Emiliano Martínez, born on 2 September 1992 (age 33), is an imposing 6ft 5in (1.95m) Argentina goalkeeper whose career has settled most clearly at Aston Villa. His current market value is around £21.5m, according to Transfermarkt.
His earlier years were shaped by the usual uneven route for a young goalkeeper, with loan football giving him the minutes he needed. The most notable of those spells came at Sheffield Wednesday in 2013-14, where he made 11 league appearances and took another step away from being merely a promising keeper on someone else’s books.
Villa is where the career has properly taken shape. Across six seasons he has made 213 league appearances, becoming a long-running first-team presence rather than a passing solution. That matters for a goalkeeper: selection is usually the bluntest assessment available.
He has remained central in 2025-26, making 32 Premier League appearances, one in the FA Cup and 11 in the Europa League for Villa. He has also continued to feature for Argentina, with 16 appearances in South American World Cup qualifying.
Martínez’s career is not hard to place: early development through loan football, then sustained senior importance at Aston Villa, where he remains a regular part of the side.
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