David Villa

David Villa Sánchez (Tuilla, Asturias, December 3, 1981) is a Spanish former soccer player who played as a striker. He was a full international with the Spanish team, with which he made his debut against San Marino on February 9, 2005. Since then, he has participated in the 2006 World Cup, where he scored three goals; in Euro 2008, in which he was proclaimed champion continental and top scorer with four goals;in the 2010 World Cup, where he was proclaimed world championand also won the Silver Boot as the second highest scorer, tied on five goals with Thomas Müller,and the Bronze Ball as the third best player in the championship; and in the 2014 World Cup, he scored a goal. He is also the footballer with the highest number of goals in the history of the national team, fifty-nine in ninety-eight games, and he is the top Spanish scorer in World Cups, with nine goals distributed in his three participations. In 2011 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Order of Sports Merit, the highest individual distinction in sport awarded in Spain.

He began his professional career in the Second Division with Real Sporting de Gijón until, in the 2003-04 season, he was signed by Real Zaragoza, a team for which he became an international, and won a Copa del Rey and a Spanish Super Cup. After two seasons he moved to Valencia CF, where he repeated his Cup win and became the club's fifth all-time goalscorer in the League after the World Cup, Waldo Machado, Mario Kempes and Fernando Gómez On July 19, 2010, he joined the ranks of FC Barcelona and added to his record two League championships, two Spanish Super Cups, a Copa del Rey, a Champions League, a European Super Cup and a Club World Cup. In July 2013 he was transferred to Atlético de Madrid, where he completed his record by winning the 2013-14 League. He occupies the thirteenth position in the classification of the top scorers in the history of the League, with 185 goals in 352 games played throughout his eleven campaigns in the First Division of Spain.

Trajectory

Beginnings

David Villa was born in Tuilla, a parish in the Asturian municipality of Langreo, into a family with a mining tradition. While still a child, a fracture in the femur of his right leg forced him to spend six months in a cast. After the rigorous rehabilitation, which allowed him to recover the mobility of the limb, his father recommended that he shoot with the left; hence his ability with both legs. Later, at the age of nine, he did some tests to enter the lower categories of Real Oviedo but, after being rejected by the technicians of the blue club, he began to play for U. P. Langreo, where he continued his training as a footballer until he was seventeen.

Real Sporting Gijon

He joined the Real Sporting de Gijón youth team to form part of the División de Honor team during the 1999-2000 campaign, before moving on to Real Sporting de Gijón "B" in 2000-01. After completing his training period at the Mareo Soccer School, he signed a professional contract with Sporting in the 2001-02 season, although he had already made his debut with the Sportinguista first team in the last game of the previous season, played on June 17, 2001 against Córdoba CF in El Molinón.

With Sporting he played two full seasons in the Second Division. In the first of them, 2001-02, he scored eighteen goals in forty games played and the team finished in fifth position, five points from promotion; in the second, he improved his scoring figures, achieving twenty goals in thirty-nine games. played. At the end of the 2002-03 season, with the Asturian team plunged into a serious economic crisis, his transfer to Real Zaragoza, recently promoted to the First Division, was completed in exchange for 2.7 million euros.

Real Zaragoza

Villa, celebrating a goal with Real Zaragoza.

He made his debut in the top flight with Real Zaragoza on August 31, 2003, in a match played against R. C. Deportivo de La Coruña at the La Romareda stadium. His first goal in the top flight was achieved on the 14th of September, contributing to his team's 3-0 victory against Real Murcia C. F.; he finished the campaign with seventeen goals scored in thirty-eight games. In addition, he won his first professional title that same season, after beating Real Madrid C. F. in the final of the Copa del Rey 2-3; Villa scored the second goal for his team.

Thanks to the cup victory, in his second year at the Zaragoza club, he was able to play in the Spanish Super Cup, proclaiming himself champion after defeating Valencia C. F., and the UEFA Cup, in which he reached the round of 16 final. In the League, he participated in thirty-five games and scored fifteen goals. In addition, he made his debut with the Spanish soccer team on February 9, 2005, against San Marino. In June of the same year his signing for Valencia in exchange for the 12 million euros in which his termination clause was valued.

Valencia Football Club

He played his first game in the Valencia C. F. shirt in the Intertoto Cup, against Belgian K. A. A. Ghent, scoring one of the goals in his team's 2-0 victory. He made his league debut on August 28 of 2005, against Real Betis Balompié, on the first day of the tournament and, in the following match, he made his debut as a Valencian scorer in the competition against his previous club, Real Zaragoza, establishing the final 2-2 score. He finished the 2005-06 season with twenty-five goals, being the second highest scorer in the championship, somewhat behind Samuel Eto'o. That same year, he was called up by Luis Aragonés to participate in the 2006 World Cup.

Villa, in its first season with Valencia C. F.

In the 2006-07 season, he made his debut in the Champions League, playing the third qualifying round against Red Bull Salzburg, and scoring his first goal in the second leg, which ended with a 3-0 victory for Valencia and the consequent qualification for the group stage. In October 2006 he was included for the first time among the fifty footballers candidates for the Ballon d'Or. In the round of 16 of the Champions League, against Inter Milan, Villa achieved one of his team's goals in the first leg with a direct free-kick; in the end, it was a decisive goal to qualify Valencia for the quarterfinals, a round in which they were eliminated by Chelsea F. C. In the domestic competition, he finished the campaign with fifteen goals and eleven goal assists, becoming the best passer of the season.

Villa celebrates a goal of penalti with Valencia C. F. in a match against Sevilla F. C.

The 2007-08 campaign was marked by irregularities for both Villa and Valencia, who finished the League in tenth place. Despite this, he managed to score eighteen goals in the twenty-eight games he played, including one hat-trick to Levante U. D. and another two goals to Club Atlético de Madrid on the penultimate and last day of the competition, respectively. In addition, he managed to win his second Copa del Rey title after defeating Getafe C. F. in the final 3-1 and was called up with the Spanish team to play Euro 2008. Once it was over, Real Madrid C. F. tried to hire him, but they did not reach an agreement with the Valencian club regarding the price of the transfer and the player chose to renew his contract until 2014.

In the 2008-09 season, Villa achieved his 100th goal in the First Division, after converting a penalty against Real Sporting de Gijón on matchday 11, and equaled the record for goals scored by a Valencia player in a campaign: twenty-eight so many. Previously, the Argentine Mario Kempes had achieved that goal scorer in 1978, and the Montenegrin Predrag Mijatović, in 1996. In the best season of his career in terms of scoring, he was third in the Pichichi Trophy classification, behind by Diego Forlán, with thirty-two goals, and by Samuel Eto'o, with thirty.

In his last campaign wearing the Valencia shirt, 2009-10, he reached twenty-one goals, which helped qualify the team for the Champions League after two seasons of absence, after obtaining third place in the championship. In the Europa League he achieved the best scoring figure of his career in European competition, with seven goals in eleven games, including a hat-trick against Werder Bremen in the round of 16. He played his last game with the team ché on May 5, 2010, against Xerez C. D., and a few days later his transfer to F. C. Barcelona was announced in exchange for 40 million euros. This operation made him the second most expensive Spanish footballer in history to date, behind Gaizka Mendieta, also sold by Valencia to S. S. Lazio for 41.6 million.

Villa, during his official presentation as a F. C. Barcelona player.

Football Club Barcelona

On May 21, 2010, Villa passed the mandatory medical examination and signed with the Catalan team for four seasons; in his presentation as a new Barcelona player, he also debuted the first official kit worn by the Catalan team during the 2010 season -11. On August 21, he made his debut with F. C. Barcelona in the final of the Spanish Super Cup, a match in which they beat Sevilla F. C. 4-0, thus achieving the first title of his stage culé. He made his debut as a scorer during the Joan Gamper Trophy match against AC Milan, after a low cross from Adriano Correia.

In his first league match, played on August 29 against Real Racing Club de Santander, he scored his team's third goal to make it 3-0. On September 14, he also scored in his debut as a Barcelona player in the Champions League, in a 5-1 victory over Panathinaikos F. C. On November 29, 2010, he participated for the first time in the Spanish derby against Real Madrid C. F., a match in which he scored two goals and was fired from the Camp Nou with an ovation. They won their first League title after a draw against Levante UD on matchday 36 of the championship. Later, on May 28, 2011, they also won their first Champions League, beating Manchester United F.C. in the final of the competition, in which he scored the final 3-1 for his team.

On August 14, 2011, he participated in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup, played at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium against Real Madrid, which ended in a 2-2 draw and in which Villa opened the scoring account for the Barcelona. In the second leg, the Barça team won 3-2 at the Camp Nou and the player was proclaimed champion of the trophy for the third time. On August 26 he won his first European Super Cup after the 2-0 victory of the Barcelona against F. C. Porto. In his debut in the FIFA Club World Cup against Qatari Al-Sadd S. C., on December 15, 2011, he fractured the tibia of his left leg; four days later he underwent surgery, estimating a recovery period between four and five months. In the final, played on December 18 in Yokohama, Barcelona beat Santos F.C. 0-4 and Villa added their fifth title of the year 2011. Finally, although injury prevented him from playing more games that season, he added the third Copa del Rey to his record after the culé victory 3-0 against Athletic Club in the final of the competition.

He reappeared in an official match on matchday 1 of the 2012-13 season, played on August 19, 2012, and managed to score Barcelona's fifth goal in a 5-1 win against Real Sociedad de Fútbol. During his last campaign with Barcelona he scored a total of twenty-one goals, ten of which were in the League. His last goal with the Barça shirt was scored against Málaga C.F. on the last day, played at the Camp Nou.

Villa, playing with the Club Atlético de Madrid.

Atletico Madrid Club

On July 8, 2013, his transfer to Club Atlético de Madrid was made official in an operation estimated at a maximum of 5.1 million euros, divided into 2.1 million for the 2013-14 season, 2 million more if he belonged to Atlético de Madrid in the 2014-15 season and another million if he extended his contract until the 2015-16 season. In addition, Barcelona reserved 50% of the rights to a future transfer of the player. His debut with Atlético de Madrid took place on August 19, in the match of the first day of the League against Sevilla F. C. which ended with a 1-3 victory for his team. He scored his first goal as a rojiblanco player in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup, held at the Vicente Calderón stadium against FC Barcelona. On the third day of the League, played on September 1 against Real Sociedad de Fútbol, he scored his first goal in the competition.

On May 17, 2014, he won his third First Division title after the draw between Atlético de Madrid and Barcelona on the last day of the tournament, played at the Camp Nou. His last match as a mattress player coincided with the dispute of their second Champions League final, in which Atlético was defeated 4-1 by Real Madrid C. F. On June 1, Villa himself confirmed his departure from Atlético in an interview published on the club's website.

Villa, during a match with the New York City F. C.

Villa, with the captain armband of the New York City F. C.

New York City and Melbourne City

On June 2, 2014, he became the first signing in the history of New York City F.C., a team that began to compete in Major League Soccer in the United States from its 2015 edition. Due to this, On June 5, his loan to Australian Melbourne City F.C. was confirmed during the first period of the 2014-15 season. He made his debut on October 11 in the opening game of the campaign against Sydney F.C., in which he managed to score a goal and that ended with the result of 1-1. On October 19, he scored again for his team in a 1-1 draw against Newcastle Jets F. C. Although he was originally expected to play ten games in the Australian tournament, Villa brought forward his return to New York to fulfill his publicity obligations and only played four games in which he scored two goals.

In his first game in MLS, played on March 8 against Orlando City S.C., he assisted teammate Mix Diskerud to score his team's first ever goal in the competition. A week later, during During the second day, he scored the first goal for New York City at Yankee Stadium against the New England Revolution and gave a new assist for Patrick Mullins to establish the 2-0 score with which the game ended. This performance meant that he was chosen player of the week in the competition.

After four seasons in which he played one hundred and twenty-four games and scored eighty goals, his departure from the club was announced.

Vissel Kobe

On December 1, 2018, his move to Vissel Kobe of the J. League was confirmed. On March 2, he scored his first goal for the Japanese club in a 1-0 win against Sagan Tosu. He announced his retirement as a professional footballer by the end of the 2019 season. His last game as a professional took place in the Emperor's Cup final, in which his team beat the Kashima Antlers 2-0.

National team

He was capped with the Spanish under-21 team seven times; he played his first game against Andorra (1-1) on February 12, 2002. His debut with the senior team took place on February 9, 2005, at the Juegos Mediterráneos Stadium in Almería, during a qualifying match for the 2006 World Cup that ended with a 5-0 Spanish victory over San Marino. He made his debut as an international scorer in the second leg of the playoff that Spain had to play against Slovakia to finally be able to play the World Cup, on November 16, 2005, at the Tehelné pole stadium in Bratislava.

Villa, housed in the center, with the Spanish selection that faced Austria (1-5) in 2009.

After becoming the second top scorer in the League scoring twenty-five goals with Valencia C. F. in the 2005-06 season, he was called up by Luis Aragonés to play in the World Cup in Germany. In his first match in the competition, against Ukraine, Villa scored two goals in his team's 4-0 victory; the first, with a direct free kick that hit the wall, displacing the goalkeeper, and the second, from a penalty. In the round of 16 he scored against France, also a maximum penalty, although the match ended with the defeat of Spain 1-3. In his first participation in a World Cup, Villa finished as the top scorer for the Spanish team, with three goals, tied with Fernando Torres.

Subsequently, he was one of twenty-three selected for Euro 2008. In his tournament debut, on June 10, 2008, Villa scored a hat-trick against Russia in a win by 4-1 in favor of Spain. This fact made him the seventh player to achieve three goals in the same game of a Eurocup final phase, the last being the Dutchman Patrick Kluivert. In the second game of the group stage, played on June 14 against Sweden, he scored the goal that gave the 2-1 victory in the 92nd minute of the game, qualifying Spain for the quarterfinals. In said round, against Italy, the The match ended 0-0 and the winner had to settle in a penalty shootout, where Villa scored the first of the shots that gave Spain a pass to play the next tie. In the semifinals, against Russia, he suffered a fibrillar microtear after executing a free kick that prevented him from finishing the match and participating in the final of the competition, where Spain won the second European Championship in its history by defeating Germany 1-0. Despite this, he ended up being the top scorer with a total of four goals and was chosen as one of the components of the ideal team of the tournament.

After the European Championship, he began the qualifying phase for the 2010 World Cup scoring a goal in the first match against Bosnia and Herzegovina. Chile, helped him end 2008 with twelve goals, thus surpassing the record set by Raúl González in 1999, when he scored ten goals with the Spanish team. Villa also began 2009 scoring goals in a friendly match against England, which meant to be the first Spanish international to manage to score in six consecutive games.

Villa celebrates the goal of victory with Portugal in the 2010 World Cup.

On June 1, 2009, he was called up by Vicente del Bosque to play in the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, the first edition in which Spain participated. In a friendly match before the tournament, Villa won his second hat- trick as an international, against Azerbaijan. He made his debut in the Confederations Cup scoring his team's fifth and last goal against New Zealand, while in the following match he scored the winning goal against Iraq and, against South Africa, scored the first of two goals for Spain. After being eliminated by the United States in the semifinals, Villa won the Bronze Boot as the third top scorer, as well as being included in the tournament's ideal eleven.

During the 2010 World Cup, he debuted as a scorer in the second game of the group stage, scoring both goals in Spain's victory over Honduras. In addition, he also opened the scoring in the third game, against Chile, which ended 1-2 and qualified the Spanish team for the next round. In the round of 16, facing Portugal, his goal was once again decisive to put Spain in the quarterfinals, where he scored again the goal of the victory against Paraguay and qualified his team for the semifinals of the tournament. Villa could not get more goals, but Spain was proclaimed world champion after beating Germany and, in the final, the Netherlands.

His goals in the championship earned him the Silver Boot as the second leading scorer, tied at five with Thomas Müller, although the German's highest number of assists gave him first place in the scorers' table. He also received the Bronze Ball, as the third most valuable player in the tournament, and was included in the World Cup's ideal eleven. Added to this, he became the Spanish player with the most goals in World Cup history, eight goals distributed in his two participations, thus surpassing Raúl González, Fernando Hierro, Fernando Morientes and Emilio Butragueño, all of them with five.

Villa, in a match against Tahiti at the 2013 Confederations Cup.

On March 25, 2011, he became the top scorer in the history of the Spanish team, after scoring the two goals that gave victory to the national team in a match corresponding to the qualifying phase for Euro 2012 played against the Republic Checa at the Nuevo Los Cármenes stadium in Granada. On September 6, during a match against Liechtenstein in which he scored two goals, he broke another record, establishing himself as the player who had scored the most games with the national team: thirty-six of the seventy-eight that he had played to date. On May 22, 2012, after five months of inactivity due to a fractured tibia during the Club World Cup match with FC Barcelona, his absence from the squad was confirmed. Spain for Euro 2012.

He returned to the national jersey on September 7, 2012 during a friendly match against Saudi Arabia and managed to score the fourth goal from a penalty in a 5-0 victory for Spain. On November 15, he performed for the first time as captain of the Spanish team in a match played against Panama in which he scored the second of his team's five goals. On May 31, 2014, he was included by Vicente del Bosque in the list of twenty-three selected who played in the Cup 2014 Soccer World Cup. He only participated in the last match of the group stage against Australia, before which he scored his ninth goal in the World Cups and number fifty-nine with the Spanish team.

After more than three years without going to a call-up from Spain, on August 25, 2017 he was called up by the coach Julen Lopetegui for the qualifying matches for the 2018 Soccer World Cup against Italy and Liechtenstein. He played the last five minutes of the match against Italy, but he left the concentration before the second match due to an elongation in the adductors.

Autonomous selection

He has also played for the Asturias soccer team. He played the match held on December 28, 2002 against Honduras, in which he scored a goal.

Participations in World Cups

Participations in Eurocups

Euro	Headquarters	Outcome	Parties	Goles
Euro 2008	AustriaAustria and SwitzerlandSwitzerland	Champion	4	4

Participations in the Confederations Cup

International Goals

International goals with SpainSpain
No.	Date	Place	Rival	Gol	Outcome	Competition
1.	16 November 2005	Tehelné poll, Bratislava	SlovakiaSlovakia	1-1	1-1	World rankings 2006
2.	1 March 2006	Estadio José Zorrilla, Valladolid	Ivory CoastIvory Coast	1-1	3-2	Friendly
3.	13 June 2006	Zentralstadion, Leipzig	UkraineUkraine	2- 0	4-0	World Cup 2006
4.				3- 0
5.	27 June 2006	AWD-Arena, Hanover	FranceFrance	1- 0	1-3
6.	2 September 2006	Estadio Nuevo Vivero, Badajoz	LIELiechtenstein	2- 0	4-0	Euro Cup 2008
7.				3- 0
8.	6 September 2006	Windsor Park, Belfast	Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland	1-2	3-2
9.	11 October 2006	Estadio Nueva Condomina, Murcia	ArgentinaArgentina	2-1	2-1	Friendly
10.	24 March 2007	Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid	DenmarkDenmark	2- 0	2-1	Euro Cup 2008
11.	6 June 2007	Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz	LIELiechtenstein	0-1	0-2
12.				0-2
13.	26 March 2008	Stadium Martínez Valero, Elche	ITAItaly	1- 0	1-0	Friendly
14.	31 May 2008	Estadio Nuevo Colombino, Huelva	PERPeru	1- 0	2-1
15.	10 June 2008	Tivoli Neu, Innsbruck	RUSRussia	1- 0	4-1	Euro 2008
16.				2- 0
17.				3- 0
18.	14 June 2008		SwedenSweden	1-2	1-2
19.	6 September 2008	Estadio Nueva Condomina, Murcia	Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina	1- 0	1-0	Global Classification 2010
20.	10 September 2008	Estadio Carlos Belmonte, Albacete	ArmeniaArmenia	2- 0	4-0
21.				3- 0
22.	11 October 2008	A. Le Coq Arena, Tallinn	EstoniaEstonia	0-2	0-3
23.	15 October 2008	Estadio Rey Balduino, Brussels	BelgiumBelgium	1-2	1-2
24.	19 November 2008	El Madrigal Stadium, Villarreal	ChileChile	1- 0	3-0	Friendly
25.	11 February 2009	Estadio Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán, Sevilla	EnglandEngland	1- 0	2-0
26.	9 June 2009	Tofiq Bøhramov Stadium, Baku	AZEAzerbaijan	1- 0	6-0
27.				2- 0
28.				3- 0
29.	14 June 2009	Royal Bafokeng Stadium, Rustemburg	New ZealandNew Zealand	5- 0	5-0	Confederations Cup 2009
30.	17 June 2009	Free State Stadium, Bloemfontain	IraqIraq	1- 0	1-0
31.	20 June 2009		South AfricaSouth Africa	1- 0	2-0
32.	5 September 2009	Stadium of Riazor, La Coruña	BelgiumBelgium	2- 0	5-0	Global Classification 2010
33.				5- 0
34.	18 November 2009	Ernst Happel Stadium, Vienna	AustriaAustria	1-2	1-5	Friendly
35.				1-3
36.	3 March 2010	Stadium of France, Saint-Denis	FranceFrance	0-1	0-2
37.	29 May 2010	Tivoli Neu, Innsbruck	Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia	1-1	3-2
38.	21 June 2010	Ellis Park Stadium, Johhansburg	HondurasHonduras	1- 0	2-0	2010
39.				2- 0
40.	25 June 2010	Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria	ChileChile	0-1	1-2
41.	29 June 2010	Green Point Stadium, Cape Town	PortugalPortugal	1- 0	1-0
42.	3 July 2010	Ellis Park Stadium, Johhansburg	ParaguayParaguay	0-1	0-1
43.	3 September 2010	Rheinpark Stadion, Valna	LIELiechtenstein	0-2	0-4	Euro 2012 classification
44.	12 October 2010	Hampden Park, Glasgow	ScotlandScotland	0-1	2-3
45.	25 March 2011	New Estadio de Los Cármenes, Granada	Czech RepublicCzech Republic	1-1	2-1
46.				2-1
47.	7 June 2011	Estadio José Antonio Anzoátegui, Puerto la Cruz	VENVenezuela	0-1	0-3	Friendly
48.	6 September 2011	Estadio Las Gaunas, Logroño	LIELiechtenstein	5- 0	6-0	Euro 2012 classification
49.				6- 0
50.	11 October 2011	Estadio José Rico Pérez, Alicante	ScotlandScotland	3- 0	3-1
51.	15 November 2011	National Stadium, San José	Costa RicaCosta Rica	2-2	2-2	Friendly
52.	7 September 2012	Stadium of Passion, Pontevedra	Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia	4- 0	5-0
53.	14 November 2012	Estadio Rommel Fernández, Juan Díaz	PANELPanama	0-2	1-5
54.	20 June 2013	Maracaná Stadium, Rio de Janeiro	TahitiTahiti	4- 0	10-0	Confederations Cup 2013
55.				5- 0
56.				7- 0
57.	7 June 2014	FedExField, Landover	El SalvadorEl Salvador	1- 0	2-0	Friendly
58.				2- 0
59.	23 June 2014	Estadio Joaquim Américo Guimarães, Curitiba	AUSAustralia	0-1	0-3	2014

Statistics

Clubs

National team

Honours of Prizes

National Championships

International Cups

Awards, recognitions and distinctions

• Gold Medal of the Royal Sports Merit, awarded by the Superior Sports Council (2011)

Distinction	Year
Trofeo Zarra	2006
Don Balón Award for the Best Spanish Player of the League
Trofeo Zarra	2007
Party Player Spain - Russia	2008
Party Player Sweden - Spain
Maximum Eurocopa scorer
Include in the ideal team of the Euro Cup
Trofeo Zarra	2009
FIFA Cup Bronze Boot Confederations	2009
Included in the eleven ideal of the FIFA Confederations Cup
Trofeo Zarra	2010
Party Player Spain - Honduras	2010
Silver Boot of the World Cup Soccer
World Cup Bronze Ball Soccer
Including in the eleven ideal World Cup Football
Included in FIFA/FIFPro World XI	2010
Included in the UEFA team	2010
Best Asturian sportsman of the year	2010
Athletic year by the United States Sports Academy	2010
Gold Medal - Royal Sports Merit Order	2011
Party Player Australia - Spain	2014
Most Valuable Player of the Major League Soccer	2016

Personal life

In 2003, David Villa married Patricia González, his girlfriend since adolescence, in La Felguera, Langreo, with whom he has three children named Zaida, born December 7, 2005, Olaya, born December 18 August 2009, and Luca, born on January 28, 2013.

In 2007, he appeared together with Ronaldinho on the Spanish cover of the video game FIFA 07, which also included an interview with the player as extra content. In 2008, he participated in the campaign Doi la cara pola oficialidad, in favor of the recognition of the Asturian language as the co-official language of the Principality of Asturias, for which she posed with a protest poster. That same year she founded, together with the former soccer referee Manuel Enrique Mejuto González, also from Langreano, the charity tournament Friends of Mejuto against friends of Villa, which brought together athletes and singers during several Christmases.

In May 2010, the DVD Learn to play soccer with David Villa went on sale, which includes soccer lessons given by the Asturian striker and a documentary: Eternamente Guaje . It also contains a video clip of the song composed by the agro-rock group Los Berrones: Villa maravilla. solidarity with the protests of the coal miners, remembering that he himself comes from a mining family.

In 2022, a life-size sculpture of a villa with its national team uniform, designed by local artist José Luis Iglesias Luelmo, was inaugurated in the La Felguera (Langreo) center.

Business activity

In 2015 he founded the company DV7 Group with a partner, Víctor Oñate, which currently has offices in Valencia, Madrid, New York and Tokyo. This company is a shareholder of the football club American Queensboro FC, and in 2023 it took control of Racing Club de Fútbol Benidorm of the Preferred Region of the Valencian Community.