Vicky Losada

Vicky Losada
Personal information
Full name María Victoria Losada Gómez[1]
Date of birth (1991-03-05) March 5, 1991[1]
Place of birth Terrassa, Catalonia, Spain[2]
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[1]
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 FC Barcelona
Number 6
Youth career
CD Can Parellada
Sabadell
2004–2006 Barcelona
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2007 Barcelona
2007–2008 Espanyol
2008–2014 Barcelona
2014 Western New York Flash 23 (3)
2014–2015 Barcelona 19 (7)
2015–2016 Arsenal 25 (3)
2016– Barcelona 37 (6)
National team
2008–2010 Spain U19 (10)
2010– Spain 50 (13)
2014– Catalonia 3 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

María Victoria Losada Gómez (born 5 March 1991), commonly known as Vicky Losada, is a Spanish football midfielder currently playing for FC Barcelona in Spain's Primera División. She is a member of the Spanish national team.

Club career

Losada's career in the Primera División (Spanish League) with exception one season (the 2007–08 season which she played for RCD Espanyol), were played for FC Barcelona where she won four Leagues and three Spanish Cups.

In 2014, she played in the American NWSL for Western New York Flash,[3] where she was voted the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) Player of the Week by the media for Week 1 of the 2014-15 season.[4] Before returning to Barcelona for the 2014 NWSL season.[5]

Arsenal announced the signing of Losada on January 22, 2015 having previously worked with manager Pedro Martínez Losa in the United States.[6]

She returned to FC Barcelona in 2016.[7]

International career

She is a member of the Spanish national team.[8][9] In June 2013 national team coach Ignacio Quereda selected Losada in the squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013 in Sweden.[10]

Losada was also part of the squad for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada and at their opening match on 9 June, she scored Spain's first ever World Cup goal against Costa Rica, opening the match score, which would eventually finish 1–1.[11]

International goals

#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
113 February 2014Estadio Las Gaunas, Logroño Macedonia4–012–02015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
28 May 2014A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn Estonia0–20–4
30–3
49 June 2015Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Canada Costa Rica1–01–12015 FIFA Women's World Cup
526 November 2015Tallaght Stadium, Dublin, Republic of Ireland Republic of Ireland0–10–3UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying
61 December 2015Estadio Nuevo Vivero, Badajoz Portugal1–02–0
724 January 2016Stadion pod Malim Brdom, Petrovac na moru, Montenegro Montenegro0–10–7
80–4
915 September 2016La Ciudad del Fútbol, Las Rozas de Madrid Montenegro11–013–0
108 April 2017Kehrwegstadion, Eupen Belgium0–11–4Friendly
1110 June 2017Fernando Torres, Fuenlabrada Brazil1–01–2
1230 June 2017Pinatar Arena, San Pedro del Pinatar Belgium2–07–0
1319 July 2017De Vijverberg, Doetinchem Portugal1–02–0UEFA Women's Euro 2017

Honours

Club

FC Barcelona
Arsenal

Internation

Spain

Individual

  • PFA’s eleven of the year [12] (2015)
  • Arsenal Supporters' Player of the Season award (2016)

References

  1. 1 2 3 "List of Players – 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "Vicky Losada profile". Arsenal F.C. Archived from the original on 29 June 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  3. ↑ "Flash sign Vicky Losada". Western New York Flash. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  4. ↑ Flash's Vicky Losada voted NWSL Player of the week
  5. ↑ "Así es Vicky Losada, la primera goleadora de España en una Copa del Mundo de fútbol" (in Spanish). Cuatro. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  6. ↑ Marca
  7. ↑ "Vicky Losada excited to be back at FC Barcelona". FC Barcelona Official. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
  8. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-12-10. Retrieved 2011-10-11. RFEF
  9. ↑ UEFA
  10. ↑ "Spain stick with tried and trusted". Uefa.com. UEFA. 29 June 2013. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  11. ↑ "Entertaining battle sees debutants draw". FIFA. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  12. ↑ Three Arsenal players named in the PFA’s FA WSL1 team of the year
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