Álvaro Domínguez (football player, 1989)

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Álvaro Domínguez
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Álvaro Domínguez in November 2009
Personnel
Surname Álvaro Domínguez Soto
birthday May 16, 1989
place of birth Madrid ,  Spain
size 189 cm
position Central defense ,
external defense (left)
Juniors
Years station
1999-2001 real Madrid
2001-2007 Atlético Madrid
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2007-2009 Atlético Madrid B 44 (0)
2009–2012 Atlético Madrid 76 (5)
2012-2016 Borussia M'gladbach 81 (3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2007-2008 Spain U-19 7 (0)
2009 Spain U-20 1 (0)
2008-2011 Spain U-21 13 (1)
2012 Spain Olympics 2 (0)
2012 Spain 2 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Álvaro Domínguez Soto (born May 16, 1989 in Madrid ) is a former Spanish football player . The defender was most recently under contract with Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach and played for the Spanish national team .

Career

society

Domínguez played for two years in Real Madrid's youth team from 1999 to 2001 . After going through the various youth departments of Atlético Madrid , he made his debut in the starting eleven on October 22, 2008 in the Champions League group game against Liverpool (1-1). He made his league debut on the following match day at 4: 4 in the game against Villarreal . Domínguez completed two more league appearances for Atlético this season, but was mainly used in the second team. On November 16, 2009, he signed a professional contract with Atlético that ran until 2013. He was a regular player in the 2009/10 season. With the club he won the Europa League in the 2009/10 season and the 2011/12 season .

In the summer break of 2012, Borussia Mönchengladbach signed Domínguez with a contract term until June 2017 as the successor to Dante, who had switched to Bayern Munich . He made his Bundesliga debut on September 1, 2012 (2nd matchday) in a 0-0 away game at Fortuna Düsseldorf . He scored his first Bundesliga goal on September 26, 2012 (5th matchday) in the 90th minute and secured Borussia 2-2 in the home game against Hamburger SV .

On December 6, 2016, at the age of 27, he ended his career as a sports disabled person due to persistent back problems . After his resignation, he raised serious allegations against Borussia Mönchengladbach: The medical department had treated him incorrectly and the sports management pushed for games despite his complaints. Sports director Max Eberl contradicted the allegations.

National team

In 2009 he took part in the U-20 World Cup with the Spanish selection . He was used in the last group game against Venezuela (3-0). With the U-21 national team, he became European champion in 2011 .

On May 26, 2012, he played his first A international match for Spain against the selection of Serbia . For the European Championships 2012 in Poland and Ukraine , national coach Vicente del Bosque appointed him to the preliminary, but not to the final EM squad. Because of his age, however, he was nominated for the 2012 Olympic Games in London , in which the Spanish selection was eliminated without scoring as the bottom of the group.

successes

Atlético Madrid

National team

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Álvaro Dominguez ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), http://footballcantera.com/
  2. ↑ weltfussball.de: Atlético Madrid vs Liverpool FC
  3. ↑ goal.com: Alvaro Dominguez Delighted With New Atletico Madrid Contract , November 16, 2009
  4. ↑ borussia.de: Borussia sign Alvaro Dominguez , June 27, 2012
  5. ↑ "We suffered and hoped with him" borussia.de, accessed on December 8, 2016
  6. ↑ Dominguez attacks Gladbach's doctors sport1.de, December 8, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Domínguez, Álvaro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Domínguez Soto, Álvaro (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid , Spain