Fernando Muslera

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Fernando Muslera
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Fernando Muslera 2014
Personnel
Surname Néstor Fernando Muslera Micol
birthday June 16, 1986
place of birth Buenos Aires ,  Argentina
size 190 cm
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
Club Ferrocarril Oeste
Royal
Cosmos
Montevideo Wanderers
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2004-2007 Montevideo Wanderers 44 (0)
2007 →  Nacional Montevideo  (loan) 5 (0)
2007-2011 Lazio Rome 96 (0)
2011– Galatasaray Istanbul 292 (1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
at least 2003 Uruguay U-17
at least 2005 Uruguay U20
2009– Uruguay 116 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of June 14, 2020

2 As of November 15, 2019

Fernando Muslera , full name Néstor Fernando Muslera Micol , (born June 16, 1986 in Buenos Aires ) is a Uruguayan football goalkeeper . He has been under contract with Galatasaray Istanbul since summer 2011 and has been the record goalkeeper for the Uruguayan national team since March 29, 2016 .

Career

society

Fernando Muslera was born as the son of the waiter Hugo and the housewife Norma Muslera. Together with his parents and his sister Carolina, he grew up in the Barrio Lavalleja in Montevidean until he was 16 , after which the family moved to the Barrio Prado . Fernando started playing football at Club Ferrocarril Oeste at the age of four , later moving to Royal before eventually joining Cosmos . He played as a center forward until he was eight. At the age of twelve he switched to the Wanderers , where he also began his professional career. On January 12, 2007 he moved to Nacional Montevideo on loan for a year . A rental fee was not due. In the summer of 2007, several top European clubs became aware of the talented goalkeeper. The Italian Champions League participant Lazio Rome finally secured his services for three million euros. Muslera came on as a replacement for Angelo Peruzzi , who had ended his career in the summer.

He made his Serie A debut on September 16, 2007 in a 2-2 draw against Cagliari Calcio . In his first season in Italy he was only a substitute for the oldest player in the league, Marco Ballotta, after mistakes in the game against Inter Milan (1: 5) . After his contract ended in summer 2008, he was able to prevail as a regular goalkeeper.

On July 19, 2011 it was officially announced that Muslera was moving to Turkey to Galatasaray Istanbul . He signed a five-year contract there. On April 8, 2012, the last matchday of the season, he scored his first league game goal for Galatasaray with a penalty in the 83rd minute against Manisaspor .

Muslera won 13 national trophies with Galatasaray Istanbul until the 2018/19 season and was able to establish itself as a fan favorite. He is also the foreigner with the most appearances for Galatasaray. On matchday 27 of the 2019/20 season, Muslera was seriously injured in a collision with opponent Milan Škoda from Çaykur Rizespor . The goalkeeper sustained a broken tibia and fibula.

National team

Fernando Muslera at the 2018 World Cup

Muslera was one of Uruguay 's U-17s, coached by Jorge Da Silva in 2003 , who took part in the U-17 South American Championship in Bolivia in 2003 and finished in 4th place. In 2005 he was a member of the Uruguayan U-20 squad at the U-20 South American Championship in Colombia in 2005 . During the tournament he was the goalkeeper of the "Celeste".

Muslera made his debut on October 10, 2009 in the World Cup qualifying match in Quito against Ecuador under coach Óscar Tabárez in the Uruguayan senior team. At the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa, he finished fourth with Uruguay as the goalkeeper of the senior national team. As the only team besides Portugal , the team survived the preliminary round without conceding a goal. Muslera also saved two penalties in the quarter-finals against Ghana. During the tournament, he set a new record for Uruguayan goalkeepers during a World Cup: he went 337 minutes in a row without conceding a goal. The old record set by Ladislao Mazurkiewicz of 270 minutes without conceding a goal came from the 1970 World Cup. In 2011 he won the Copa America with Uruguay . In 2013 he finished fourth with the Celeste in the FIFA Confederations Cup . At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil , he was again part of the Uruguayan squad. As at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Muslera was the first goalkeeper and reached the round of 16 with Uruguay, in which his team lost 2-0 to Colombia . In 2015 he took part in the Copa America in Chile with Celeste , from which Uruguay was eliminated in the quarter-finals.

On March 29, 2016, he replaced Rodolfo Rodríguez as Uruguay's record goalkeeper with his 79th international match . In the 2018 FIFA World Cup was Fernando Muslera against Russia for the 14th time in a World Cup match in goal. He overtook Ladislao Mazurkiewicz and is the country's sole record holder. At the same time, Muslera completed his 100th international match in the World Cup round of 16 against Portugal ( 2-1 ). At the tournament in Russia Muslera reached the quarterfinals with Uruguay, where they lost to France ( 0-2 ). The second French goal by Griezmann was due to a mistake by Musleras.

successes

As a national player

As a club player

Lazio Rome
Galatasaray Istanbul

Awards

  • Turkish Super League Footballer of the Year: 2014/15 (UEFA website)
  • Best goalkeeper of the year in the Turkish Süper Lig: 2018

Web links

Commons : Fernando Muslera  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fernando Muslera es el "uno" de Nacional (Spanish) in La República of January 13, 2007, accessed on August 30, 2013
  2. ↑ Muslera Galatasaray'da Official transfer notification from Galatasaray
  3. ↑ Galatasaray signs keeper Muslera zeitonline.de
  4. ↑ Fernando Muslera'dan tarihi rekor! Retrieved May 29, 2018 .
  5. ↑ transfermarkt.de: Galatasaray loses game and goalkeeper Muslera - broken tibia and fibula , accessed on June 17, 2020.
  6. ↑ Sigue su preparación la selección sub 17 (Spanish) in La República of 28 March 2003, accessed December 21, 2012
  7. ↑ Sub-17: sudamericanos siglo XXI ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2015 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. (Spanish) from auf.org.uy, accessed July 23, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.auf.org.uy
  8. ↑ Historia de Nacional (Spanish) by Andrés Reyes, accessed on October 12, 2014
  9. ↑ Uruguay - International Matches 2006-2010 at www.rsssf.com, accessed June 15, 2014
  10. ↑ "Fernando Muslera batió el récord de uruguayos en mundiales" on www.larepublica.com.uy of June 27, 2010, accessed on July 15, 2011
  11. ↑ fifa.com: "A dry spell ends - stars from all over the world inspire"
  12. ↑ A bitter mistake by Uruguay's goalkeeper Muslera: "I don't know what he's doing" . In: Spiegel Online . July 6, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed July 6, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Es el uno (Spanish) on futbol.com.uy of July 7, 2015, accessed on July 7, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Muslera, Fernando
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muslera, Néstor Fernando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires , Argentina