Angelo Leonel Vega Rodriguez (born 3 January 1985) is a Chilean-born Swedish international

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player and a former

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player.

Futsal

Vega plays

Futsal Futsal is a variant of association football played between two teams of five players each on a court smaller than a football pitch. Its rules are based on the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game of association football, and i ...

for

Gothenburg Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...

team FC Ibra and for the Sweden national team.

International

He made his international

debut for

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

on December 11, 2012, against

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Personal life

Vega was born in

Valparaíso Valparaíso () is a major city, Communes of Chile, commune, Port, seaport, and naval base facility in the Valparaíso Region of Chile. Valparaíso was originally named after Valparaíso de Arriba, in Castilla–La Mancha, Castile-La Mancha, Spain ...

, Chile, and moved to

Uddevalla Uddevalla is a Stad (Sweden), town in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It’s the seat of Uddevalla Municipality. In 2015, it had a population of 34,781, making it the largest town fully in Bohuslän. Uddevalla is located where the river Bäveån ...

, Sweden, at the age of three along with his family. Later, he naturalized Swedish by residence.

References

External links

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Profile at Fotbolltransfers.com

svenskalag.se

at Soccer-Talents.com 1985 births Living people Footballers from Valparaíso Chilean emigrants to Sweden Naturalized citizens of Sweden Swedish men's footballers Sportspeople of Chilean descent Örgryte IS players Qviding FIF players IK Oddevold players IFK Uddevalla players Men's association football midfielders Swedish men's futsal players FC Ibra players 21st-century Swedish sportsmen {{Sweden-footy-midfielder-stub