Vanesa Gimbert
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Vanesa Gimbert Acosta | ||
Date of birth | 19 April 1980 | ||
Place of birth | Bergara, Basque Country, Spain | ||
Height | 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defensive midfielder | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Athletic Bilbao | ||
Number | 21 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1994–1999 | Mondelia Montilla | ||
1999–2003 | Levante UD | ||
2003–2004 | Estudiantes Huelva | ||
2004–2007 | Sevilla | 24+ | (9+) |
2007–2010 | Rayo Vallecano | 61 | (13) |
2010–2013 | Espanyol | 88 | (6) |
2013– | Athletic Bilbao | 220 | (37) |
National team | |||
1997–2010 | Spain | ||
2012– | Basque Country | 5 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22 October 2021 |
Vanesa Gimbert Acosta (born 19 April 1980) is a Spanish football midfielder, currently playing for Athletic Bilbao in Spain's Primera División.
Born in the Basque Country and raised partly in Andalusia, she previously played for RCD Espanyol,[1] Levante UD, CFF Estudiantes, Sevilla FC and Rayo Vallecano.[2] She won four league titles with Levante and Rayo (coming close to another with Sevilla)[3] and five Copas de la Reina between her spells at those two clubs and Espanyol.
In 2016, 36-year-old Gimbert won the league title with Athletic, then agreed to remain with the club for another year.[4] Five years later (now aged 41, the oldest active player in the country) she was still playing regularly, including scoring both goals in a victory over Santa Teresa[5] and agreed a further one-year contract in the summer of 2021.[6]
Gimbert was a member of the Spain women's national football team from a young age, taking part at 17 in the 1997 European Championship.[7] She was the team's captain in the 2009 European Championship qualifying.[8]
Honours[]
Club[]
- Levante
- Primera División: 2000–01, 2001–02
- Copa de la Reina: 2000, 2001, 2002
- Rayo Vallecano
- Espanyol
- Athletic Bilbao
- Primera División: 2015–16
- Copa de la Reina: runner-up 2014
References[]
- ^ Profile in Espanyol's web
- ^ Gimbert, BDFutbol
- ^ El Espanyol, nuevo campeón de la Superliga [Espanyol, new Superliga champion] (in Spanish) Marca, 9 April 2006
- ^ Zaballa, Carlos (23 June 2016). "Eli Ibarra y Vanesa Gimbert siguen un año más" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
- ^ Vanesa Gimbert sentences Santa Teresa in Lezama, Sports Finding, 4 April 2021
- ^ Vanesa Gimbert renews with Athletic Bilbao, Footbalada, 18 July 2021
- ^ The girls play to get to the Euro 12 years later Diario AS, 25 October 2008
- ^ Pauw cautions as Netherlands defend lead UEFA
External links[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vanesa Gimbert. |
- Vanesa Gimbert – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Profile at aupaAthletic.com (in Spanish)
- Profile at La Liga (in Spanish)
- Vanesa Gimbert at Athletic Bilbao
- 1980 births
- Living people
- Spanish women's footballers
- Spain women's international footballers
- Primera División (women) players
- Levante UD Femenino players
- Athletic Club Femenino players
- Rayo Vallecano Femenino players
- RCD Espanyol Femenino players
- Footballers from the Basque Country (autonomous community)
- People from Bergara
- Athletic Bilbao non-playing staff
- Women's association football midfielders