Wilmer López

López made his debut in the Costa Rican Primera División on 5 January 1992 playing with Carmelita against ASODELI also scoring his first league goal in that match. The following next season, he was bought by Alajuelense, becoming one of the most beloved players and a crowd favorite, playing 13 seasons and winning 7 Costa Rican Championships, 3 Copa Interclubes UNCAF championships and 1 CONCACAF Champions' Cup, being part of the team that won 4 consecutive national championships (1999 to 2003). He was named the best player of the national tournament for two consecutive seasons before moving to Deportes Tolima in Colombia, whom he left very soon due to contractual problems, and again during another season, when he returned to Costa Rica. He also played the Copa Merconorte and the Copa Sudamericana. Nicknamed El Pato (The Duck), the midfielder also played for Pérez Zeledón. He is also known as El Ingeniero (The Engineer) due to his ability to create plays with short and long passes and also for his fast thinking that made him one of the best midfielders in the region during the '90s and the early 2000s. After 2003, he suffered multiple injuries that made him lose a lot of games and he never regained his earlier abilities as a player, although he was still loved by the crowd and gave a few good games along the road to the end of the 2007 season when his contract expired and the team decided not to hire him again. It was a sad day for Alajuelense's fans. Every time Pérez Zeledón…

López made his debut for Costa Rica in an August 1995 friendly match against Japan and earned a total of 77 caps, scoring 5 goals. He represented his country in 22 FIFA World Cup qualification matches and played in all 3 games during the 2002 FIFA World Cup held in Korea and Japan. He also played at the 1995 and 1997 UNCAF Nations Cups as well as at the 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cups and the 1997 Copa América. He also was a non-playing squad member at the 2001 Copa América. His final international was a July 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup match against the United States.

International

Scores and results list Costa Rica's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each López goal.

López is married to Alejandra López and the couple has two sons and a daughter. For a brief period in 2014, her daughter dated the Costa Rican celebrity Andrés Nando Sibaja.