- Greg Villa
Infobox Football biography
playername= Greg Villa
fullname = Gregory Villa
nickname =
dateofbirth =
cityofbirth = flagicon|USASt. Louis, Missouri
countryofbirth =United States
height =
currentclub = Retired
clubnumber =
position = Forward
youthyears = 1975-1976
youthclubs =Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
years = 1977-1979
1979
1980
1980-1982
1983
1985-1986
clubs =Minnesota Kicks Tulsa Roughnecks Fort Lauderdale Strikers St. Louis Steamers "(indoor)"
Team AmericaSt. Louis Steamers "(indoor)"
caps(goals) = 23 (2)
08 (2)
13 (1)
06 (2)
nationalyears = 1977-1980
nationalteam = United States
nationalcaps(goals) = 18 (5)
manageryears =
managerclubs =
pcupdate =
ntupdate =Gregory "Greg" Villa is a retired U.S.
soccer forward.Youth
Villa grew up in
Saint Louis, Missouri where he attended Mehlville High School from 1971 to 1975. He also played for the Busch Soccer Club as a youth player. Villa attendedSouthern Illinois University Edwardsville . In 1975, he scored 9 goals and assisted on 8 others. The next season he led the team with 14 goals.NASL
Villa played for the
Minnesota Kicks from 1977 to 1979. The Strikers traded Villa to theTulsa Roughnecks only a few games into the 1979 season. At the end of the season, the Roughnecks traded him to theFort Lauderdale Strikers for the 1980 season. At the completion of the 1980 NASL season, he signed with theSt. Louis Steamers of Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL). He played two seasons with the Steamers before trying out for Team America after being waived by theChicago Sting without playing a game with them. In 1983, the U.S. Soccer Federation enetered the U.S. national team in NASL. Team America ended the season 10-20 and USSF withdrew it from the league at the end of the season. Villa played one more season with the Steamers in 1985-1986.National team
Villa earned eighteen caps with the national team from 1977 to 1980. His first game with the national team came in a September 15 victory over El Salvador. Villa scored in the game, putting him in the company of about a dozen U.S. players who have scored in their debut with the national team. Villa went on to play nearly every national team game during the next three years. He also was a member of the U.S. Olympic Soccer Team which qualified for the
1980 Summer Olympics . However, due to President Carter’s boycott of the games, held in the Soviet Union, Villa did not play in the Olympics
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