Samuel Israel Wilson Rostrán (born April 9, 1983) is a

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who plays for UNAN Managua in the

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Club career

Samuel Wilson was born in Chinandega Nicaragua, he is an Afro-Nicaraguan. He started his career at local team

Chinandega Chinandega () is a city and the departmental seat of Chinandega department in Nicaragua. It is also the administrative centre of the surrounding municipality of the same name. It is Nicaragua's 2nd most important city (economy) and 6th largest ...

and played for Walter Ferretti and Scorpión and had a short spell abroad with

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in the

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. He has been with Estelí since the 2006–07 season. On 12 January 2014, Wilson scored his 100th goal in a league game against his first club, Chinandega.

International career

Wilson made his debut for

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in a May

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match against El Salvador and has, as of December 2013, earned a total of 29 caps, scoring 4 goals. He has represented his country in 6 FIFA World Cup qualification matches and played at the 2001, 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013 UNCAF Nations Cups as well as at the

2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup The 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the tenth edition of the CONCACAF Gold Cup competition, and the twentieth soccer championship of North America, Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF). It was played from July 3 to 26, 2009 in the United State ...

. He scored a brace as Nicaragua defeated Guatemala to take fifth place in the

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International goals

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

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* * 1983 births Living people People from Chinandega Nicaraguan men's footballers Nicaragua men's international footballers 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup players Chinandega FC players C.D. Walter Ferretti players Real Estelí FC players Nicaraguan expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Honduras Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional de Honduras players Men's association football forwards {{Nicaragua-footy-bio-stub