José Bosingwa

José Bosingwa
José Bosingwa as a player at Trabzonspor (2013)
Personnel
Surname	José Bosingwa da Silva
birthday	August 24, 1982
place of birth	Mbandaka ,  Zaire
size	1.83 m
position	Right full-back
Juniors
Years	station
0000-2000	Boavista Porto
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2000-2001	SC Freamunde	11 (0)
2001-2003	Boavista Porto	41 (0)
2003-2008	FC Porto	106 (4)
2008–2012	Chelsea FC	89 (3)
2012-2013	Queens Park Rangers	23 (0)
2013-2016	Trabzonspor	63 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
1998	Portugal U-15	9 (0)
1998-1999	Portugal U-16	10 (1)
2000	Portugal U-17	6 (1)
2000-2001	Portugal U18	7 (0)
2001	Portugal U-20	5 (0)
2001-2004	Portugal U-21	18 (0)
2007-2015	Portugal	27 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2015/16 2 As of March 29, 2015

José Bosingwa da Silva (born August 24, 1982 in Mbandaka , Zaire , now the Democratic Republic of the Congo ) is a former Portuguese football player .

Career

societies

Emerging from the youth of Boavista Porto, Bosingwa played for the second division club SC Freamunde at the age of 18 , was used eleven times and left the club at the end of the season as it was relegated to the third division. Bosingwa moved to reigning champions Boavista Porto in 2001 and was second in the championship with him in the following season. After another season and a total of 40 league games, he switched to league rivals FC Porto in 2003 , with whom he won his first championship and was able to add three more in the following period. He also won the World Cup, the Champions League, the national club cup and twice the national Supercup.

In 2008 he was signed by the English first division club Chelsea , with whom Bosingwa won two titles at the end of his first season. He made his debut on August 17, 2008 (1st matchday) in a 4-0 win at home against Portsmouth ; he scored his first goal on September 27, 2008 (6th matchday) in a 2-0 win in the away game against Stoke City .

After his contract expired, he left Chelsea on July 1, 2012 and switched to the Queens Park Rangers , with whom he signed a three-year contract until June 30, 2015.

Bosingwa moved to Trabzonspor in Turkey for the 2013/14 season .

National team

In 2003 he made his debut in the U-21 national team , for which he was used 18 times until 2004. He made his senior national team debut on June 2, 2007 in Brussels in a 2-1 win in the European Championship qualifier against Belgium .

successes

• Champions League winner: 2004 , 2012
• World Cup Winner : 2004
• Portuguese champion : 2004 , 2006 , 2007 , 2008
• Portuguese Cup Winner : 2006
• Portuguese Super Cup winner : 2004 , 2006
• English champion : 2010
• English Cup Winner : 2009 , 2010 , 2012
• English Supercup winner : 2009

Awards

• Elected to the UEFA All Star Team in 2008

Web links

Commons : José Bosingwa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• José Bosingwa in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• José Bosingwa in the database of the Portuguese Football Association (Portuguese)
• José Bosingwa in the Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu database (English)
• José Bosingwa in the database of mackolik.com (Turkish)
• José Bosingwa in the database of EU-Football.info (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ JOSE BOSINGWA BOWS OUT ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2012 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.  
2. ↑ EXCLUSIVE: JOSE JOINS (English), qpr.co.uk, accessed August 17, 2012
3. ↑ Portuguese Bosingwa moves to Queens Park Rangers , transfermarkt.de, accessed on August 17, 2012
4. ↑ transfermarkt.de: Bosingwa to Turkey (accessed on July 29, 2013)