Jonathan de Guzman

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Jonathan de Guzman
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Jonathan de Guzmán (2008)
Personnel
Surname Jonathan Alexander de Guzmán
birthday September 13, 1987
place of birth Toronto ,  Canada
size 173 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1999-2005 Feyenoord Rotterdam
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2005-2010 Feyenoord Rotterdam 109 (23)
2010-2011 RCD Mallorca 34 0(5)
2011-2014 Villarreal CF 19 0(0)
2012-2014 →  Swansea City  (loan) 71 0(9)
2014-2017 SSC Naples 23 0(3)
2016 →  FC Carpi  (loan) 5 0(1)
2016-2017 →  Chievo Verona  (loan) 27 0(2)
2017-2020 Eintracht Frankfurt 52 0(3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2008 Netherlands U21 15 0(6)
2013-2015 Netherlands 14 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: July 1, 2020

Jonathan Alexander "Johnny" de Guzmán (born September 13, 1987 in Toronto ) is a Canadian - Dutch soccer player . The midfielder and 14-time Dutch senior international was most recently under contract with Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt .

Personal

De Guzmán was born to a Filipino father and a Jamaican mother in the Canadian province of Ontario . In 2008 he received Dutch citizenship in addition to his Canadian citizenship . His older brother Julian de Guzmán was also a professional footballer and was active for the Canadian national team , of which he is the record player.

Career

societies

At the age of twelve, de Guzmán left Canada for the Netherlands , where he played for the youth of Feyenoord Rotterdam . He made his debut in the A-Team in 2005 on his 18th birthday in a league game against SC Heerenveen . De Guzmán scored his first goal in the Eredivisie on September 30, 2005 in the game against Willem II Tilburg . After eleven years at Feyenoord, he moved to RCD Mallorca, trained by Michael Laudrup , in July 2010 . At the end of August 2011, de Guzmán moved to Villarreal FC . In 2014 de Guzmán moved to the Italian Serie A club SSC Napoli . In January 2016, he was loaned to league rivals FC Carpi until the end of the season. The season 2016/17 played de Guzman at Chievo Verona .

For the 2017/18 season , de Guzmán moved to Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt , with whom he signed a three-year contract. In his first season he quickly became a permanent fixture in the team, but had to take a break for several months due to an ankle joint injury in November 2017. In May 2018 he won the DFB Cup with Eintracht after beating FC Bayern Munich 3-1 in the final ; de Guzmán started this game. In the following season he scored his first Bundesliga goal in a 4-1 home win against Hannover 96 on September 30, 2018 and scored two more times in a total of 28 league appearances by the end of the season. In the Europa League he was called up nine times during the season and reached the semi-finals with the Frankfurt team , in which they failed on penalties at Chelsea . In the 2019/20 season, de Guzmán initially hardly played a role in Frankfurt's squad and only made three competitive appearances until a season break in March 2020, which was forced by the COVID-19 pandemic . He was then used five more times by the end of the season. After the end of the 2019/20 season, de Guzmán left Eintracht because his contract was not extended.

National team

After obtaining Dutch citizenship in February 2008 , de Guzmán decided to play for the Dutch Federation and took part in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with the Dutch U21s . He was used three times in the tournament and reached the quarter-finals with his team . Overall, de Guzmán played 15 times for the U21s and scored 6 goals.

On February 6, 2013 he made his debut in a 1-1 friendly match against Italy under bond coach Louis van Gaal in the senior national team . The latter nominated de Guzmán to the Dutch squad for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil . There he was used three times and took third place with his team. By 2015 de Guzmán had played 14 national games, after which he was no longer considered.

successes

Feyenoord Rotterdam

Swansea City

SSC Naples

Eintracht Frankfurt

National team

Web links

Commons : Jonathan de Guzmán  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2014 World Cup: International roots of footballers. In: medienservicestelle.at. June 6, 2014, accessed August 20, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Stefan Krieger: Jonathan de Guzman comes to harmony. In: fr.de . July 6, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
  3. ↑ De Guzmán jugará en el Villarreal los próximos 5 años ( Memento of September 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 22, 2018 (Spanish).
  4. ↑ Transfer from de Guzman is perfect on the Eintracht Frankfurt website of July 10, 2017, accessed on July 10, 2017.
  5. ↑ Jonathan De Guzman is seriously injured , eintracht.de from November 11, 2017, accessed on May 6, 2020.
  6. ↑ Frankfurt manages sensation against FC Bayern on spiegel.de on May 19, 2018, accessed on May 6, 2020.
  7. ↑ Frankfurt liberation: Jovic has the last word , match report on kicker.de, accessed on October 16, 2018.
  8. ↑ Jonathan de Guzmán »Club matches in the database of weltfussball.de, accessed on May 6, 2020.
  9. ↑ Jonathan de Guzman leaves Eintracht , eintracht.de from June 26, 2020, accessed on June 26, 2020.
  10. ↑ Jonathan de Guzmán in the database of National-Football-Teams.com, accessed on May 6, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Guzmán, Jonathan de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guzmán, Jonathan Alexander de (full name); Guzmán, Johnny de (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-Dutch soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario , Canada