A total of four ‘groguet’ footballers have earned an Olympic medal while playing for the Submarine
Álex Baena and Ilias Akhomach have made history and have joined the elite club of athletes who have won a medal at the Olympic games. The midfielder from Almería, a standout star for Spain, won gold, while the winger took bronze with Morocco.
Both Ilias and Baena have joined an exclusive group of footballers to have earned an Olympic medal with Villarreal. In 2021, after COVID, Pau Torres got gold in Tokyo 2020 after losing the final against Brazil in Japan.
A couple of decades earlier, Unai Vergara won the silver medal in Sydney 2000. In Australia, the first Spanish international for the club achieved this impressive feat after losing in the final against Cameroon.
