*Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15 January 2013
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Flores and the second or maternal family name is Miranda.
Milton Javier Flores Miranda (5 December 1974 – 19 January 2003) was a Honduranfootball player.
Early years
Flores was born to Pedro Alfredo Flores and Janneth Miranda in La Lima, Honduras. Near sports recreation park named Polideportivo Chulavista, he started playing baseball, but later his goalkeeper talent was discovered. He attended elementary school Manuel Bonilla, where he became best friends with Carlos Pavón. He also played in La Mosquito.
Club career
Nicknamed el Chocolate, the goalkeeper played 231 games for Real España from 1992 to 2002.[1] Real Españas fans idolized Chocolate for his excellent performances with the team.
His final international was a July 2001 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Costa Rica.
One of the most famous games Chocolate ever played was against Brazil for the Panamericanos Of Mar del Plata, Argentina, where he stopped 3 penalties and scored the goal that passed Honduras to the next stage.[5] After that goal, Chocolate danced punta, the national Honduran dance, as a celebration. He was the goalkeeper of the Honduras national soccer team, on the game they won Mexico for the first time in history on qualifiers, at the end of the game, in an interview by Salvador Nasralla, crying he dedicated the win to his mother, who had died years before.
Death and legacy
He was killed by automatic weapons fire[6] as he was allegedly engaged in a sexual act in his parked car in La Unión, the red light district of San Pedro Sula. After the shooting, he tried to drive himself to a hospital but drove into a tree where he died.[7] It has, alternatively, been voiced that he was passing a notoriously criminal neighborhood where gang members, taking his for a rival car, started shooting Flores' car.
After his death, a football stadium was named after him in La Lima, his hometown. His wake took place in Polideportivo Chulavista, with massive attendance by fans, making it one of the most noted funerals ever in Honduras. Soccer players, friends, TV reporters from national and international channels and family gathered to say farewell. He was famous for his imitations of TV personalities in Honduras, and a skillful dancing. Real Espana's fans remember him as one of their team's most memorable players until the present day. He was buried in Lima Nueva Cemetery, next to his mother. He was survived by his wife, Roxana Flores.
