Jordi Amat

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Jordi Amat
Jordi Amat 2013 Catalonia (cropped) .jpg
Jordi Amat in the Catalan football selection (2013)
Personnel
Surname Jordi Amat Maas
birthday March 21, 1992
place of birth Canet de Mar ,  Spain
size 184 cm
position Central defender
Juniors
Years station
1996-1999 Canet FC
1999-2009 Espanyol Barcelona
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2009-2010 Espanyol Barcelona B. 17 (0)
2010-2013 Espanyol Barcelona 41 (0)
2012-2013 →  Rayo Vallecano  (loan) 27 (1)
2013-2018 Swansea City 52 (0)
2017-2018 →  Betis Sevilla  (loan) 25 (0)
2018– Rayo Vallecano 29 (0)
2019– →  KAS Eupen  (loan) 24 (2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2008 Spain U-16 2 (0)
2008-2009 Spain U-17 11 (1)
2010 Spain U18 2 (0)
2010-2011 Spain U-19 7 (0)
2011 Spain U-20 5 (0)
2011-2014 Spain U-21 15 (0)
2011– Catalonia 2 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 7, 2020

2 As of March 22, 2016

Jordi Amat Maas (born March 21, 1992 in Canet de Mar ) is a Spanish football player on the position of a defender who is mainly used as a central defender . Since summer 2018 he has a contract with the Spanish club Rayo Vallecano . In the 2019/20 season he was loaned out by the Belgian first division partner KAS Eupen .

Club career

Career start in Canet and Barcelona

Jordi Amat was born on March 21, 1992 in the Catalan coastal town of Canet de Mar , where he also spent the first years of his life and began his football career at Canet FC in 1996 . In 1999 he joined the youth department of the Spanish professional club Espanyol Barcelona , where he passed through all youth leagues until 2009 and during this time also gained his first experience in the Spanish national junior teams. From the 2009/10 season Amat was used for the first time in the B team of the club. After a season in the fourth-highest football league , this had only just been promoted back to the Spanish third division , but again just failed to stay in the league and had to return to the Tercera División. Jordi Amat was in 17 of 38 possible championship games of the B-team this season and was also in the club's professional team from January 2010. The 17-year-old made his league debut for Periquitos on January 24, 2010, in a 1-1 home draw against RCD Mallorca , when he came onto the pitch in the 83rd minute of play for the injured Moisés Hurtado . After he made a brief appearance in the game but one against Real Madrid , things got quieter for the young defender in the months that followed. Around three months later, at the end of the season, he was employed by coach Mauricio Pochettino as a regular in the last four championship games, replacing Nicolás Pareja , who was spared, among others . With the professionals, he finished the season in eleventh place and thus a place in the middle of the table.

Breakthrough in the Primera División

After he sat on the bench without being used in the first few rounds of the 2010/11 season , he should be used again as a regular in the defensive line of his team from the end of September 2010. However, since he injured himself in the 1-0 win over CA Osasuna in the fifth round in the 90th minute of the game and had to be replaced, he was no longer available in the subsequent games. Only after he was back on the bench as a substitute player at the end of October did he make it back to the starting line-up in mid-November. Subsequently, he was a regular player until the end of the season, with the exception of two games in which he had to sit on the bench again and one encounter in which he was not even in the squad. Of the generally very young center-backs in Espanyol's professional squad this season, although he was also the youngest at the age of 18, he made the most use with 26 league appearances. He also took part with the team in the Copa del Rey 2010/11 , where he was still on the bench in the fourth round and in the two round of 16 encounters against Atlético Madrid , when Espanyol Barcelona were also eliminated from the current tournament, as a regular in the Was use. After he was with the team for most of the season in the top 5 of the league, he ended the season in eighth place in the final standings and thus missed a European Cup starting place.

In the 2011/12 season he lost his traditional position to the Mexican new signing Héctor Moreno , as well as to his compatriot Raúl Rodríguez coming from the B-team . Although he was involved in 33 of the 38 league appearances, he was used in only nine of these games, and of them in only six over the full 90 minutes. With four yellow and one red cards, one of these yellow cards he received on the substitutes' bench, he also attracted attention on a disciplinary level, which also did not contribute positively to his usage statistics this season. At the end of the season, the team ranked 14th in the sometimes very tightly staggered table. Only in the Copa del Rey 2011/12 was Jordi Amat, whose contract with Espanyol ran until the summer of 2016, was temporarily employed as a regular. He was used in four of his team's six cup games and was only just eliminated from the current tournament in the quarter-finals against CD Mirandés due to the away goals rule .

Loan player at Rayo Vallecano and move to the Premier League

Due to the hopelessness of a new breakthrough as a regular player, the young central defender was loaned out to league competitor Rayo Vallecano for the entire season in summer 2012 . At the capital club from the Vallecas district , he was in the starting line-up from the start and only sat in the last third of the season, when he was replaced mainly by Jordi Figueras , but also by Alejandro Gálvez , often on the bench or not playing due to yellow card suspensions . Over the course of the season he was used by Paco Jémez in 26 league games and scored his first competitive goal as a professional on February 24, 2013 in a 2-1 home defeat against Real Valladolid , but also made an own goal in the same game. The goal for his team was a long-range shot from around 50 meters away and was also the 600th goal Vallecanos scored in the Spanish first class. With an eighth place in the final standings, he qualified with Rayo Vallecano for a starting place in the qualification for the 2013/14 UEFA Europa League , but the team had to give priority to the ninth-placed Sevilla FC , as they did not have a license from UEFA to participate of the Europa League.

After returning to Espanyol Barcelona, ​​Amat was signed by Premier League club Swansea City on June 27, 2013 for a transfer fee of £ 2.5m for four years. The Catalan finally made his competitive debut for the Welsh on August 1, 2013 in a 4-0 win over Malmö in the first leg of the third qualifying round of the 2013/14 UEFA Europa League , when he was on the pitch for the full game and in the 47th season. Minute was cautioned with a yellow card. Under Michael Laudrup but also under his successor Garry Monk , who initially acted as player- coach , Amat was in the professional squad in all 38 league games of the 2013/14 season , but was only used in 17 and of these again in only 12 games over the full 90 minutes . At the end of the season he was ranked 12th with the team and therefore a comfortable place in the middle of the table. In the further course of the Europa League, the Spanish central defender, who was also briefly used as a defensive midfielder in the league, held a regular position. Until the elimination of the team in the round of 32 against SSC Napoli , he was in the play-off round of qualification and in the group stage and was only in the two sixteenth-finals against the Italians unused on the bench. Amat was also a regular in his team's three games in the 2013/14 FA Cup , and also when he was eliminated early in the 2013/14 League Cup .

Bad luck with injuries and few missions from 2014/15

After the departure of José Manuel Flores , known as Chico , to Michael Laudru's new club Lekhwiya in Qatar , Jordi Amat was to become a regular in central defense alongside captain Ashley Williams from the 2014/15 season . However, after three missions over the full game, he injured himself in the game of the then runner-up against Chelsea FC, which was placed first, and was then out of play for a month and a half due to persistent out-of-band problems. He then sat on the Swansea substitute bench for a month before not appearing in the professional squad for another month between December and January. From mid-January 2015 he was regularly on the bench again and also came to a series of one-minute short appearances before he was back on the pitch for the first time about two months later against Liverpool FC for the full 90 minutes. Just one week earlier, his contract, which expired in the summer of 2017, had been extended for another year to June 2018. After he had to sit back on the bench in the following three league games, Monk used him in the two games against Leicester City and Newcastle United in April over 90 minutes as a left defender. As it turned out only afterwards, Amat broke his metatarsal bone in this game , which is why he was out for the rest of the season due to injury. Over the entire season, the Spaniard only made ten league appearances and two appearances in the FA Cup 2014/15 . With the team he finished the championship in eighth place in the table, the second-best result in the club's history, after a sixth place in the 1981/82 season , which was followed a season later by relegation to the then second division .

After missing the first few games due to injury, he made his official comeback on August 25 in the League Cup match against York City . After that Amat was not considered by Garry Monk, was in the starting line-up when he left the League Cup 2015/16 after a 1-0 defeat against Hull City , but was not used for months after that. Only after being taken over by interim coach Alan Curtis , Jordi Amat took a regular place on the Welsh bench again from mid-December and was back in action at the end of the year, but remained in the reserve position for the rest of the season. Nevertheless, after Francesco Guidolin took office on January 18, 2016, his contract was prematurely extended on January 30 for another year until summer 2019. Before that, he played for over 90 minutes for the first time in nine months when he was eliminated in the third round of the 2015/16 FA Cup against Oxford United . To date (as of March 23, 2016) Jordi Amat has played in five league, two League Cup and one FA Cup games for Swansea City in 2015/16.

Back to Rayo Vallecano

For the 2018/19 season he moved to the Spanish club Rayo Vallecano, where Amat had already played on loan a few years earlier. He signed a four-year contract there. This season, Vallecano played in the Primera División , the top Spanish league, but rose from bottom of the table at the end of the season in the Segunda División .

For the 2019/20 season he was awarded to the Belgian first division partner KAS Eupen .

National team career

His first appearances for a Spanish youth football team had Amat in January 2008, when he was first used in the Spanish U-16 national team , for which he was used in two international matches. Also from this year he was a regular player of the Spanish U-17 national team . With players like Jon Aurtenetxe , Sergi Gómez , Koke , Marc Muniesa , Iker Muniain , Isco , Borja Bastón , Pablo Sarabia , Sergi Roberto or Álvaro Morata , he took part in the U-17 World Cup in Nigeria in 2009 under Ginés Meléndez , where he himself was used in five of the seven games in Spain and reached third place with the team behind vice world champions Nigeria and world champions Switzerland . Between 2008 and 2009 Amat appeared in eleven U-17 internationals and scored one goal. After two international appearances for Spain's U-18 team at the beginning of 2010, he joined the U-19 squad coached by Luis Milla in the same year . In this he came under Milla and from 2011 again under Meléndez in a total of seven games.

Under Julen Lopetegui , the then 19-year-old joined the Spanish U-20 national team in the spring of 2011, with whom, after completing two friendly international matches, he took part in the U-20 World Cup in Colombia from July to August 2011 . There he was used in three of the five international matches in Spain and lost with the team in the quarter-finals on penalties against their colleagues from Brazil . Also in 2011, the young central defender made it into the U-21 team of his home country , but was not considered for the European Championships in Denmark in 2011 and in Israel in 2013 , but still made 15 international appearances for Spain U-21 in the years 2011 to 2014 and was involved in two European Championship qualifications. His last U-21 international match was a 1-1 draw against Austria on September 9, 2014. Amat was also appointed to the Catalan football team by Johan Cruyff after having played through all of the Spanish youth national teams . In this he made his debut on December 30, 2011, when he came on the pitch in the 0-0 draw against Tunisia in the second half of the game after the half-time break for Sergio Busquets . About a year later, he was used again over half time in the next international match for the Catalans, a 1-1 draw against Nigeria .

Web links

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Footnotes & individual references

  1. ↑ Jordi Amat nueva incorporación para esta temporada ( Memento of July 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish), accessed on March 23, 2016
  2. ↑ Rayo suffer home defeat , accessed March 23, 2016
  3. ↑ Miku: "Feliz por lograr el gol 700 del Rayo en Primera" (vídeo) ( Memento from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on March 22, 2016
  4. ↑ swans amat boost. Swansea City Association Football Club, June 13, 2013, accessed September 13, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Swansea 4 Malmo 0: New boy Bony nets twice as £ 12m striker gives Laudrup big first leg lead in Europa League qualifying , accessed on March 23, 2016
  6. ↑ FULL-TIME: Swans 0 Liverpool 1 (English), accessed on March 23, 2016
  7. ↑ Amat pens new Swans contract (English), accessed on March 23, 2016
  8. ↑ Amat sidelined for remainder of campaign , accessed on March 23, 2016
  9. ↑ FULL-TIME: Swans 3 York City 0 (English), accessed on March 23, 2016
  10. ↑ FULL-TIME: Hull City 1 Swans 0 (English), accessed on March 23, 2016
  11. ↑ Amat signs contract extension , accessed on March 23, 2016
  12. ↑ FULL-TIME: Oxford United 3 Swans 2 (English), accessed on March 23, 2016
  13. ^ Jordi Amat nuevo jugador del Rayo Vallecano. Rayo Vallecano, August 9, 2018, accessed August 9, 2019 (Spanish).
  14. ↑ KAS Eupen signs Jordi Amat. KAS Eupen, August 1, 2019, accessed on August 9, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Catalonia-Tunisia: Party and goalless draw at Montjuïc (0-0) (English), accessed on March 23, 2016
  16. ↑ Catalonia, with 9 FC Barcelona players, tie Nigeria (1-1) (English), accessed on March 23, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Amat, Jordi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amat Maas, Jordi (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Canet de Mar , Spain