Roberto Antonio Nurse Anguiano (born 16 December 1983) is a former professional

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who played as a striker. Born in Mexico, he represented the Panama national team.

Club career

Nurse is a three-year veteran of the Primera División (First Division), having made his top-flight debut with

Colibríes de Morelos Colibríes de Morelos was a Mexican football team. Nicknamed ''Los Colibríes'' (Hummingbirds), the club was founded in 2002 when the state of Morelos bought the Atlético Celaya franchise who at the time played in the top Mexican division. Coli ...

in 2003 at aged 19. From 2003 to 2005 he spent two years in the

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, Mexico's second tier, with Cañeros de Zacatepec and

Querétaro Querétaro (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Querétaro ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Querétaro, links=no; Otomi: ''Hyodi Ndämxei''), is one of the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into 18 municipalities. Its capi ...

, before returning to the Primera División in 2005, playing 13 games with Atlante. Nurse was Querétaro's leading goalscorer in the

, registering a total of 17 goals between the Apertura 2007 and Clausura 2008 seasons. Nurse signed for

Chivas USA Chivas USA (pronounced ''CHEE-vahs'') was an American professional soccer team based in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson, California. The club played from 2005 to 2014 in Major League Soccer (MLS) and was a subsidiary of Mexican club C.D. Gua ...

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on 16 July 2008, and made his debut in Chivas's SuperLiga game against

Santos Laguna Club Santos Laguna S.A. de C.V. (), commonly known as Santos Laguna or Santos, is a Mexican professional football club that competes in the Liga MX. It is located in northern Mexico and represents the urban area of La Comarca Lagunera, made u ...

the same day; he made his MLS debut on 9 August 2008, against

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. Veracruz signed Nurse for the Clausura 2009 tournament and after spells at

Cruz Azul Hidalgo Club Deportivo Cruz Azul Hidalgo, also known as Cruz Azul Hidalgo, was a professional football club in Mexico who last played in the Liga Premier league of Mexico. Their stadium was the Estadio 10 de Diciembre located in Ciudad Cooperativa Cruz ...

and

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he joined

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in June 2012. In December 2014 he moved on to

Dorados de Sinaloa Dorados de Sinaloa, or Dorados, is a Mexican professional football club based on Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico. History Dorados de Sinaloa was founded on August 9, 2003. The Dorados was the youngest team to play on First Division de México, ha ...

International career

Born in Mexico to a

Afro-Panamanian Afro-Panamanians are Panamanians of African descent. The Afro-Panamanian population can be mainly broken into one of two categories "Afro-Colonials", Afro-Panamanians descended from slaves brought to Panama during the colonial period, and "Afro-A ...

father and a

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mother, Nurse was eligible to play for Mexico or Panama and on 31 May 2014 he made his debut for the

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coming in as a substitute during a 1–1 tie against

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, and scored his first international goal for Panama on a 2–2 tie against Costa Rica during the 2014 Copa Centroamericana. In May 2018 he was named in Panama's preliminary 35 man squad for the

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. However, he did not make the final 23.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Panama's goal tally first.''

Honours

Individual *

Ascenso MX Ascenso MX was the second tier of professional football in Mexico of the Mexican football league system. The champion of the competition was promoted to Liga MX (top-flight tier). The bottom team was relegated to Liga Premier (the third tier) ...

Golden Boot: Clausura 2014, Clausura 2015, Apertura 2016, Apertura 2018

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