Roberto Nurse

Roberto Antonio Nurse Anguiano (born 16 December 1983) is a Mexico-born Panamanian footballer who currently plays for Mineros de Zacatecas on loan from Dorados de Sinaloa in Mexico's Ascenso MX and the Panama national football team.

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Nurse and the second or maternal family name is Anguiano.
Roberto Nurse
Personal information
Full name Roberto Antonio Nurse Anguiano
Date of birth (1983-12-16) 16 December 1983
Place of birth Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
Height 6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Playing position(s) Striker
Club information
Current team
 Zacatecas
Number 20
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2003 Colibríes 3 (0)
2003 Zacatepec 23 (10)
2004–2005 Querétaro 28 (11)
2005–2006 León 27 (12)
2005–2006 Atlante 13 (0)
2006–2008 Querétaro 38 (18)
2006 → Celaya (loan) 9 (2)
2008 Chivas USA 6 (0)
2009 Veracruz 11 (1)
2009 Guerreros de Hermosillo 11 (0)
2010–2011 Cruz Azul Hidalgo 47 (16)
2011–2012 La Piedad 31 (20)
2012–2015 UAT 89 (41)
2015 → Sinaloa (loan) 32 (18)
2016– Zacatecas 84 (51)
National team‡
2014– Panama 21 (3)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 06:57, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 07:02, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Club career

Nurse is a three-year veteran of the Primera División (First Division), having made his top-flight debut with Colibríes de Morelos in 2003 at aged 19. From 2003-2005 he spent two years in the Primera División A, Mexico’s second tier, with Cañeros de Zacatepec and Querétaro, before returning to the Primera División in 2005, playing 13 games with Atlante. Nurse was Querétaro’s leading goalscorer in the Primera División A, registering a total of 17 goals between the Apertura 2007 and Clausura 2008 seasons.

Nurse signed for Chivas USA of Major League Soccer on 16 July 2008,[1] and made his debut in Chivas's SuperLiga game against Santos Laguna the same day; he made his MLS debut on 9 August 2008, against Kansas City Wizards.

Veracruz signed Nurse for the Clausura 2009 tournament and after spells at Cruz Azul Hidalgo and La Piedad he joined UAT in June 2012.[2] In December 2014 he moved on to Dorados de Sinaloa.[3]

International career

Born in Mexico to a Panamanian father and a Mexican mother,[4] Nurse was eligible to play for Mexico or Panama[5] and on 31 May 2014 he made his debut for the Panama national football team coming in as a substitute during a 1-1 tie against Serbia, and scored his first international goal for Panama on a 2-2 tie against Costa Rica during the 2014 Copa Centroamericana.

In May 2018 he was named in Panama’s preliminary 35 man squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.[6] However, he did not make the final 23.[7]

International goals
Scores and results list Panama's goal tally first.
NoDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.7 September 2014Cotton Bowl, Dallas, Texas, United States Costa Rica2–02–22014 Copa Centroamericana
2.14 November 2014Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador, El Salvador El Salvador3–13–1Friendly
3.25 July 2015PPL Park, Chester, Pennsylvania United States1–01(3)–1(2)2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup

See also

References
  1. Chivas USA ficha al mexicano Roberto Nurse - El Tiempo (in Spanish)
  2. Roberto Nurse ya es Correcaminos - CF Correcaminos
  3. La ‘jauría’, que se encuentra en su tercera semana de preparación - El Siglo (in Spanish)
  4. Invaden los Nurse el ‘Cente’ - Diario de Morelos (in Spanish)
  5. Roberto Nurse, la apuesta del técnico Hernán Darío Gómez - La Estrella (in Spanish)
  6. http://www.goal.com/en-gb/amp/news/revealed-every-world-cup-2018-squad-23-man-preliminary-lists/oa0atsduflsv1nsf6oqk576rb
  7. http://www.espn.co.uk/football/panama/story/3513736/panamas-final-world-cup-squad-includes-six-mls-players
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