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David Villa lining up for Spain before the FIFA Confederations Cup match against Tahiti in 2013 in which he scored one of his three external hat-tricks David Villa is a spanish professional affiliation football player who represented the Spain national football team from 2005 to 2017. He made his debut for Spain as a substitute in a 2006 FIFA World Cup reservation pit against San Marino in February 2005. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He scored his first international goal on his one-fourth appearance for Spain, scoring from the terrace to equalise in the second stage of the 2006 World Cup qualification play-offs. [ 3 ] He scored 59 goals in 98 international appearances, making him Spain ‘s all-time top scorer ; he surpassed Raúl ‘s former record of 44 when he scored doubly against the Czech Republic in UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying in March 2011. [ 4 ] villa achieved his inaugural international hat-trick on 10 June 2008 when he scored the first three goals in a 4–1 victory for Spain over Russia during UEFA Euro 2008 to win group D. [ 5 ] He scored two other hat-tricks, against Azerbaijan ( in 2009 ) and Tahiti ( in 2013 ). [ 6 ] [ 7 ] He scored more times against Liechtenstein than any other nation, with seven, including doubly in a single match on three occasions. Twenty of Villa ‘s goals were scored at home at thirteen different venues.

villa scored more goals in qualifying matches than in any other type of match, with 21. He scored nineteen times in friendlies, nine times in FIFA World Cup finals, six times in the FIFA Confederations Cup and four times in UEFA european Championship finals. Villa was equal top scorekeeper at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, aboard Germany ‘s Thomas Müller, Netherlands ‘ Wesley Sneijder and Uruguay ‘s Diego Forlán, all of whom scored five goals in the tournament. [ 8 ] Villa broke his leg play for his cabaret team FC Barcelona in December 2011 which resulted in him failing to take contribution in Spain ‘s triumphant UEFA Euro 2012 campaign. [ 9 ] He left Barcelona in 2013 to join La Liga enemy team Atlético Madrid for a season before moving to New York City FC in Major League Soccer in the summer of 2014. [ 10 ] His stopping point international goal came in June 2014, against Australia at the 2014 FIFA World Cup. After his move to the United States in 2014, he alone played one more game for Spain, a 2018 World Cup modifier against Italy in September 2017. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] After joining japanese side Vissel Kobe in 2018, Villa announced his retirement from football at the end of the 2019 J1 League season. [ 13 ]

International goals [edit ]

Scores and results list Spain’s goal tally first.[1]
Key
Penalty Indicates goal was scored from a penalty kick

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