Eljero Elia

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Eljero Elia
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Eljero Elia (2012)
Personnel
Surname Eljero George Rinaldo Elia
birthday February 13, 1987
place of birth Voorburg ,  Netherlands
size 176 cm
position Left mid-field
Juniors
Years station
SV Voorburg
Forum Sport Voorburg
0000-1996 VSV TONEGIDO Voorburg
1996-2000 ADO The Hague
2000-2002 Ajax Amsterdam
2002-2004 ADO The Hague
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2004-2007 ADO The Hague 59 0(6)
2007-2009 FC Twente Enschede 64 (11)
2009-2011 Hamburger SV 52 0(7)
2011–2012 Juventus Turin 4 0(0)
2012-2015 SV Werder Bremen 66 0(4)
2015 →  Southampton FC  (loan) 16 0(2)
2015-2017 Feyenoord Rotterdam 55 (17)
2017– Istanbul Başakşehir FK 63 0(7)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Netherlands U17 1 0(0)
2005 Netherlands U19 1 0(0)
Netherlands U20 12 0(2)
2006-2008 Netherlands U21 3 0(0)
2008 Netherlands B 1 0(0)
2009– Netherlands 28 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: January 18, 2020

Eljero George Rinaldo Elia (born February 13, 1987 in Voorburg ) is a Dutch football player . He is mostly used in left midfield and plays for Istanbul Başakşehir . He was a member of the Dutch national team until 2013 and was runner-up in 2010.

Career

society

Beginnings in the Netherlands

Elias parents are from Suriname . As a child, he had played for several small clubs in his native Voorburg , before moving to the youth department of ADO Den Haag in 1996 . From 2000 to 2002 he played for the youth teams of Ajax Amsterdam . In 2002 he returned to ADO Den Haag. At the end of the 2003/04 season he made his debut in the first team and was part of the professional squad from the 2004/05 season. After ADO Den Haag had only finished last in the Eredivisie in the 2006/07 season and was relegated to the Eerste Divisie , Elia moved to FC Twente . In the 2007/08 season he made his debut under coach Fred Rutten in the home game on August 26, 2007 against FC Utrecht . At the end of the season he had hit the opponent's goal twice in 30 appearances and was fourth in the table with Twente. After NAC Breda and Ajax Amsterdam were defeated in the play-offs, Twente qualified for the qualifying round for the Champions League . There the Enscheder were subject to Arsenal .

Under coach Steve McClaren , he improved his goal scoring in the following season : As a regular in the storm, he scored nine goals in 34 league games, four goals in five games in the KNVB Cup . In eight matches in the European competitions, he came to another hit. In 2009 he was chosen as the best young player in the Eredivisie.

Hamburger SV

For the 2009/10 season he moved to the German Bundesliga club Hamburger SV . He made his Bundesliga debut on August 9, 2009 against SC Freiburg , and scored his first goal in the third game on August 23, 2009 against VfL Wolfsburg . On matchday 16, he scored two goals in a 4-0 win over 1. FC Nürnberg ; the 1-0 goal was voted Goal of the Month in December 2009.

In his debut season Elia scored five goals for HSV in the first half of the season and prepared seven more goals.

Juventus Turin

On August 31, 2011 Elia moved to the Italian record champions Juventus Turin in Serie A and signed a four-year contract. Juventus were Italian champions again after a long time, but Elia shuttled between bench and grandstand under coach Antonio Conte . Overall, he ran five times in the league and cup for the Turin team - playing time: 107 minutes. He stayed without a goal.

Werder Bremen

Elia (right) in the Werder Bremen jersey

On July 10, 2012, Elia moved to the German Bundesliga club SV Werder Bremen for a transfer fee of 5.5 million euros . He signed a four-year contract until June 30, 2016. He was on the starting line-up in every competitive match in the first half of the season. He scored a goal in the 2: 4 defeat against third division team Preußen Münster in the DFB Cup . In the Bundesliga he gave two assists, and overall his performance was not as good as hoped.

Due to a night drive at high speed together with his teammate Marko Arnautović , Elia was temporarily suspended from play and training by the club on April 26, 2013.

In the 2013/14 season , Elia showed consistent performances and scored two goals against 1. FC Nürnberg on matchday 7. This season he came to 33 of 34 possible Bundesliga appearances, in which he scored four goals and prepared as many.

Southampton FC

On January 1, 2015 Elia joined the English Premier League club FC Southampton on loan until the end of the season . The English had an option to buy. Elia scored his first two goals for Southampton in a 2-1 win over Newcastle United on January 17, 2015 .

Feyenoord Rotterdam

In August 2015 Elia returned to the Netherlands on a free transfer and received a two-year contract with Feyenoord Rotterdam . On June 28, 2016, he extended his contract term at Feyenoord until 2018.

Istanbul Basakşehir

In June 2017 he joined Istanbul Başakşehir .

National team

Elia played three games for the Dutch U-21 national team . He took part in qualifying games for the U-21 European Football Championship in 2009 , which the Dutch missed. He then belonged to the squad of the short-lived Dutch B national team. In May 2009, bond coach Bert van Marwijk appointed him to the senior squad for the World Cup qualifiers against Iceland and Norway . In 2009 he was appointed to the U21 squad for the Toulon tournament. On September 5, 2009 he made his debut in the senior national team . In the 3-0 win against Japan in Enschede he came on after half-time for Arjen Robben and prepared two of the three goals. At the game in Scotland four days later he scored his first goal as a substitute for the Oranje , the winning goal to make it 1-0. Van Marwijk also called him into the squad for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, where he was substituted on in six of the seven games - including the final against Spain  .

successes

Web links

Commons : Eljero Elia  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview  ( 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. with Elia on werder.de, accessed on August 6, 2015 (pdf)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.werder.de  
  2. ↑ FC Twente: Player Statistics ( Memento from March 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ); sighted on May 26, 2009
  3. ↑ Sportschau: Goal of the Month December 2009
  4. ↑ Hamburger SV: Perfect: Elia moves to Juventus Turin ; ( Memento of December 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Press release of August 31, 2011
  5. ^ Juventus Turin: Elia al Werder Brema ; ( Memento of July 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Message of July 10, 2012 (Italian)
  6. ^ Juventus Turin: Accordo con il Werder Brema per la cessione del calciatore Eljero Elia ; Press release of July 10, 2012 (Italian; pdf; 30 kB)
  7. ↑ Werder Bremen: Perfect! Four-year contract for Eljero Elia ; ( Memento of December 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Press release of July 10, 2012
  8. ↑ Björn Knips: The chance for Füllkrug? . District newspaper Syke, November 23, 2012
  9. ↑ Björn Knips: No balance, no constancy . District newspaper Syke, February 26, 2013
  10. ↑ Nocturnal speed drive: Werder suspends Elia and Arnautovic. In: Spiegel Online . April 26, 2013, accessed June 9, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Transfermarkt.de: " [1] " Statistics as of the end of the 13/14 season
  12. ↑ Elia loaned to Southampton ( Memento from December 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), on werder.de, accessed on December 23, 2014.
  13. ↑ Feyenoord versterkt zich met Eljero Elia feyenoord.nl, accessed on August 6, 2015 (Dutch)
  14. ↑ Elia changes to Feyenoord Rotterdam ( Memento from November 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) werder.de, accessed on August 6, 2015
  15. ↑ Omroep West (ed.): Voetballer Eljero Elia uit Voorburg long bij Feyenoord. In: omroepwest.nl. June 28, 2016, Retrieved February 5, 2017 (Dutch).
  16. ↑ Report on the Feyenoord website, accessed on 14 July 2017 (Dutch)
  17. ^ Tournament of Toulon 2009: Squad of the Netherlands on footiemag.de
  18. ^ Edwin Schoon: Eljero Elia schiet Oranje naar record ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ); OnsOranje website of the KNVB from September 9, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Elia, Eljero
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eljero George Rinaldo Elia (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Voorburg , Netherlands