Nico Elvedi

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Nico Elvedi
Personnel
birthday September 30, 1996
place of birth Zurich ,  Switzerland
Size 188 cm
position Central defense
Juniors
Years station
2005-2006 FC Greifensee
2006-2013 FC Zurich
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2013-2015 FC Zurich II 24 (0)
2014-2015 FC Zurich 18 (1)
2015– Borussia M'gladbach 141 (5)
2015-2017 Borussia M'gladbach II 8 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2012-2013 Switzerland U-17 11 (0)
2014 Switzerland U-18 1 (0)
2013-2015 Switzerland U-19 19 (2)
2015 Switzerland U-20 2 (1)
2016 Switzerland U-21 1 (0)
2016– Switzerland 17 (1)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

2 As of November 18, 2019

Nico Elvedi (born September 30, 1996 in Zurich ) is a Swiss football player . The central defender is under contract with Borussia Mönchengladbach and is a Swiss national player .

Career

societies

Elvedi moved from FC Greifensee to the youth team at FC Zurich in 2006 . For the 2012/13 season he moved up to his second team, which was playing in the third-rate Promotion League at that time . On May 15, 2014, he played for the first team in the Super League in a 1-0 win at FC Lausanne-Sport . For the 2014/15 season he moved up permanently to the first team. On November 9, 2014, he scored his first competitive goal in professional football in the 14th minute in a 1-0 win against FC Aarau .

For the 2015/16 season Elvedi moved to the German Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach . After being early in the season or in part in the reserve team in the Regionalliga West had been used, he came on November 7, 2015 at 0: 0 in the home match against FC Ingolstadt 04 on his Bundesliga debut when he in the 88th minute for Raphael substitute has been. Elvedi made his first appearance in the Champions League on November 25, 2015. He came on as a substitute for Fabian Johnson in the 87th minute in the 4-2 home win against Sevilla FC . He made his first start on the 15th matchday on December 5, 2015 in a 3-1 home win in the league game against FC Bayern Munich . He gave the template for the hit to make it 2-0. Ultimately, Elvedi completed 21 Bundesliga games this season, most of them from the start. He made two appearances in the Champions League.

In the following season 2016/17 he had to sit out for a few weeks due to a pubic bone inflammation , but still made 25 appearances in the Bundesliga and six games in the Champions League . As a regular player, Elvedi made 33 Bundesliga appearances in 2017/18 and 30 Bundesliga appearances in 2018/19 , making his debut for Borussia on August 20, 2017 with the only goal in the opening game against 1. FC Köln . The club was not represented internationally in these seasons.

Elvedi's contract in Gladbach runs until 2021, but is automatically extended after a certain number of assignments.

National team

Elvedi made his debut on October 15, 2012 in a 1-1 draw against Austria in the Swiss U-17 national team . In May 2013 he took part in the U-17 European Championship in Slovakia , where he failed with the team in the preliminary round. On May 28, 2014 Elvedi played a game for the U-18 team of the Swiss Football Association in a 1-0 win against Germany . For the U-19 national team Elvedi played for the first time on September 6, 2013 in a 3-2 win against Romania. On October 10, 2013, he met the 4-0 win against Andorra after five minutes to 1-0 lead. Elvedi was temporarily the captain of the U-19 team.

On March 26, 2016 Elvedi made his debut in a 1-1 draw against England in the U-21 national team . At the end of May 2016, he played for the senior national team for the first time in the 2-1 defeat against Belgium . Elvedi was appointed to the Swiss squad for the 2016 European Championship in France , but was not used. In June 2018 he was also in the squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia nominated, but was there not reused.

After the tournament, his game shares increased significantly. On November 18, 2018, he scored his first goal for the national team in the Nations League in a 5-2 home win over Belgium . In the successful qualification for the 2020 European Championship , Elvedi was used in seven of the eight games over 90 minutes.

family

Elvedi's family comes from the Val Lumnezia , a valley in the canton of Graubünden . His twin brother Jan has been under contract with the German second division SSV Jahn Regensburg since the 2020/21 season .

Trivia

In Mönchengladbach, Elvedi was nicknamed "Kingfisher" by his then head coach André Schubert . Elvedi completed a commercial apprenticeship in the Borussia office, which he completed in 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Borussia sign Nico Elvedi from FC Zurich. In: borussia.de. June 25, 2015, accessed June 26, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Who is this four million teenager? In: blick.ch. June 25, 2015, accessed June 26, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Sebastian Hochrainer: Elvedi clears up contract misunderstandings. In: rp-online.de. December 11, 2019, accessed December 11, 2019 .
  4. ↑ World Cup squad Switzerland: This is the team for Russia 2018. In: focus.de. June 13, 2018, accessed December 10, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Nico Elvedi is like Ricardo Rodriguez. In: aargauerzeitung.ch. December 5, 2014, accessed June 29, 2015 .
  6. ↑ SSV Jahn signs Jan Elvedi. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung. July 24, 2020, accessed July 24, 2020 .
  7. ↑ David Nienhaus: Nico Elvedi: "I get along well with the fact that the Bundesliga is a bit tougher". In: watson.ch. August 26, 2016, accessed October 1, 2016 .
  8. ↑ "I want to confirm my first season" - Borussia Mönchengladbach. In: www.borussia.de. Retrieved October 1, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Elvedi, Nico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss football player
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich , Switzerland