Yessenia Flores
Personal information
Full name Yessenia del Socorro Flores Rivas[1]
Date of birth (1999-07-07) 7 July 1999[1]
Place of birth Villa Fraternidad, Managua, Nicaragua[2]
Position(s) Midfielder[1]
Youth career
Falcons de Managua[2]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2022–2023 Saprissa
International career‡
2011 Nicaragua U17 2 (0)
2018 Nicaragua U20 3 (1)
2014– Nicaragua 4 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22 July 2018

Yessenia del Socorro Flores Rivas (born 7 July 1999) is a Nicaraguan footballer who plays as a midfielder for the Nicaragua women's national team. [3]

Early and personal life

Flores was born in the Villa Fraternidad neighborhood of Managua to Juan Flores and Yessenia Rivas. Her elder sister Sheyla is also a footballer.[2]

Club career

Saprissa

In April 2022, Flores signed with Costa Rican team Deportivo Saprissa.[4] She left the club in August 2023.[5]

International career

During the 2022 CONCACAF W Championship qualification, Flores scored 6 goals in a 19–0 victory for Nicaragua against the Turks and Caicos Islands.[6]

International goals

Scores and results list Nicaragua's goal tally first

No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition .
1.6 December 2017Estadio Independencia, Estelí, Nicaragua El Salvador2–12–12017 Central American Games
2.8 December 2017 Panama3–03–1
3.22 July 2018Estadio Moderno Julio Torres, Barranquilla, Colombia Trinidad and Tobago1–22–22018 Central American and Caribbean Games
4.2–2
5.17 February 2022Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago1–21–22022 CONCACAF W Championship qualification
6.22 February 2022Estadio Nacional de Fútbol, Managua, Nicaragua Turks and Caicos Islands3–019–0
7.4–0
8.7–0
9.10–0
10.13–0
11.14–0
12.12 April 2022 Dominica1–010–0
13.3–0
14.5–0
15.7–0

References

  1. 1 2 3 Yessenia Flores at Soccerway. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Ortiz, Wilmer (16 February 2021). "La jugadora que le dio el título al Real Estelí cuenta cómo se convirtió en una referencia nacional". La Prensa (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 August 2023.
  3. ↑ "Yessenia Flores, la nueva águila que tendrá". canal4.com.ni.
  4. ↑ "La nicaragüense Yessenia Flores debuta con equipo de fútbol costarricense". VOS TV (in Spanish). 21 April 2022. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
  5. ↑ Valverde, Esteban (15 August 2023). "Saprissa Femenino anuncia la salida de dos extranjeras". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 August 2023.
  6. ↑ "Flores' six-goal display for Nicaragua caps February window". CONCACAF. 23 February 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.


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