Berny Peña

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Bernabé "Berny" Peña
Personal information
Full name Berny Peña Pizarro
Date of birth (1980-10-19) 19 October 1980 (age 43)
Place of birth Carrillo, Costa Rica
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Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2004 Guanacasteca
2004–2005 Municipal Liberia 26 (3)
2005–2010 Brujas 98 (6)
2006 Akratitos (loan) 12 (0)
2007 Municipal Liberia (loan) 10 (1)
2009 Kavala (loan) 7 (1)
2010 Municipal Liberia
2011 Deportivo Quevedo 9 (0)
2011 Platense
International career
2005 Costa Rica 5 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of June 1, 2008

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Bernabé "Berny" Peña Pizarro (born 19 October 1980 in Carrillo) is a Costa Rican football player.

Known as the Axeman or Hachero, he is also well known for telling an 18-year-old player that if he did not handle playing with men, he should play in the U-18 after stepping on the young man's face.[citation needed] Currently holds the record for the soccer player with the most alimony debts in the Costa Rican soccer history.[citation needed] He also has an incredible stat of seeing a red card every 3 games he plays, sometimes including the 2-game suspension.[citation needed]

When asked about his brutal way of playing, he once replied "You have never seen any of my rivals die after one of my fouls, so I don't see where is the dirty playing people talk about".[1]

Club career

He started his career at Guanacasteca, before joining Municipal Liberia in 2004. A year later he signed for Brujas. He was sent on loan to Greek club Akratitos, where he played alongside compatriots Froylán Ledezma and William Sunsing, but could not save the club from relegation.[2] He then was loaned back to Municipal Liberia and again to Greece to play for second division Kavala.[3] In summer 2010 he returned to Liberia Mía/Águilas Guanacastecas[4][5] and later had spells in Ecuador with Deportivo Quevedo,[6] whom he left after only three months[7] and in Honduras with Platense, whom he left in November 2011 after new coach Roque Alfaro told him he did not fit into his plans.[8]

International career

He was first called up by Steve Sampson in 2004,[9] but Peña made his debut for Costa Rica in a February 2005 friendly match against Ecuador and has earned a total of 5 caps, scoring no goals. He represented his country at the 2005 UNCAF Nations Cup.[10]

His final international was a February 2005 UNCAF Nations Cup match against Honduras.

References

External links

  • Berny Peña at National-Football-Teams.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
  • Profile & Statistics at Nacion.com (Spanish)