David Silva

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David Silva
David Silva 2017.jpg
David Silva (2017)
Personnel
Surname David Josué Jiménez Silva
birthday January 8, 1986
place of birth Mogan , Gran Canaria ,  Spain
size 170 cm
position Attacking midfield
Juniors
Years station
2000-2003 Valencia CF
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2003-2004 Valencia CF B 14 0(1)
2004-2005 →  SD Eibar  (loan) 35 0(5)
2005-2006 →  Celta Vigo  (loan) 34 0(4)
2006-2010 Valencia CF 119 (21)
2010-2020 Manchester City 306 (59)
2020– Real Sociedad 0 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2002-2003 Spain U17 20 0(5)
2004-2005 Spain U19 14 0(5)
2005 Spain U20 5 0(4)
2004-2006 Spain U21 9 0(7)
2006-2018 Spain 129 (37)
1 Only league games are given.
As of August 17, 2020

David Josué Jiménez Silva (born January 8, 1986 in Arguineguín , Gran Canaria ) is a Spanish football player . The one who can be deployed centrally, outside and in a storm plays in his home country with the first division club Real Sociedad .

His mother is of Japanese descent.

Club career

David Silva joined Valencia CF at the age of 14 . In the second team of Valencia he played his first club games in the Segunda División B . In the following season he played at SD Eibar in the Spanish Segunda División on loan. The midfielder scored five goals in 35 games.

In 2005, Silva moved to Celta Vigo on loan , for which he played his first first division game on August 28, 2005 when he played against FC Málaga . Silva finished the 2005/06 season with Vigo as a regular in sixth place in the table.

In the 2006/07 season he returned to Valencia CF. He made his first appearances in qualifying for the UEFA Champions League against Red Bull Salzburg , in which he scored his first goal in the second leg to make it 3-0 for Valencia. At Valencia, he was seeded in his first two seasons, just over 20 years old, and only missed six of 76 league games. In 2008 he won the Spanish Cup with Valencia .

At the beginning of the 2008/09 season , Silva injured himself in the first league game against RCD Mallorca and underwent an operation due to the chronic inflammation in his left ankle that caused him to be out for three months. Three games after his comeback at the end of 2008, Silva scored his first brace in a 3-1 win against Atlético Madrid . At the end of the season, his club finished sixth in the table and was therefore eligible for the Europa League in the coming season .

In the following season , Silva was able to improve his performance again and achieved his previous best of eight league goals in 30 games. His team was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League against Atlético Madrid and finished third in the league at the end of the season.

For the 2010/11 season, Silva moved to Manchester City . The transfer fee was the equivalent of 28.75 million euros. In his first season in England, Silva became a regular at Manchester City and won the FA Cup with the team .

On November 30, 2017, Silva extended his contract with Manchester City early for another year until 2020.

In June 2019, Silva confirmed that he will leave Manchester City at the end of the 2019/20 season , also at the end of his contract with the Citizens, after 10 years. The Spaniard failed with the club in the quarter-finals of the Champions League at Olympique Lyon , was with him runner-up behind Liverpool FC and won the league cup with him .

For the 2020/21 season , the offensive player returned to the Spanish first division and signed a two-year contract with European Cup participants Real Sociedad .

National team career

Silva at the EM 2012

Silva was already successful as a player in the various youth categories of the Spanish national team . In May 2003 he reached the final of the U17 European Championship with the Spanish U17 selection , in which Spain lost 2-1 to Portugal. Three months later, in August, he again reached the final with Spain's U17s at the U17 World Cup , but Brazil won 1-0. Silva played alongside Cesc Fàbregas in this tournament and scored three goals in three games.

With the U19 national team of Spain he won the U19 European Championship in 2004 and a year later he took part in the Junior World Cup in 2005 . Spain was eliminated in the quarter-finals against eventual world champions Argentina . Silva was able to score four goals during the tournament and thus shared fourth place in the list of goalscorers with the Italian Graziano Pellè .

On November 15, 2006, he made his debut in the A team in the game against Romania (0-1). He scored his first two international goals on August 22, 2007 in a friendly against Greece .

Silva was also part of the squad that Luis Aragonés nominated for the 2008 European Championship in Austria and Switzerland . He scored the last goal of the day to make it 3-0 in the semi-finals against Russia at the European Championships . In the final, Silva almost knocked off the pitch after he clashed with Lukas Podolski and both of them collided with their heads. The referee Roberto Rosetti left it with a warning, Luis Aragonés changed the player in the episode, Spain ultimately won the game 1-0 and became European champions.

At the Confederations Cup 2009 he reached third place with Spain.

In qualifying for the 2010 World Cup , he played five games in which he scored three goals. Vicente del Bosque appointed Silva to the squad for the 2010 World Cup in May 2010 . There he was used twice in Spain's first soccer World Cup . After a mixed performance in the opening game against Switzerland (0: 1), Silva lost his regular place and only made a short appearance in the semi-finals against Germany .

Silva was added to the Spanish national team for the UEFA Euro 2012 by coach Vicente del Bosque . In the qualification, Spain had sovereignly qualified with 26: 6 goals and eight wins in eight games. Silva had scored four times and was second best Spanish goalscorer behind David Villa. Del Bosque played with a 4-6-0 formation at times, without real strikers and only with very attacking midfielders. In this line-up, Silva took on the role of an offensive force. He was a regular at every game. In the first game he prepared the important equalizer for the 1-1 final against Italy with a technically challenging template. In the group game against Ireland he scored 2-0 and prepared the 3-0 with a pass to Torres. In the final against Italy, he scored the 1-0. Spain was the first team to ever defend a European title.

At the European Football Championship in France in 2016 , he was included in the Spanish squad. In the opening game against the Czech Republic, he completed his 100th international match. In this, as in all other games, until the early tournament against Italy in the round of 16, he was a regular player.

After the unsuccessful 2018 World Cup , where Spain were eliminated from Russia in the round of 16, he resigned from the national team in August.

titles and achievements

Society:

National team:

Individually:

Web links

Commons : David Silva  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://tournament.fifadata.com/documents/FWC/2018/pdf/FWC_2018_SQUADLISTS.PDF
  2. ↑ See page 117 in the special edition of Sport Bild for the 2018 World Cup in Russia
  3. ↑ Media Service Point New Austrians: EM 2012: International Roots of Footballers , May 31st. 2012, accessed October 30, 2014.
  4. ↑ davidjimenezsilva.com: INFANCIA
  5. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match schedule / line-up: Celta Vigo - Málaga CF (Primera Division 2005/2006)
  6. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match schedule / line-up: Valencia CF - RB Salzburg (Champions League Qual. 2006/2007)
  7. ↑ uefa.com: Silva resigned to three-month absence
  8. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match schedule / line-up: Valencia CF - Atlético Madrid (Primera Division 2008/2009)
  9. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Spaniard Silva moves to Manchester City
  10. ↑ mancity.com: DAVID SILVA SIGNS NEW CITY DEAL
  11. ^ Press Association: David Silva confirms he will leave Manchester City at the end of next season . In: The Guardian . June 25, 2019, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed June 26, 2019]).
  12. ↑ La real ficha a David Silva , realsociedad.eus, accessed on August 18, 2020
  13. ↑ a b c David Silva in the FIFA database (English)
  14. ↑ rsssf.com: European U-19 Championship 2004
  15. ↑ de.fifa.com: FIFA U-20 World Cup 2005 ( Memento from June 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match scheme / line-up: Spain - Romania (friendship 2006)
  17. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match scheme / line-up: Greece - Spain (friendship 2007)
  18. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match scheme / line-up: Russia - Spain (EM 2008 Austria / Switzerland)
  19. ↑ BBC Sport: Germany 0-1 Spain
  20. ↑ kicker online: Fernandes causes a Spanish fiasco
  21. ↑ kicker online: Puyol ends the German dream of the fourth star
  22. ↑ David Silva at the Hundreds Club , UEFA, June 13, 2016
  23. ↑ FIFA.com: 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia ™ - News - David Silva retires from La Roja - FIFA.com . In: www.fifa.com . ( fifa.com [accessed August 15, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Silva, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jiménez Silva, David Josué (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Arguineguín , Gran Canaria , Spain