Gloriana de Jesús Villalobos Vega (born 20 August 1999) is a Costa Rican footballer who plays as a midfielder for Deportivo Saprissa and the Costa Rica women's national football team. In 2014, she made her senior international debut at the age of 14.

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Gloriana Villalobos

Villalobos with Saprissa in 2019
Personal information
Full name	Gloriana de Jesús Villalobos Vega[1]
Date of birth	(1999-08-20) 20 August 1999 (age 24)[1]
Place of birth	San José, Costa Rica
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)[1]
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Saprissa
College career
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2017–2018	Florida State Seminoles	42	(2)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2012–2016	Saprissa
2019	Saprissa
2020–2022	Herediano
2022–	Saprissa
International career‡
2014–2016	Costa Rica U-17
2014–2018	Costa Rica U-20	8	(0)
2014–	Costa Rica	50	(6)
Medal record Women's football Representing  Costa Rica Pan American Games 2019 Lima Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 30 October 2017

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In 2017, Villalobos was named to the All-ACC Third Team, as well as being chosen to the 11-member All-Freshman Team.^[2] Villalobos played in all 21 matches for Florida State where she scored 1 goal and made 2 assists. Gloriana left FSU in September 2019 to play with Saprissa.

Villalobos debuted for local club Saprissa in 2012 at the age of 12.^[3]

Gloriana played with Saprissa on 2019 and lost the final match against Alajuela. After the season ended she signed with Club Sport Herediano and is playing with them since 2020.

In January 2014, Villaobos—yet to turn 15—led Costa Rica to qualification for the 2014 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, appearing in all five games at the 2014 CONCACAF Under-20 Women's Championship in the Cayman Islands.

She then shot to national prominence in March 2014, when Costa Rica hosted the 2014 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. She appeared in all three games as the country hosted its first FIFA event.^[4]

In May 2014, Villalobos received her first call to the senior national team in the Central American region of 2014 CONCACAF Women's Championship qualification, the first step toward the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. Villalobos scored in the final group game to help Costa Rica advance.^[5] In the playoff to determine which team advanced to the Pan American Games, Villalobos played again in a 3–0 Costa Rica win.^[6]

At the U-20 Women's World Cup in Canada in August 2014, Villalobos played all 270 minutes but Costa Rica was eliminated in the group stage again.^[4]

In 2017, Villalobos joined the Florida State Seminoles women's soccer team.

Florida State Seminoles

• NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Championship: 2018