Johan Vonlanthen
| Johan Vonlanthen | ||
 Johan Vonlanthen (2009)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Johan Vonlanthen Benavídez | |
| birthday | February 1, 1986 | |
| place of birth | Santa Marta , Colombia | |
| Size | 175 cm | |
| position | Storm | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1998-1999 | FC Flamatt | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1999-2003 | BSC Young Boys | 37 (6) |
| 2003-2006 | PSV Eindhoven | 26 (6) |
| 2005 | → Brescia Calcio (loan) | 9 (0) |
| 2005-2006 | → NAC Breda (loan) | 32 (6) |
| 2006-2011 | Red Bull Salzburg | 85 (11) |
| 2009-2010 | → FC Zurich (loan) | 27 (10) |
| 2011–2012 | Itagüí Ditaires | 5 (0) |
| 2013 | FC Wohlen | 0 (0) |
| 2013-2014 | Grasshopper Club Zurich | 5 (0) |
| 2014 | → FC Schaffhausen (loan) | 17 (2) |
| 2014-2016 | Servette FC Genève | 32 (10) |
| 2016-2018 | FC Wil | 39 (4) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2001 | Switzerland U-17 | 7 (0) |
| 2002-2003 | Switzerland U-19 | 5 (7) |
| 2005 | Switzerland U-20 | 3 (1) |
| 2002-2008 | Switzerland U-21 | 23 (9) |
| 2004-2009 | Switzerland | 40 (7) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Johan Vonlanthen Benavídez (born February 1, 1986 in Santa Marta , Colombia ) is a former Swiss football player of Colombian origin. From 2016 to 2018 he played for the Swiss club FC Wil in the second-rate Challenge League .
Life
Johan Vonlanthen was born in the Colombian port city of Santa Marta and grew up in poor conditions with his single mother, after his father had left the family before he was born. At the age of twelve, after his mother's marriage to a Swiss citizen, he came to Switzerland, where his mother had settled in Wünnewil-Flamatt in the canton of Friborg . He was later adopted by his stepfather and took his name Vonlanthen. He is therefore a Swiss-Colombian dual citizen .
Club career
Vonlanthen went through the day school with the Bernese Young Boys as a junior . In the 2001/02 season he made his debut as a 16-year-old in the top Swiss league, the National League A ( Super League since 2003 ), and made eight appearances. He scored a goal. In the following season Vonlanthen scored four goals in 27 appearances. In the summer of 2003, the striker moved to the Dutch first division club PSV Eindhoven , where he was the youngest player in the honor division . With PSV Eindhoven he became Dutch runner-up and qualified for the Champions League .
After a year at Brescia Calcio , he played on loan at NAC Breda in the 2005/06 season, where he scored a total of 14 goals.
From the 2006/07 season Vonlanthen played in the attacking midfield of the Austrian first division club Red Bull Salzburg . In his debut season he was used in almost all the season's games, scoring five goals and 15 assists. He won the Austrian championship title with his club . Vonlanthen's problems began with the following season. FC Salzburg didn't get going in the league and qualification for the Champions League failed. Vonlanthen underwent a successful groin operation at the end of 2007 . Even after his comeback, his involvement with FC Salzburg was mixed. In the 2008/09 season he won his second championship title with the Salzburg team. Again and again he got a chance to prove himself from the offensive coach Co Adriaanse . Vonlanthen came to 29 missions in the 2008/09 championship season, but only five of them lasted over 90 minutes.
Johan Vonlanthen fell out of favor at Red Bull Salzburg at the end of the 2008/09 season and was demoted to the junior division. He then moved back to Switzerland for FC Zurich . The then 23-year-old and FC Zurich agreed on a loan contract until June 30, 2010 with an option for a definitive takeover, which was not used. After his return to FC Red Bull Salzburg, Vonlanthen was initially ignored by coach Huub Stevens and only returned to the squad in March 2011. Under the new coach Ricardo Moniz he was allowed to make a short comeback in the 1-0 win at SV Mattersburg on May 15, 2011, when he was substituted on in the 78th minute of the game.
Vonlanthen's contract with FC Red Bull Salzburg expired in summer 2011. Brought in as one of the greatest offensive talents in Europe and equipped with one of the most lucrative contracts in the club, Vonlanthen couldn't get beyond the role of a rotation player among all coaches.
Vonlanthen left Europe in the summer of 2011 and moved to Itagüí Ditaires, his native Colombia . The contract includes the clause that Vonlanthen did not have to play on Saturdays due to his religion. Vonlanthen is a supporter of the Seventh-day Adventists , who forbid work on Saturdays. After things hadn't gone well at this club either, the contract was canceled after half a season, whereupon Vonlanthen even announced his resignation from professional football.
In April 2013 he returned to football and trained at FC Wohlen , with whom he was only allowed to play one test match against FC Baden due to the lack of eligibility to play . For the 2013/14 season he wanted to sign a valid contract again. He succeeded in doing this in June 2013 when he signed a one-year contract with the record champions Grasshoppers Zurich with the option of a second season. In order to gain match practice, he was loaned out to FC Schaffhausen in the Challenge League in January 2014 . In the 2014/15 season Vonlanthen moved within the league to the Geneva club Servette FC on a free transfer . There he was able to score 10 goals in 30 games before an injury put him out of action for half a year. After the injury, he moved to FC Wil from 2016 to 2018 .
National team
Vonlanthen made his debut in the jersey of the Swiss national football team on June 6, 2004 . In Switzerland's 1-0 win over Liechtenstein , he came on for Alexander Frei in the 81st minute .
At the 2004 European Football Championship in Portugal , he was the second youngest player in the tournament. He saw Switzerland's first game against Croatia from the bench. In the second game against England coach Köbi Kuhn changed him in the 83rd minute for Hakan Yakin . Vonlanthen was in the starting eleven in the last game against France . With his equalization to 1-1 in the 26th minute, he became the youngest goalscorer in the history of the European Football Championship . This record had only been secured four days earlier by the three months older Englishman Wayne Rooney . In the end, Switzerland lost the match 1: 3 and retired after the preliminary round.
Vonlanthen was part of the national team from the European Championship until 2006. Vonlanthen scored three goals in Switzerland's 6-0 win against the Faroe Islands at the start of qualifying for the 2006 World Cup .
Vonlanthen could not take part in the 2006 World Cup after sustaining a muscle injury on May 22, 2006 during a sprint test in Magglingen . The midfielder Hakan Yakin, previously denounced for alleged character deficits, replaced the attacker.
In the 2008 European Football Championship in Austria and Switzerland Vonlanthen was back in the squad of Switzerland; as in the club now as a midfielder. At the European Championship he was used in all three games and got a yellow card each in the games against the Czech Republic and Portugal .
For the Soccer World Cup 2010 in South Africa he was not considered by national coach Ottmar Hitzfeld .
literature
- Johan Vonlanthen in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
- Johan Vonlanthen's website (archive version).
- Johan Vonlanthen's column ( Memento from May 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- swissinfo, Ivan Turmo: Johan Vonlanthen. In: swissinfo, March 6, 2008
- Thomas Zindel: Johan Vonlanthen: “You can't dribble God out!” In: fussballgott.ch. Archived from the original on August 31, 2011 ; Retrieved June 27, 2018 (with a web link to an interview about his faith).
- Usage statistics on the website of the Swiss Football Association: A-Team , U-21 , U-20 , U-19 , U-18 , U-17 , U-16 , U-15
- Johan Vonlanthen in the database of weltfussball.de
- Andreas Böni, Michel Wettstein: He's the youngest ever European Championship scorer - Johan Vonlanthen's life confession. Interview in: Blick.ch . June 1, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dennis Melzer: Johan Vonlanthen: The Curse of the Caribbean. In: goal.com Germany . May 10, 2017. Retrieved July 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Johan Vonlanthen. In: transfermarkt.ch. January 8, 2018, accessed June 27, 2018.
- ↑ Johan Vonlanthen. In: transfermarkt.ch. January 8, 2018, accessed June 27, 2018.
- ↑ (fal / si): Johan Vonlanthen joins FC Zurich. In: tagesanzeiger.ch. July 13, 2009, archived from the original on July 16, 2009 ; accessed on June 27, 2018 .
- ↑ gm: End of the season for Johan Vonlanthen too. Press release FCZ. In: fcz.ch. May 11, 2010, archived from the original on September 17, 2016 ; accessed on June 27, 2018 .
- ^ SV Mattersburg - FC Red Bull Salzburg 0: 1. transfermarkt.at, accessed on May 15, 2011.
- ^ Tobias Buyer: Farce instead of football. In: nzz.ch. November 8, 2011, accessed June 27, 2018.
- ↑ tkä [Thomas buyer]: Vonlanthen dissolves contract. In: nzz.ch. January 21, 2012, accessed June 27, 2018.
- ↑ Test match with Wohlen against Baden - Vonlanthen scores on comeback. In: blick.ch, last accessed on May 31, 2013.
- ↑ (si / R. Sta.): GC lends Johan Vonlanthen to Schaffhausen ( Memento from June 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: fcschaffhausen.ch, January 4, 2014.
- ↑ Stefan Karger: "What became of ..." - Johan Vonlanthen. In: abseits.at. November 1, 2014, accessed July 29, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vonlanthen, Johan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vonlanthen Benavídez, Johan (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Colombian-Swiss soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa Marta , Colombia |