Andrés Fleurquín

Andrés Fleurquín
Personnel
Surname	José Andrés Fleurquín Rubio
birthday	February 8, 1975
place of birth	Montevideo ,  Uruguay
size	186 cm
position	Defensive midfielder
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1994	Defensor Sporting Club
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1996-2000	Defensor Sporting Club	88 (15)
2000-2002	SK Sturm Graz	46 0(2)
2001-2002	→  Galatasaray Istanbul  (loan)	17 0(2)
2002-2003	Rennes Stadium B	14 0(0)
2002-2004	Rennes stadium	13 0(0)
2003-2004	→  FC Córdoba  (loan)	27 0(1)
2004-2010	Cádiz FC	175 (10)
2010-2015	Defensor Sporting Club	84 0(1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
1997-2001	Uruguay	11 0(0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: End of career (February 3, 2016) 2 As of October 16, 2012

José Andrés Fleurquín Rubio (born February 8, 1975 in Montevideo ) is a former Uruguayan - Italian football player .

The long-time captain of the Spanish club FC Cádiz was a member of the SK Sturm team , which was the first Austrian representative to reach the second group stage of the Champions League in the 2000/01 season .

With Uruguay he was in the 1999 Copa América final .

With a transfer fee of around 28 million schillings , it is still (as of April 2011) the second most expensive transfer in the history of Sturm Graz after Charles Amoah .

Club career

Defensor Sporting Club

Fleurquín began his professional career in 1996 with his hometown club Defensor Sporting Club from Montevideo .

Already in his debut season he became a regular player in midfield and caused a sensation, especially in his early days as a professional, due to the risk of scoring in set pieces. After his first professional season, he then made his debut in the national team and took part in the 1997 Copa America . He had previously won the Campeonato Clausura with the club and was runner-up in Uruguay. An outstanding season in 1998, in which he was able to score seven goals in eighteen appearances this season despite several injuries, was called up again in 1999 for the Uruguayan squad for the Copa America , where he celebrated his international breakthrough. As a regular player in the system of coach Víctor Púa , he penetrated the team to the final, but where Brazil had to admit defeat 2-0 .

SK Sturm Graz

After the end of the 1999 season, he then moved to SK Sturm Graz in Austria for the record transfer fee of approx. 28 million schillings . At that time he was considered to be the most expensive football player ever to work in Austria. In Sturm, President Hannes Kartnig saw defending his title in the league in jeopardy after entering the Champions League for the first time and upgraded with the obligations of Sergey Yuran and Fleurquín in the winter transition period . Defensor, on the other hand, tried to sell Fleurquin as best as possible after his strong performance during the Copa America, as they already had their designated successor in the squad in the then highly talented Diego Pérez .

In the following two years at Sturm, Fleurquín played mainly on an international level and against larger clubs in the domestic league, often appearing to be very listless against smaller teams such as SV Ried or SW Bregenz , which led to several differences with coach Ivica Osim led, who nevertheless always set him up as the central backbone in defensive midfield behind the offensives Markus Schopp , Tomislav Kocijan , Hannes Reinmayr , Mario Haas and Ivica Vastić .

After being runner-up in 2000, he and Sturm became the first Austrian team to win the group in the preliminary round and advance to the second group stage of the Champions League. Fleurquín was considered one of the key players for success. In everyday life in the league, however, you had to pay tribute to the double burden and took fourth place in the table , directly behind local rivals Grazer AK .

Without the chance of another Champions League qualification, Kartnig Fleurquín tried to sell at a profit, with a rumored 6 million schillings annual salary, one of the club's top earners. After the negotiations with potential buyers were slow due to the high transfer fee , a buyer was found shortly before the end of the transfer in Galatasaray Istanbul , who signed him on loan for the first time until the end of the season.

Galatasaray Istanbul

In Istanbul Fleurquín played a strong season in the Champions League and the league under coach Mircea Lucescu . He became a fan favorite because of his winning goal to 1-0 in the city derby against Beşiktaş Istanbul . At the end of the season he celebrated his first national title win with the Turkish championship . As a result, the club tried to get a firm commitment from the player, but the negotiations failed because of the purchase option of 45.3 million schillings on which Sturm insisted.

In the summer of 2002 Fleurquín then returned to Sturm and started preparing for the new season. Shortly before the start of the season, Sturm found a buyer in the French first division club Stade Rennes , who, however, paid a significantly lower transfer fee than that previously offered by Galatasaray.

Rennes stadium

Coming to the club late in preparation, Fleurquín made a weak start to the season and was unable to meet the expectations of coach Philippe Bergeroo as a stabilizer in midfield. After the coach change to Vahid Halilhodžić , he had to pause due to injury and was then only used in the B team until the final phase of the championship. Only from the 20th round did he find his way back into the A-team and played five more games until the end of the season. For the following season Halilhodžić left the club again and was replaced by László Bölöni , who put no emphasis on further collaboration with Fleurquín. He was then awarded to FC Córdoba in the Spanish Segunda Division .

Cordoba FC

In Córdoba he was given a regular place again and presented himself as defensive as usual. The team with players like Christer George or Andrés Nicolás Olivera , however, remained clearly behind their possibilities and occupied a place in the lower regions of the table over the entire season. Although the club wanted to keep Fleurquín beyond the season, you could not lift its transfer fee, whereupon league competitor FC Cádiz was awarded the contract.

Cádiz FC

At the aspirant of promotion Cádiz, he was considered a dream player of compatriot and coach Víctor Espárrago , who from then on referred to him as his extended arm on the field. In his first season he already celebrated the championship title in the Segunda División and the associated rise to the top class. The club then largely waived new signings and rose as the penultimate again.

From 2006, after the resignation of veteran Oli , Fleurquín took over his captain's armband, which he wore until he left in 2010. In 2007 they narrowly missed the immediate resurgence, before in 2008, despite a squad with supposed stars like Gastón Casas and Kamil Kosowski , surprisingly relegated. Fleurquín remained loyal to the club as one of the few established players and immediately rose again with the team for the following season. For the 2009/10 season, the commitment of veteran Diego Tristán made for a high level of expectations, which the team could not meet. After being unhappy with relegation one point behind as ninth in the table, Fleurquin announced his departure from Cádiz.

Defensor Sporting

In 2010 he then moved back home to Defensor, where he officially wants to end his career.

With the Montevideans, he played eleven first division games in the 2010/11 season. In the 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14 seasons, 21, 24 and 15 league appearances followed. He did not score a league goal. There are also 16 games in the Copa Libertadores, eleven of which he completed in the 2014 competition , in which Defensor advanced to the semi-finals. In the 2014/15 season he was four times (no goal) in the Primera División on the pitch. In the Apertura 2015 he was used nine times (one goal) in the league and twice (no goal) in the Copa Sudamericana 2015 . He then ended his active career on November 27, 2015 in the home game of the 14th matchday against River.

National team

Without an international match, Fleurquín was called up by coach Juan Ahuntchaín in the Uruguayan squad for the 1997 Copa America . However, Uruguay was eliminated in the preliminary round and Fleurquin was left without a bet.

It was not until October 12, 1997 that he made his debut under the new coach Roque Máspoli in the 0-0 qualification for the 1998 World Cup against Argentina .

Then he was not called up for almost a year and a half before he became a regular under the new coach Víctor Púa . During the Copa América 1999 he was then the great constant in the team that advanced to the final. Fleurquín played for the full 90 minutes of each game.

After the Copa he moved to Europe and Daniel Passarella took over the national team. As a result, he was still called up regularly, but was often not used because the new coach pushed the talent Pablo García , who was committed at Atlético Madrid , to his position.

It was not until the spring of 2001 that he was briefly a regular again under the returning Púa, before he was finally ousted by the significantly younger Sebastián Eguren and Diego Pérez . He played his last game for Uruguay on March 28, 2001 in the 0-1 home defeat in qualifying for the 2002 World Cup against Paraguay .

successes

Defensor Sporting Club

• 1 × Uruguayan runner-up : 1997
• 1 × Campeonato Apertura : 2010
• 1 × Campeonato Clausura : 1997
• 1 × Copa Montevideo: 1997

SK Sturm Graz

• 1 × Austrian runner-up : 2000

Galatasaray Istanbul

• 1 × Turkish champion : 2002

Cádiz FC

• 1 × Master Segunda División : 2005
• 1 × Master Segunda Division B: 2009
• 1 × Torneos de Verano: 2006
• 3 × Trofeo Ciudad de El Puerto: 2004, 2005, 2007

Uruguay

• 1 × Copa América finalist : 1999

Web links

• Player profile on the official website of Cádiz CF.
• Player profile on the official website of Stade Rennes
• Player profile on sturmarchiv.at
• Player profile on lfp.fr

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Sturm Graz im Freudentaumel  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. rp-online.de, accessed on April 7, 2011  
2. ↑ Resourceful Transfers oe-journal.at, accessed on April 7, 2011
3. ↑ Jubel um Fleurquin , Kleine Zeitung of March 10, 2002, section: Sport
4. ↑ 23 Andres Fleurquin February 8, 1975 Uruguay (English) mobileworlds.com, accessed April 7, 2011
5. ↑ Purchase option after this season news.at, accessed on April 7, 2011
6. ↑ Andres Fleurquin: Currently still in the storm - but how long? , APA from June 26, 2002, Resort: Soccer / Austria
7. ↑ Fleurquin from Rennes news.at, accessed on April 7, 2011
8. ↑ Artículo: Andrés José Fleurquin Rubio (Spanish)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. cadiz.incondicionales.com, accessed April 7, 2011  
9. ↑ Fleurquin se retirará en el Defensor Uruguayo (Spanish) elcadiz.com, accessed April 7, 2011
10. ↑ Profile on fichajes.com , accessed January 15, 2015
11. ^ Profile on soccerway.com , accessed February 3, 2016
12. ↑ Cantó las cuarenta (Spanish) on futbol.com.uy of November 28, 2015, accessed on February 3, 2016
13. ^ Uruguay - International Matches 1996-2000 rsssf.com, accessed April 4, 2011
14. ^ Uruguay - International Matches 2001-2005 rsssf.com, accessed April 4, 2011
15. ^ Trofeo Ciudad de El Puerto 1972-2008 rsssf.com, accessed April 3, 2011