Personal information | |||
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Full name | Donis Salatiel Escober Izaguirre [1] | ||
Date of birth | 3 February 1981 | ||
Place of birth | San Ignacio, Honduras | ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Youth career | |||
Juventud Olimpíca | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
2001–2019 | Olimpia | 222 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2002–2019 | Honduras | 63 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11 July 2019 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12 November 2017 |
Donis Salatiel Escober Izaguirre (born 3 February 1981) is a Honduran retired football goalkeeper.
Born in San Ignacio, Escober started at Olimpia's youth side Juventud Olímpica [2] and has played his entire professional career for Olimpia.
In March 2012, Escober was on the verge of breaking Motagua's Nicaraguan goalkeeper Róger Mayorga's 36 years old-record of 838 minutes without conceding a goal in the Honduran league. [3] He did not make it in the end, after being beaten by a Marathón goal that left Escober only 35 minutes short of Mayorga's record. [4] After the 2018–19 Liga Nacional de Honduras came to an end, Escober announced that he would not continue with Olimpia and that he would retire from football. [5]
Escober made his debut for Honduras in a May 2002 friendly match against Japan and has, as of January 2013, earned a total of 17 caps. He has represented his country in 2 FIFA World Cup qualification matches [6] and played at the 2003 [7] and 2007 UNCAF Nations Cups [8] as well as at the 2009 [9] and was a non-playing squad member at the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup [10] and the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. He played in the 2018 CONCACAF-AFC playoff against Australia in both legs, but failed to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup with Honduras. [11]
He has been an understudy to Noel Valladares for most of his international career.[ citation needed]