Arturo Vidal

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Arturo Vidal
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Arturo Vidal with the national team (2017)
Personnel
Surname Arturo Erasmo Vidal Pardo
birthday May 22, 1987
place of birth Santiago de Chile ,  Chile
size 180 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
Deportes Melipilla
0000–2005 CSD Colo-Colo
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2005-2007 CSD Colo-Colo 36 0(2)
2007-2011 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 117 (15)
2011-2015 Juventus Turin 124 (35)
2015-2018 FC Bayern Munich 79 (14)
2018– FC Barcelona 66 (11)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2007 Chile U20 14 0(8)
2007– Chile 115 (28)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

2 As of October 15, 2019

Arturo Erasmo Vidal Pardo (born May 22, 1987 in Santiago de Chile ) is a Chilean football player . He moved to Europe at the age of 20 and played there for Bayer 04 Leverkusen , Juventus Turin and FC Bayern Munich . He has been under contract with FC Barcelona since August 2018 . Vidal is a national player , won the Copa America twice with the Chilean national team and took part in two world championships . He mainly plays in defensive midfield, but can also be used on the offensive.

Career

societies

Colo-Colo

In June 2005 Arturo Vidal was accepted into the professional squad of the traditional Chilean club CSD Colo-Colo , where he had previously played through several youth teams. In 2006 he won the Chilean Apertura and Clausura Championship with the club . In the following season Colo-Colo defended this title. In the summer of 2007 Vidal decided to move to Europe.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen

Vidal was courted by several European clubs, ultimately he signed with the German Bundesliga club Bayer 04 Leverkusen . On April 28, 2007 Colo Colo announced the transfer from Vidal to Leverkusen. According to their own information, Leverkusen paid a transfer fee of 5.6 million euros . A clause in the contract stipulated that Colo-Colo should receive 30 percent of the transfer fee if the Chilean was bought on. In Leverkusen he signed a contract until 2012.

In his first year in Germany, the defensive player came regularly to appearances; Vidal made his Bundesliga debut on August 19, 2007 (2nd matchday) against Hamburger SV as a left-back . On the 6th matchday he scored his first league goal for the Werkself in a 3-0 away win against Hannover 96 . In the following years he was also a regular at Bayer. He was used in a wide variety of positions. In 2008/09 he reached the final of the DFB Cup with the team, which they lost to Werder Bremen . In the 2010/11 season Vidal was used more offensively in the central midfield. With ten goals this season he was the most successful goalscorer of the Leverkusen, who won the runner-up in the end.

Juventus Turin

Vidal in the jersey of Juventus Turin (2012)

In July 2011, Vidal moved to the Italian record champions Juventus Turin for a transfer fee of 10.5 million euros . Turin had previously missed participation in the European Cup. In his first league game, Vidal scored his first goal for his new employer in a 4-1 win against FC Parma at the Juventus Stadium, which was inaugurated three days earlier . In the 2012/13 season , Vidal scored 15 goals in 45 competitive games for his club and won the second championship title in a row under coach Antonio Conte ; so also in the following seasons 2013/14 and 2014/15 . In June 2015 he was with Juventus in the final of the Champions League, which was lost to FC Barcelona 3-1.

FC Bayern Munich

during training on the grounds of FC Bayern Munich (2017)

For the 2015/16 season , Vidal moved to the German record champions FC Bayern Munich and signed a four-year contract. In his first season in Munich, he won the double with the German championship and the cup . In 2017 and 2018 he won the German championship again .

FC Barcelona

After Vidal was controversial at FC Bayern and another midfielder was signed with Schalke Leon Goretzka for the 2018/19 season , FC Bayern was ready to release the 31-year-old one year before the end of the contract for a corresponding transfer fee. After Vidal had started preparing for the season at FC Bayern, he left the training camp at Tegernsee on August 3 and was introduced three days later as a new addition to the Spanish champions FC Barcelona , with whom he received a three-year contract.

National team

In February 2007 he made his senior national team debut in a brief appearance against Venezuela . For the Copa América he was not appointed to the squad by coach Nelson Acosta ; instead, Acosta Vidal wanted to play at the U20 World Cup in Canada to increase the chances of winning the World Cup. Vidal reached third place there with the U20 national team .

In the following years he ran regularly for the senior national team and qualified with the team for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa , for which the defensive all-rounder was appointed to the Chilean squad in May 2010 . In the round of 16 , the team was eliminated against Brazil . Vidal was in the starting line-up in all four games and was substituted once at halftime.

In July 2011, Vidal was used in three of the four games of the Copa America in Argentina. In the first group game against Mexico , he scored the winning goal and was eliminated with the team in the quarter-finals against Venezuela.

In December 2011, Vidal was suspended by the Chilean federation along with four other players for ten games because they had returned late and drunk to the team quarters before the World Cup qualifier in Uruguay the previous month after a free evening. The suspension Vidal was lifted on May 6, 2012, so that he could be nominated for the World Cup qualifiers in June in Bolivia and Venezuela .

At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, like four years earlier, he was eliminated with Chile in the round of 16 against Brazil, this time on penalties ; Vidal had previously been substituted. He played three of the four World Cup games.

In the following year, Vidal was part of the team at the Copa America in his own country that achieved the greatest success in the history of the Chilean national team by winning the title for the first time. In the preliminary round he scored three goals, in the 5-0 preliminary round win against Bolivia he was substituted at half time. He played all of the following games in the tournament for full time, including the final against runners-up Argentina , which was won 4-1 on penalties after a goalless 120 minutes. Vidal contributed to this with his converted penalty.

Due to the 100th anniversary of the competition, the next Copa America took place one year later, in 2016 , this time in the USA. Vidal was again a regular player, but was suspended from the semifinals against Colombia . Chile won the semi-finals and met Argentina in the final, the same final opponent as last year. Chile had already played against Argentina in the preliminary round and lost 2-1. As in 2015, this final also went goalless in the penalty shoot-out. Vidal, the first Chilean shooter, was unsuccessful as Argentine goalkeeper Sergio Romero was able to save his penalty. Chile won the penalty shootout 4-2 and were able to defend the title.

In 2017, Chile took part in the Confederation Cup in Russia as the South American representative and reached the final, which was lost 1-0 to world champions Germany . Vidal played all games over the entire season.

Chile could not qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

Others

A week after Arturo Vidal bought a 250,000 euro Ferrari , he was drunk and crashed into two other cars on a country road between Santiago de Chile and the south of the country on June 16, 2015 , so that his new car was completely destroyed. He and his wife suffered some bruises as a result. After Vidal was found to have been drinking, the police arrested him and took him to a police station overnight.

End of August 2019 played Vidal with a 25,000 euro expensive poker tournament of the European Poker Tour in Barcelona. He reached the final table - just like his teammate Gerard Piqué - and took fifth place, worth almost 135,000 euros.

successes

societies
National team

Awards

Web links

Commons : Arturo Vidal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Confirmation of transfer on the website of Colo Colo ( Memento from April 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Match statistics: Hamburger SV - Bayer Leverkusen 1-0 (0-0) on fussballdaten.de.
  3. ↑ Match statistics: Hannover 96 - Bayer Leverkusen 0: 3 (0: 0) on fussballdaten.de.
  4. ↑ Arturo Vidal è bianconero ( Memento from January 26, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match report Juventus Turin - FC Parma , accessed on September 11, 2011.
  6. ↑ Vidal signs four-year contract fcbayern.de, accessed on July 28, 2015.
  7. ↑ Vidal signs with FC Bayern , sueddeutsche.de on July 28, 2015.
  8. ↑ Vidal is not afraid of Goretzka , sport1.de, January 28, 2018, accessed on August 6, 2018
  9. ↑ Barça introduces Vidal - and Vidal himself , kicker.de, August 6, 2018, accessed on August 6, 2018
  10. ↑ FIFA.com : Vidal and Co. suspended ten games
  11. ↑ FIFA.com: Chile pardons ex-Leverkusen Vidal
  12. ↑ Drunken Juve star scraps a brand new Ferrari . welt.de. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  13. ↑ European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona (€ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 24)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 27, 2019 (English)
  14. ↑ Copa América 2019 Team of the Tournament, report on copaamerica.com, page in Spanish, accessed on July 18, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Vidal, Arturo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vidal Pardo, Arturo Erasmo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de Chile , Chile