Panamanian footballerIn this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Nurse and the second or maternal family name is Anguiano.

Roberto Antonio Nurse Anguiano (born 16 December 1983) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Liga Nacional club Achuapa. Born in Mexico, he represents the Panama national team.

Contents

• 1 Club career
• 2 International career
• 3 International goals
• 4 Honours
• 5 See also
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Club career

Nurse is a three-year veteran of the Primera División (First Division), having made his top-flight debut with Colibríes de Morelos in 2003 at aged 19. From 2003-2005 he spent two years in the Primera División A, Mexico’s second tier, with Cañeros de Zacatepec and Querétaro, before returning to the Primera División in 2005, playing 13 games with Atlante. Nurse was Querétaro’s leading goalscorer in the Primera División A, registering a total of 17 goals between the Apertura 2007 and Clausura 2008 seasons.

Nurse signed for Chivas USA of Major League Soccer on 16 July 2008, and made his debut in Chivas's SuperLiga game against Santos Laguna the same day; he made his MLS debut on 9 August 2008, against Kansas City Wizards.

Veracruz signed Nurse for the Clausura 2009 tournament and after spells at Cruz Azul Hidalgo and La Piedad he joined UAT in June 2012. In December 2014 he moved on to Dorados de Sinaloa.

International career

Born in Mexico to a Panamanian father and a Mexican mother, Nurse was eligible to play for Mexico or Panama and on 31 May 2014 he made his debut for the Panama national football team coming in as a subs*ute during a 1-1 tie against Serbia, 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 2018 World Cup in Russia. However, he did not make the final 23.

International goals

Scores and results list Panama's goal tally first.

Honours

Individual

• Ascenso MX Golden Boot: Clausura 2014, Clausura 2015, Apertura 2016, Apertura 2018

See also

• Afro-Mexicans
• List of people from Morelos

References

External links

• Roberto Nurse at National-Football-Teams.com
• Roberto Nurse – Liga MX stats at MedioTiempo.com (in Spanish)
• Roberto Antonio Nurse at BDFA (in Spanish)