Iván Edgardo López Cano (born 5 October 1990) is a Honduran

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who plays as a midfielder for

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and the

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...

national team.

Club career

López had a youth stint with Platense Junior, before playing at senior level in tier two for Villanueva and

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. He began featuring for Parrillas One in

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from the 2014–15 campaign. He scored on his debut for the club, netting a late goal in a 3–2 defeat away to

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on 1 August 2014. He followed that with fifteen further goals that season, including a brace over Victoria in September. Midway through the next campaign, in January 2016, López completed a move to top-flight side Real España. He scored twenty-one times in one hundred appearances across three seasons, with Real España winning the 2017–18 Apertura in the process.

International career

In June 2018, López was called up by the Honduras national team. He subsequently won two caps for his country, coming off the substitutes bench in friendly matches with South Korea and

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. López made the preliminary squad for the

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, though was cut from the final squad.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

;Real España *

: 2017–18 Apertura

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:López, Iván 1990 births Living people Footballers from San Pedro Sula Honduran men's footballers Honduras men's international footballers Men's association football midfielders Honduran Liga Nacional de Ascenso players Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional de Honduras players Villanueva F.C. players Yoro F.C. players Parrillas One players Real C.D. España players F.C. Motagua players