| Wendy Acosta | |
| Fullname: | Wendy Patricia Acosta Salas[1] |
| Birth Date: | 1989 12, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | San Sebastián, Costa Rica[2] |
| Position: | Midfielder |
| Currentclub: | Herediano FF |
| Clubnumber: | 20 |
| Collegeyears2: | 2012 |
| Collegegoals2: | 9[3] |
| Years2: | 2015–2016 |
| Caps2: | 13 |
| Goals2: | 1 |
| Nationalyears1: | 2007– |
| Nationalcaps1: | 59 [4] |
| Nationalgoals1: | 18 |
Wendy Patricia Acosta Salas (born 19 December 1989) is a Costa Rican footballer who plays as a midfielder for Herediano FF and the Costa Rica women's national football team.
Acosta attended the University of Costa Rica.[5]
On 28 April 2010, Acosta made her international debut against Honduras.[6] On 7 October 2011, she scored her first ever international goal against El Salvador.[6] In the following matches against Honduras and Guatemala, she again scored a goal in each match.[6] Then on 22 January 2012, she scored a brace against Haiti.[6] On 7 March, she scored a hat-trick against Belize, with goals in the twenty-sixth, forty-fourth and sixty-fifth minute during a match in which Costa Rica won 14–0.[7] She would continue her scoring, as she found the net in consecutive matches against El Salvador and Panama.[6]
On 16 March 2013, Acosta scored twice in a match against Nicaragua.[6] There she found the net in the first half of the match, in the fourteenth and twentieth minute. Costa Rica won that match 4–0.[8] She again scored in a 6–1 victory for Costa Rica against Martinique, finding the net in the thirty-second minute before she was substituted for Carol Sanchez in the sixty-second minute.[9] Through victory in that match, Costa Rica was "one match away from" the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.[10] On 5 March 2015, Acosta scored a single goal against Bosnia and Herzegovina, which helped Costa Rica win a match in the Istria Cup.[11]
In 2015, Acosta was invited for a trial by Swedish club AIK.[12]
After scoring a goal, Acosta "always [points] to the sky" to remember her father, who died due to a heart ailment in 2011. She has also said that she plays football because her "dad played".[13]