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
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Saprissa
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2012–	Saprissa
International career‡
2014–	Costa Rica U-17
2014–	Costa Rica U-20	8	(0)
2014–	Costa Rica	12	(2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18:00, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

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 20 August 1999) is a Costa Rican Football 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.

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.

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. In the playoff to determine which team advanced to the Pan American Games, Villalobos played again in a 3–0 Costa Rica win.

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.

External links

• Gloriana Villalobos – FIFA competition record
• Profile (Spanish) at Fedefutbol
• Gloriana Villalobos at Soccerway