{"id":594749,"date":"2025-06-23T16:03:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/gigi-moreira-refuerza-la-zaga-del-villarreal-femenino\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T16:38:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:38:22","slug":"gigi-moreira-strengthens-the-villarreal-women-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/en\/gigi-moreira-strengthens-the-villarreal-women-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigi Moreira strengthens the Villarreal Women defence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Ecuadorian defender joins the Yellows on a free transfer from CD Alba Fundaci\u00f3n<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Villarreal CF have reached an agreement with Gigi Moreira, who will play for Villarreal Women for the next two seasons. The Ecuadorian defender joins as a free agent from CD Alba Fundaci\u00f3n Femenino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Experience at the back<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ligia \u2018Gigi\u2019 Elena Moreira Burgos<\/strong> (19 March 1992, Buena F\u00e9, Ecuador) developed as a player in various clubs in her home country, such as Rocafuerte, Santo Domingo, 7 de Febrero and Uni\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola. She later had short spells at Patriotas in Colombia and S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 in Brazil before making the leap to Spanish football at the age of 27, joining Real Oviedo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After one season with the Asturian side, the Ecuadorian centre-back went on to play for CDE Racing F\u00e9minas, C\u00f3rdoba CF, Alhama CF, and most recently, CD Alba Fundaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gigi is also a full international with Ecuador, has worn the captain\u2019s armband, and represented her country at the 2015 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Welcome, Gigi!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ecuadorian defender joins the Yellows on a free transfer from CD Alba Fundaci\u00f3n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":594745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13792],"tags":[9201,16179,13842,16486,9199,13482,5150,4865,13798],"class_list":{"0":"post-594749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-villarreal-women-2","8":"tag-football-d34-en","9":"tag-futbol-3-en","10":"tag-futbol-femenino-3-en","11":"tag-gigi-moreira-en","12":"tag-soccer-d105-en","13":"tag-submarine-en","14":"tag-submarino-amarillo","15":"tag-villarreal-cf","16":"tag-villarreal-femenino-2-en"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}