Ricardo Villar
| Ricardo Villar | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | August 11, 1979 | |
| place of birth | São Paulo , Brazil | |
| size | 177 cm | |
| position | midfield player | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1986-1996 | Sao Paulo FC | |
| -2002 | Penn State Nittany Lions | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2002-2003 | Hampton Roads Mariners | 21 (4) |
| 2003-2004 | Pittsburgh Riverhounds | 28 (4) |
| 2004-2005 | SV Austria Salzburg | 21 (2) |
| 2005 | Chunnam Dragons | 4 (0) |
| 2006-2007 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 10 (0) |
| 2007-2009 | SpVgg Unterhaching | 63 (9) |
| 2010 | AS Rhodes | 15 (1) |
| 2010-2011 | SpVgg Unterhaching | 10 (0) |
| 2011-2013 | FC Dallas | 29 (2) |
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1 Only league games are given. Status: end of career |
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Ricardo Villar (born August 11, 1979 in São Paulo , Brazil ) is a former Brazilian soccer player who also has an Italian passport. He was mainly used in attacking midfield.
Career
His home club is São Paulo FC in Brazil . From there he moved to Penn State University in the USA and played on the university team. He came to Austria via the Pittsburgh Riverhounds in 2004 , where he was under contract with Austria Salzburg for one season . In the 2004/05 season Villar came to 21 appearances in the Austrian Bundesliga, in which he was able to score two goals.
After a season in South Korea with the Chunnam Dragons , he was finally signed by 1. FC Kaiserslautern . In the 2nd Bundesliga , however, he could not prevail and only came to ten league games and one appearance in the DFB Cup against FC Bayern Munich . He also played three games for the second team of the Palatinate in the Regionalliga Süd .
For the 2007/08 season, Villar then moved to SpVgg Unterhaching . With the Munich suburbs he received a two-year contract and qualified as a service provider with his team for the newly created 3rd division , to which he was able to contribute seven goals. His contract was not renewed at the end of the 2008-09 season.
After six months without a club, Villar signed with the Greek second division club AS Rhodos . For the 2010/11 season Ricardo Villar returned to Unterhaching, from where he moved to FC Dallas in Major League Soccer after ten league games in January 2011 . There he ended his active career almost two years later.
Web links
- Profile on the SpVgg Unterhaching website ( memento from October 11, 2007 in the web archive archive.today )
- Ricardo Villar in the database of weltfussball.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Villar, Ricardo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian-Italian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | São Paulo |