Gloriana Villalobos
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Full name | Gloriana de Jesús Villalobos Vega[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | [1] | 20 August 1999||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | San José, Costa Rica | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Club Sport Herediano | ||||||||||||||||
Number | 11 | ||||||||||||||||
College career | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
2017–2019 | Florida State | 42 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
2012–2017 | Saprissa | ||||||||||||||||
International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
2014–2016 | Costa Rica U-17 | ||||||||||||||||
2014–2018 | Costa Rica U-20 | 8 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2014– | Costa Rica | 50 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 30 October 2017 |
Gloriana de Jesús Villalobos Vega (born 20 August 1999) is a Costa Rican football midfielder. In 2014, she debuted for the Costa Rica national team at the age of 14.
College Career (Florida State University 2017–2019)
In 2017, Villalobos was named to the All-ACC Third Team, as well as being chosen to the 11-member All-Freshman Team.[2] Villalobos played in all 21 matches for Florida State where she scored 1 goal and made 2 assists. Gloriana left FSU in September 2019 to play with Saprissa.
Professional career
Villalobos debuted for local club Saprissa in 2012 at the age of 12.[3]
Gloriana played with Saprissa on 2019 and lost the final match against Alajuela. After the season ended she signed with Club Sport Herediano and is playing with them since 2020.
International play
In January 2014, Villaobos—yet to turn 15—led Costa Rica to qualification for the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, appearing in all five games at the 2014 CONCACAF Under-20 Women's Championship in the Cayman Islands.
She then shot to national prominence in March 2014, when Costa Rica hosted the 2014 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. She appeared in all three games as the country hosted its first FIFA event.[4]
In May 2014, Villalobos received her first call to the senior national team in the Central American region of 2014 CONCACAF Women's Championship qualification, the first step toward the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. Villalobos scored in the final group game to help Costa Rica advance.[5] In the playoff to determine which team advanced to the Pan American Games, Villalobos played again in a 3–0 Costa Rica win.[6]
At the U-20 Women's World Cup in Canada in August 2014, Villalobos played all 270 minutes but Costa Rica was eliminated in the group stage again.[4]
In 2017, Villalobos joined the Florida State Seminoles women's soccer team.
References
- ^ a b c "List of Players – 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
- ^ "Three Seminoles Earn All ACC Honors". 5 November 2017.
- ^ "Gloriana Villalobos: guía y talento de la ilusión de la Sub-17". La Nación.
- ^ a b "Gloriana Jesus Villalobos Vega – Fútbol – Scoresway – Results, fixtures, tables and statistics".
- ^ "Inicio – Uncaf". Archived from the original on 28 May 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
- ^ "Inicio – Uncaf". Archived from the original on 27 May 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
External links
- Gloriana Villalobos – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Profile (in Spanish) at Fedefutbol
- Gloriana Villalobos at Soccerway
- 1999 births
- Living people
- Women's association football midfielders
- Costa Rican women's footballers
- Sportspeople from San José, Costa Rica
- Costa Rica women's international footballers
- 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Costa Rica
- Pan American Games medalists in football
- Footballers at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games competitors for Costa Rica
- Footballers at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Central American Games gold medalists for Costa Rica
- Central American Games medalists in football
- Florida State Seminoles women's soccer players
- Costa Rican expatriate footballers
- Costa Rican expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States
- Costa Rican football biography stubs
- Central American women's football biography stubs