Wilker Angel
Ángel with FC Terek in 2017
Personal information
Full name Wilker José Ángel Romero[1]
Date of birth (1993-03-18) 18 March 1993[2]
Place of birth Valera, Venezuela[1]
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)[3]
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 S.D. Aucas
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009–2011 Trujillanos 13 (0)
2011–2016 Deportivo Táchira 148 (18)
2016–2021 Akhmat Grozny 105 (7)
2021–2022 Göztepe 15 (0)
2023— Aucas 5 (0)
International career‡
2011 Venezuela U-20 4 (0)
2014– Venezuela 28 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22 May 2022
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20:43, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

Wilker José Ángel Romero (born 18 March 1993) is a Venezuelan professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for the Venezuela national team and Aucas.

Career

Club

Trujillanos FC

Before he was 18, Angel won the Primera División with Trujillanos FC in the 2010-2011 season,[1]

Deportivo Táchira

Angel moved to Deportivo Táchira in 2011 and scored his first goal against Caroni in a match they lost 2-1 on 5 March 2011, his second came 11 days later against Estudiantes de Mérida winning the match 3-1, his third goal came against Zulia FC on 20 May 2012, his team won 5-0.[1]

Terek Grozny

On 1 August 2016, Ángel signed for Russian Premier League side Akhmat Grozny, then called Terek Grozny.[4] On 17 May 2021, Akhmat Grozny announced that Ángel had left the club after 121 games for the club.[5]

Göztepe

On 8 September 2021, he signed a one-year contract with one-year option with the Turkish club Göztepe.[6]

International

Ángel was called up to the full Venezuela squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers,[1] but was not included. On 18 November 2014, he made his debut in a friendly against Bolivia, where he scored the opening goal of the match. However, despite this, Venezuela lost 2–3.

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 16 May 2021[1]
Club Season League National Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Deportivo Táchira 2010-11 Liga Venezolana 821010–102
2011-12 2226060–342
2012-13 23210–242
2013-14 326––326
2014-15 354––354
2015 1402170–231
2016 1420081–223
Total 14818912310018020
Akhmat Grozny 2016–17 Russian Premier League 26120––281
2017–18 26310––273
2018–19 18110––191
2019–20 19131––222
2020–21 16150––211
Total 1057121----1178
Career total 253252122310029728

International

Venezuela national team
YearAppsGoals
201411
201510
2016111
201740
201840
201920
202040
202110
Total282

Statistics accurate as of match played 03 June 2021[7]

International goals

As of match played 2 February 2016[7]
#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetitionRef
1.18 November 2014Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz, Bolivia Bolivia
1–0
2–3
Friendly
2.2 February 2016Estadio Agustín Tovar, Barinas, Venezuela Costa Rica
1–0
1–0
Friendly

Honors

National

Venezuela

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Wilker Ángel at Soccerway
  2. ↑ "STATS Hosted Solution | Player Stats - Wilker Angel - Deportivo Táchira". Olympics.stats.com. Retrieved 2012-05-08.
  3. ↑ Wilker Ángel at Russian Premier League
  4. ↑ "Анхель Вилькер подписал контракт с Тереком". fc-terek.ru (in Russian). FC Terek Grozny. 1 August 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
  5. ↑ "Анхель, Исмаэль, Мелкадзе и Алмаши покидают ФК "Ахмат"". fc-akhmat.ru/ (in Russian). FC Akhmat Grozny. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
  6. ↑ "Wilker Jose Angel Romero Göztepe'mizde" (in Turkish). Göztepe. 8 September 2021.
  7. 1 2 "Wilker Ángel". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  8. ↑ "Japan vs. Venezuela - 19 November 2019 - Soccerway".
  9. ↑ "Kirin Challenge Cup 2019 [11/19] Top".
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