Miguel Borja

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Miguel Borja
Miguel Borja 2016.jpg
Miguel Borja in the jersey of Cortuluá
Personnel
Surname Miguel Ángel Borja Hernández
birthday January 26, 1993
place of birth Tierralta ,  Colombia
size 183 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
2011 Deportivo Cali
2011 Cúcuta Deportivo
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2011 Cúcuta Deportivo 05 0(0)
2012-2013 Cortuluá 33 0(8)
2013 La Equidad 02 0(4)
2013-2014 AS Livorno 08 0(0)
2014 Olimpo de Bahía Blanca 16 0(3)
2015 Independiente Santa Fe 33 (10)
2016 Cortuluá 21 (19)
2016-2017 Atlético Nacional 06 0(1)
2017– Palmeiras São Paulo 49 (10)
2020– →  Junior  (loan) 8 0(4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2013 Colombia U-20 10 0(3)
2016 Colombia Olympic selection 03 0(0)
2016– Colombia 10 0(3)
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 8, 2020

2 As of October 17, 2018

Miguel Ángel Borja Hernández (short Miguel Borja ; born January 26, 1993 in Tierralta ) is a Colombian football player on the position of a striker . He has been under contract with the Brazilian first division club Palmeiras São Paulo since 2017, and has been on loan with Junior from Barranquilla since 2020 .

Life

Miguel Borja grew up in poor conditions as the youngest brother of eight siblings in Tierralta , Córdoba . In addition to attending school in the evenings, he had to work during the day to help support the family. His first steps as a footballer began in a foundation and in the regional selection of Cordoba. At the initiative of a coach, he introduced himself to various clubs in Medellín and Cali .

Club career

His first stop in professional football was Deportivo Cali , where he only played one game in the Copa Colombia in 2011 . He then moved to Cúcuta Deportivo . There he was only used in a total of five games and was only in the starting line-up once. So in 2012 he moved to the Colombian second division to Cortuluá . There he came more often to missions and drew attention to himself. He first moved to the Colombian first division to La Equidad . There he only played two games, but scored four goals and then moved to Italy . Borja was under contract for a year at AS Livorno but only appeared in eight games without scoring a goal. Therefore, he moved to Argentina in 2014 to Olimpo de Bahía Blanca , where he scored three goals in 16 games in six months. Borja returned to Colombia for the 2015 season. At Independiente Santa Fe he couldn't really assert himself in a year and was often only substituted in or out. But he was involved in winning the Superliga de Colombia and the Copa Sudamericana 2015 .

For the Apertura 2016 Miguel Borja changed again to Cortuluá. There he was able to prevail and was the top scorer in the first Colombian league with a new goal record for short tournaments. He was then signed by the Colombian top club Atlético Nacional , with whom he won the Copa Libertadores and the Copa Colombia directly , was top scorer of the Copa Sudamericana and the Copa Colombia and took part in the 2016 FIFA Club World Cup . At the end of the year, Borja was named South America's Footballer of the Year and South America's Eleven of the Year. Borja was only used in six league games for reasons of rotation, but played an important part in the club's success in other competitions.

In February 2017, Borja signed a five-year contract with the Brazilian club Palmeiras from São Paulo . With Palmeiras, Borja became Brazilian champion and top scorer of the Copa Libertadores in 2018 . In 2020 Borja moved back to Colombia on loan to Junior in Barranquilla .

National team career

Miguel Borja played for the U-20 national team of Colombia and won the U-20 South American Football Championship in 2013 and took part in the U-20 World Cup in Turkey in 2013 . He also took part in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro for Colombia . In 2016 he played for the Colombian national soccer team for the first time and was used in a qualifying match for the 2018 World Cup . Borja scored his first two goals in a friendly against China in November 2017 .

He was part of the Colombian squad at the 2018 World Cup in Russia . He came to a use and retired with the team in the round of 16 against England on penalties.

successes

National team

society

Awards

Web links

Commons : Miguel Borja  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes & individual references

  1. ↑ https://tournament.fifadata.com/documents/FWC/2018/pdf/FWC_2018_SQUADLISTS.PDF
  2. ↑ La dura historia de Miguel Borja, el cordobés que tiene a Nacional en la final de la Libertadores (Spanish)
  3. ↑ Paso a paso, la carrera de Miguel Ángel Borja (Spanish)
  4. ↑ Miguel Borja y sus 19 goles: récord en torneos cortos del FPC (Spanish)
  5. ↑ Miguel Borja, el tercer colombiano en consagrarse 'Rey de América' (Spanish)
  6. ↑ Confirmado: Miguel Ángel Borja es jugador del Palmeiras de Brasil (Spanish)
  7. ↑ Los detalles de la llegada de Miguel Borja al Junior (Spanish)
  8. ↑ 'Dejamos una buena imagen, lo que se viene será mucho mejor': Borja (Spanish)
personal data
SURNAME Borja, Miguel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miguel Ángel Borja Hernández (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Tierralta , Colombia