Benji Villalobos

Benji Villalobos
Personal information
Full name Benji Oldai Villalobos Segovia
Date of birth (1988-07-15) 15 July 1988
Place of birth El Tránsito, El Salvador
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
 Águila[1][2][3][4]
Number 22
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004 UDET
2005 Universidad Gerardo Barrios
2006– Águila[5][6] 215[7] (1)
National team
2010– El Salvador 17 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Benji Oldai Villalobos Segovia (born 15 July 1988 in El Salvador) is a Salvadoran professional goalkeeper who plays for Águila in the Salvadoran Premier Division.

Club career

After starting his career at local outfit UDET, Villalobos played for Salvadoran Second Division side Universidad Gerardo Barrios, before joining Águila in 2006.

Although Villalobos had been signed to Águila since 2006, he did not get any game time until 2 May 2008, in a league match against Alianza.

Although Águila lost that game 2–1, Villalobos did very well and proved that he had a lot of potential.

On 15 September 2012, he scored a penalty kick against Isidro Metapán and became the eight goalkeeper to score in the Salvadoran Apertura tournament.

Match-fixing ban

On 10 October 2013, Villalobos was banned for six months due to his involvement with match-fixing.

International career

Villalobos received his first call-up to the El Salvador national team for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification game against Suriname on 10 September 2008, but did not get any game time. He has since been selected numerous times, but only received his first full men's national team cap when he played in an international friendly against Guatemala in September 2010, which El Salvador lost two-nil.

He was a non-playing squad member at the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup.[8]

Villalobos returned to El Salvador national team in 2017.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Águila cierra pretemporada con un triunfo - elsalvador.com". 9 January 2018.
  2. ↑ "¿Se le acabó el margen de error al Águila en el Clausura 2018?".
  3. ↑ "Benji Villalobos, portero del Águila: "el árbitro Filiberto Martínez no tiene experiencia"".
  4. ↑ "Comisión disciplinaria sanciona a jugadores del Águila por indisciplina".
  5. ↑ "El emotivo homenaje de Benji Villalobos a Raúl García".
  6. ↑ "Benji Villalobos, portero de Águila: "Ante FAS son más que tres puntos"".
  7. ↑ "Benji Villalobos :: Benjamin Oldai Villalobos Segovia :: CD Águila". www.ceroacero.es.
  8. ↑ Team Analysis El Salvador Archived 26 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine. - CONCACAF
  9. ↑ "Benji Villalobos: "He demostrado que quiero estar en la selección" | El Gráfico". Elgrafico.com. 2017-01-17. Retrieved 2017-07-19.


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