Germán Enrique Centeno Reneau, known as “Quique” Renau (9 April 1971 – 23 August 2015) was a Honduran

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player.

Club career

A lightning fast striker and nicknamed ''El Esquilete'' (the Stilletto) or ''La Gacela'' (the Gazelle), Reneau started his career at Victoria where he debuted in 1989. He went on to score 37 goals with Victoria between 1990 and 1996, as well in 2000. At Victoria he was an important member of their first league title-winning team in

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when scoring the goal that won them the championship against Olimpia in Tegucigalpa. Later he played for Marathón, Olimpia, Real España and Vida, winning the 1999 Apertura with Olimpia and the 2002 Clausura with Marathón. From 1990 to 2004, Reneau scored 59 goals in total in the

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. In the 2001 Apertura he was the league's top goalscorer with 8 goals. He was never sent off in his career.

Spells abroad

He also had a stint in Peru with Sipesa and in El Salvador with Cojutepeque and Luis Ángel Firpo whom he left for Mexican side

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. He returned to El Salvador in August 2005 to play for Chalatenango. He finished his career at Guatemalan side Mictlán with whom he won promotion to the Guatemalan top tier in summer 2006.

International career

Reneau made his debut for

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in a January

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match against Brazil and has earned a total of 16 caps, scoring 5 goals. He has represented his country in 5

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matches and played at the

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, as well as at the

. His final international was an April

match against Panama.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Honduras' goal tally first.''

Retirement, personal life and death

His parents were Óscar Centeno and María Carolina Reneau. He met his Salvadoran girlfriend Brenda Ramírez in 1996, when he played for Firpo. Reneau has three children: Melissa, Karen and Enrique. After retiring in 2006 he moved to New Orleans and then Miami in the United States where he painted buildings. In July 2013, Reneau was diagnosed with motor neurone disease. He subsequently lost his job in the US and returned to Honduras in December 2013. He died on 23 August 2015 in a La Ceiba's Vicente Dantoni hospital due to respiratory failure.Fallece en La Ceiba ex futbolista Enrique Centeno Reneau
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Honours and awards

Olimpia * Liga Profesional de Honduras: 1998–99 Victoria * Liga Profesional de Honduras: 1994–95 Marathón * Liga Profesional de Honduras: 2001–02 C Real España * Liga Profesional de Honduras: 2003–04 A

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Reneau, Enrique 1971 births 2015 deaths People from Jutiapa Department Men's association football forwards Honduran men's footballers Honduras men's international footballers 1996 CONCACAF Gold Cup players C.D. Victoria players Deportivo Sipesa footballers C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo footballers C.D. Marathón players C.D. Olimpia players Deportivo Zacapa players Real C.D. España players C.D.S. Vida players A.D. Chalatenango footballers Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional de Honduras players Honduran expatriate men's footballers Honduran expatriate sportspeople in Mexico Honduran expatriate sportspeople in Guatemala Expatriate men's footballers in El Salvador Expatriate men's footballers in Peru Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico Expatriate men's footballers in Guatemala Neurological disease deaths in Honduras Deaths from motor neuron disease