Justo Villar

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Justo Villar
Personal information
Full name Justo Wilmar Villar
Date of birth June 30, 1977 (1977-06-30) (age 30)
Place of birth    Cerrito, Paraguay
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club Real Valladolid
Number 1
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1996-99
2001-04
2004-2008
2008-		 Sol de América
Libertad
Newell's Old Boys
Real Valladolid		 119 (0)
109 (0)
119 (0)
0 (0)   
National team2
1999- Paraguay 53 (0)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 27 December 2007.
2 National team caps and goals correct
as of 1 June 2008.
* Appearances (Goals)

Justo Wilmar Villar (born June 30, 1977 in Cerrito) is a Paraguayan football goalkeeper, who has played over 50 games for the Paraguay national team.[1] He currently plays for Newell's Old Boys of the Primera División Argentina.

Villar started his career for Paraguayan club Sol de América where he was coached by legendary goalkeeper Ever Hugo Almeida, from whom he learned to develop his goalkeeping skills. Afterwards, Villar moved to a bigger Paraguayan club, Libertad, in which he won back-to-back national championships in 2002 and 2003 in the Liga Paraguaya. In 2004, Villar was transferred to Argentinian club Newell's Old Boys and led the team to the 2004 Apertura championship in Argentina, where he was considered by the Argentinian press as the best goalkeeper for that year. Villar also won the Paraguayan Footballer of the Year award in 2004.

For the national team, he played in the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship, and was selected for the 2006 World Cup squad. Unfortunately, he had a brief participation at the World Cup. During the first seven minutes of his debut against England, just after Carlos Gamarra's own goal, Villar got injured, and subsequently he was sidelined for the rest of the tournament, in which Paraguay was eliminated in the first round.

[edit] References

  1. ^ rsssf: Paraguay record international footballers

[edit] External links

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Newell's Old Boys – current squad

1 Villar • 2 Torren • 3 Spolli • 4 Husaín • 5 Bernardello • 6 Schiavi • 7 Steinert • 8 Aguilar • 9 Salcedo • 11 Lucero • 12 Hoyos • 13 Vranjicán • 14 Machuca • 15 Ferreyra • 16 Ré • 17 Sperdutti • 18 Donnet • 19 D. Torres • 20 Da Silva • 21 Vangioni • 22 Gutiérrez • 23 L. Torres • 24 Mainguyague • 25 Scaglia • 26 Pérez • 27 Zapata • 28 Vázquez • 29 Cabrera • 30 Scotti • 31 Gaitán • 32 Cobelli • 33 Formica • 34 Quiroga • 35 Llama • 36 Seri • 37 Sosa • 38 Payer • 39 Fideleff • Manager: Caruso Lombardi
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Paraguay squad - 2002 FIFA World Cup
1 Chilavert • 2 Arce • 3 Sarabia • 4 Gamarra • 5 Ayala • 6 Struway • 7 Báez • 8 Alvarenga • 9 Santa Cruz • 10 Acuña • 11 Campos • 12 Villar • 13 Paredes • 14 Gavilán • 15 Bonet • 16 Morínigo • 17 Franco • 18 Cáceres • 19 Sanabria • 20 Cardozo • 21 Caniza • 22 Tavarelli • 23 Cuevas • Coach: Maldini
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Paraguay squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup
1 Villar • 2 Núñez • 3 Toledo • 4 Gamarra • 5 Cáceres • 6 Bonet • 7 Cabañas • 8 Barreto • 9 Santa Cruz • 10 Acuña • 11 Gavilán • 12 Gómez • 13 Paredes • 14 da Silva • 15 Manzur • 16 Riveros • 17 Montiel • 18 Valdez • 19 dos Santos • 20 López • 21 Caniza • 22 Bobadilla • 23 Cuevas • Coach: Ruiz
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