Gloriana Villalobos

Gloriana Villalobos
Personal information
Full name	Gloriana de Jesús Villalobos Vega
Date of birth	(1999-08-20) 20 August 1999
Place of birth	San José, Costa Rica
Height	1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current team	Saprissa
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
2012–	Saprissa
National team^‡
	Costa Rica U-17
2014	Costa Rica U-20	8	(0)
2014–	Costa Rica	2	(1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of August 19, 2014

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Villalobos and the second or maternal family name is Vega.

Gloriana de Jesús Villalobos Vega (born August 20, 1999) is a Costa Rican soccer midfielder. In 2014, she debuted for the Costa Rica national team at the age of 14.

Professional career

Villalobos debuted for local club Saprissa in 2012 at the age of 12.^[1]

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.^[2]

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.^[3] In the playoff to determine which team advanced to the Pan American Games, Villalobos played again in a 3-0 Costa Rica win.^[4]

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.^[5]

References

External links

Gloriana Villalobos – FIFA competition record