Ricardo Villa

Ricky Villa
Ricardo Villa 1978
Personnel
Surname	Ricardo Julio Villa
birthday	August 18, 1952
place of birth	Buenos Aires ,  Argentina
position	midfield player
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1970-1974	Quilmes AC	108 (20)
1973	→  CA San Martín de Tucumán  (loan)	10 0(3)
1974-1976	Atlético Tucumán	51 (19)
1976-1988	Racing Club	52 0(6)
1978-1983	Tottenham Hotspur	133 (18)
1983	Fort Lauderdale Strikers	19 0(3)
1984-1985	Deportivo Cali	0 0(0)
1986-1989	CSD Defensa y Justicia	93 0(4)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1975-1988	Argentina	17 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Ricardo Julio "Ricky" Villa (born August 18, 1952 in Buenos Aires ) is a former Argentinian soccer player .

Player career

He began his career in Argentina in 1970 and last played there in 1978 for the Racing Club Buenos Aires . After winning the World Cup in 1978 with the Argentine national team in his own country, he moved together with Osvaldo Ardiles to England to Tottenham Hotspur , for which he scored 18 goals in 133 league games until 1983. In the final of the FA Cup 1981 he scored two goals for a 3-2 win over Manchester City . During this time, the bearded midfielder had T-shirts made and distributed with his image, which were based on the legendary photo of Che Guevara . He moved to the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in 1983 and let his career fade away from 1984 to 1989 in lower-class Argentine clubs.

In the 1990s, Villa tried his hand at being a politician. Since 2005 he has been working again as a sports director in the football business.

titles and achievements

• World Champion: 1978 (3: 1 a.d. against the Netherlands)
• FA Cup winners: 1981 (1-1 nV and 3-2 against Manchester City) and 1982 ( 1-1 nV and 1-0 against Queens Park Rangers)
• League cup finalist: 1982 (1: 3 against Liverpool)

Web links

Commons : Ricardo Villa  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Data of the individual seasons
• Article about his goals in the 1981 FA Cup Final
• Ricardo Villa in the database of FIFA (English)
• Ricardo Villa's website
• Games in the NASL
• Internationals for Argentina
• Ricardo Villa - information about the player
• Ricardo Villa in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)