Amílcar Leonel Suazo is a retired Honduran

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

forward who played professionally in Honduras and the United States. From 1982 to 1988, Suazo played for

F.C. Motagua Club de Fútbol Motagua (), formerly Club Deportivo Motagua up to 2017, is an association football club, located in Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras. F.C. Motagua was founded as ''Club Deportivo Motagua'' on 29 August 1928. The club competes ...

. In 1988, he moved to the United States and signed with the Washington Diplomats of the American Soccer League. He scored six league goals that season as the Diplomats won the league title. Suazo remained with the Diplomats in 1989 and 1990. In 1990, the team played in the

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. In 1994, Suazo played for the

Washington Mustangs The Washington Mustangs were an United States, American soccer team that played in Washington, DC in the now-defunct United States Interregional Soccer League. Year-by-year

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in the

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. He was the eighth leading goal scorer that season.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Suazo, Leonel Living people American Professional Soccer League players American Soccer League (1988–89) players F.C. Motagua players Honduran footballers Honduran expatriate footballers Expatriate soccer players in the United States Honduran expatriate sportspeople in the United States USISL players Washington Diplomats (1988–1990) players Washington Mustangs players Association football forwards Year of birth missing (living people)