Jefferson Montero

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Jefferson Montero
Jefferson Antonio Montero Vite.jpg
Jefferson Montero as a player
from Levante UD (2011)
Personnel
Surname Jefferson Antonio Montero Vite
birthday September 1, 1989
place of birth Babahoyo ,  Ecuador
size 170 cm
position Winger
Juniors
Years station
Los Ríos
Province selection of Los Ríos
0000-2007 Clan Juvenil
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-2007 Clan Juvenil
2007 CS Emelec 22 0(2)
2008-2009 Independiente José Teran 42 (22)
2008-2009 →  Dorados de Sinaloa  (loan) 5 0(1)
2009-2010 Villarreal CF B 32 (10)
2010–2012 Villarreal CF 9 0(1)
2011 →  UD Levante  (loan) 11 0(0)
2011–2012 →  Betis Sevilla  (loan) 32 0(1)
2012-2014 Monarcas Morelia 63 (10)
2014– Swansea City 66 0(1)
2017-2018 →  Getafe CF  (loan) 4 0(0)
2018 →  Club Sport Emelec  (loan) 12 0(1)
2019 →  West Bromwich Albion  (loan) 4 0(1)
2019– →  Birmingham City  (loan) 2 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2007-2009 Ecuador U-20
2007– Ecuador 64 (10)
1 Only league games are given.
As of October 25, 2019

2 As of October 25, 2019

Jefferson Antonio Montero Vite (* 1. September 1989 in Babahoyo ) is an Ecuadorian football player at the position of a winger , who also as Striker is used. Since summer 2014 he has been part of the English first division club Swansea City .

Club career

Started at home and made a flying visit to Mexico

Jefferson Montero was born on September 1, 1989 in Babahoyo, the capital of the Ecuadorian province of Los Ríos , and started his football career here. At an advanced age, he also represented his province in a provincial selection before he found his way to professional football through the Juvenil clan from Sangolquí , the capital of the Rumiñahui canton . At CD Clan Juvenil, which was founded in 1973 and was mostly represented in the Ecuadorian lower house and only found its way into the second division of the country in 2015 , he was not only used in the youth team, but also represented the men's team before he was in February 2007 was accepted by the first division club CS Emelec . There he came from the beginning of the Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol Serie A 2007 on to his assignments for the works club and, after the club finished the last of ten places in the spring and fourth place in the final standings in the autumn, made 22 top division appearances and two hits. Through his performance, the then coach of the Ecuadorian national soccer team , Luis Fernando Suárez , became aware of him and brought him to the national team of his home country for the first time in August 2007, at the age of 17, for the international match against Bolivia . Before that, he took part in the soccer tournament of the Pan American Games 2007 in Rio de Janeiro with the U-20 team of Ecuador in July and won the gold medal there after a 2-1 final victory over his colleagues from Jamaica and thus the first international tournament victory in the long association history.

Nevertheless, he was given up by his club, returned to Sangolquí and played there from the 2008 season for Independiente José Terán in the Ecuadorian second division. Here Montero acted more dangerous and scored eight goals in 25 league appearances in his first year, but did not get beyond a place in the middle of the table with the team. At the same time, he was awarded this year, together with club colleague and compatriot José Madrid , to the then Mexican second division team Dorados de Sinaloa , where he was used from the 13th round of the Apertura in 2008 to the eighth round of the subsequent Clausura in 2009. Five championship appearances and a resulting hit were the balance of the flying visit to Mexico. After his return to Independiente he acted again extremely dangerous and helped the team under the leadership of the Brazilian Janio Pinto with 14 goals from 17 games to the championship title in Serie B. Behind the Paraguayan Cristian Hermosilla with 18 goals he was also the second best goalscorer of the whole Liga and was ahead of his teammates, who were also dangerous for goals, Alexis Palacios (12 goals) and Daniel Samaniego (eight goals). Although he was a second division player at this time, he was still called up for the national team of his home country.

Change to Spain

At the beginning of the 2009/10 season , the Spanish first division club FC Villarreal signed him for a rumored transfer fee of € 500,000, with a five-year contract concluded until summer 2014. When the contract was signed, it was agreed that Montero would initially only be used for the club's B team, which was represented in the second highest Spanish soccer league at the time . Subsequently, the Ecuadorian completed 32 of the 42 possible championship games for the B-team, where he was often absent in the first three months due to international appearances and a pubic bone inflammation , and scored ten goals. As a regular player in the Spanish second division, he also attracted attention in the first team. Under Juan Carlos Garrido , Jefferson Montero made his debut in the last sixteen second leg of the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League in a 4-1 away defeat by VfL Wolfsburg , when he came on in the 70th minute for former French international Robert Pires , in the first Combat team. Both A and B teams of Villarreal CF occupied seven place in the table at the end of the season; for the top division team, this place meant participation in the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League . In this Montero came then in two play-off qualifiers against Dnjapro Mahiljou for use and was also in five of the six subsequent group games in use.

His debut in the Primera División was the relatively small winger, who was 1.70 m tall in the first round match of the 2010/11 season , when he was substituted on for Santi Cazorla in the 0-1 defeat by Real Sociedad from 59 minutes onwards. During the entire season, the now 21-year-old was unable to establish himself as a regular and only played as a substitute player or sat on the bench unused. By the end of the season, when the team finished in fourth place in the table, Montero had made nine league appearances, as well as one goal and one assist, and came after the group stage in the further course of the UEFA Europa League 2010/11, in which the team only in Eliminated in the semi-finals against FC Porto , no longer used. On the other hand, he was more of a regular player in the Copa del Rey 2010/11 , in which he appeared in three of his team's six games and also contributed a goal, but with the team was eliminated early in the quarter-finals against Sevilla FC . Due to the few appearances in the first division team and the temporary hopelessness of a breakthrough, the Ecuadorian, whose market value had meanwhile increased to three million euros, was loaned to league competitor UD Levante at the end of January 2011 . Here he was used more often and for longer periods of time, but did not make the breakthrough as a regular and left the team after eleven assignments and the expiry of the loan contract in summer 2011. At Levante he met Felipe Caicedo , a compatriot and national team colleague, who had been with the Spaniards since 2010 on loan from Manchester City . Immediately after returning to Villarreal , the winger was loaned out again, this time for the entire 2011/12 season to Betis Sevilla , also a newcomer to the Primera División.

As a regular in Spain to Mexico

With the green-whites from Andalusia , Jefferson Montero advanced to a regular force, who under Pepe Mel was mainly used as the left wing or in the left midfield, but also on the right side. In 31 league appearances, however, he only came up with a record of one hit and three assists and occupied 13th place in the table with the team in the final classification in the sometimes quite tightly staggered table. Also in the Copa del Rey 2011/12 , in which he was used in both games by Betis Sevilla, the quarter-final against FC Córdoba came to an abrupt end. Subsequently, the Ecuadorian international was released early from his contract and moved to Mexico for a rumored transfer of 3.5 million euros, six and a half times what Villarreal once paid for the player, where he signed a three-year contract. At his new club, too, he met a friend from Ecuador; National teammate Joao Rojas mostly played as a right winger. Under Rubén Omar Romano and later under Carlos Bustos , Montero had no fixed or traditional position, but was used in various midfield and offensive positions. This system worked and the actor came in the Mexican Primera División 2012/13 to 16 of 17 possible appearances in the Apertura 2012 and to as many appearances in the subsequent Clausura 2013, where he contributed four goals and five assists. He was also used in both games of the Liguillas of Apertura 2012 and the two games of the Liguillas of Clausura 2013 and was successful in the Copa México with four goals, including a hat trick, and two assists from a total of eight encounters .

While his compatriot Joao Rojas left the club in the direction of league rival Cruz Azul and he received his shirt number 10, and another Ecuadorian was signed with Juan Govea , Montero made a strong start into the 2013/14 season , in which he was already after four games scored five goals and prepared another two for his teammates. He finished the 2013 Apertura with the team in sixth place in the final ranking and had made 15 appearances, five goals and three assists. In the following Clausura 2014, his number of operations decreased somewhat; ten league appearances there were no hits and only one assist. With the Monarcas Morelia he finished this section in eleventh place. In the Copa MX he made it to the final with the team, with the Purépechas under Carlos Bustos defeating CF Atlas on penalties after a 3-3 draw after regular time; Jefferson Montero contributed a hit and an assist to the game. Furthermore, the Ecuadorian was used in the second leg of the qualification for the Copa Libertadores 2014 against the Santa Fe CD from Colombia , but was unable to participate in the actual finals due to the away goals rule.

As a World Cup participant in the English Premier League

Having previously found shelter exclusively for clubs in Spanish-speaking countries and also in the middle of July takes place from mid-June 2014 FIFA World Cup could present, he joined in the summer of 2014 for a rumored transfer fee in the amount of five million euros for Wales to Swansea City , where he signed a four-year contract. In the first division he came on August 16 in the first round encounter against Manchester United to his debut game when he was substituted on by Garry Monk from the 67th minute for Nathan Dyer . After he was used exclusively as a substitute player for a maximum of 30 minutes in the first eight championship rounds and mostly as a substitute for Dyer, who acted as right winger, he had his breakthrough in the team from the ninth round and was first in action as a regular. Unlike his previous positions, Swansea City placed value on a permanent position in the team, whereupon he was used exclusively as a left winger over the course of the season, making 30 league appearances, one goal and seven assists. Montero had to take an injury-related break from late December 2014 to early February 2015 due to a torn hamstring, and another in April 2015 after a hamstring strain sustained during an international match with Ecuador. He finished the 2014/15 season with the team in eighth place in the table; Furthermore, he made three appearances and an assist in the League Cup 2014/15 , as well as an appearance in the FA Cup 2014/15 . Montero is also part of the team that won both games against Arsenal and Manchester United this year , something only two other teams have achieved in the history of the Premier League.

In the following 2015/16 season , the Ecuadorian left winger was only used as a regular player to a limited extent, with his playing minutes gradually decreasing until the beginning of November 2015 and from then on he acted as a substitute, among other things due to persistent thigh problems. After Monk left as a trainer, he initially only had a few minutes of action under interim coach Alan Curtis before he only sat on the bench from December 2015 and January 2016 and did not play any more. Initially compared by Martin Keown with the "king of dribbling", Stanley Matthews , he had to give way to Wayne Routledge and other wingers over the course of the season . Even under Francesco Guidolin , who took over the coaching position on January 18, 2016, Jefferson Montero has not been used so far (as of March 21, 2016) and even had to compete in the U-21 Premier League for the first time in March 2016 .

National team career

He made his first appearances in an Ecuadorian national soccer team in 2007 when he took part in the soccer tournament of the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro with an U-20 team from Ecuador . There the Ecuadorians won the gold medal after a 2-1 final victory over their colleagues from Jamaica and thus won the first international tournament victory in the association's long history. Subsequently, the then coach of the Ecuadorian national soccer team , Luis Fernando Suárez , who had become aware of his performance in the league and at the Pan-American Games, brought the then 17-year-old winger for the first time for the international match against Bolivia in August 2007 National team. He made his debut for the senior national team in his home country on November 21, 2007 at the age of 18 in a 5-1 win over Peru in the fourth round of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup . It then took about a year before Montero was used again in the national team of his home country and took part in two friendly matches against Iran and Oman in December 2008 . After his appearances in the U-20 South American Football Championship in January 2009 and a goal in a 3-1 defeat against El Salvador in a friendly international match on May 27, 2009, Jefferson Montero became a regular member of the national team.

From the 13th round of the World Cup qualification onwards, he took part in all the remaining six group games, where he was also successful as a goalscorer and also played under Sixto Vizuete , who had already taken over as coach from Luis Fernando Suárez in November 2007 in friendly international matches. As sixth in the group, Ecuador failed to qualify for the finals in South Africa ; another coach change followed, Reinaldo Rueda came into office. In the following two years Montero only made relatively few international appearances and was not in the squad when Ecuador was eliminated in the group stage of the 2011 Copa America . In the first qualifying game for the 2014 World Cup , Montero was then unused again on the bench and only days later came back in a friendly against the United States . In the next two years, the winger was back in action as a regular for the Ecuadorian national team and completed all World Cup qualifying and friendly matches for his home country, and during this time he also signed up several times as a goalscorer or assistant. After successfully qualifying for the World Cup, the left winger completed the entire World Cup preparation with his home country and was then under Reinaldo Rueda in the Ecuadorian 23-man squad that took part in the World Cup finals in Brazil . There he was used in all three games against France , Switzerland and Honduras , although a win and a draw could not prevent elimination in the preliminary round.

After Rueda was released and Vizuete, who in the meantime briefly managed the fortunes of CD El Nacional , was introduced as national coach, Montero was no longer used in the remaining friendly games in 2014. Only after Gustavo Quinteros took over the team again in early 2015 did Montero find his way back to the national team. From March 2015 he completed all friendly international matches and was in the 23-strong Ecuadorian squad that took part in the 2015 Copa America . There he ranked with la Tricolor in third place in Group A after the group phase and was eliminated from the current tournament as the worst participant in the comparison of the third-placed from the three groups. After he was injured in a preparatory game for qualifying for the 2018 World Cup against Honduras due to thigh problems, he took part in the subsequent four qualifying games under Quinteros in October and November 2015. In the four Ecuadorian wins, Jefferson Montero contributed one goal and two assists for his teammates. To date (as of March 21, 2016), Montero has played in 53 senior national games for his home country and scored ten goals.

successes

with Independiente José Terán
with the Monarcas Morelia
  • 1 × Copa MX winner : Apertura 2013
with Ecuador U-20

Web links

Commons : Jefferson Montero  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Footnotes & individual references

  1. ↑ a b Ecuador convoca a ocho internacionales para amistoso ante Bolivia (Spanish), accessed on March 21, 2016
  2. ↑ El Villarreal CF ficha a Jefferson Montero ( Memento of December 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish), accessed on March 21, 2016
  3. ↑ Jefferson Montero cedido al Levante y con jugara Caicedo (Spanish), accessed on 21 March 2016
  4. ↑ Jefferson Montero ya es verdiblanco (Spanish), accessed March 21, 2016
  5. ^ Confirma Morelia a Jefferson Montero (Spanish), accessed March 21, 2016
  6. ↑ Swans sign World Cup winger Montero ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed on March 21, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.swanseacity.net
  7. ↑ Manchester United - Swansea City (1: 2) (English), accessed March 21, 2016
  8. ↑ FULL-TIME: Swans 1 Aston Villa 0 (English), accessed on March 21, 2016
  9. ↑ Only the best will do, insists Monk , accessed on March 21, 2016
  10. ↑ MATCH PREVIEW: Swans v Hull City , accessed March 21, 2016
  11. ^ The stats that prove just how good Jefferson Montero's performance was against Chelsea FC , accessed on March 21, 2016
  12. ↑ Whatever happened to Swansea City star Jefferson Montero? Why the exiled winger provides Francesco Guidolin with a great conundrum , accessed on March 21, 2016
  13. ↑ Report: Ecuador 5–1 Peru: Ecuador get first qualifying win ( memento from March 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 21, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Montero, Jefferson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Montero Vite, Jefferson Antonio (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ecuadorian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Babahoyo , Ecuador