Roberto James Bailey Sargent (10 August 1952 – 11 June 2019) was a
Honduran football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
forward who played for
Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...
in the
1982 FIFA World Cup
The 1982 FIFA World Cup was the 12th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial Association football, football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in Spain between 13 June and 11 July 1982. The tournament was won by Italy national foo ...
.
Club career
Nicknamed ''El Robot'', Bailey played for
C.D. Marathón for whom he scored 47 goals. He and his brother Jimmy James Bailey share a record with the Palacios brothers, the sole families to have scored in more than one League final.
Career statistics
Club
Personal life
Bailey lived in
San Pedro Sula
San Pedro Sula () is the capital of Cortés Department, Honduras. It is located in the northwest corner of the country in the Sula Valley, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean Sea. With a population of 671,460 ...
and worked for a spare-parts agency.
Roberto Bailey: “Olimpia tiene un fútbol mezquino”
- Cronometro Tiempo
He died in a car accident on June 11, 201
References
External links
FIFA profile
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1952 births
2019 deaths
Men's association football forwards
Honduran men's footballers
Honduras men's international footballers
1982 FIFA World Cup players
C.D. Marathón players
Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional de Honduras players
Footballers from San Pedro Sula