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#8M🇭🇳 HondurasSigned
Wilson
PALACIOS
#8M🇭🇳 HondurasSigned- Born
- 1984
- Age
- 41
- From
- La Ceiba, Honduras
- Debut
- 2002
- Previously
- CD Olimpia
Honduras' most successful Premier League export. A relentless box-to-box midfielder for Tottenham and Wigan whose engine and tackling carried his country to back-to-back World Cups in 2010 and 2014 — and put three Palacios brothers on the same pitch in South Africa, a World Cup first.
Apps
Goals
Trophies
MVP
International
97
5
2
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Club career
319
—
2
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Trophy cabinet
Honors
- World Cup appearances2010, 2014
- Honduran Liga Nacional2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
Club career
Timeline
- 2002–2008CD Olimpia
- 2007–2008Birmingham City (loan)
- 2008–2009Wigan Athletic
- 2009–2011Tottenham Hotspur
- 2011–2015Stoke City
- 2016Miami FC
- 2018–2019CD Olimpia
Did you know
Three things to drop into conversation
- 01Wilson, Jerry and Johnny Palacios became the first trio of brothers to represent a single nation at a World Cup, in South Africa 2010.
- 02Scored a halfway-line goal against Marathón in the 2006 Honduran final that fans still rate as the league's best ever.
- 03Endured a personal tragedy in 2007 when his younger brother Edwin was kidnapped; the story shaped Wilson's quiet leadership for the rest of his career.