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: GEORGE *is* to be made more mobile friendly || cryoapionic entities of class ς.
gollark: That wouldn't make sense unless you actually have a pointer type, surely.
gollark: And if it's not bidirectional you can just require messages to be cryptographically signed and drop a lot of complex bits.
gollark: In this situation you can even avoid the bootstrapping-y issues of P2P networks as you can probably just connect back to whoever infected you.
gollark: But making your own probably wildly insecure P2P network to propagate commands is cooler!

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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