Gloriana Villalobos
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Gloriana de Jesús Villalobos Vega[1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 20 August 1999||
Place of birth | San José, Costa Rica | ||
Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)[1] | ||
Playing position | Midfielder | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Florida State | ||
Number | 11 | ||
College career | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2017– | Florida State | 21[2] | (1) |
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2012–2017 | Saprissa | ||
National team‡ | |||
2014–2016 | Costa Rica U-17 | ||
2014–2018 | Costa Rica U-20 | 8 | (0) |
2014– | Costa Rica | 25[3] | (2) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 30 October 2017 |
Gloriana de Jesús Villalobos Vega (born 20 August 1999) is a Costa Rican Football midfielder. In 2014, she debuted for the Costa Rica national team at the age of 14.
College Career (Florida State University 2017–)
In 2017, Villalobos was named to the All-ACC Third Team, as well as being chosen to the 11-member All-Freshman Team.[4]
Professional career
Villalobos debuted for local club Saprissa in 2012 at the age of 12.[5]
International play
In January 2014, Villaobos—yet to turn 15—led Costa Rica to qualification for the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, appearing in all five games at the 2014 CONCACAF Under-20 Women's Championship in the Cayman Islands.
She then shot to national prominence in March 2014, when Costa Rica hosted the 2014 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. She appeared in all three games as the country hosted its first FIFA event.[6]
In May 2014, Villalobos received her first call to the senior national team in the Central American region of 2014 CONCACAF Women's Championship qualification, the first step toward the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. Villalobos scored in the final group game to help Costa Rica advance.[7] In the playoff to determine which team advanced to the Pan American Games, Villalobos played again in a 3–0 Costa Rica win.[8]
At the U-20 Women's World Cup in Canada in August 2014, Villalobos played all 270 minutes but Costa Rica was eliminated in the group stage again.[6]
In 2017, Villalobos joined the Florida State Seminoles women's soccer team.
References
- 1 2 3 "List of Players – 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
- ↑ "2017 Florida State Soccer Stats" (PDF). Retrieved 28 November 2017.
- ↑ "2017 Women's International Friendly, Women's International Friendly". Retrieved 5 November 2017.
- ↑ "Three Seminoles Earn All ACC Honors". November 5, 2017.
- ↑ "Gloriana Villalobos: guía y talento de la ilusión de la Sub-17". La Nación.
- 1 2 "Gloriana Jesus Villalobos Vega – Fútbol – Scoresway – Results, fixtures, tables and statistics".
- ↑ "Inicio – Uncaf".
- ↑ "Inicio – Uncaf".
External links
- Gloriana Villalobos – FIFA competition record (archive)
- Profile (in Spanish) at Fedefutbol
- Gloriana Villalobos at Soccerway