Medhi Benatia

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Medhi Benatia
Medhi Benatia.jpg
in national jersey (2018)
Personnel
Surname Medhi Amine Benatia El Mouttaqi
birthday April 17, 1987
place of birth Courcouronnes ,  France
size 191 cm
position Central defense
Juniors
Years station
0000-2002 CTNFS
2002-2003 EA Guingamp
2003-2006 Olympique Marseille
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2005-2006 Olympique Marseille 0 (0)
2006-2007 →  FC Tours  (loan) 29 (0)
2007-2008 →  FC Lorient  (loan) 0 (0)
2008-2010 Clermont Foot 57 (2)
2010-2013 Udinese Calcio 80 (6)
2013-2014 AS Roma 33 (5)
2014-2016 FC Bayern Munich 29 (2)
2016-2019 Juventus Turin 40 (3)
2019– al-Duhail SC 20 (1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2003-2004 France U17 7 (0)
2003-2004 Morocco U17 1 (0)
2006-2007 Morocco U20 4 (0)
2008– Morocco 66 (2)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: February 22, 2020

2 As of June 27, 2019

Medhi Amine Benatia El Mouttaqi (first name also in the spelling Mehdi , Arabic مهدي أمين بن عطية المتقي, DMG Mahdī Amīn bin ʿAṭṭīya al-Muttaqī ; Born April 17, 1987 in Courcouronnes , France ) is a Moroccan football player who also has French citizenship .

The center- back is under contract with al-Duhail SC and was the captain of the Moroccan national team .

Career

Benatia was born in Courcouronnes, France; his father is Moroccan and his mother is from Algeria . He was trained up to the age of 15 at the Center technique national Fernand-Sastre , the center of excellence of the French Football Association , and then spent one year in the youth department of EA Guingamp and three years in that of Olympique Marseille .

Clubs in France

As an 18-year-old, he moved up to the professional team at Olympique Marseille in 2005, but remained without a league game in the first season. He was then awarded in 2006 to the second division club FC Tours , where he became a regular player and played 29 league games in his premier season in the senior division. A year later and also on loan, he was given to the first division club FC Lorient , for which he did not play a league game. After the end of the loan period, Benatia saw no sporting future at Olympique Marseille and moved to the second division club Clermont Foot for the 2008/09 season , where he became a regular in defense. In his first season he played 27, in the following 30 of 38 league games and scored one goal in each season.

In August 2009, Benatia completed a two-day trial training session at SC Freiburg under the then coach Robin Dutt , but no commitment was made.

Associations in Italy

On February 3, 2010 Benatia signed a contract with the Italian first division club Udinese Calcio . He made his first game for Udine on the 2nd match day of the 2010/11 season in the 1: 2 defeat against Inter Milan . Four game days later, he scored his first goal in Serie A on October 2, 2010 with the 1-0 winner against AC Cesena . After three seasons, 80 first division games and six goals for Udinese Calcio, league rivals AS Roma signed him in July 2013 and provided him with a five-year contract. The Moroccan made his debut for Roma on August 25, 2013 (1st matchday), when he completed the entire season in the away win against AS Livorno . Benatia immediately developed into a regular player and a fixture in the central defense of AS Roma and was able to score five goals for his club in the 2013/14 season .

FC Bayern Munich

For the 2014/15 season he was signed by FC Bayern Munich at the end of August for a transfer fee of at least 26 million euros with a term until June 30, 2019. Benatia played his first competitive game for FC Bayern on September 17, 2014 at 1-0. Victory in the first Champions League group game against English champions Manchester City . Ten days later he made his Bundesliga debut in a 2-0 away win against 1. FC Köln . Benatia saw the red card in the 21st minute of the Champions League second leg against Manchester City on November 25, 2014 and was suspended by UEFA for the final group game against CSKA Moscow . He scored his first Bundesliga goal on December 13, 2014 in a 4-0 win in the away game against FC Augsburg with the goal to make it 1-0 in the 58th minute. At the end of the season he was able to celebrate the German championship for the first time in 2015 . On August 23, 2015, Benatia suffered another muscle injury in the away game against TSG Hoffenheim and was canceled. On November 4, 2015, he made his comeback in a 5-1 home win against Arsenal when he came on for Jérôme Boateng in the 68th minute . In the following time, Benatia was repeatedly thrown back by injuries and did not come to regular missions.

Juventus Turin

After Benatia also because of injury could not prevail and the association with Mats Hummels had committed another central defender, he returned for season 2016/17 in the Serie A back and joined for a rental fee of three million euros Juventus at . A purchase option of EUR 17 million existed until the end of May 2017. He made his debut on August 27, 2016 in a 0-1 away win against Lazio . In May 2017, Benatia was committed for 17 million euros and provided with a contract until June 30, 2020. After Leonardo Bonucci's departure , he played 20 league games as a central defender in the 2017/18 season, in which he scored two goals.

al-Duhail SC

In January 2019, Benatia left Juventus after two and a half years and joined the Qatari first division club al-Duhail SC . He made his points game debut on February 16, 2019 (16th matchday) in a 1-0 win in the home game against al-Sailiya ; He scored his first goal in the top division on February 28, 2019 (18th matchday) in a 6-0 win in the home game against Al-Ahli SC with the goal to make it 1-0 in the 20th minute.

National team

Benatia played for the French U-17 national team and then for the U17 and U20 of Morocco .

On November 19, 2008 he completed his first international match in Rabat for the Moroccan senior team , which won 3-0 in the test international against the selection of Zambia ; he was substituted on for Youssef Rabeh in the second half .

On June 7, 2009, he completed his first World Cup qualifier for the 2010 World Cup against the selection of Cameroon in Yaoundé , which ended goalless. He scored his first international goal on June 4, 2011 in Marrakech in a 4-0 victory in the qualifier for the 2012 African Cup of Nations against the selection of Algeria .

Benatia then belonged to the Moroccan squad at the Africa Cup; The team was eliminated in the group stage with two points and Benatia was used in the two group matches. In the following tournament in South Africa in 2013, the team also dropped out in the group stage and already. Benatia was Morocco's captain at the 2017 African Cup of Nations in Cameroon and was able to play all games over the entire season, up to the lost quarter-finals against Egypt , which ended 0-1. On November 11, 2017, the decisive game against Ivory Coast for the 2018 World Cup , he scored 2-0. So Morocco was able to qualify after 20 years.

He was in Morocco's squad for the 2018 World Cup . After a 2-2 draw against Spain and two 0-1 defeats, in which Benatia was used in central defense, against Portugal and Iran , Morocco was eliminated as the last of Group B from the tournament.

successes

FC Bayern Munich

Juventus Turin

Awards

  • Morocco's Sportsman of the Year: 2013
  • Morocco's Footballer of the Year: 2013
  • Arab Player of the Year: 2014, Special Globe Soccer Awards

Others

Medhi Benatia is married and has three children.

Web links

Commons : Medhi Benatia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2010 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.telquel-online.com
  2. ^ Badische Zeitung of August 28, 2014
  3. ↑ AS Roma sign Benatia at transfermarkt.de
  4. ↑ Press release AS Roma of August 27, 2014 (pdf)
  5. ↑ Press release on the homepage of FC Bayern Munich
  6. ↑ Interview (by Nikolaus Heindl) on the homepage of FC Bayern Munich
  7. ↑ A game suspension for Benatia fcbayern.de, accessed on November 27, 2014
  8. ↑ Benatia is currently out of fcbayern.de, accessed on August 23, 2015
  9. ↑ Juventus Turin: Benatia completes Juve loan switch , July 15, 2016, accessed July 15, 2016.
  10. ↑ FC Bayern Munich: Medhi Benatia moves to Juventus Turin , May 12, 2017, accessed on May 12, 2017.
  11. ↑ Juventus Turin: Benatia signs until 2020! , May 12, 2017, accessed May 12, 2017.
  12. ↑ Juventus Turin: Thanks for everything, Medhi Benatia! (English), accessed January 29, 2019
  13. ↑ kicker, Nürnberg, Germany : 2-0 at Ivory Coast! Morocco goes to the World Cup . In: kicker . ( kicker.de [accessed on September 4, 2018]).
  14. ↑ Mars d'or award on telquel.ma
  15. ↑ Medhi Benatia is Arab Player of the Year, in: Bundesliga.de from December 30, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Benatia, Medhi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benatia El Mouttaqi, Medhi Amine (full name); Benatia, Mehdi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Moroccan-French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Courcouronnes , France