Carlos Pavón

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Carlos Pavón
Carlos Pavon Plummer 02.JPG
Personnel
Surname Carlos Alberto Pavón Plummer
birthday October 9, 1973
place of birth El ProgresoHonduras
size 178 cm
position attack
Juniors
Years station
Real España
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Real España Reservas
1992-1994 Real España
1994-1995 Deportivo Toluca 15 0(7)
1995-1996 Club San Luis ? 0(5)
1995-1996 Real Valladolid 9 0(0)
1996-1997 UAT Correcaminos 20 (14)
1997-1998 Necaxa 25 0(7)
1998-2000 Celaya Fútbol Club 57 (34)
2000-2001 Monarcas Morelia 28 (13)
2001 Udinese Calcio 7 0(1)
2002-2003 SSC Naples 13 0(0)
2003 Real España ? 0(7)
2003-2004 Monarcas Morelia 16 0(6)
2004 Deportivo Cali ? 0(2)
2004-2005 CD Cruz Azul 13 0(3)
2005-2006 CSD Comunicaciones 31 (18)
2006-2007 Real España 15 0(5)
2007 Los Angeles Galaxy 18 0(3)
2008-2013 Real España 91 (40)
2009 → Necaxa (loan) 9 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1993-2010 Honduras 101 (57)
2008 Honduras (Olympia) 2 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of career

Carlos Alberto Pavón Plummer (born October 9, 1973 in El Progreso , Honduras ) is a former Honduran football player on the position of a striker . He is one of the best football players in his home country and is also the record scorer of the Honduran national team with currently (June 17, 2010) 57 goals .

He currently plays with his home club Real España in the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras , the top division of Honduras.

Career as a football player

Beginnings at Real España

Carlos Pavón was born in the Honduran department of Yoro as the son of Blanca Nieves Pavón Macedo and the former Costa Rican soccer player Allard Plummer , who was the top scorer in the Honduran league in the year his son was born. Since Plummer emigrated to the United States shortly after his son was born , his mother had to raise him alone. At the age of 15 Pavón came to the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa to CD Olimpia , where he completed a two-week trial training under the then coach Chelato Uclès , but was ultimately not accepted into the team. Before that, he played in a soccer team in the municipality of La Lima in the Department of Cortés .

Dejected and without money, but still full of hopes and dreams ”, Pavón was one day sitting on a street and watching cars go by when he was approached by someone who knew a club for him. So it happened that soon afterwards he began his real career as a football player in the youth team of Real España in the second largest city in the country, in San Pedro Sula . After he went through various youth leagues there, he made his first appearances in the reserve team of the club and came from this in 1992 to the first team with play in Honduras top division. After numerous appearances and a large number of goals, the committed striker moved to Mexico in 1994 , where he signed a one-year contract with Deportivo Toluca .

First move to Mexico

After he and his team were runner-up in the highest Honduran football league in 1991/92, he won the championship title with the team in the 1993/94 season, but was no longer as successful with his team there after moving to Mexico. After 15 championship appearances and seven goals as well as appearances in the Copa México in the 1994/95 season , the lively and fast Honduran made another move within Mexico. This time he was drawn to the Primera División 'A' for the 1995/96 season , the then second highest Mexican soccer division, which existed under this system until the 2009/10 season and was then replaced by the Liga de Ascenso . At Club San Luis Pavón scored five goals in Mexico's second division and transferred to another club this season.

Change to Europe and return to Mexico

Carlos Pavón with the back number 9

This time he went to Europe, where he was signed by Real Valladolid in the Spanish Primera División and played with his compatriot and national team colleague Amado Guevara . In the offensive series of Valladolid he was next to top scorers such as the Croatian Alen Peternac and the Spanish attacking midfielder José María Quevedo , who was often used as a striker during this time, only in nine league games and then left the club for Mexico .

At UAT Correcaminos from Ciudad Victoria , the capital of the Mexican state Tamaulipas , he completed only a few games in his first season, in which he scored two goals. The following season of the professional football department of the Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas , which is playing in the second highest Mexican football league, the Honduran showed that he was dangerous for scoring goals. He scored twelve goals and was next to the other offensive players of the team this season, such as. For example, the former first division player Ricardo Chávez , the veteran Argentine Luis Américo Scatolaro or the former international Francisco Javier Cruz , one of the team's top scorers. After twelve goals in the league, Pavón was runner-up in Primera División 'A' and was one of the main contributors to this success. After scoring in the quarter-finals in the fight for the championship title, the Honduran scored two goals in a 6-2 home win over UANL Tigres in the semi -final second leg.

Due to the good style of play and the danger of scoring goals in Mexico's second division, some clubs from the country's top league became aware of the up-and-coming offensive talent from Central America. At the age of 23, Pavón finally returned to the Mexican Primera División, where he signed a one-year contract with Necaxa and scored seven goals in 16 league games in the 1997 Invierno . In the following section of the Verano 1998 the goal danger of the 1.78 m tall striker noticeably decreased, whereby he remained goalless in the nine completed championship games, but became Verano runner-up with the team at the end of the season. In the final first leg against Deportivo Toluca, Pavón's team won 2-1, but suffered a 2-5 away defeat in the second leg. After a more or less successful time in Aguascalientes, the striker transferred to the Celaya Fútbol Club within the league , where he became a strong goalscorer during his time there.

In his first season he scored 13 goals in 16 championship appearances, making him one of the most successful goal scorers in the league. He repeated this performance in the following season Verano 1999 , in which he scored 13 goals in 15 league games and was the team's top scorer by a large margin. Within the league, only three players scored more goals than Pavón during this period. In the following season , the goal rate of the then 25- and 26-year-olds decreased somewhat, with 14 appearances in Mexico's top soccer league "only" five times. Although the lack of many goals, as in previous seasons, Pavón often helped the team to stay in the league and was thus an important support in the team from the central Mexican city of Celaya . After twelve games and three goals in Verano 2000 , after more than two years of club membership and 34 goals in a total of 57 league games, the Honduran top scorer left. In his home country he was voted Footballer of the Year 2000 for his good performance.

This time he was again attracted by a club from Mexico's highest professional football league. At Monarcas Morelia , the Honduran took on a one-year contract and was one of the best strikers in the team alongside his strike partner, the Brazilian- Mexican striker Alex Fernándes , which was playing under the direction of the well-known Mexican coach Luis Fernando Tena at the time. Above all, it was thanks to the good offensive performance of the two strikers, but also to the rest of the team, that the team led at the end of the season after a 3-1 home win in the final first leg against Deportivo Toluca and a win on penalties in the second leg (Toluca after regular playing time 2-0) secured the championship title of the Invierno 2000 . Pavón, who was eliminated due to a serious injury, could not take part in the playoffs towards the end of the season. Another 13 league appearances and three goals followed in the Verano 2001 , before Pavón received a lucrative offer from Italy .

Lucrative contract with Udinese Calcio

The Italian Serie A club Udinese Calcio had set their scouts on the now 27-year-old, who finally brought him to Italy, where he signed a lucrative contract with the club from Udine . With the Italians he played for a long time to stay in the league and won the fight in seven league games and one goal at the end and with the team just managed to stay in Italy's highest football league with one point behind in 14th place. After only a brief stint in northeast Italy, the Honduran transferred to the Italian second division club SSC Napoli in the same season . But here, too, the Latin American could do little with the completely different style of play of the Europeans and especially the Italians and remained largely colorless and goalless in his twelve appearances. Pavón played a single game in the 2002/03 season , after which he turned his back on Italian football and only shortly afterwards, plagued by a serious injury, moved back to his home country and his footballing roots, to Real España.

As a globetrotter through international football

At his hometown club, he found his old scoring risk again and scored a total of seven league goals before he made his way to Mexico again before the Clausura 2004 , where he was once again picked up by Monarcas Morelia. With the Mexicans, he was on the field in 16 championship games and had a goal balance of six goals. After the brief stint, Pavón moved to Colombia , where he was signed by the first division club Deportivo Cali and scored two league goals for the team until the end of the season. Since he could not prevail in the well-staffed team at the side of Tressor Moreno , Roberto Palacios , Álvaro Domínguez or Erwin Carrillo , he left the club again at the end of the season. Also in the team at that time was the up-and-coming top scorer Fredy Montero , who moved to the USA a few years later and played in Major League Soccer .

For the Mexican Clausura 2005 , Pavón moved to the Mexican club CD Cruz Azul , based in the south of the Mexican capital Mexico City, on the recommendation of the Argentinian soccer coach Rubén Omar Romano , under whom he also played for Morelio . After the contract of the Honduran was not renewed after a single season in which he scored three goals in 13 championship games and besides him in the offensive department besides César Delgado , Francisco Fonseca and Miguel Zepeda there were also some other good and talented attacking players or goal scorers, he left the club for Guatemala . At CSD Comunicaciones with play in the Liga Nacional de Guatemala , the top division of the country, he was one of the main responsible for the good placement in the final table of the Apertura 2005. In 15 league games, the agile Pavón scored ten times and was with the Team Guatemalan runners-up after they played 0-0 in the final first leg against the strong record champions CSD Municipal , but were defeated 0-2 in the second leg.

After a bad Clausura 2006, in which the team performance did not fit, although Pavón scored eight goals in his 16 appearances, the team was a bit beaten at the end of the season to find in the back of the table. When the club refused to pay Pavón's salary, the player moved back to their native Honduras with his friend and teammate Milton Núñez . There both signed a contract with Pavón's home club Real España. The Pavón only came to one use in his first season and completed a further 14 games (with five goals) in the following season, the Clausura 2007. In that same season he was with the team of Honduran champions, which meant the ninth championship title in the club's history . At the end of the season he left his home club one more time to look for new challenges.

The time at LA Galaxy and returning home again

This time he dared to step into the top North American soccer league, Major League Soccer (MLS), where he signed a contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy in June 2007 together with the talented striker Edson Buddle . At LA Galaxy, in contrast to his last clubs, he received a lucrative contract, where he had a base salary of $ 132,000 and guaranteed income of $ 141,500. He scored two goals for Galaxy in the legendary game on August 18, 2007 at Giants Stadium against the New York Red Bulls , in front of a crowd of over 66,000, the highest number of spectators in a Red Bulls match, after assists by David Beckham . Although the game ended in a 4-5 loss to Galaxys, the game went down in MLS history because of the number of viewers and the result. Although it didn't quite work out within the league in the 2007 season , the team reached 2nd place in the North American SuperLiga 2007 , the very first edition of this competition.

In the same competition Pavón scored a goal in a controversial match against FC Dallas , in which Galaxy led 4-0 after 18 minutes and in the end won 6-5 with very late goals. After a total of 18 games and three goals scored, the Honduran received some offers from other MLS franchises, but decided to return to his home country, where he signed a three-year contract with his home club Real España. At the same time, Pavón decided to end his active football career with his former youth club. After five goals in eleven championship games in the Clausura 2008 Pavón was in the Apertura 2008, in which he scored four goals in seven games, Honduran runner-up. The team around the Honduran top scorer brought equally good performances in the following season, the Clausura 2009, in which the team was again runner-up in the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras. The striker contributed two goals in three missions.

His stay at the club from San Pedro Sula was only interrupted by a few weeks or months, during which he switched to Necaxa as a loan player and was used there in nine games. At the end of the season, however, the team was relegated to the newly created second-class Liga de Ascenso, but after a year in Mexico's second-division was able to play its way back into the Primera División. At this time, however, Pavón was already back at his home club, where he scored four goals in eleven championship games at Apertura 2009 and was voted Honduran football player of the year for the second time in his career at the end of the season.

During the 2010 Clausura, in which Pavón once again clearly showed that he was a dangerous goalie, the striker got negative coverage in the Honduran media. According to reports on the Real España website and various media, the record scorer of the Honduran national soccer team violated the team's rules, as he often disrespected his statements and actions and had to initiate disciplinary proceedings. Complaints were also received in February 2010 because Pavón had violated the team sponsor's requirements by traveling to Colombia at the same time to advertise a competing brand.

His current contract with Real España runs until December 2010, but it is unclear whether he will continue his career beyond that.

In the national team

Carlos Pavón during a national team training session

The current (as of June 16, 2010) with 57 goals, the best Honduran national player of all time, completed his first international match for his home country in 1993. He came in a group game of the CONCACAF Gold Cup 1993 against the United States in the 81st minute of the game Nicolas Suazo on the lawn; the game ended in a 1-0 defeat by a goal from Alexi Lalas . To his first goal in the shirt of the Hondurans came Pavón in his only fifth international match on November 29, 1995 in a group game of the UNCAF Nations Cup 1995 in the 2-0 victory over Panama . Pavón scored two more goals over the course of the tournament and was named the competition's top scorer with a total of three goals. In addition, after 1993 he won the Central American tournament for the second time in a row with the team , which qualifies for the CONCACAF Gold Cup of the following year.

After a few more friendly internationals, the Honduran striker completed five internationals in 1996 qualifying for the 1998 World Cup , in which he scored two goals. With the team, however, he was eliminated in the group stage against Jamaica and Mexico , although Honduras had scored the most goals in the entire group. He played his next tournament in February 1998 after not having played a single national game for his home country in 1997. At the 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup in the United States, he scored the only goal of his team in the competition and was eliminated from the current tournament as the bottom group in Group B. After he only made three international appearances in 1998, he joined the national team at the 1999 UNCAF Nations Cup in Costa Rica . He scored two goals in five games, but only made it to third place with the team.

As team captain Pavón took part in the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2000 , where he scored a goal in all three games of his team and was eliminated in the quarterfinals against Peru . Shortly after the Gold Cup, the striker joined the Honduran national team in qualifying for the 2002 World Cup in 2000 and 2001 and became an absolute top scorer. With 15 goals in 17 international matches, he finished second behind the Australian Archie Thompson (16 goals), who scored twelve goals in the 2001 soccer match between Australia and American Samoa alone , making him runner-up in the entire World Cup qualification. With the Honduran national team, Pavón made it to the last round of the finals , where the team only narrowly failed to participate in a World Cup as a good fourth place behind Costa Rica (group winners), Mexico (2nd) and the USA (3rd).

During the entire World Cup qualification he scored three of the 15 goals in a double pack and two hat tricks. He achieved his first hat-trick on September 2, 2000 in a 5-0 win over El Salvador , the second, with which he gained not only more prominence in America, was achieved in a 3-1 home win over Mexico on September 20 June 2001. In the time between the World Cup qualifiers there were also three games of the UNCAF Nations Cup 2001 , with the Honduran succeeding in a hat trick in a 10-2 win over Nicaragua . Although the team scored by far the most goals, they did not get past the first round of the competition as third in the group. On May 2, 2002 Pavón came in a 3-3 draw against Japan in the Kirin Cup , used and came twice to scoring.

After that, there were no more senior national team appearances until February 2004, before he continued to gain experience with the national team in a few friendly games until the summer of 2004 before the team went into the qualifying games for the 2006 World Cup . Here Pavón was used in a total of five qualifying games, in which he contributed a hit. It took almost two and a half years from his last game in October 2004 to his next appearance in April, but in the first game after his long absence he scored the only goal of his team in a 3-1 defeat against Haiti . In the same year he took part in the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2007 , where he scored five goals in four games. This included a 5-0 win over Cuba , in which Pavón scored four goals. For Pavón, who went into this tournament as captain, it was a very successful competition individually. Although he only made it to the quarter-finals with the team and was knocked 2-1 out against the strong Guadeloupe national team, at the end of the competition he was elected the tournament's top scorer with his five goals and was one goal ahead of his former teammates LA Galaxy, Landon Donovan .

After not appearing in a single Honduran international game in 2008 and only played two games for the Honduran Olympic selection during the 2008 Olympic soccer tournament, he gained tournament experience in the 2009 UNCAF Nations Cup when he scored a goal in four games in his home country contributed. At the competition, which was held in Honduras, the team around Pavón, who acted as vice-captain under his teammate Amado Guevara, came third behind the runner-up Costa Rica and the winner Panama. Thanks to his great success at the UNCAF Nations Cup, the Honduran national coach brought him into the national team that took part in qualifying for the 2010 World Cup. In qualifying, Pavón was one of the key players in his home country's national team. In his nine appearances he scored seven goals and was together with the Jamaican Luton Shelton behind the El Salvador striker Rudis Corrales in the second place of the scorers list of the CONCACAF zone.

Pavón finally became the Honduran national hero on October 14, 2009 in the last qualifying game for the 2010 World Cup, in which Honduras met El Salvador away from home. The striker scored the valuable 1-0 goal in the 64th minute of the game, which was finally enough for the final score. At the same time the USA played against Costa Rica that evening, with Costa Rica also having the chance to participate in the World Cup. Shortly before the end of the game, the Costa Ricans lead 2-1 with two goals from Bryan Ruiz ; In the 94th minute of the game, the Hondurans are finally redeemed when the American Jonathan Bornstein scored the equalizer in the fourth minute of stoppage time and thus enabled Honduras to participate in the 2010 World Cup, as they had a better goal difference.

On June 16, 2010 Pavón finally completed his first World Cup game when he was in the first group game against Chile in action and, after he did not show a really good performance, was replaced in minute 60 by Georgie Welcome .

The best Honduran national player with his current (as of June 16, 2010) 57 international goals exceeded the number of goals of the legendary Honduran soccer player José Roberto Figueroa , who was active in his home country as well as in Spain during his career . Throughout his national team career, Carlos Pavón has played 37 World Cup qualifiers, in which he scored 25 goals, as well as ten CONCAF Gold Cup games (9 goals), 15 UNCAF Nations Cup games (9 goals), and 37 friendly games ( 12 goals) and a game in the Kirin Cup, where he contributed two goals. In addition, on June 16, 2010, an employment in a world championship followed.

Play style

The predominantly offensive Pavón is considered extremely dangerous. Although he often acts with both feet and thus scores a goal, he calls his right foot the stronger one. Furthermore, Pavón is good in the air despite his not quite as pronounced height of 178 cm and has scored a number of header goals in his career so far . Furthermore, the player is also quite strong in duels , mainly due to his robust physique . However, he is less likely to be found in the defensive area and concentrates primarily on the offensive in all his stations.

successes

Individual successes

  • 2 × Footballer of the Year in Honduras: 2000, 2009

Team successes

With Real España

  • 3 × champions of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras : 1993/94, 2003/04 (Apertura), 2006/07 (Clausura)
  • 3 × runners-up in the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Honduras: 1991/92, 2008 (Apertura), 2009 (Clausura)
  • Best goalscorer ever

With UAT Correcaminos

With Necaxa

With Monarcas Morelia

With CSD Comunicaciones

With LA Galaxy

National team successes

Career as a musician

Parallel to his active career as a football player, Pavón also tried his hand at the music industry and appeared in music videos in the reggaeton style with the Honduran musician El Pueblo . However, his musician career was not very successful, which is why he only produced a few songs and then concentrated more on the sport of football.

Trivia

On October 19, 2009, the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) started a survey looking for the “ World's Most Popular Footballer ”. Among the candidates were 115 active players from 68 different countries from all six football continents. On January 2, 2010 Carlos Pavón was awarded the title of IFFHS with 195,182 votes and had a considerable lead over pursuers such as Bryan Ruiz, Cuauhtémoc Blanco or Omar Bravo .

In 1994 he was awarded a medal by the then Honduran President Carlos Roberto Reina .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  13. pdF file with all salaries of the MLS players in the 2007 season ( memento of the original from July 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed June 17, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mlsplayers.org
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  19. a b c Real España dice que Pavón “violó” el reglamento del club ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish), Retrieved June 17, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radioamerica.hn
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