Vicky Losada

Vicky Losada
Personal information
Full name María Victoria Losada Gómez[1]
Date of birth (1991-03-05) March 5, 1991[1]
Place of birth Terrassa, Catalonia, Spain[2]
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[1]
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 FC Barcelona
Number 16
Youth career
CD Can Parellada
Sabadell
2004–2006 Barcelona
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2007 Barcelona
2007–2008 Espanyol
2008–2014 Barcelona
2014 Western New York Flash 23 (3)
2014–2015 Barcelona 19 (7)
2015–2016 Arsenal 25 (3)
2016– Barcelona 19 (7)
National team‡
2008–2010 Spain U19 (10)
2010– Spain 48 (13)
2014– Catalonia 3 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 28 July 2017

María Victoria Losada Gómez (born 5 March 1991), commonly known as Vicky Losada, is a Spanish football midfielder currently playing for FC Barcelona in Spain's Primera División. She is a member of the Spanish national team.

Club career

Losada's career in the Primera División (Spanish League) with exception one season (the 2007–08 season which she played for RCD Espanyol), were played for FC Barcelona where she won four Leagues and three Spanish Cups.

In 2014, she played in the American NWSL for Western New York Flash,[3] where she was voted the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) Player of the Week by the media for Week 1 of the 2014-15 season.[4] Before returning to Barcelona for the 2014 NWSL season.[5]

Arsenal announced the signing of Losada on January 22, 2015 having previously worked with manager Pedro Martínez Losa in the United States.[6]

She returned to FC Barcelona in 2016.

International career

She is a member of the Spanish national team.[7][8] In June 2013 national team coach Ignacio Quereda selected Losada in the squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013 in Sweden.[9]

Losada was also part of the squad for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada and at their opening match on 9 June, she scored Spain's first ever World Cup goal against Costa Rica, opening the match score, which would eventually finish 1–1.[10]

International goals

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 13 February 2014 Estadio Las Gaunas, Logroño  Macedonia 4–0 12–0 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
2 8 May 2014 A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn  Estonia 0–2 0–4
3 0–3
4 9 June 2015 Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Canada  Costa Rica 1–0 1–1 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup
5 26 November 2015 Tallaght Stadium, Dublin, Republic of Ireland  Republic of Ireland 0–1 0–3 UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying
6 1 December 2015 Estadio Nuevo Vivero, Badajoz  Portugal 1–0 2–0
7 24 January 2016 Stadion pod Malim Brdom, Petrovac na moru, Montenegro  Montenegro 0–1 0–7
8 0–4
9 15 September 2016 La Ciudad del Fútbol, Las Rozas de Madrid  Montenegro 11–0 13–0
10 8 April 2017 Kehrwegstadion, Eupen  Belgium 0–1 1–4 Friendly
11 10 June 2017 Fernando Torres, Fuenlabrada  Brazil 1–0 1–2
12 30 June 2017 Pinatar Arena, San Pedro del Pinatar  Belgium 2–0 7–0
13 19 July 2017 De Vijverberg, Doetinchem  Portugal 1–0 2–0 UEFA Women's Euro 2017

Honours

Club

FC Barcelona
Arsenal
Spain

Individual

References

  1. 1 2 3 "List of Players – 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "Vicky Losada profile". Arsenal F.C. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  3. ↑ "Flash sign Vicky Losada". Western New York Flash. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  4. ↑ Flash's Vicky Losada voted NWSL Player of the week
  5. ↑ "Así es Vicky Losada, la primera goleadora de España en una Copa del Mundo de fútbol" (in Spanish). Cuatro. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  6. ↑ Marca
  7. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-12-10. Retrieved 2011-10-11. RFEF
  8. ↑ UEFA
  9. ↑ "Spain stick with tried and trusted". Uefa.com. UEFA. 29 June 2013. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  10. ↑ "Entertaining battle sees debutants draw". FIFA. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  11. ↑ Three Arsenal players named in the PFA’s FA WSL1 team of the year
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