Juan Mata

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Juan Mata
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Juan Mata (2016)
Personnel
Surname Juan Manuel Mata García
birthday April 28, 1988
place of birth Burgos ,  Spain
size 170 cm
position Winger , attacking midfield
Juniors
Years station
2001-2003 Real Oviedo
2003-2006 real Madrid
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2006-2007 Real Madrid Castilla 39 (10)
2007-2011 Valencia CF 129 (33)
2011-2014 Chelsea FC 82 (18)
2014– Manchester United 180 (33)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2004 Spain U-16 3 0(2)
2004 Spain U-17 2 0(1)
2005-2006 Spain U-19 13 (12)
2007 Spain U-20 5 0(3)
2007-2011 Spain U-21 20 0(5)
2012 Spain U-23 4 0(0)
2009– Spain 41 (10)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

2 As of November 15, 2016

Juan Manuel Mata García (born April 28, 1988 in Burgos , Castile and León ) is a Spanish football player . The Manchester United striker, described as extremely agile and nimble, is mostly used on the left wing or as an attacking midfielder. With the Spanish national team he was world and European champion. He won the Champions League with Chelsea in 2012 and the Europa League in 2013 .

Career

Club career

youth

Born in Burgos, Mata grew up in Oviedo . At the age of twelve he began his football career in the youth department of Real Oviedo , where his father also played for most of his career.

real Madrid

In the summer of 2003 the then 15-year-old Mata moved to Real Madrid's youth department . After he went through the youth teams Cadete A and then Juvenil C , he came to Juvenil A , the A youth of Real Madrid , for the 2005/06 season . With the team he won the championship and the Copa de Campeones de Liga Juvenil in the 2005/06 season . This was followed by promotion to Real Madrid's second professional team, Real Madrid Castilla after the season. Although he was the second top scorer of his team behind Álvaro Negredo with ten league goals in the 2006/07 season , he was relegated to the third Spanish division with Real Madrid Castilla .

Valencia CF

For the 2007/08 season Mata signed with the Spanish first division club Valencia CF , for which he made his debut on the second league matchday against UD Almería . Mata benefited in his first season from the suspension of the player Miguel Ángel Angulo , which opened a place for him in the starting XI of Valencia CF. At the end of the season he found himself in the starting line-up and played a total of 24 league games this season, in which he scored five times. In addition, he scored twice as a goal scorer in the 3-2 home win in the Copa del Rey against FC Barcelona and thus played a major role in reaching the cup final. In the said final against Getafe FC , he scored the opening goal in his team's 3-1 victory.

In the 2008/09 season he helped Valencia CF get their best start in the club's history. Up until matchday eight, Valencia was ahead of Real Madrid and FC Barcelona at the top of the table. Only at the end did the team weaken a little and land in sixth place at the end of the season. He only missed a single league game during the season and was behind David Villa is the club's second best goalscorer with eleven goals.

For the 2009/10 season, Mata received the number 10 jersey after Angulo left the club. His sustained good performance, nine goals in 35 league games in the 2009/10 season , then generated increased interest from the Spanish top club FC Barcelona .

Chelsea FC

Juan Mata misses a penalty in the 2012 Champions League final
Mata in the jersey of Chelsea FC

For the 2011/12 season Mata moved to Chelsea . He signed a five-year contract with the London club.

Mata made his debut on August 27, 2011 against Norwich City . Here he came on in the 68th minute for Florent Malouda and scored the 3-1 final score. He made his Champions League debut on September 14 in a 2-0 win over Bayer 04 Leverkusen . During the season, Mata, who was able to assert himself as a regular player, shone as a preparer and at the end of the season was able to record 13 assists and six goals in 34 games . In his first season he won the FA Cup with a 2-1 win over Liverpool FC and Champions League winner with a 5-4 win on penalties against Bayern Munich , where he was the only player at Chelsea couldn't convert his penalty. However, in the 88th minute he gave a corner kick for the 1: 1 equalizer by Didier Drogba, who saved Chelsea in extra time. At the end of the season, Mata was voted Chelsea Player of the Year .

On May 15, 2013 he defeated his club Benfica Lisbon by a 2-1 in the final and won the Europa League . He and his compatriot and former teammate Fernando Torres are the first players to be world champions, European champions, Champions League winners and Europa League winners at the same time. Mata was also named Chelsea Player of the Year after this season.

Manchester United

After Mata was mostly only the second choice in the first half of the 2013/14 season under the new coach José Mourinho at Chelsea, he moved to league rivals Manchester United on January 25, 2014 . The transfer fee was 37.1 million pounds sterling (around 44.7 million euros ), making Mata the most expensive new addition in the club's history until Ángel Di María was signed (in August 2014 for 75 million euros).

In June 2019, Mata extended his contract with the Red Devils early until 2021.

National team career

Mata also has a large number of appearances and goals in the Spanish youth national teams. With Spain's U-19 he won the U-19 European Football Championship in 2006 . He scored three goals in the first group game in a 5-3 win against Turkey. He was also used in the following games of the tournament and increased his hit account to a total of four goals with his hit in the semifinals in a 5-0 win against Austria. This made him the second top scorer in the European Championship with one goal less than teammate Alberto Bueno .

On March 28, 2009 he played for the first time for the Spanish national team in the 1-0 victory in the World Cup qualifier at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium against Turkey .

In 2009 he finished third with Spain in the Confederations Cup , where he played in the first two group matches. Less than three months later, Mata scored his first international goal in the 2010 World Cup qualifier against Estonia . Mata also scored one goal in each of the two final qualifiers.

In 2011 Mata won the European Championship with Spain's U-21s . He himself contributed two hits in five games.

For the 2010 World Cup , Mata was appointed by Vicente del Bosque to the squad of the Spanish selection. When Spain won a soccer World Cup for the first time, Mata played a short game in the group game against Honduras . Mata was only used once at the EM 2012 . In the final against Italy , he was substituted on four minutes before the end of the game. Two minutes after coming on, he scored the goal to make it 4-0 and thus helped Spain become the first team to defend the European Championship.

titles and achievements

National team

society

Chelsea FC

Manchester United

Valencia CF

real Madrid

Personal awards

Others

Mata studied journalism at the Polytechnic University of Madrid .

Mata and his team-mate at the time, Fernando Torres , managed to become world champions, European champions, Champions League winners and Europa League winners at the same time .

In 2017 he founded the Common Goal Initiative, whose members donate one percent of their salary to the Streetfootballworld organization , which supports social projects related to football around the world.

Web links

Commons : Juan Mata  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Juan Mata in the FIFA database (English)
  2. ↑ juanmata10.com: Categorías inferiores del Real Oviedo 2001 - 2004
  3. ↑ MARCA.com: El Valencia le quita al Real Madrid al prometedor y cotizado Mata , March 17, 2007
  4. ↑ juanmata10.com: Mata ficha por el Real Madrid e inicia su camino hacia el profesionalismo
  5. ↑ marca.com: La perla de la cantera del Madrid ahora es el socio ideal de Villa en el Barça
  6. ↑ juanmata10.com: Categorías inferiores del Real Madrid 2004 - 2006
  7. ↑ juanmata10.com: Real Madrid Castilla 2006 - 2007
  8. ↑ weltfussball.de: Segunda Division 2006/2007> 42nd matchday
  9. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match schedule / line-up: UD Almería - Valencia CF (Primera Division 2007/2008)
  10. ↑ uefa.com: Mata seizes final chance for Valencia
  11. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match schedule / line-up: Valencia CF - Getafe CF (Copa del Rey 2007/2008)
  12. ↑ weltfussball.de: Primera Division 2008/2009> 8th matchday
  13. ↑ juanmata10.com: Valencia CF 2007 - 2010
  14. ↑ SPORT.ES: El Barça ya negocia por Mata , May 31, 2010
  15. ↑ Chelsea FC: JUAN MATA DEAL COMPLETED ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chelseafc.com
  16. ↑ Welt.de: Fernando Torres, unloved master of all classes , welt.de, May 16, 2013, accessed on May 17, 2013
  17. ↑ Manchester United: Juan Mata signs for United , manutd.com, January 25, 2014, accessed January 25, 2014
  18. ↑ Manchester United: Mata signs new contract with United , June 19, 2019, accessed June 19, 2019.
  19. ↑ rsssf.com: European U-19 Championship 2006 - Details Final Tournament
  20. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match schedule / line-up: Spain - Estonia (World Cup qualification Europe 2010)
  21. ↑ weltfussball.de: Mata> World Cup qualification. Europe 2010
  22. ↑ weltfussball.de: Mata> U21 EM 2011 in Denmark
  23. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match schedule / line-up: Spain - Honduras (2010 World Cup in South Africa)
  24. ↑ mirrorfootball.co.uk: Juan Mata profile: 10 things you need to know about the Liverpool target - plus watch him in action , October 29, 2009
  25. ↑ A Common Goal | By Juan Mata. Retrieved October 20, 2017 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Mata, Juan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mata García, Juan Manuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgos