Johnny Harold Leverón Uclés (born 7 February 1990) is a Honduran international

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who plays for Costa Rican club Guanacasteca.

Career

Club

In December 2008, he signed for

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

, and played with the Honduran club until 2012. Leverón made his official debut in the Honduran league on 19 April 2009 with Motagua in the 3–6 defeat against Marathón in

San Pedro Sula San Pedro Sula () is the capital of Cortés Department, Honduras. It is located in the northwest corner of the country in the Sula Valley, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean Sea. With a population of 701, ...

. While with Motagua he appeared in 83 league matches and scored nine goals. In January 2013 it was revealed his agent was looking for a move abroad. In February 2013 he signed a contract to play in

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for

Vancouver Whitecaps FC Vancouver Whitecaps Football Club is a Canadian professional Association football, soccer club based in Vancouver. The Whitecaps compete in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Western Conference (MLS), Western Conference. The MLS ite ...

. In 2015 Levenón signed for Mexican

Ascenso MX Ascenso MX, also known as Ascenso BBVA MX for sponsorship reasons, was a professional association football league in Mexico and the second level of the Mexican football league system. Formerly known as Primera División A de México (1994–2009 ...

team,

Correcaminos UAT Club de Fútbol Correcaminos de la Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, simply known as Correcaminos UAT, is a Mexican professional football club based in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas. It competes in Liga de Expansión MX, the second level divisi ...

International

Leverón represented Honduras in the

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. He was captain of the under 17 team and scored three goals for his squad. He also played in the

2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup The FIFA U-17 World Cup 2007, the twelfth edition of the tournament, was held in South Korea between 18 August and 9 September 2007. For this event, the number of teams had been expanded from 16 to 24, with the top two of each group and the four ...

in Korea and at the

2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup The 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup was the 17th edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup, which was hosted by Egypt from 24 September to 16 October 2009. The tournament was initially going to take place between 10 and 31 July. However, the 2009 FIFA Confede ...

in Egypt. He made his senior debut for

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, ...

in an April 2010

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against

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and has, as of January 2013, earned a total of 22 caps, scoring 3 goals. He has represented his country in one

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match and played at the

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. He also played at the

2011 UNCAF Nations Cup The 2011 Copa Centroamericana () was the eleventh edition of Copa Centroamericana (formerly known as the UNCAF Nations Cup), an international football championship for national teams affiliated with the Central American Football Union (UNCAF) of t ...

s as well as at the

2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup The 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the 11th edition of the CONCACAF Gold Cup competition, and the 21st CONCACAF regional championship overall in CONCACAF's 50 years of existence. The United States was the host nation. The competition started on Jun ...

.CONCACAF Championship, Gold Cup 2011 – Full Details
– RSSSF

Career statistics

International goals

Honours and awards

F.C. Motagua *

Liga Profesional de Honduras Liga (Spanish and Portuguese: ''League'') or LIGA may refer to: Sports Basketball * Liga ACB, men's professional basketball league in Spain * Liga Femenina de Baloncesto, women's professional basketball league in Spain Football Latin Ameri ...

: 2010–11 C C.D. Marathón *

: 2017–18 C Honduras *

Copa Centroamericana The Copa Centroamericana () was an association football competition organized by UNCAF as its top regional tournament for men's senior national teams from Central America. The tournament was held from 1991 to 2017, every two years in the years be ...

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 ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Leveron, Johnny 1990 births Footballers from Yoro Department Living people 21st-century Honduran sportsmen Men's association football defenders Honduran men's footballers Honduras men's youth international footballers Honduras men's under-20 international footballers Honduras men's international footballers Olympic footballers for Honduras Pan American Games competitors for Honduras F.C. Motagua players Vancouver Whitecaps FC players C.D. Marathón players Correcaminos UAT footballers Real C.D. España players C.D. Olimpia players Lobos UPNFM players A.D. Guanacasteca players Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional de Honduras players Major League Soccer players Ascenso MX players Liga FPD players Footballers at the 2007 Pan American Games 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup players Footballers at the 2012 Summer Olympics 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup players 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup players Honduran expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's soccer players in Canada Honduran expatriate sportspeople in Canada Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico Honduran expatriate sportspeople in Mexico Expatriate men's footballers in Costa Rica Honduran expatriate sportspeople in Costa Rica