honduran national team in qualifying for the 2002 FIFA World Cup and has advanced to the absolute top scorer. With 15 goals in 17 international matches, he finished behind the Australian Archie Thompson ( 16 goals ), who solely with the soccer match Australia - achieved in 2001 with twelve gates, American Samoa, the second place and became Vice- scorer in the entire World Cup qualifiers. With the Honduran national team managed Pavón to the last final round, where the team but as a good fourth place behind Costa Rica ( group winner), Mexico ( 2 ) and the USA ( 3 ) only just failed at a World Cup.

Throughout the World Cup qualifiers he scored 15 goals from the three in a double and two hat-tricks. The first hat-trick while he succeeded on September 2, 2000, a 5-0 win over El Salvador, the second, which he achieved on increased awareness not only in America, he scored in a 3-1 home win over Mexico on 20 June. , 2001. In the time between the World Cup qualifiers also fell three games of the Copa Centroamericana Nations Cup 2001, with the Hondurans at 10:2 victory over Nicaragua hat-trick. Although the team scored the most goals by far, it did not come as a group of third parties beyond the first round of the competition. On 2 May 2002 Pavón came in a 3-3 draw against Japan in the Kirin Cup, used and came up two times to score.

This was followed until February 2004, no further A-team missions more before it in some friendlies on to play practice collected by the summer of 2004 with the national team before it went into the qualifiers for the 2006 World Cup for the team. Here Pavón came in five qualifying games for use in which he contributed a hit. From his most recent game in October 2004 went by until his next mission in April just two and a half years, but the same in the first game after his long absence, he scored in a 1-3 defeat against Haiti the only goal of his team. In the same year he participated in the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup, where he scored five goals in four games. This includes, among others, was also a 5-0 victory over Cuba in the Pavón equal to four times came to scoring. For Pavón, who went as a captain in this tournament, it was seen individually a very successful event. Although he came up with the team only reached the quarter- finals and was eliminated there against the strong playing national team of Guadeloupe with 1:2, he was elected at the end of the competition with his five hits top scorer of the tournament and it was a goal ahead of his former teammates LA Galaxy, Landon Donovan.

After he came in 2008, again in no single international match Honduras used and only two games for the Honduran Olympic team during the football tournament of the 2008 Olympics completed, he gathered in the Copa Centroamericana Nations Cup 2009 tournament experience as he is a hit in four games in his home country contributed. At the competition, which was held in Honduras, the team reached around Pavón, who acted under his teammates Amado Guevara as vice-captain, ranked third behind the second-place Costa Rica and Panama to the winner. Due to the good results of the Copa Centroamericana Nations Cup of the Honduran national team coach took him to the squad of the national team, who took part in qualifying for the 2010 World Cup. In the quality Pavón was one of the key players of the national team of his native country. In his nine starts, he scored seven goals and was with the Jamaican Luton Shelton behind the Salvadoran striker Rudis Corrales in second place scorer CONCACAF.

To the Honduran national hero Pavón was finally on 14 October 2009 at the last qualifier for the 2010 World Cup in which Honduras away hit on El Salvador. Here, the striker scored in the 64th minute the game valuable 1-0 hits, which eventually handed for the final score. At the same time played on this evening the United States against Costa Rica, which Costa Rica also had the chance of a World Cup. Shortly before the end of the game, the Costa Rican lead here by two goals from Bryan Ruiz 2-1; in the 94th minutes, the Hondurans eventually be redeemed, as the American Jonathan Bornstein in the fourth minute of injury time and scored the equalizer as Honduras to take part in the World Cup finals in 2010 made ​​it possible, as these had a better goal difference.

On 16 June 2010 Pavón finally played his first World Cup game when he was in the first group game against Chile in use from the beginning and, after he did not show really good performance, was 60 minutes into replaced by Georgie Welcome.

The with its current (as of June 16, 2010) 57 international goals best Honduran national team exceeded in the course of his career, the number of goals the legendary Honduran football player José Roberto Figueroa, who was active both in his home country as well as in Spain in the course of his career. Throughout his national team career Carlos Pavón 37 World Cup qualifying games in which he scored 25 goals and ten CONCAF Gold Cup games completed (9 goals ), 15 UNCAF-N ations Cup games (9 goals), and 37 friendlies ( 12 goals) and a game in the Kirin Cup, where he contributed two goals. Moreover followed with the June 16, 2010 to date, use in a World Cup.

Game style

The predominantly attack-minded Pavón is considered extremely dangerous at goal. Although he was often acts both and so the scoring, he calls himself his right foot as the stronger. Furthermore, it is Pavón although its not quite as pronounced height of 178 cm good in the air and scored in his career so far been a number of headed goals. Furthermore, the player is quite strong, mainly due to its rugged body construction also in a duel. However, he is, however, less found in the defensive area and focuses primarily on all its stations on the offensive.

Achievements

Individual successes

• 2x Player of the Year in Honduras: 2000, 2009

Team success

With Real España

• 3x Master of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras: 1993/94, 2003/ 04 ( Apertura ) 2006/ 07 ( Clausura )
• 3x runner-up of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras: 1991/92, 2008 ( Apertura ), 2009 (Clausura)
• Best scorer of all time

With UAT Correcaminos

With Necaxa

With Monarcas Morelia

With CSD Comunicaciones

With LA Galaxy

National successes

Career as a musician

In addition to his active career as a football player himself Pavón also tried in the music industry and met with the Honduran musician El Pueblo on in music videos in the music style Reggaeton. However, his music career was not very successful, which is why he also produced a few songs and then increasingly focused back on the football.

Trivia

On 19 October 2009 the organization International Federation of Football History & Statistics ( IFFHS ) launched a survey in which they " World's Most Popular Footballer " sought the. Among the candidates were 115 active players from 68 different countries from all six football continents. January 2, 2010 Carlos Pavón was awarded 195 182 votes entitled to the IFFHS and had a decent lead over Bryan Ruiz, Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Omar Bravo.

In 1994 he was awarded a medal by the former Honduran President Carlos Roberto Reina.