Gabriel Badilla

Gabriel Badilla
Personnel
Surname	Gabriel Badilla Segura
birthday	June 30, 1984
place of birth	San Jose ,  Costa Rica
date of death	20th November 2016
Place of death	Santa Ana ,  Costa Rica
size	180 cm
position	Central defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2001-2008	CD Saprissa	129 (12)
2008-2009	New England Revolution	6 0(0)
2009-2016	CD Saprissa	60 0(4)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2005-2016	Costa Rica	25 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Gabriel Badilla Segura (born June 30, 1984 in San José , † November 20, 2016 in Santa Ana ) was a Costa Rican soccer player .

Career

Badilla was the young star among the Costa Rican defenders. At the age of 16 he made his first appearance in the first division of Costa Rica at Deportivo Saprissa . In the same year he was also the captain of his country's U17 team and played at the Junior World Championships in Trinidad and Tobago. In 2004 he became national champion for the first time and the following year he won the CONCACAF Champions Cup with the club and then placed third in the club world championship .

Gabriel Badilla made his debut on June 19, 2005 for the Costa Rican national team . In just under a year before the 2006 World Cup , he was used seven times and also called up for Germany in the Costa Rican World Cup line-up . He was one of the three youngest players on the team, all from Saprissa, and played the game against Poland (1-2).

In the summer of 2007 he was invited to a trial training at Hansa Rostock , but received no engagement there. After a year-long interlude with New England Revolution in the US Major League Soccer , he returned to Saprissa in 2009.

Gabriel Badilla collapsed during a 10K run on the morning of November 20, 2016 and died of heart failure .

Title / Achievements

• CONCACAF Cup winner: 2005
• Costa Rican champion: 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008
• Costa Rican runner-up: 2003

Web links

• Mundial Alemania 2006: Gabriel Badilla: Aprender, la tarea sin fin. (No longer available online.) La Nación (San José, Costa Rica), 2006, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; Retrieved November 20, 2016 (Spanish). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Two defenders in trial training. (No longer available online.) Bundesliga.de , July 2, 2007, archived from the original on July 23, 2012 ; Retrieved November 20, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Daniel Jiménez, Fanny Tayver Marín Gabriel Badilla murió mientras en la carrera competía Lindora Run . La Nación (San José, Costa Rica), November 20, 2016, accessed November 20, 2016 (Spanish).