Julio Villalba
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Full name
Julio César Villalba Gaona
Date of birth
17 September 1998[1]
Place of birth
Ciudad del Este, Paraguay
Height
1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
 Villalba playing for Paraguay U20 during the 2017 South American Youth Football Championship | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Julio César Villalba Gaona | ||
| Date of birth | 17 September 1998[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Ciudad del Este, Paraguay | ||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Independiente | ||
| Number | 9 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2016 | Cerro Porteño | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2016–2017 | Cerro Porteño | 16 | (4) |
| 2017–2021 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 2 | (1) |
| 2017 | → Cerro Porteño (loan) | 13 | (2) |
| 2020 | → SCR Altach (loan) | 8 | (0) |
| 2021–2022 | Guayaquil City | 24 | (1) |
| 2022–2023 | Sol de América | 8 | (0) |
| 2023 | Luqueño | 1 | (0) |
| 2024– | Independiente | 0 | (0) |
| International career | |||
| 2015 | Paraguay U17 | 11 | (2) |
| 2016–2018 | Paraguay U20 | 4 | (1) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 26 October 2023 | |||
Julio César Villalba Gaona (born 17 September 1998) is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a forward for Independiente.
Villalba signed with Borussia Mönchengladbach in January 2017.[2]
Upon returning to Paraguay, he featured for Cerro Porteño U20 in the 2016 U-20 Copa Libertadores.[3][4][5]
He made his first-team debuts for Cerro Porteño during 2016 and the club will enjoy little of him before the player departs permanently to the Bundesliga.[6]
On 8 January 2020, Villalba was sent on loan to SC Rheindorf Altach of the Austrian Bundesliga for the remainder of the season.[7]