Francisco Velásquez (born February 12, 1990, in La Barra de Santiago,

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), also known simply as Frank, is a

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player. He plays in

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position, and has won awards at the CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship and

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for his goalscoring abilities; he has appeared at four editions of the World Cup and scored his 100th goal for El Salvador during the 2021 tournament against

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Honours

Country

**Fourth place (1): 2011 * CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship **Winner (2):

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

Individual

* FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Bronze Ball (1):

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

* FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Bronze Boot (1):

* FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Goal of the Tournament (1):

* CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship Top Scorer (3): 2010, 2015, 2021 * CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship Best Player (1): 2010

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Velasquez, Frank 1990 births Living people Beach soccer players Salvadoran men's footballers 21st-century Salvadoran sportsmen El Salvador men's international footballers People from Ahuachapán Men's association football forwards