Diego Villar
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Diego Nicolás Villar | ||
| Date of birth | 24 April 1981 | ||
| Place of birth | Mar del Plata, Argentina | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position | Winger | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Aldosivi (youth) (coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Independiente MdP | |||
| Newell's Old Boys | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2001–2004 | Newell's Old Boys | 34 | (2) |
| 2005 | Santiago Wanderers | 6 | (0) |
| 2005–2007 | Godoy Cruz | 64 | (10) |
| 2007 | Arsenal de Sarandí | 18 | (1) |
| 2008–2010 | Gimnasia LP | 46 | (4) |
| 2010–2012 | Godoy Cruz | 46 | (7) |
| 2012–2014 | Racing Club | 61 | (5) |
| 2014 | → Defensa y Justicia (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 2015–2017 | Unión Santa Fe | 55 | (1) |
| 2017–2018 | Aldosivi | 18 | (1) |
| 2019 | Independiente MdP | – | (–) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2021– | Aldosivi (youth) | ||
| 2022 | Aldosivi (interim) | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Diego Nicolás Villar (born 24 April 1981) is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a winger. He is a current youth coach of Aldosivi.
Career
[edit | edit source]Villar started his professional playing career with Newell's Old Boys in 2001, in 2005 he joined Chilean side Santiago Wanderers but returned to Argentina later that year to join 2nd division team Godoy Cruz. In 2006, he was part of the Godoy Cruz team to win promotion to the Argentine Primera. Despite his contribution of 7 goals Godoy Cruz were relegated at the end of the 2006-2007 season after losing their playoff with Huracán.
In 2007 Villar joined Arsenal de Sarandí, but was allowed to leave in February 2008 to join Gimnasia de La Plata.[1] He returned to Godoy Cruz for the 2010–11 Argentine Primera División season.[2]
In July 2012 he is transferred to Racing Club signing a 3-year contract. He was a key figure in the team that won the 2014 First Division championship.
In 2017, Following three seasons playing for Defensa y Justicia and Uniòn de Santa Fe, Villar signed for his home-town club Aldosivi. He retired in 2018, after Aldosivi's promotion to Primera Divisiòn.
Personal life
[edit | edit source]As of 2020 he owned a sweets & confectionery company in his native city of Mar del Plata.[3]
Honours
[edit | edit source]- Arsenal de Sarandí
Racing Club
References
[edit | edit source]External links
[edit | edit source]- (in Spanish) Argentine Primera statistics
- Football-Lineups player profile
- Diego Villar at SoccerwayLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Diego Villar at BDFA (in Spanish)Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Diego Villar at MemoriaWanderers.cl (in Spanish)
- 1981 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Mar del Plata
- Argentine men's footballers
- Copa Sudamericana–winning players
- Newell's Old Boys footballers
- Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba footballers
- Arsenal de Sarandí footballers
- Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata footballers
- Racing Club de Avellaneda footballers
- Defensa y Justicia footballers
- Unión de Santa Fe footballers
- Club Atlético Aldosivi footballers
- Argentine Primera División players
- Primera Nacional players
- Santiago Wanderers footballers
- Chilean Primera División players
- Argentine expatriate men's footballers
- Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Chile
- Expatriate men's footballers in Chile
- Men's association football wingers
- Argentine football coaches
- Argentine football managers
- Club Atlético Aldosivi managers
- Argentine Primera División managers
- 21st-century Argentine sportsmen
- Argentine football midfielder, 1980s birth stubs