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Sandra Vilanova
Personal information
Full name Sandra Vilanova Tous
Date of birth (1981-01-01) 1 January 1981 (age 43)
Place of birth Barcelona, Spain
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1995–1997 UD Castellar
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997–2001 Platges Calvià
2001–2009 Levante 146 (29)
2009–2010 Rayo Vallecano
2010–2011 Espanyol
2011–2012 Atlético Madrid 37 (5)
2012–2013, 2014- Espanyol
International career
Spain U-19
2003– Spain 46 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Template:Spanish name Sandra Vilanova Tous (born 1 January 1981), is a Spanish retired football midfielder. She played in the Spanish top league for Levante UD, Rayo Vallecano, RCD Espanyol and Atlético Madrid, winning three leagues and five national cups. She also played the UEFA Champions League with Levante and Rayo, and she was a member of the Spanish national team for a decade. She retired after captaining Spain in the 2013 European Championship.

Club career

Sandra Vilanova was raised in UE Castellar, near Barcelona. In 1997, at 16, she started playing for CF Platges de Calvià, a low-tier team in the Balearic Islands. Four years later she signed for national champion Levante UD, where she spent most of her career. With Levante she won two championships and four national cups, and she made her UEFA Women's Cup debut.[1]

After 8 years in Valencia, in 2009 she moved to Madrid to play for Rayo Vallecano, which had won the championship. For the next three seasons she played successively for Rayo, RCD Espanyol and Atlético Madrid, winning her third league with Rayo and her fifth cup with Espanyol.[2] In 2012 she returned to Espanyol.

After she brought her second spell at Espanyol to an end in June 2013, she announced her retirement days before the start of the following season.[3]

International career

Vilanova made her debut for the Spanish national team since 2003,[4][5] and she remained in Ignacio Quereda's plan for the following decade, serving as the team's captain.[6] After Spain qualified for the 2013 European Championship for the first time in 16 years she was called up for the final tournament,[7] where she played one of Spain's four games, losing her position in the midfield to Nagore Calderón and Vicky Losada in the other matches. As she announced her retirement she mentioned this as a disappointment that influenced her in taking that decision.[8]

Official international goals

References

  1. ^ "Vilanova" (in Spanish). Levante UD. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
  2. ^ "Majorcan player Sandra Vilanova returns to RCD Espanyol". Fútbol Balear. 31 July 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
  3. ^ Martín González, Cesáreo (26 June 2013). "Renovaciones, fichaje de Sonia Zarza y adiós de Sandra Vilanova en el Espanyol" (in Spanish). Vavel. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  4. ^ "Sandra Vilanova, Quereda's forgotten one" (in Spanish). Diario Marca. 14 September 2011. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
  5. ^ "Última Convocatoria" (in Spanish). Royal Spanish Football Federation. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
  6. ^ "List of WNT captains votes" (PDF). FIFA. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
  7. ^ "Spain stick with tried and trusted". Uefa.com. UEFA. 29 June 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  8. ^ Sandra Vilanova hangs her boots at 32 "tired to run for others". Ara, 4 September 2013
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