Celso Borges

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Celso Borges
Celso Borges (2014, cropped) .jpg
Celso Borges, 2014
Personnel
Surname Celso Borges Mora
birthday May 27, 1988
place of birth San Jose ,  Costa Rica
size 187 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
0000–2005 CD Saprissa
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2005-2009 CD Saprissa 86 0(7)
2009-2011 Fredrikstad FK 73 (29)
2012-2014 AIK Solna 79 (22)
2015-2018 Deportivo La Coruña 107 (15)
2018– Goztepe Izmir 47 0(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2005 Costa Rica U-17
2007 Costa Rica U-20
2008– Costa Rica 130 (23)
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 13, 2020

2 As of November 17, 2019

Celso Borges Mora (born May 27, 1988 in San José ) is a Costa Rican soccer player . The midfielder , who won five titles in the Costa Rican Primera División , has spent most of his career in Norway and Sweden . After his debut in the Costa Rican national team in 2008, he took part in the CONCACAF Gold Cup and the 2014 and 2018 World Championships several times .

Career

Career start in Costa Rica

As the son of the multiple Costa Rican national player and coach Alexandre Guimarães , who u. a. As a player in the 1990 World Cup and as a selection coach in the 2002 and 2006 World Cup tournaments , Borges came into contact with football at an early age and made his debut in January 2006 for the CD Saprissa, which is based in his hometown . In the previous year he had already participated for the junior national team in the U-17 World Cup in 2005 , in which the selection in the quarter-finals failed to later title holder Mexico after extra time. He is specifically mentioned in the FIFA technical report, which highlights his exceptional skills and fitness, as well as his rapid advances.

While Borges had mainly played a supplementary player in the 2006 championship win, he was then a regular player in the 2007 title wins, in the newly introduced Apertura 2007, the Clausura 2008 and the Apertura 2008. In the meantime, with the U-20 selection of Costa Rica at the U 20 World Cup 2007 in Canada . Although he was eliminated with his team after just one win at the end of the group stage, he was again highlighted as a versatile offensive player alongside his teammate Pablo Herrera Barrantes in the technical report of the World Football Association. In 2008 Borges took part with his club in the CONCACAF Champions' Cup 2008 , where the club reached the finals against the Mexican champions CF Pachuca . After a 1-1 draw at home Estadio Ricardo Saprissa , he missed the international title win by a 2-1 defeat in the second leg at the side of Jervis Drummond , Víctor Cordero , Gabriel Badilla and Rónald Gómez . In the same year he made his debut in the Costa Rican national team.

Years in Northern Europe

In early 2009, Borges joined the Norwegian club Fredrikstad FK , where he signed a three and a half year contract. There he was a regular player after his debut on matchday five against Viking Stavanger and advanced to the club's best internal goalscorer with seven goals this season ahead of the five-time successful Éverton Costa and Mattias Andersson . Nevertheless, the club rose from the Tippeligaen at the end of the 2009 season . The autumn was also unhappy for the national team, in the play-off games he missed the selection - in the summer he was still a semi-finalist at the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2009 with her - against Uruguay after a 1-1 draw and a 0-1 -Defeat participation in the 2010 World Cup .

Borges remained loyal to the club in the Adeccoligaen , which he led back to the top class with 14 goals this season. There he was again regularly successful as a goalscorer, with eight goals this season and four assists he led the club to relegation. He was also more successful in the national team than in previous years. At the Central American Cup 2011 he reached the final against Honduras with the team . However, the game ended in a 2-1 defeat.

Borges left Fredrikstad FK after three seasons and moved in January 2012 within Scandinavia to the traditional Swedish club AIK , where he signed a contract that was valid until summer 2015. Under coach Andreas Alm variable as a striker or attacking midfielder , he was one of the guarantees that the club stayed in the top third of the table and temporarily played for the Swedish championship title. With the national team he finally won his first title at the Central American Cup 2013 , in the new edition of the final against Honduras Geancarlo González advanced to the match winner with his goal to the 1-0 final score. The team was also successful in qualifying for the World Cup finals, with three goals in qualifying Borges made a decisive contribution to qualifying as second in the CONCACAF group behind the US national team .

At the World Cup finals, Borges was a regular in his selection team, which ended the group stage as first in the table ahead of former world champions Uruguay , Italy and England . In the knockout round, the team reached the quarter-finals, the greatest success of the Costa Ricans in a final tournament to date. They had against Greece and the Netherlands respectively in the penalty shoot- take, with the Netherlands to by Tim Krul against Bryan Ruiz respectively Michael Umaña held Penalty prevailed. In both eliminations Borges had taken responsibility for the first penalty and converted in each case, but in his five final round games he had failed to score during the seasons.

Since the season in Sweden, which did not qualify for the World Cup, was resumed at the beginning of July after the summer break, he was back in the championship in the starting eleven on the weekend of the World Cup final and prepared for the 3-0 victory over the bis to date, Kalmar FF, second in the table, took the lead from Nabil Bahoui . At the end of the 2014 season he finished third in the Swedish championship behind defending champions Malmö FF and IFK Göteborg .

Change to Spain

In January 2015 Borges first moved to Deportivo La Coruña on loan , the two clubs agreed a purchase option for the summer of 2015. At his new club he was a regular player straight away, so that the north-west Spanish club signed him permanently. There he regularly played against relegation, which was no longer avoided at the end of the 2017/18 season . At the same time, he was still part of the national team, for which he played over 100 international matches and took part in the 2018 World Cup finals. There he was used in all three games of the group stage, the Central Americans ended the tournament prematurely as bottom of the group.

Transfer to Turkey

On August 16, 2018, Borges moved to Turkey and signed a three-year contract with Göztepe Izmir .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://tournament.fifadata.com/documents/FWC/2018/pdf/FWC_2018_SQUADLISTS.PDF
  2. ↑ fifa.com: "Celso Borges, new Tico idol" (accessed on June 10, 2014)
  3. ↑ fifa.com: "Report and Statistics - FIFA U-17 World Championship Peru 2005" (p. 95) (accessed June 10, 2014)
  4. ↑ fifa.com: "Report and Statistics - FIFA U-20 World Cup Canada 2007" (p. 135) (accessed June 10, 2014)
  5. ↑ vg.no: "Celso Borges til FFK før påske" (accessed on June 10, 2014)
  6. ↑ aikfotboll.se: "Celso Borges till AIK" ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on June 10, 2014)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aikfotboll.se
  7. ↑ rcdeportivo.es: "Celso Borges nuevo jugador del Deportivo" (accessed on August 16, 2018)
  8. ↑ ntvspor.net: Göztepe'ye Ispanya'dan takviye , accessed on August 17, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Borges, Celso
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borges Mora, Celso (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Costa Rican soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH San Jose , Costa Rica