Honor Loureiro

6’0 | 🖤🧡Seminole HS, Sanford,FL (2028)| 3.4⭐️K|P |GPA 3.5 NCAA# 2402224647| | [email protected]

[Futbol de Inglaterra @Mercado_Ingles]

🚨🇨🇻 𝗣𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗶 ���𝗼 𝘀𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗮𝘀. Cabo Verde fue la única selección que se enfrentó a los 2 finalistas de esta Copa Mundial y no perdió contra ninguno en los 90 minutos del tiempo reglamentario.

🇨🇻 0-0 vs España 🇪🇸
🇨🇻 1-1 vs Argentina 🇦🇷

[CAF @CAF_Online]

The welcome they dreamed of. The welcome they deserved. 🇨🇻💙

#FIFAWorldCup

[Honor Loureiro @HL2Valid]

Met @Vozinha and @bubista before the bus left yesterday for home. They are so humble and chill. Thank YOU for everything…more pictures to come. 🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️

[Honor Loureiro @HL2Valid]

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My country 🇨🇻 came in humble and showed the world what real hard work, belief, teamwork, respect, and fun look like. 🇨🇻🔥 The sportsmanship was on another level. With our people and supporters behind them, they made us proud. Thank you to all the fans around the world for the love. 🙏🏽💙

#CaboVerde #CVFootball #WorldFootball #FootballFans #TeamWork #RespectTheGame #Sportsmanship #HardWorkPaysOff #ProudNation #GlobalSupport #FootballLife #WeAreCV #worldcup #fifa

[Cleverly 💐 @Cleverlydey4u]

Vozinha and his teammates were welcomed home by thousands of fans in Cape Verde. ❤️🇨🇻 Look at Vozinha signing autographs for the people of Cape Verde

[Federação Cabo-verdiana de Futebol @fcfcomunica]

Chegamos 𝗖𝗮𝗯𝗼 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗲

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#FIFAWorldCup | #FIFAWorldCup2026 | #CaboVerde | #TubarõesAzuis | #WeAreCaboVerde

[Honor Loureiro @HL2Valid]

Huge thank you to Coach @PeteAlamar for letting me come back out to @UCF_Football practice. Learned a ton watching the specialists work. Locked in and getting better every day. @BokeyFootball @Recruit_Bokey @Coach_Houn @CSKRECRUITING @H2_Recruiting @EliteScoutingFL @OneOnOneKicking @KornblueKicking @AllAmericanKick @TheNoahMcGough @GeronHargon @DylanBarnas @UprightKicking @KohlsKicking @KohlsHighlights @HKA_Tanalski @UCF_Recruiting @_willstone_

#Kickers #Punters #SpecialTeams #UCF #Recruiting #D1Bound #Blessed #kickerswingames #StayReady #ValueTheThirdPhase

[Honor Loureiro @HL2Valid]

Grateful to @Chris_Sailer for the invite! Really excited for this opportunity and ready to compete with the best in my class.
#Kickers #Punter #SpecialTeams #FootballRecruiting #CollegeFootball #D1Prospect @BokeyFootball @Recruit_Bokey @BokeySports @DraftAcademy_ @UprightKicking @kt_recruiting @Coach_Houn @GeronHargon #blessed #Chrissailorkicking #HSFootball

[Honor Loureiro @HL2Valid]

Sunday after church with @DylanBarnas @UprightKicking training. Always learning and growing — ☝️ kick at a time. @BokeyFootball @Recruit_Bokey @kt_recruiting
#Kickers #Punter #SpecialTeams #FootballRecruiting #CollegeFootball #Recruiting @UCF_Recruiting @PeteAlamar @HSFBamerica @Rivals_Recruits @On3NIL #fieldgoal #HighSchoolFootball #Prospect @DraftAcademy_

[Honor Loureiro @HL2Valid]

Sandpit training. Building stability, leg strength, and control one rep at a time. Off‑season is where specialists separate themselves. #Beastmode #blessed #FootballMindset @KohlsKicking @KornblueKicking @KohlsHighlights @EliteScoutingFL @Chris_Sailer @PeteAlamar @BokeyFootball @CoachTonyBugeja @Recruit_Bokey @ESPNTop63 @osmattmurschel @UCF_Recruiting @247recruiting

[Honor Loureiro @HL2Valid]

@PeteAlamar thank you for the opportunity to attend this week’s @UCF_Football ST meeting and watch the kickers practice. I felt really welcomed. @_willstone_  @TheNoahMcGough I appreciate the tips. @GeronHargon thank you for the hospitality. #UCF #Grateful #Blessed @BokeyFootball @KohlsKicking @TadhgLeader @DarraghLeader @KornblueKicking

[Honor Loureiro @HL2Valid]

@PeteAlamar thank you for the opportunity to attend this week’s @UCF_Football ST meeting and watch the kickers practice. I felt really welcomed. @_willstone_  @TheNoahMcGough I appreciate the tips. @GeronHargon thank you for the hospitality. #UCF #Grateful #Blessed @BokeyFootball @KohlsKicking @TadhgLeader @DarraghLeader @KornblueKicking

[DK🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @1Nicdar]

130 schools said no.
He led the losingest program in college football history to a national championship anyway.
Fernando Mendoza was a 2-star recruit from Miami.

He tried to walk on at his hometown school. They passed.
So did FIU.
So did FAU.
So did everyone else.

At 17, he was sitting in his bedroom, crying over a silent recruiting inbox—after driving to 18 camps with his dad and sending highlights to more than 100 programs.
Not one FBS offer.
His only option? Yale. No scholarship. No NFL path.

Everyone told him to be “realistic.”
“Know your place.”
“Be grateful.”
He didn’t listen.
Because Mendoza understood something most people miss:
The worst outcome isn’t failing.
It’s never getting the chance to try.

Two weeks before signing day in 2022, his phone rang.
Cal needed a body. One offer. Out of 134 schools.
He took it.
He arrived as the third-string quarterback.
Spent a year on the scout team.
Lost his first four starts.
Got sacked 41 times behind a broken offensive line.

Still got up. Every time.
Then Cal brought in a transfer instead of building around him.
So Mendoza left the only school that had ever said yes.
He transferred to Indiana—the losingest program in college football history.

People laughed.
“Career suicide.”
“Graveyard program.”
“Nobody wins there.”
One coach told him something different:
“I’m going to make you the best Fernando Mendoza possible.”
That was enough.
Mendoza wasn’t just playing for football.
His mother has battled multiple sclerosis for 18 years.

Before every snap, he thought of her.
“My mother is my why.”
Indiana went 16–0.
Beat six Top-10 teams.
Won their first Big Ten title since 1945.
Mendoza threw 41 touchdowns.
Won the Heisman—first in school history.
First Cuban-American to ever do it.

Then came the title game.
Miami. Near his hometown.
Fourth-and-4. Season on the line.
Quarterback draw.
The kid 134 schools rejected spun through defenders and dove into the end zone.

Game over.
Indiana—national champions.
The losingest program became the best team in America.
All because a 17-year-old refused to believe “no” was the end.

Rankings don’t decide your ceiling.
Gatekeepers don’t write your ending.
Being overlooked isn’t a verdict—it’s a starting point.

Sometimes all you need is one shot…
and the courage to bet on yourself when nobody else will.
Don’t quit.

Credit: Barclay Mullins

[Honor Loureiro @HL2Valid]

Shoutout to @Gibson5Gavin @UNCFootball for blessing me with new cleats straight out the box. 🙏🏽 you’re a real one and humble enough to do something like that. I appreciate you. #blessed #Beastmodeon #motivated 🏈🔥 @OrlandoHulaBowl @BokeyFootball #RecruitBokey

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

Never be afraid to Honor God

[Alex Walker @AlexWalkerTV]

The state champs from @LMRamsFootball getting the SportsCenter treatment tonight.

Awesome publicity for @NoahGrubbsQB, @BarrettSchulz and @22Aproblem_ and the Lake Mary program.

[Honor Loureiro @HL2Valid]

@NoahGrubbsQB @Rivals @LMRamsFootball @Adamdon3 @baylintrujillo @MikeTSinger @NDrecruiting01 @SSN_NotreDame @NDFootball @ByKyleKelly @Fravel_Ryan @EHansenND @TJamesND @Marcus_Freeman1 Congratulations bro

[ESPN Top 63 @ESPNTop63]

Unbelievable doesn’t begin to describe it. With the clock at zero and hope fading, Notre Dame commit Noah Grubbs heaved a desperate Hail Mary—and somehow, impossibly, it connected. A walk-off touchdown on the final play delivers Lake Mary its first-ever state title in the most dramatic fashion, 28–27.

@LMRamsFootball @NoahGrubbsQB