| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Renny Vicente Vega Hernández | ||
| Date of birth | 4 July 1979 | ||
| Place of birth | Maracay, Venezuela | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Caracas | ||
| Number | 25 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1997–1998 | Udinese | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1998–2006 | Aragua | 84 | (0) |
| 2006–2007 | Carabobo | 29 | (0) |
| 2007–2008 | Bursaspor | 22 | (0) |
| 2008 | Denizlispor | 1 | (0) |
| 2009– | Caracas | 66 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1999– | Venezuela | 62 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 12 Octuber 2011. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Renny Vicente Vega Hernández (born 4 July 1979) is a Venezuelan footballer that currently plays for Caracas and the Venezuelan national football team as goalkeeper.
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In 1997, Vega traveled to Italy to play in the youth ranks of Udinese. However, he returned to Venezuela in 1999, joining Aragua, a first division club of his country.
In 2006, he was signed by Carabobo, playing 29 games in the club. In 2007, because his good performances with the national team and his club, he was transferred to the Turkish club Bursaspor, being this his second adventure in the old continent. After his spell at Bursaspor, he joined Denizlispor, playing only one game in the team.
In January 2009, after his bad spell at Denizlispor, Vega returned to Venezuela, joining Caracas, the most successful team of his country. With Caracas he played both the Copa Libertadores and the local tournament. He had a successful semester at Caracas, winning the Venezuelan league title and also the cup title.
In 2010, because the league title won in the last season, his team again was qualified to the Copa Libertadores but had a poor season, finishing in the last place of the group with 2 points. Although, since Caracas won the league title again, his team was qualified to the continental tournament. In the group stage, Caracas nearly advanced to the knockout stage.
In 1998, Vega was named the best youth goalkeeper of his country and was listed in the Venezuelan squad that would play the Copa América the next year in Paraguay. On June 30, 1999, he made his international debut in a disastrous 7–0 defeat against Brazil. In that time, Brazil had star players like Ronaldinho, Roberto Carlos, Ronaldo, Cafu, Rivaldo and Dida.
After the poor performance that Vega achieved in the 2001 Copa América, receiving 13 goals in 3 games, he was not called for a long time to play in national team.
Vega was again recalled to the squad in February 2007 for a friendly international game against Chile and also in preparation for the Copa América that would take place in his home country. In May of that year, he was listed in the 23-man squad by the coach Richard Paez to play in the continental tournament of South America.
On 26 June 2007, Vega played in the inaugural match of the Copa América at the Estadio Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo, in a 2–2 draw with the Bolivia. On 1 July, his transference to the Turkish Super League club Bursaspor was confirmed, mostly due to his good performances at his last club Carabobo and in the last game that he played for Venezuela against Peru, in a 2–0 win. After the 0–0 draw with the Uruguay, Venezuela for the first time in its footballing history advanced to the knockout stage of this tournament. However, Venezuela was eliminated after playing the (Uruguay) team again and were defeated 4–1.
Prior to the 2011 Copa América held in Argentina, Renny plays two of the three last games preparatoires to the tournament. The first game was a 2–0 win over Guatemala and in the second match against Spain, Vega committed two mistakes that led the team loss 3–0, it that made miss the last game of preparation against Mexico, that was a defeat for Mexico 3–0, with the second keeper of the team, Daniel Hernández under the three posts.
Because the bad performance of Morales against Mexico, Vega played the full 90 minutes in the opening match of the Group B against Brazil. During the game against the Verdeamarelha, Vega stoped a serie of goal attempts from stars like Neymar, Alexandre Pato and Robinho, and thanks for the crossbar and his performance, the game ended in a 0–0 draw.[1][2] After of the game, Vega said: "The big teams aren’t going to get an easy ride — they’ll have to scrap for everything in every game".
On 13 July 2011, in the last game of the group stage against Paraguay, Venezuela achieved advance to the knockout stage for second time in his football history, after draw 3–3 of dramatically form. That game was being lost 3-1 in the 85th minute, but thanks to a goal of Nicolás Fedor in the 89th minute, the team was given encouragement to tie the game in the 93rd minute, in where Vega went up for a corner and headed the ball to actually achieve a goal pass finally netted by centre back Grenddy Perozo.[3]
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