Maynor Figueroa
Maynor Figueroa at Wigan Athletic (2010)
Maynor Figueroa ( born May 2, 1983 in Jutiapa ) is a Honduran football player, who is since 2013 in Hull City under contract.
Career
Association
Maynor Figueroa began his career in his home when the Honduran first division side CD Victoria, where he ran aground in the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras. After he was able to establish himself as a regular player there, he moved on to league rivals CD Olimpia. During his time at the club he celebrated many successes and won several times the Apertura and Clausura. He also reached with CD Olimpia in the years 2005 and 2006, the final of the Copa Inter Clubes Copa Centroamericana, the two games were each lost. In January 2008, he left the club and transferred on loan to the English first division club Wigan Athletic, who had also committed his teammate Wilson Palacios just a few days earlier.
The defender made his debut for the Latics on 5 April 2008 in the Premier League. In the 2-0 win against Birmingham City he ran in the 89th minute as a substitute for Josip Skoko the field. About a month later, on May 11, 2008, he stood in the 0-2 home defeat against Manchester United for the first time in the root formation and denied the entire game. Shortly after the loan period ran out and Figueroa returned seems to get back to his home to CD Olimpia. After the end of July 2008, he received the work permit and visa application was given approval, he signed again on loan at Wigan Athletic. In addition, the agreement contained a clause to a permanent commitment. The defender managed in a short time made it into the starting eleven of the club and therefore recommended for a firm commitment.
On December 23, 2008 it was announced that he has signed a contract for the next three and a half years signed at Wigan. His first goal in the English top flight, he scored 11 January 2009 at home to Tottenham Hotspur, when he scored the winning goal for the Latics in the 90th minute. On December 12, 2009 in an away game against Stoke City he had a beautiful goal. When a free kick in their own half he took the ball just before the center line and sent him in a high arc over the standing too far in front of goal Thomas Sørensen.
National
Figueroa counts since 2003 to the squad of the Honduran national football team. With the selection, he took part in the 2005 and 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup. After he reached Honduras in 2005, the semi-finals, in which defeated the team against the United States, failed the selection two years later in the quarter-finals against Guadeloupe, while Figueroa was loud tournament report as a " defensive player with good offensive skills " next striker Carlos Pavón the outstanding player of his team. In 2004 he was achievers of the Honduran U -23 in the qualifying tournament for the 2004 Summer Olympics, the qualification for the Olympic tournament has been missed by a 0-2 defeat in the semifinal against Costa Rica.
With the senior team, he succeeded in qualifying for the finals of the football World Cup 2010 in South Africa, it means the second participation of the country at a World Cup finals after the FIFA World Cup 1982.
Figueroa was called up on May 11, 2010 by Reinaldo Rueda coach in the Honduran squad for the 2010 World Cup.