Matias Delgado

Matias Delgado
Matías Delgado in the jersey of Beşiktaş JK (2009)
Personnel
Surname	Matias Emilio Delgado
birthday	December 15, 1982
place of birth	Rosario ,  Argentina
size	182 cm
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
	CA River Plate
	Argentinos Juniors
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2000-2003	Chacarita Juniors	52 0(5)
2003-2006	FC Basel	85 (31)
2006-2010	Beşiktaş Istanbul	83 (18)
2010-2013	al-Jazira Club	87 (21)
2013-2017	FC Basel	108 (31)
1 Only league games are given. As of June 6, 2017

Matías Emilio Delgado (born December 15, 1982 in Rosario ) is a former Italian - Argentine football player . He was Swiss champion five times with FC Basel and Turkish champion once with Beşiktaş Istanbul. With FC Basel he was also the top scorer in the UEFA Europa League in 2005/06.

Career

Basel

Delgado was a midfielder at FC Basel from 2003 to 2006 . There he developed into a key player with the shirt number 20. He was the Swiss football champion with FC Basel in 2004 and 2005. In 2003 he won the Swiss Cup with FC Basel. In addition, Delgado was named the best footballer of the year in the Swiss Super League in 2006 .

Beşiktaş Istanbul

In late June 2006 Delgado signed a contract with the Turkish club Beşiktaş Istanbul , where he was appointed team captain at the beginning of the 2008/09 season . Shortly thereafter, he extended his contract to 2011. During his engagement in Turkey, he wore the shirt number 10. At Beşiktaş Istanbul, he was used six times in the UEFA Champions League in the 2007/08 season .

al-Jazira Club

In August 2010 he moved to the al-Jazira Club in Abu Dhabi .

Basel

In July 2013 he returned to the series champions FC Basel and signed a four-year contract there. The 2013/14 season was very successful for Delgado and FC Basel. The team finished the 2013/14 football championship as champions and was in the final of the Swiss Cup , which was lost after extra time. Basel's Champions League season ended after the group stage, and in the Europa League it advanced to the quarter-finals. Delgado had a total of 44 appearances under coach Murat Yakin , 25 of them in the Super League. He scored a total of 6 goals.

In the following season 2014/15 Delgado and his team finished the football championship 2014/15 for the 18th time as champions (for the 6th time in a row) with 12 points ahead of the second placed BSC Young Boys and 25 points ahead of the third place Placed FC Zurich . Delgado became Swiss champion for the 4th time, for the 2nd time in a row. Basel was repeatedly in the final of the Swiss Cup , which was lost 3-0 to FC Sion . In the 2014/15 Champions League season , Basel advanced to the round of 16.

During the 2014/15 season, FC Basel played a total of 65 games. Under the new coach Paulo Sousa Delgado had a total of 46 appearances, including 26 in the Super League. He scored 16 goals.

For the 2015/16 season, Delgado was given the captain's armband as the successor to Marco Streller . In an interview, Delgado announced that he wanted to end his career wearing the FC Basel jersey. Under coach Urs Fischer , Delgado won the Swiss championship title with FCB at the end of the 2015/16 season .

On December 10, 2016, before the game against FC St. Gallen kicked off , Delgado was honored for his 250th competitive game in FC Basel dress. In the 2016/17 season , Delgado won the championship again with FC Basel . For the club it was the 8th title in a row and the 20th title in the club's history. They also won the cup competition on May 25, 2017 3-0 against Sion and thus the double . On July 30, 2017, Delgado announced his retirement as a footballer in Basel. On August 18, 2017, Delgado was appointed to the coaching staff of the 1st team and ambassador of FC Basel.

Private

Delgado moved with his family to the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires, when he was two . The reason was that his father Eduardo Emilio Delgado moved to a club based there as a professional footballer. His father played fifteen years in the Argentine top division for clubs such as Central Rosario , San Lorenzo and Vélez Sársfield .

Delgado has three siblings: Sister Soledad (* 1980), a trained sports teacher, and two younger brothers named Ramiro (* 1990) and Martín (* 1998). Matías Delgado is married to the tennis teacher and studied sports teacher Maria Laura Rossi, a sister of the soccer player Julio Hernán Rossi , who also previously played for FC Basel. They have three children together.

Achievements and Awards

FC Basel

• Swiss champions : 2003/04 , 2004/05 , 2013/14 , 2014/15 , 2015/16 , 2016/17
• Swiss Cup Winner : 2002/03, 2016/17
• Axpo Player of the Year : 2005/06
• UEFA Cup top scorer : 2005/06 (7 goals)

Besiktas Istanbul

• Turkish Cup Winner : 2007 , 2009
• Turkish champion : 2009

Web links

• Matías Delgado in the database of weltfussball.de
• Matías Delgado on the Swiss Football League website
• Article in the NZZ

Individual evidence

1. ↑ nzz.ch, encores of a boisterous man
2. ↑ Rudi Wanner: Season Review: Switzerland . Eufa. 2014. Retrieved June 9, 2014.
3. ↑ Josef Zindel: red blue: Yearbook 2014/2015 season . FC Basel Marketing AG, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7245-2027-6 .
4. ↑ SFV: Swiss Cup - Würth Swiss Cup / Final - 07.06.2015 . SFV. 2015. Accessed June 7, 2015.
5. ↑ Josef Zindel: red blue: Yearbook 2015/2016 season . FC Basel Marketing AG, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7245-2050-4 .
6. ↑ The new captain of FCB is Matías Delgado. In: FC Basel 1893. Retrieved on January 19, 2016 (German). 
7. ^ The Marbella Lunch Talk with Matías Delgado. In: FC Basel 1893. Retrieved on January 19, 2016 (German). 
8. ↑ Casper Marti: It is done! FCB are champions for the 19th time . FC Basel 1893. 2016. Accessed April 30, 2016.
9. ↑ Remo Meister: With a positive feeling into the well-deserved vacation . fcb.ch. 2016. Accessed December 10, 2016.
10. ↑ Caspar Marti: FCB defeated Sion in the cup final! . FC Basel 1893. 2017. Retrieved May 25, 2017.
11. ↑ FC Basel ends the double season with two records . In: Der Landbote, Der Landbote . February 6, 2017 ( landbote.ch [accessed June 6, 2017]).
12. ↑ Tagblatt.ch, accessed July 30, 2917 ( Memento from July 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
13. ↑ fcb.ch, Mathís Delgado remains with FCB