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Currently playing for La Liga footballing giants Valencia, David Villa
Sanchez made his first professional debut for Sporting de Gijon during
the 2000-01 and since that date he has never looked back. By the next
season Villa was a firm fixture in the first team and his prolific
scoring ability was rewarded with a high profile move to La Liga
team Real Zaragoza in the summer of 2003.
His promising and strong performances earned him a call up to the Spanish national
side and in the summer of 2005 Villa joined Valencia for the sum of £8.2 million.
In his first season he proved that the club had made the right decision in signing
him when he scored 25 goals and was the second highest goal scorer in
La Liga closely losing out on the top spot to Samuel Eto'o of Barcelona.
His sparkling form continued into the 2006-07 season as he formed a lethal
partnership with former Liverpool and Real Madrid forward Fernando Morientes.
This partnership was so successful that Villa and Morientes ousted fan's favourites
Fernando Torres and Raul from the forward positions in the Spanish national side.
David Villa has secured a firm place in the Spanish national team and was included
in the squad that travelled to the 2006 FIFA World Cup in France. Villa made his
national debut in 2005 in a match between Spain and San Marino which Spain won 5-0.
Villa made his first World Cup finals appearance scoring twice against Ukraine.
He added one more from the penalty spot in Spain's 1-3 defeat to France in a
Round of 16 knock-out match. He finished joint top goal scorer for Spain along
with Fernando Torres in World Cup 2006 with 3 goals.
After the World Cup, Villa continued to be Spain's first choice striker,
starting all 11 international matches during 2006-07 season. He also scored
an impressive 8 goals from those matches and currently Spain's top scorer
in Euro 2008 qualifying with 7 goals.
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