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Edy Vásquez
Personal information
Full name	Edy Rafael Vásquez Andrade
Date of birth	31 October 1983
Place of birth	Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Date of death	12 May 2007 (aged 23)
Place of death	Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team
2003–2007	Motagua
International career‡
2006	Honduras
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 2007-05-12; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 2007

Edy Rafael Vásquez Andrade (October 31, 1983 – May 12, 2007) was a Honduran football midfielder, who played for F.C. Motagua.

Club career

Vasquez made his debut for Motagua on April 3, 2004, a 3–2 loss against Real España in the Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano in San Pedro Sula and played 63 matches wearing Motagua's blue shirt and scored 7 times. His scored his first goal on March 13, 2005, in a 2–1 win against Victoria in Tegucigalpa when he scored in the final minute.

His last game was on April 29, 2007 with a 1–0 win over Marathon and his last goal was against Hispano on October 5, 2006, in Tegucigalpa.

He suffered from a tibia and fibula fracture preventing him playing for most of the 2006–07 season.

International career

Vásquez made his debut for Honduras in an August 2006 friendly match against Venezuela and has earned a total of 3 caps, scoring no goals.

His final international was an October 2006 friendly match against Guatemala.

Personal life and death

Vásquez was a son of Sandra Andrade and he had a daughter with his fiancée Pamela Ocampo: Yeimi Alexandra.^[1]

He died in the Hospital Escuela in the morning of May 12, 2007, when the car which was carrying him crashed into a wall at the Fuerzas Armadas Boulevard in Colonia Las Brisas, Tegucigalpa. The accident left the driver and another passenger injured.^[2] Police stated all three were infused by alcohol.^[3]

Due to his death, the club team Motagua has retired his jersey number 16 in respect of his loyalty to the team.