Juan Carlos Espinoza Zerón (born 24 August 1958) is a retired Honduran football player, who most recently was assistant manager of Real España in the

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Club career

He started his career at Real España but spent the majority of his career with Olimpia. He also had a short stint at Costa Rican side

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. He played with

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, Belarmino Rivera, Eugenio Dolmo Flores, Danilo Galindo and his brother Nahúm Espinoza in the Olimpia and they won the CONCACAF Champions League in

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International career

Espinoza made his debut for Honduras in the 1980s and has earned at least 14 caps, scoring 2 goals. He has represented his country in 3 FIFA World Cup qualification match and played at the

1991 UNCAF Nations Cup The 1991 UNCAF Nations Cup was the inaugural UNCAF Nations Cup, the Central American championship for men's national association football teams. It was organized by the ''Unión Centroamericana de Fútbol'' or UNCAF, and it took place in Costa R ...

as well as at the

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and

1993 CONCACAF Gold Cup The 1993 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the second edition of the Gold Cup, the soccer championship of North America, Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF). The format of the tournament stayed the same as in 1991: eight teams were broken up in ...

s. In the 1991 Gold Cup Final, he missed the decisive penalty. His final international was a December 1994

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against the

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, a game in which his brother Nahún made his international debut.

International goals

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

Managerial career

As a manager, he won the 2002 Apertura with Olimpia as well as the 2008 Apertura. In March 2009 he succeeded Colombian Carlos Restrepo at Olimpia. In September 2012, Juan Carlos was named as assistant to his brother, Nahúm Espinoza, who succeeded Chelato Uclés as manager of Real España while also still being assistant to manager

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at Olimpia.

Personal life

Juan Carlos is the older brother of former international defender Nahúm Espinoza. Their brother Enrique, who died in April 2012, was also a former player of Olimpia.Falleció hermano de Nahún y Juan Carlos Espinoza
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Honours and awards

Club

;C.D. Olimpia *

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(5): 1984–85, 1987–88, 1989–90,

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, 1995–96 *

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: (1):

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* CONCACAF Champions League (1):

;C.D. Real Espana *

(1): 1980–81

References

External links

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