Marco Villa (footballer)

Marco Villa (born 18 July 1978) is a German former professional footballer who played as a striker.

Marco Villa
Personal information
Date of birth (1978-07-18) 18 July 1978
Place of birth Düsseldorf, West Germany
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position(s) Striker
Youth career
KFC Uerdingen 05
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1996–1999 Borussia Mönchengladbach 24 (4)
1999–2000 SV Ried 22 (8)
2000–2001 Panathinaikos 3 (0)
2001–2003 1. FC Nürnberg 12 (0)
2003–2005 Arezzo 9 (0)
2005 SPAL 1907 8 (0)
2005–2006 Polisportiva Val di Sangro 15 (2)
2006 Sant'Antonia Abate 6 (2)
2006–2008 Morro d'Oro 47 (7)
2008–2010 L'Aquila 52 (17)
2010–2012 San Nicolò Calcio ? (18)
National team
Germany U-21 9 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Villa was born in Düsseldorf. He spent five seasons in the Bundesliga with Borussia Mönchengladbach and 1. FC Nürnberg. He is the youngest player for Borussia Mönchengladbach history to score a league goal (on 6 September 1996 in a game against Hamburger SV when he was 18 years and 50 days old).[1]

Personal life

Villa was the best friend of Robert Enke, the former German International.[2][3][4]

gollark: > razer keyboard
gollark: It's because your programs end with `error`, presumably.
gollark: Hmm, so what you're saying is that tail calls are incomprehensible dark magic.
gollark: Tail calls are where you call a function at the end of a function or something, and this is magically optimized better because something something stack.
gollark: Couldn't you just PR it to not not do that?

References
  1. Mit Ruhe und Besonnenheit ans Ziel
  2. Costa, Gianni (8 November 2010). "Marco Villa zum Todestag von Robert Enke: "Ich vermisse Robert jeden Tag"". Rheinische Post (in German). Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  3. Vaagt, Tom (8 November 2010). "Marco Villa: Erinnerungen an seinen Freund Robert Enke". Hamburger Abendblatt (in German). Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  4. Fenske, Marco; Rehberg, Heiko (10 November 2014). "Enke-Biograf Reng im Interview: "Mensch Robert, das hast du angestoßen!"". Ostsee Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 4 April 2020.
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