Gloriana Villalobos

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Gloriana Villalobos
Personnel
Surname Gloriana de Jesús Villalobos Vega
birthday August 20, 1999
place of birth San Jose ,  Costa Rica
size 159 cm
position midfield player
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
2012– Saprissa Fútbol Femenino
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
~ 2014 ~ Costa Rica U-17
~ 2014 ~ Costa Rica U-20
2014– Costa Rica 5 (1)
1 Only league games are given.
As of June 7, 2015

2 As of June 7, 2015

Gloriana de Jesús Villalobos Vega (born August 20, 1999 in San José ) is a Costa Rican soccer player on the position of midfielder . The Costa Rican national soccer player has been playing for Saprissa Fútbol Femenino , the women's team of record champions CD Saprissa , since 2012 .

Career

Club career

Gloriana Villalobos, who was born in 1999 in the Costa Rican capital San José, began playing football at the age of around five, when she was together with her twin brother Mauricio and older brother Diego in front of their parents' house in the El Socorro district of San Miguel de Santo Domingo in the province of Heredia , just north of the capital, played. Her parents Carlos Villalobos and Flor Vega supported her in her football career right from the start and in 2012 also registered her with a club for the first time.

At Saprissa Fútbol Femenino , the recently founded women's football department of the men's record champions CD Saprissa, she was one of the first players in the team's early history. She finally made her debut in the Costa Rican first class at the age of twelve and won the Apertura 2012 with the team at the first attempt. In the following years she became a regular on the offensive of her team and was able to continue with it Win the Apertura 2013, the Clausura 2014 and the Apertura 2015, among others.

National team career

At the international level, Villalobos made its big breakthrough in 2014. That year, at the age of 14, she played for the Costa Rican U-17 and U-20 national team and was also called up for the first time in the senior national team of her home country , for which she made her debut in the same year. As team captain, she led her team through qualifying at the 2014 U-20 Women's World Cup in Canada . She was used in all five Costa Rican games at the 2014 CONCACAF U-20 Championship for women in the Cayman Islands , where she came third with the team behind Mexico (second) and the USA (first). Nothing is known about Villalobo's missions during the qualification for the CONCACAF U-20 championship in September 2013.

In March and April 2014, she was a member of the Costa Rican U-17 team that took part in the U-17 World Cup in their own country. There the Costa Ricans were eliminated from the current tournament in the group stage; Villalobos was the captain in all three games of their team in action. In August of the same year, the 14-year-old student from a Methodist college took part with the U-20 women at the aforementioned U-20 World Cup in Canada, where the team did not get beyond the group stage either.

Before that, she was appointed to the Costa Rican senior national team for the first time in May 2014, with which she took part in qualifying for the 2014 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup . In the last group game, she scored the first goal for her home country. Immediately afterwards, she and the team played a qualifying game against Guatemala, the second group winner in the Central America region , which determined the winner as the Central American participant for the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto . The Costa Ricans could clearly prevail 3-0 against Guatemala. So far (as of June 7, 2015) Villalobos, who is aiming for a career as a veterinarian in the future, has made five international appearances in which she scored a goal.

Villalobos was the youngest player to be nominated for the 2015 Women's World Cup . If she had played in the Costa Ricans' first World Cup game, at 15 years and 293 days she would have been the youngest player to have ever played a World Cup game. However, the young midfielder did not play during the European Championship finals in Canada .

successes

with Saprissa FF
  • 4 × champions of the Primera División Femenina de Costa Rica: Apertura 2012, Apertura 2013, Clausura 2014, Apertura 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Costa Rica Clasifica Al Premundial Femenino De CONCACAF ( Memento of May 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish), accessed on June 7, 2015
  2. ↑ Costa Rica Derrota A Guatemala Y Clasifica A Los Juegos Panamericanos ( Memento from May 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish), accessed on June 7, 2015
  3. ↑ FIFA.com: Statistical Kit: Players
personal data
SURNAME Villalobos, Gloriana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Villalobos Vega, Gloriana de Jesús (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Costa Rican soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1999
PLACE OF BIRTH San Jose , Costa Rica