Matthijs de Ligt

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Matthijs de Ligt
Matthijs de Ligt 2018.jpg
Matthijs de Ligt (2018)
Personnel
birthday August 12, 1999
place of birth Unfortunatelydorp , the  Netherlands
size 189 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
2005-2009 FC Abcoude
2009-2016 Ajax Amsterdam
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2016-2017 Jong Ajax 17 (1)
2016-2019 Ajax Amsterdam 77 (8)
2019– Juventus Turin 29 (4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2014 Netherlands U15 5 (0)
2014-2015 Netherlands U16 8 (0)
2015-2016 Netherlands U17 14 (1)
2016 Netherlands U19 6 (0)
2017– Netherlands 23 (2)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

2 As of November 19, 2019

Matthijs de Ligt (born August 12, 1999 in Leiderdorp , the Netherlands ) is a Dutch football player . The Dutch international comes from the youth of Ajax Amsterdam and has been playing for the Italian record champions Juventus Turin since July 2019 .

Career

societies

Beginnings

Matthijs de Ligt started playing football at FC Abcoude. At the age of nine he moved to the Ajax Amsterdam academy . At the ABN AMRO Future Cup he was voted the best player of the tournament as a B-youth and at the Copa Amsterdam as an A-youth.

Breakthrough at Ajax Amsterdam

In September 2015, he signed his first contract with Ajax, which ran for three years. At the end of the 2015/16 season he was voted Talent of the Future . In the following seasons he achieved his breakthrough; he played with the reserve team Jong Ajax in the first division and with the first team in the KNVB Cup, in the UEFA Europa League and in the Eredivisie. On September 21, 2016 De Ligt made his debut for the professional team when he played against Willem II Tilburg in the KNVB-Beker ; in that game he scored his first goal. After Clarence Seedorf, he was the youngest goalscorer in the club's history. In October 2016, coach Peter Bosz de Ligt finally made the professional team. He played with Ajax in the 2016/17 season in the UEFA Europa League and reached the final; he was the youngest player who had been used in a final of a European cup competition. In the 2017/18 season he formed the heart of the defense with Nick Viergever , Maximilian Wöber and Frenkie de Jong . In April 2018 he was transferred to a violation of Joël Veltman to captain appointed, making it the youngest ever Ajax captain. At the end of the season he was named Ajax Talent of the Year and Dutch Talent of the Year. In the 2018/19 season he played mostly in defense with Daley Blind , who had returned to Ajax in the summer. His performance sparked the interest of European clubs and played both with Ajax in the UEFA Champions League and in the UEFA Nations League with the Dutch national team. He won the Golden Boy for Europe's best U21 player of 2018, making him the first defender to win this award. In December 2018, he was elected to the 2018 Champions League Breakthrough Team by UEFA . In an expert list of the best football players in the world (100 best football players in the world 2018, published by The Guardian ), de Ligt ranks 89th. In January 2019, bond coach Ronald Koeman predicted that de Ligt would be the best center-back in the world within two years.

Former Ajax players Barry Hulshoff and Mino Raiola are his managers.

Juventus Turin

For the 2019/20 season, de Ligt moved to the Italian Serie A at Juventus Turin . He signed a contract that ran until June 30, 2024 and, with a transfer fee of 75 million euros, which can be increased by 10.5 million euros through bonus payments, became one of the most expensive transfers in football history to date . At the end of November 2019, de Ligt was voted 5th in the Golden Boy election for the best U21 player in Europe, which he won last year, behind João Félix , Jadon Sancho , Kai Havertz and Erling Haaland . In addition to early game Leonardo Bonucci , the Dutchman was in the central defense of the back four, came to 29 league games (five points scorer) as well as four games in the cup and five in the Champions League. While they lost in the Cup of the SSC Napoli , Juventus again won the national championship title, in the Champions League, on the other hand, games were interrupted until the beginning of August 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic . In Serie A, only Inter Milan and Lazio had conceded fewer goals than de Ligt's Turin team.

National team

Starting with the U15, de Ligt went through all Dutch junior teams from 2014. From 2015 he played for the U17 national team .

On March 25, 2017 he made his debut for the senior national team , which lost the qualifying game for the 2018 World Cup in Sofia with 0: 2 against the national team of Bulgaria ; he played from the start and was replaced by Wesley Hoedt in the second half . The defender scored his first international goal in the 2: 3 defeat against Germany in the European Championship qualifier on March 24, 2019.

successes

Ajax Amsterdam
Juventus Turin
Personal awards

Web links

Commons : Matthijs de Ligt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anderlecht wint ABN AMRO Future Cup , ajax.nl, accessed on February 13, 2019
  2. ↑ Ajax A1 reads out final Copa Amsterdam , ajax.nl, accessed on February 13, 2019
  3. ↑ Ajax contracteert Matthijs de Ligt , ajax.nl, accessed on February 13, 2019
  4. ↑ Matthijs de Ligt verkozen tot Talent van de Toekomst , ajax.nl, accessed on February 13, 2019
  5. ↑ De Ligt jongste scorende Ajacied na Seedorf , ajax.nl, accessed on February 13, 2019
  6. ↑ De Ligt krijgt plaats in de A-selectie van Ajax , vi.nl, accessed on February 13, 2019
  7. ↑ De Ligt as de nieuwe norm bij Ajax , ad.nl, accessed on February 13, 2019
  8. ↑ Matthijs de Ligt jongste Ajax-aanvoerder ooit , elsevierweekblad.nl, accessed on February 13, 2019
  9. ↑ De Ligt number 89 op lijst van Best male footballers in the world 2018 , theguardian.com, accessed on February 13, 2019
  10. ↑ De Ligt volgens Koeman over twee jaar de beste centrumverdediger ter wereld , voetbalzone.nl, accessed on February 13, 2019
  11. ↑ Ajax-talent De Ligt: aan de hand van Hulshoff naar de top vi.nl, accessed on February 13, 2019
  12. ↑ OFFICIAL ⎮de Ligt is Bianconero! , juventus.com, July 18, 2019, accessed July 19, 2019.
  13. ↑ Sancho only second: Joao Felix is ​​Golden Boy 2019 , kicker.de, November 27, 2019, accessed on November 27, 2019.
  14. ↑ Löws Joker and Schulz shock the Dutch late , match report on kicker.de, accessed on March 25, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Ligt, Matthijs de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1999
PLACE OF BIRTH Unfortunatelydorp , the Netherlands