Borja Bastón

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Borja Bastón
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2013
Personnel
Surname Borja González Tomás
birthday August 25, 1992
place of birth Madrid ,  Spain
size 186 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1996-2009 Atlético Madrid
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2009-2011 Atlético Madrid B 37 (16)
2010-2016 Atlético Madrid 1 0(0)
2011–2012 →  Real Murcia  (loan) 20 0(4)
2012-2013 →  SD Huesca  (loan) 31 0(9)
2013-2014 →  Deportivo La Coruña  (loan) 33 (10)
2014-2015 →  Real Saragossa  (loan) 38 (22)
2015-2016 →  SD Eibar  (loan) 36 (18)
2016-2020 Swansea City 38 0(7)
2017-2018 →  Málaga CF  (loan) 20 0(2)
2018-2019 →  Deportivo Alavés  (loan) 27 0(5)
2020– Aston Villa 0 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2008 Spain U-16 3 0(6)
2008-2009 Spain U-17 22 (12)
Spain U18 at least 2 0(1)
2011 Spain U-19 2 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of February 1, 2020

2 As of February 4, 2019

Borja González Tomás , called Borja Bastón or just Borja or Bastón (born August 25, 1992 in Madrid ) is a Spanish football player in the position of a striker who has been under contract with Aston Villa since the end of January 2020 .

Club career

Career start at Atlético Madrid and first professional assignment

Borja Bastón was born in Madrid on August 25, 1992, the son of the then professional football goalkeeper Miguel Bastón , who at that time was just ending his active career at Real Burgos CF. Like his father, Borja began his career as a goalkeeper when he was accepted into the youth department of Atlético Madrid in 1996 at the age of four . Over the years, however, he switched to the position of field player, and here, too, his father played a key role in the transformation to field player. After years in the club's youth and first appearances in the junior national teams of his native country Borja made his debut in the 2009/10 season in senior football when it was first for the B team of Atletico Madrid with gaming operations in the third-tier Segunda División B was used. In his first season, the then 17-year-old scored twelve goals in 23 championship games.

Due to his strong offensive performance, he also drew the attention of the club's professional team, whereupon the first call-up to the professional team took place for the semi-final first leg of the Europa League 2009/10 against Liverpool FC on April 22, 2010. In this game, which ended with a narrow 1-0 win over the English, and the way to the final, which Atlético Madrid subsequently also paved for themselves, the then 17-year-old offensive player was only unused on the bench . In the last two games of the season 2009/10 , when most of the regular team had already been spared, Quique Sánchez Flores , coach of the professional team, brought him into this very same team.

After the offensive player spent on May 8, 2010 in a 1-1 away draw against Sporting Gijón without playing minutes on the bench, Sánchez Flores put him in the clear 3-0 home defeat against Getafe FC , which still has an international starting place for reached the following week, a week later from the 58th minute to replace Tiago . Due to an injury, Borja had to leave the field in the 79th minute after completing 21 minutes of play, after suffering a serious injury to the anterior cruciate ligament of his left knee.

The eternal loaner

After his injury, it took about seven months before the young attacking player was able to play again in an official competitive game in men's football. On December 19, 2010 he was in a 1-0 win over CP Cacereño for the first time after his long injury break for the B-team of his club as a substitute for a few minutes. Despite his setbacks, Borja was still confident at this point that he would be able to help the team in the competition for the top places in the table. After that, however, it was well over a month before the young attacking player found his way back into the team, where he was primarily used as a substitute under coach Antonio Rivas until the end of the 2010/11 season . In 14 completed championship games in the Spanish third division, Borja had a record of four goals and placed with his team in the final standings, as in the previous season, in the middle of the table. Overall, he sat unused on the professional team's bench in four Primera División games in 2010/11 and was also an unused substitute in the eighth cup match between Atlético Madrid and Espanyol Barcelona (second leg).

In order to gain match practice in professional football, the club's management decided in summer 2011 to loan the now 19-year-old striker to a Spanish second division team . At Real Murcia from the city of Murcia , around 400 kilometers further south , Borja quickly made first appearances in the Spanish second division under Iñaki Alonso , before they largely decreased after his first goal in a 2-1 home win over CD Numancia . Up until a few laps before the end of the season, he played ten more championship games at irregular intervals, almost all of which he played as a substitute. After another goal, the third in the course of this season, in a short stint in the 39th round, Alonso brought him into the starting line-up for the following game, with Borja also scoring a goal in the 2-2 home draw against Gimnàstic de Tarragona . Then he was also used in the last three championship games, but was only in one of them from the start on the field. By the end of the Segunda División 2011/12 , which Real Murcia finished in 18th place in the table, the 1.86m attacker had four hits in 20 league games and was also in the 0-1 defeat against FC Córdoba in the second Round of the 2011/12 Copa del Rey used from the start.

For the following season , Borja moved within the league to northeast Spain; at SD Huesca he received on August 30th - the season had already started - a loan contract for the entire season. In Aragon he started as a substitute under the neo-coach and former Scotland legionary Antonio Calderón , but quickly worked his way up to a regular on the offensive. Up to the 13th championship round in mid-November 2012, Borja was in every league game and had also brought it to a use in the Copa del Rey 2012/13 . After that, he acted exclusively as a substitute for a while and was hardly used as such over a period of around two months. It was not until the experienced coach Jorge D'Alessandro , who replaced Ángel Royo , who briefly appeared as interim coach after Antonio Calderón was kicked out , at the end of December , that the young offensive player found his way back into the team in January 2013. Mainly used as a center forward, Borja was again to be regarded as a full-fledged regular player by the end of February at the latest and from that time on regularly contributed goals. Despite his numerous hits, SC Huesca, which had been involved in the relegation battle since the early stages of the season, slipped further and further down the table. The nine goals scored by Borja in 31 championship games did not help the team to stay up at the end of the season; the club from Huesca was relegated to the Spanish third division as 21st and penultimate .

Goal-threatening loan player

On August 28, 2013 Borja's loan change to the current league competitor Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña , who had just been relegated from the Primera División, was announced. He signed a two-year loan agreement with the north-west of Spain with the option of an extension if he terminated his contract in Madrid. The center forward celebrated his debut on September 1, 2013 in a 3-0 away win over CE Sabadell , when he scored two goals before he was replaced by coach Fernando Vázquez . Even after that, he acted primarily as a center forward or sole tip at the club from A Coruña and was able to achieve another brace four rounds later. Vázquez used him almost exclusively in the main lineup; From the 13th round of the championship, the first game in which Borja was not on the pitch, Deportivo La Coruña ranked either in first or second place in the table until the end of the season. He spent the rest of the season alternately as a starter or as a substitute; especially between February and March 2014, he only came on a short assignment lasting a few minutes over a period of several weeks. Even after that, he found it difficult to join the team from the beginning of April to the end of the season in early June and was increasingly treated as a substitute player by Fernando Vázquez. In 33 of 42 league games that had been possible, Borja Bastón was the team's top scorer with ten goals and managed with the club in the first attempt with two points behind master SD Eibar as second-placed Segunda División 2013/14, the direct promotion to the Spanish upper house.

Due to the sporting success Borja was brought back to Madrid at the end of the season, but was then awarded again to a Spanish second division club. At Real Zaragoza , he also signed a loan contract for one season. The 22-year-old had made his breakthrough as a professional footballer at the latest at the club from the Aragonese city of Saragossa . In the first game still used as a hanging tip, he then acted under Víctor Muñoz from Zaragoza, mainly as a goal-scoring and offensively strong center forward. Mostly over the full 90 minutes in action, he had already scored nine goals and two assists after completing ten championship games. Even after Víctor Muñoz's leave of absence, Borja remained dangerous on goal under new coach Ranko Popović and missed his first game in round 30 as he was canceled due to a yellow card suspension. Between the second and 40th championship round, the 1.86 m tall attacking player had 22 hits and five assists in 38 league games; in the last two league games he was spared by his Serbian-Austrian coach and was no longer used.

With his 22 goals scored, Borja ranked far behind in the team's internal goalscorer list and came third in the league-wide goalscorer list behind Rubén Castro from Betis Sevilla (32 goals) and Sergio Araujo from UD Las Palmas (23 goals) ). Furthermore, he helped his team to a sixth place in the final classification of the regular season, which was just enough for participation in the season-closing promotion play-offs. Real Zaragoza was only eliminated in the final against the UD Las Palmas, which was played in a return leg due to the away goals rule. For Borja, his season performance was enough for the election in the team of the year of the Segunda División. The Madrid-born player also played in his team's only game in the 2014/15 Copa del Rey .

Via the SD Eibar to England

After returning to his home club, Borja was awarded a second time in the summer of 2015. This time he went to the SD Eibar, who had appeared in the Primera División since the previous season , where, as so often in his career so far, he signed a loan contract for one season. More than five years after his last appearance in the country's top football league, he made his comeback in the league the day before his 23rd birthday when coach José Luis Mendilibar won him 3-1 away from Granada CF from the 80th minute of the game sent the injured Sergi Enrich onto the lawn. In the first four championship rounds he was still used as a substitute for only a few minutes of play, but from the fifth round he became a regular player when he scored the two goals in a 2-2 away draw against Levante UD to 1-0 and 2-0. Leadership of his team scored. Borja was also able to register once as a goal scorer in the following four games; especially from the fifth to the 24th round, the 23-year-old was considered an outstanding attacking player who had scored 16 goals and made three assists in 18 appearances during this period.

His strong offensive performances were also highlighted in October 2015 when he was voted “Primera División Player of the Month”. This month he caused a stir with goals against UD Las Palmas, as well as Sevilla FC and FC Barcelona . From the 25th round, his goal hazard decreased significantly; at the same time, the overall team performance deteriorated, so that the SD Eibar could only win one game in the 14 games up to the end of the season and also only narrowly won this 2-1 against Real Sociedad . In the end, it was enough for the team in the sometimes quite tightly staggered final table of the Primera División 2015/16 for a 14th place in the table. Over the course of the season, Borja had played in 36 of 38 league games that had been possible and had 18 hits and four assists. With his 18 goals, he was again the team's top scorer and had twice as many hits as the second most successful shooter Sergi Enrich. In the league-wide list of goalscorers, Borja ranked 10th this season. There were also three appearances and one goal in the Copa del Rey 2015/16 , in which the team was eliminated from the tournament in the round of 16 against the UD Las Palmas.

After having been a member of his hometown club Atlético Madrid for over 20 years, the young attacker moved abroad in the summer of 2016. Previously courted by Spanish clubs such as Getafe FC, Betis Sevilla or Villarreal FC , numerous English football clubs showed their interest in the goal-scoring center forward from 2016 onwards . In addition to Tottenham Hotspur , Everton FC and West Bromwich Albion , the Italian first division club Fiorentina also expressed their interest in Borja. At the same time, however, Valencia CF tried to keep the striker at home and guide him to the coastal city of southeast Spain. After it became known at the beginning of August 2016 that Swansea City , also playing in the Premier League , was in negotiations with the player and his home club, Borja quickly became the most expensive new addition in the Welsh club's history . With a record transfer fee of 15.5 million pounds (the equivalent of around 18 million euros ), the Spaniard signed a four-year contract until the summer of 2020 and was a direct replacement for André Ayew , who had recently moved to West Ham for a record transfer fee of around 20.5 million pounds United had changed, acted.

Substitutes at Swansea and other loan stations only

His career in the top division of English football began muted; after he missed the first four championship rounds due to muscle problems, he sat on the bench for the first time in the fifth round. In the 0-1 away defeat by Southampton FC , he made his team and league debut under Francesco Guidolin when he replaced Jack Cork from the 82nd minute . Afterwards, Borja alternated between substitute and regular attackers for several weeks before he was only used sporadically as a substitute player from mid-September 2016 and often sat on the bench without being used. Most recently, he was hardly taken into account by Guidolin , but he was hardly noticed by Bob Bradley , who replaced him as coach in mid-October. By the end of the 2016/17 season , he had only played 18 championship games with around 550 minutes played and one goal, which he scored on October 15 in a 2: 3 away defeat against Arsenal . There was also one appearance in the FA Cup 2016/17 and one in the EFL Cup 2016/17 , with Swansea City being eliminated in both competitions in the third round. In the sometimes very closely staggered final table, he finished 15th with his club. In May 2017, he entered into talks with club officials about his future after he had no prospect of a breakthrough among the four coaches he had this season. In the meantime, again courted by Valencia CF, Borja really started moving back to his home country soon afterwards.

At the beginning of July 2017, the 24-year-old signed a loan contract for one season with the Primera División club FC Málaga . In the Andalusian city ​​he started from the first round under José Miguel González , called Míchel , as a regular on the offensive, but had to fight injury-related setbacks after just a few rounds. Due to knee problems, he found his way back into the team only slowly and was mostly only used as a substitute player. At least until the beginning of February 2018, he made regular appearances for the southern Spaniards in the highest soccer league in the country, before these appearances largely decreased and Borja was not part of the squad for much of the rest of the season due to injury. Over the entire 2017/18 season , the center-forward played in 20 championship games, contributed two goals and played two more games in the intermediate round, the sixteenth-finals, of the 2017/18 Copa del Rey . From the beginning of the season, FC Málaga did not make it out of the relegation zone and from the 20th round was consistently in last place in the table. With 20 points from 38 games, the team had less than half the points than the worst-placed non-relegated team this season. After his return to his Welsh home club, this had not made it through relegation and was relegated to the second-rate Football League Championship as 18th in the 2017/18 Premier League .

On July 16, 2018, the next move back to the House of Lords was announced; the club Deportivo Alavés , which had been back in the country's top division for two seasons, had tied him as a loan player for one season. After just three league games completed the new club Borja fell in September for several laps due to a torn muscle and was then slow back in the team. In the months after that, however, he was able to record longer and longer appearances under coach Abelardo Fernández and was, especially from 2019, on the way to becoming a regular again. To date (as of February 6, 2019) Borja has played in 15 league games, scored four goals and provided one assist. He was also used in the two sixteenth-finals of his team against FC Girona in the Copa del Rey 2018/19 .

Aston Villa

At the end of the 2019/20 winter changeover period, Borja joined the English Premier League club Aston Villa on a free transfer .

National team career

Borja Bastón gained his first experience in a national team of the Spanish Football Association in the Spanish U-16 team . For this he appeared in three international matches in 2008 and was extremely dangerous with six goals. In the same year he also made the jump to the U-17 national team in his home country and represented it at the U-17 European Championship in 2009 in Germany . With the Spaniards, however, he was eliminated in the group stage as third in Group A from the current tournament, and he himself was in all three games. As one of the six best teams in the tournament, the Spaniards qualified for the U-17 World Cup in Nigeria several months later .

Under U-17 national coach Ginés Meléndez , Borja also acted as a regular here and moved into the round of 16 of the tournament with his team after winning the group in Group E. After victories over their peers from Burkina Faso in the round of 16 and Uruguay in the quarter-finals, the team lost the semifinals against hosts Nigeria with 1: 3. In the game for third place, the Spaniards were able to beat Colombia 1-0. At this World Cup he was used in six of the seven players in his home country and contributed five goals and an assist. Together with Sani Emmanuel , Sebastián Gallegos and Haris Seferović , who had all scored five goals each, Borja was the top scorer of this tournament. While Borja was the only one to receive the Golden Shoe, Emmanuel received the Silver Shoe and Gallegos the Bronze Shoe. In the years 2008 to 2009 Borja had a record of 22 international matches for Spain U-17, scoring a total of twelve goals.

He then completed at least two internationals for the Spanish U-18 national team , for which he also contributed at least one goal. In addition, he represented his home country in 2011 at the U-19 European Championship in Romania in 2011 , but was only considered a substitute for the regulars Álvaro Morata and Juanmi over the course of the tournament . In the end, he became the U-19 world champion with his home country, playing two games himself and sitting on the bench in the remaining four games without being used.

successes

Club successes

with Deportivo La Coruña

National team successes

Individual successes

  • Election to the Team of the Year of the Segunda División: 2014/15
  • Top scorer and golden shoe at the U-17 World Cup : 2009 (5 goals)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bastón vuelve a Riazor (Spanish), accessed on February 4, 2019
  2. ↑ La Liga Round Up: Getafe Secure Europa League, Villarreal Draw Despite Comeback , accessed on February 4, 2019
  3. ↑ a b Borja: "2011 será uno de mis mejores años" (Spanish), accessed on February 5, 2019
  4. ↑ BORJA GONZÁLEZ REFUERZA LA DELANTERA GRANA ( Memento of March 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish), accessed on February 5, 2019
  5. ↑ Borja jugará cedido en el Deportivo de la Coruña (Spanish), accessed on February 5, 2019
  6. ↑ a b Borja Bastón: Juan Carlos me habló increíblemente bien de la ciudad y del Club (Spanish), accessed on February 5, 2019
  7. ↑ a b El Real Zaragoza consigue la cesión del delantero Borja (Spanish), accessed on February 5, 2019
  8. ↑ El once ideal de la Liga Adelante (Spanish), accessed on February 6, 2019
  9. ↑ Borja Bastón llega cedido a SD Eibar (Spanish), accessed on February 6, 2019
  10. ^ Deyverson salva los muebles (Spanish), accessed February 6, 2019
  11. ↑ a b Borja Bastón named Liga BBVA Player of the Month for October (Spanish), accessed on February 6, 2019
  12. ↑ Getafe are interested in Atleti's Borja Bastón , accessed on February 6, 2019
  13. ↑ a b c Tottenham eye transfer of Atletico Madrid rising star Borja Baston to strengthen strike-force , accessed on February 6, 2019
  14. ↑ Borja Baston wanted by West Brom as Tony Pulis looks to freshen up attack with Atletico Madrid striker , accessed on February 6, 2019
  15. ↑ La Fiorentina sigue de cerca a Borja Bastón (Spanish), accessed on February 6, 2019
  16. ↑ a b Swansea City agree club record fee for Atlético Madrid striker Borja Bastón , accessed on February 6, 2019
  17. ↑ SWANSEA CITY CLINCH CLUB-RECORD SIGNING OF BORJA BASTON (English), accessed on February 8, 2019
  18. ↑ Charlie Austin goal against Swansea gives Southampton first league win , accessed February 6, 2019
  19. ↑ a b Bradley suffers defeat in Swansea debut , accessed February 6, 2019
  20. ↑ Borja Baston: Manager Paul Clement to consider Swansea City striker's future , accessed on February 6, 2019
  21. ↑ The revival of Borja Baston, his Swansea City contract situation and what is set to happen with him , accessed on February 6, 2019
  22. ↑ Borja Baston: Swansea City to decide on record signing's future (English), accessed on February 6, 2019
  23. ^ One in one out; Borja Bastón replaces Sandro in Malaga's frontline , accessed February 6, 2019
  24. ↑ HOW MÁLAGA WENT FROM RAGS TO RICHES TO RELEGATION , accessed on February 6, 2019
  25. ↑ Swansea City - Stoke City (1: 2) (English), accessed February 6, 2019
  26. ↑ Swansea striker Borja Baston joins Spanish side Alaves on loan , accessed February 6, 2019
  27. ↑ Borja Baston leaves Swansea City for Aston Villa (Swansea City)
  28. ↑ Consuelo de bronce (Spanish), accessed February 6, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Bastón, Borja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borja; Bastón; González Tomás, Borja (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid , Spain