Alberto de Jesús Zapata Urriola (born 28 February 1979) is a retired professional

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nian

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forward who played for last time in

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Club career

A much-travelled striker or attacking midfielder, Zapata played alongside compatriot Roberto Brown for Honduran side

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in 1999 and left fellow Hondurans

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in December 1999 after claiming the club had not paid him his wages. In 2001, he played for Mexican second division side

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, for whom he rattled in 16 goals in 20 games. He later joined Chorrillo from Tauro in his native Panama in summer 2002 and moved to Alianza in 2003, winning the Panamanian league's MVP award 2003 in the process. In January 2004 he moved abroad again to play for Paraguayan giants Olimpia and returned to Honduras in January 2005 when recommended to Municipal Valencia by Víctor René Mendieta. He returned to Panama in 2005 to play for Alianza again and from 2006 for

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and played with fellow Panamanians

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and

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at Puerto Rican outfit

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in 2007. In January 2009 he went to Europe for a spell alongside Alberto Blanco in Israel with Lothar Matthäus-led

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and scored his first goal for them in April 2009 against

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. In July 2009 he signed with Salvadoran side Alianza, only to leave them in November 2009 after an unsuccessful spell at the club. After another stint at San Francisco he moved to Sporting San Miguelito in summer 2010 and later joined then second division side

. In June 2015 he clinched promotion to the LPF after his team

won the Panamanian Second Division championship decider against

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with Zapata scoring one of the goals.

International career

Zapata made his debut for

in a January 2000

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against

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and has earned a total of 15 caps, scoring 2 goals. He represented his country in two qualifying matches for the

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and four qualifying matches for the

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. His final international was a January

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match against

International goals

:''Scores and results list. Panama's goal tally first.''

References

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