Wilker Ángel
![]() Ángel with FC Terek in 2017 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Wilker José Ángel Romero[1] | ||
Date of birth | [2] | 18 March 1993||
Place of birth | Valera, Venezuela[1] | ||
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)[3] | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Göztepe | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2009–2011 | Trujillanos | 13 | (0) |
2011–2016 | Deportivo Táchira | 148 | (18) |
2016–2021 | Akhmat Grozny | 105 | (7) |
2021– | Göztepe | 4 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
2011 | Venezuela U-20 | 4 | (0) |
2014– | Venezuela | 27 | (2) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 6 December 2021. (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 05:11, 22 November 2020 (UTC) |
Wilker José Ángel Romero (born 18 March 1993) is a right footed[4] Venezuelan footballer, who plays as a centre-back[1] for Göztepe in Turkey and the Venezuela national team.
Career[]
Club[]
Trujillanos FC[]
Before he was 18, Angel won the Primera División with Trujillanos FC in the 2010-2011 season,[1]
Deportivo Táchira[]
Angel moved to Deportivo Táchira in 2011 and scored his first goal against Caroni in a match they lost 2-1 on 5 March 2011, his second came 11 days later against Estudiantes de Mérida winning the match 3-1, his third goal came against Zulia FC on 20 May 2012, his team won 5-0.[1]
Terek Grozny[]
On 1 August 2016, Ángel signed for Russian Premier League side Akhmat Grozny, then called Terek Grozny.[5] On 17 May 2021, Akhmat Grozny announced that Ángel had left the club after 121 games for the club.[6]
Göztepe[]
On 8 September 2021, he signed a one-year contract with one-year option with the Turkish club Göztepe.[7]
International[]
Ángel was called up to the full Venezuela squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers,[1] but was not included. On 18 November 2014, he made his debut in a friendly against Bolivia, where he scored the opening goal of the match. However, despite this, Venezuela lost 2–3.
Career statistics[]
Club[]
- As of match played 16 May 2021[1]
Club | Season | League | National Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Deportivo Táchira | 2010-11 | Liga Venezolana | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 10 | 2 | |
2011-12 | 22 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | – | 34 | 2 | |||
2012-13 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | 24 | 2 | |||||
2013-14 | 32 | 6 | – | – | 32 | 6 | ||||||
2014-15 | 35 | 4 | – | – | 35 | 4 | ||||||
2015 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 | – | 23 | 1 | |||
2016 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | – | 22 | 3 | |||
Total | 148 | 18 | 9 | 1 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 180 | 20 | ||
Akhmat Grozny | 2016–17 | Russian Premier League | 26 | 1 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 28 | 1 | ||
2017–18 | 26 | 3 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 27 | 3 | ||||
2018–19 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 19 | 1 | ||||
2019–20 | 19 | 1 | 3 | 1 | – | – | 22 | 2 | ||||
2020–21 | 16 | 1 | 5 | 0 | – | – | 21 | 1 | ||||
Total | 105 | 7 | 12 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 117 | 8 | ||
Career total | 253 | 25 | 21 | 2 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 297 | 28 |
International[]
Venezuela national team | ||
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Year | Apps | Goals |
2014 | 1 | 1 |
2015 | 1 | 0 |
2016 | 11 | 1 |
2017 | 4 | 0 |
2018 | 4 | 0 |
2019 | 2 | 0 |
2020 | 4 | 0 |
2021 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 27 | 2 |
Statistics accurate as of match played 17 November 2020[8]
International goals[]
- As of match played 2 February 2016[8]
# | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | Ref |
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1. | 18 November 2014 | Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz, Bolivia | ![]() |
Friendly | |||
2. | 2 February 2016 | Estadio Agustín Tovar, Barinas, Venezuela | ![]() |
Friendly |
Honors[]
National[]
Venezuela
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f g Wilker Ángel at Soccerway
- ^ "STATS Hosted Solution | Player Stats - Wilker Angel - Deportivo Táchira". Olympics.stats.com. Retrieved 2012-05-08.
- ^ Wilker Ángel at Russian Premier League
- ^ "W. Ángel - Soccer - Opera mobile - Results, fixtures, tables and statistics". Sports.opera.com. Retrieved 2012-05-08.
- ^ "Анхель Вилькер подписал контракт с Тереком". fc-terek.ru (in Russian). FC Terek Grozny. 1 August 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
- ^ "Анхель, Исмаэль, Мелкадзе и Алмаши покидают ФК "Ахмат"". fc-akhmat.ru/ (in Russian). FC Akhmat Grozny. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
- ^ "Wilker Jose Angel Romero Göztepe'mizde" (in Turkish). Göztepe. 8 September 2021.
- ^ a b "Wilker Ángel". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
- ^ "Japan vs. Venezuela - 19 November 2019 - Soccerway".
- ^ "Kirin Challenge Cup 2019 [11/19] Top".
External links[]
- 1993 births
- Living people
- People from Valera
- Venezuelan footballers
- Association football defenders
- Venezuela international footballers
- Trujillanos FC players
- Deportivo Táchira F.C. players
- Venezuela under-20 international footballers
- 2015 Copa América players
- Copa América Centenario players
- FC Akhmat Grozny players
- Göztepe S.K. footballers
- Venezuelan expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Russia
- Venezuelan expatriate sportspeople in Russia
- Expatriate footballers in Turkey
- Venezuelan expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
- Venezuelan Primera División players
- Russian Premier League players