Iván López
Personal information
Full name Iván Edgardo López Cano
Date of birth (1990-10-05) 5 October 1990
Place of birth San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Height 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Motagua
Number 7
Youth career
Platense Junior
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Villanueva
Yoro
2014–2015 Parrillas One 35 (16)
2016–2021 Real España 118 (25)
2021– Motagua 17 (3)
International career‡
2018– Honduras 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19 May 2021
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14:25, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Iván Edgardo López Cano (born 5 October 1990) is a Honduran footballer who plays as a midfielder for F.C. Motagua and the Honduras national team.[1]

Club career

López had a youth stint with Platense Junior, before playing at senior level in tier two for Villanueva and Yoro.[2] He began featuring for Parrillas One in Liga Nacional from the 2014–15 campaign.[1] He scored on his debut for the club, netting a late goal in a 3–2 defeat away to Real España on 1 August 2014.[1] He followed that with fifteen further goals that season, including a brace over Victoria in September.[1] Midway through the next campaign, in January 2016, López completed a move to top-flight side Real España.[1] He scored twenty-one times in one hundred appearances across three seasons, with Real España winning the 2017–18 Apertura in the process.[1][3]

International career

In June 2018, López was called up by the Honduras national team.[1][4] He subsequently won two caps for his country, coming off the substitutes bench in friendly matches with South Korea and El Salvador.[1] López made the preliminary squad for the 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup, though was cut from the final squad.[5][6]

Career statistics

Club

As of 6 June 2019.[1]
Club statistics
Club Season League Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Parrillas One 2014–15 Liga Nacional 351600—003516
Real España 2015–16 15500—3[lower-alpha 1]0185
2016–17 33600—8[lower-alpha 1]2418
2017–18 31600—10[lower-alpha 1]2418
2018–19 398002[lower-alpha 2]04[lower-alpha 1]0458
Total 11825002025414529
Career total 15341002025418045
  1. 1 2 3 4 Appearance(s) in the Liga Nacional play-offs
  2. ↑ Appearance(s) in the CONCACAF League

International

As of 19 January 2022[4]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Honduras 201820
202210
Total30

Honours

Real España[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Honduras - I. López". Soccerway. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  2. ↑ "Real España anuncia fichaje del Chino López". La Prensa. 17 December 2015. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  3. ↑ "Iván Chino López no se olvida del Parrillas One y llega a entrenamiento". Diez. 16 January 2018. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 "Ivan López". NFT. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  5. ↑ "La convocatoria de Honduras para amistosos ante Brasil y Paraguay en Sudamérica". Diez. 28 May 2019. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  6. ↑ "Final 23-Player Rosters Announced for 2019 Concacaf Gold Cup". CONCACAF. 6 June 2019. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
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