Leonardo Villalba
Personal information
Full name Leonardo Enrique Villalba
Date of birth (1994-11-29) 29 November 1994
Place of birth El Colorado, Argentina
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s) Winger[2]
Team information
Current team
 Tristán Suárez
Youth career
2009–2013 Vélez Sarsfield
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2017 Vélez Sarsfield 18 (0)
2015–2016 → Panionios (loan) 17 (1)
2016–2017 → Douglas Haig (loan) 30 (7)
2017–2018 Flandria 12 (0)
2018–2019 Defensa y Justicia 0 (0)
2018–2019 → Sarmiento (loan) 28 (4)
2019 Central Córdoba 6 (0)
2020 Lamia 12 (1)
2021 UTC Cajamarca 22 (1)
2022– Tristán Suárez 9 (0)
International career
2011 Argentina U17 6 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18:37, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

Leonardo Enrique Villalba (born 29 November 1994) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a winger for Tristán Suárez.[3]

Club career

Vélez Sarsfield signed Villalba in 2009.[4] His first appearance in the Primera División arrived on 11 May 2013 against Arsenal de Sarandí, with Ricardo Gareca substituting him on for the final six minutes of a 2–2 draw.[1][3] He was selected a further twenty-one times in the next three seasons in all competitions, with Villalba also netting his opening goal versus La Emilia in the Copa Argentina in April 2015.[3] In the following July, Villalba was loaned to Super League Greece side Panionios.[3] He remained for the entirety of 2015–16, making his debut in a victory over Panathinaikos in September before scoring against Panetolikos in October.[3]

After twenty-six matches in Greek football, Villalba returned to his homeland with Primera B Nacional's Douglas Haig, on loan, in July 2016.[3] Seven goals, which included a brace of Santamarina, occurred despite the club suffering relegation.[3] Ahead of 2017–18, Villalba switched Vélez Sarsfield for Flandria.[3] He made his bow in a fixture with Juventud Unida on 17 September 2017.[3] Eleven months later, in mid-2018, Villalba moved to the Primera División's Defensa y Justicia.[5][6] However, he was immediately loaned down to the second tier with Sarmiento.[3] He scored three goals in his first fifteen games for the Junín team.[3]

In July 2019, Villalba penned terms with newly-promoted Primera División outfit Central Córdoba.[7] Six appearances followed, though just one was as a starter as he left five months after joining.[3] January 2020 saw Villalba complete a return to Greece with Super League team Lamia.[8] He netted once in the league, which occurred on 8 June during a fixture with Panetolikos; the same opponents of his only goal for Panionios in 2015–16.[3] He also scored in a Greek Cup quarter-final defeat to Olympiacos in February.[3] Villalba mutually terminated his Lamia contract on 14 December 2020.[9]

On 4 January 2021, Villalba headed to Peru with UT Cajamarca; managed by Ricardo Gareca, who gave the winger his debut in senior football back in May 2013.[10] He left the club at the end of 2021. In January 2022, Villalba returned to his homeland and joined Tristán Suárez.[11]

International career

In 2011, Villalba won six caps for Argentina at the South American U-17 Championship in Ecuador; as his nation finished third.[3][12]

Career statistics

As of 6 January 2021.[3]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup League Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Vélez Sarsfield 2012–13 Argentine Primera División 1000—000010
2013–14 4000—2[lower-alpha 1]00060
2014 5000——0050
2015 8011——1[lower-alpha 2]0101
2016 0000——0000
2016–17 0000——0000
Total 18011—2010221
Panionios (loan) 2015–16 Super League 17150——4[lower-alpha 3]0261
Douglas Haig (loan) 2016–17 Primera B Nacional 30710——00317
Flandria 2017–18 12000——00120
Defensa y Justicia 2018–19 Argentine Primera División 000000000000
Sarmiento (loan) 2018–19 Primera B Nacional 28400——00284
Central Córdoba 2019–20 Argentine Primera División 600000—0060
Lamia 2019–20 Super League 8121——00102
2020–21 4000——0040
Total 12121——00142
UT Cajamarca 2021 Peruvian Primera División 6000—000060
Career total 123149200205013916
  1. ↑ Appearance(s) in the Copa Libertadores
  2. ↑ Appearance(s) in the Argentine Primera División play-offs
  3. ↑ Appearance(s) in the Super League play-offs

References

  1. 1 2 "Ficha Estadistica de LEONARDO VILLALBA". BDFA. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  2. ↑ "Leonardo Villalba". World Football. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 "Argentina - L. Villalba". Soccerway. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  4. ↑ "La cantera sigue aportando". Vélez Sarsfield. 24 January 2014. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  5. ↑ "Leonardo Villalba se sumó a Sarmiento". Junin Digital. 15 August 2018. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  6. ↑ "Leonardo Villalba: "En el fútbol argentino si no corrés no sirve nada"". La Verdad. 19 August 2018. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  7. ↑ "Leonardo Villalba, el nuevo refuerzo de Central Córdoba". Diario Panorama. 12 July 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  8. ↑ "Λαμία: Ανακοίνωσε τον Βιγιάλμπα". Sport24. 21 January 2020. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  9. ↑ "Βιγιάλμπα τέλος για Λαμία". athlitiko. 14 December 2020. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  10. ↑ "UTC fichajes 2021 volante argentino Leonardo Villalba que fue pupilo de Ricardo Gareca en Vélez Sarsfield". Líbero. 4 January 2021. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  11. ↑ Llegó el quinto al Lechero, bnpartidos.com.ar, 18 January 2022
  12. ↑ "Leo Villalba, un coloradense en la Selección Argentina Sub 17". El Comercial. 7 September 2010. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
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