Ezequiel Garay

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Ezequiel Garay
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Ezequiel Garay (2016)
Personnel
Surname Ezequiel Marcelo Garay
birthday October 10, 1986
place of birth Rosario ,  Argentina
size 189 cm
position Central defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2004-2005 Newell's Old Boys 13 0(1)
2005-2008 Racing Santander 84 (14)
2008-2011 real Madrid 25 0(1)
2008-2009 → Racing Santander (loan) 24 0(2)
2011-2014 Benfica Lisbon 78 0(9)
2014-2016 Zenit St. Petersburg 46 0(3)
2016– Valencia CF 40 0(3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2007– Argentina 32 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of January 19, 2018

2 As of November 4, 2015

Ezequiel Marcelo Garay (born October 10, 1986 in Rosario ) is an Argentine football player who has been under contract with Valencia CF since summer 2016 .

Career

societies

Ezequiel Garay began his career as a professional footballer in his native Argentina with the Newell's Old Boys, with whom he won the Apertura in 2004. In the summer of 2005, the then only 18-year-old defender moved to the Spanish first division club Racing Santander . The young Argentine quickly gained a regular place in the Cantabrians . Garay is considered to be an extremely dangerous defender, scoring nine goals this season in 2006/2007 , two of them from penalties in a 2-1 win over Real Madrid .

On May 19, 2008 it was announced that Ezequiel Garay was moving to league rivals Real Madrid and signed a six-year contract until 2014 with the Royal, trained by Bernd Schuster . However, the former U-21 international Garay was initially left on loan in Santander for a year. From the 2009/10 season Garay ran for Madrid. After he made 20 league appearances in his first year and was a constant on the real defense, he injured his knee seriously in August 2010 and was out until December. After that, he could no longer displace his well-rehearsed teammates and only made five more league appearances in the second half of the 2010/11 season . After all, he was used in the final of the Copa del Rey and was able to celebrate the cup victory.

Nevertheless, Garay moved to Benfica Lisbon for the 2011/12 season . There he immediately became a regular player and top performer and also played regularly in the UEFA Champions League . He experienced the most successful season with Benfica in 2013/14 , when the national triple of championship, cup win and league cup success could be celebrated. The club was also in the final of the UEFA Europa League , which was lost on penalties to Sevilla FC .

The Russian first division club Zenit St. Petersburg signed him for the 2014/15 season .

After two seasons in the Premjer Liga, Valencia CF signed Garay for the 2016/17 La Liga season.

National team

Garay was a member of the Argentine U-20 national team, which won the 2005 World Junior Championship in the Netherlands .

He made his senior national team debut on August 22, 2007 in Oslo in the 2-1 defeat in the international test match against Norway's national team . Garay took the Argentine selection at the Olympic football tournament in 2008 in part and, after the 1: 0 victory in the final against the selection of Nigeria Olympic champion . He was also part of the 2011 Copa America squad in his own country, but was not used during the tournament.

At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil , he was part of the Albiceleste squad .

successes

National team

society

Web links

Commons : Ezequiel Garay  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ realmadrid.com ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2008 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.realmadrid.com
  2. ↑ Message on kicker .de
personal data
SURNAME Garay, Ezequiel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garay, Ezequiel Marcelo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosario , Argentina