title: Erick Norales
text: # Erick Norales
  
  Erick Zenón Norales Casildo (Spanish pronunciation:; born 11 February 1985) is a Honduran football defender who plays for Platense.
  
  ## Club career
  
  Norales began his professional career with C.D.S. Vida in 2002, making eighty league appearances and scoring seven goals. From 2006 to 2011 he appeared in 118 league matches for C.D. Marathón, winning three straight Apertura season titles (2007–2008, 2008–2009, and 2009–2010). He returned to C.D. Vida in 2013, then went back to Marathón for the Liga Nacional's closing season.
  
  On 10 February 2016, Norales signed for the newly formed NASL team Rayo OKC.
  
  ## International career
  
  He was part of the Honduran U-20 team at the 2005 World Youth Championship in the Netherlands.
  
  He made his senior debut for the national side in an April 2007 friendly match against Haiti and has, as of January 2013, earned a total of 29 caps, scoring 2 goals. He has represented his country in 2 FIFA World Cup qualification matches and played at the 2009, and 2011 UNCAF Nations Cups as well as at the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
  
  On 20 March 2008 Norales converted the final penalty kick in the semi-finals of the 2008 CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying tournament, to guarantee qualification to the 2008 Olympic Games for Honduras. He would eventually play two matches at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
  
  ### International goals
  
      Scores and results list Honduras' goal tally first.
  
  | N. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1. | 28 June 2009 | WakeMed Soccer Park, Cary, United States | Panama | 2–0 | 2–0 | friendly match |
  | 2. | 7 September 2010 | Stade Saputo, Montreal, Canada | Canada | 1–1 | 1–2 | friendly match |
  