Oleguer (soccer player)
| Oleguer | ||
 Oleguer, March 2011
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Oleguer Presas i Renom | |
| birthday | February 2, 1980 | |
| place of birth | Sabadell , Spain | |
| size | 187 cm | |
| position | Defense | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| Lepanto | ||
| -1997 | Sant Gabriel | |
| 1997-1999 | UDA Gramenet | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1999-2001 | UDA Gramenet | 41 (2) |
| 2001-2002 | FC Barcelona B | 34 (0) |
| 2002-2008 | FC Barcelona | 125 (1) |
| 2008-2011 | Ajax Amsterdam | 38 (2) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Oleguer [ ulə'ge ] (born February 2, 1980 in Sabadell ; full name Oleguer Presas i Renom ) is a former Spanish football player . The defender played most of his career at FC Barcelona , with whom he u. a. 2005 and 2006 Spanish champions and 2006 Champions League winners . He played for Ajax Amsterdam between 2008 and 2011 and retired after winning the Dutch championship in 2011 at the age of 31.
Career
society
Oleguer's football career began at Lepanto, a club from his hometown of Sabadell. He then played at Sant Gabriel before moving to UDA Gramenet in 1997 , where he played 41 games in the Spanish third division . In 2001 he was signed by FC Barcelona, where he initially worked for the B team for a year. He made his debut for the senior team in 2002 in a Champions League game against Galatasaray ; in the Primera División on January 12, 2003 against FC Málaga . In the 2004/05 season he was one of the strongest players in Barcelona and contributed to winning the Spanish championship . Although he mostly plays as a right-back, he has played a lot as a center-back this season as Barça had injury concerns. In the following season he dueled with the more attacking Juliano Belletti for the position of right-back and kept the upper hand. He won the Spanish championship and the Champions League again that season, where he was part of the starting lineup in the final, but was later substituted for the winning goal scorer Belleti. In the 2006/07 season Oleguer rose due to the newcomers Zambrotta and Thuram to the substitute and played only 25 league games, mostly as a substitute. For the 2007/08 season he was able to recapture his regular place at the beginning, but immediately lost it again and played a total of only 12 league games.
Oleguer moved to the traditional Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam for the 2008/2009 season for three million euros , where he was supposed to replace Johnny Heitinga who had left the club. In his first season Oleguer was still part of the permanent staff, but in the following seasons the number of his league appearances was reduced to six and three respectively. After his three-year contract with Ajax he ended his career.
National team
Oleguer played for the Catalan football team , which is not officially recognized by FIFA and UEFA as a national team and is therefore not allowed to participate in any international tournament. Despite his support of Catalan separatism and related media speculation - he would refuse to sign for the Spanish national football team to play - traveled Oleguer to the preparation camp of the preliminary Spanish squad for the 2006 World Cup in Germany he, the coach Luis Aragones called has been. In the end, however, he was not appointed to the final squad.
successes
- Champions League winner : 2006
- Spanish champion : 2005 , 2006
- Spanish Super Cup : 2005, 2006
- Dutch champion : 2011
useful information
Oleguer is extremely active in the left-wing scene. In the course of the eviction of an illegal youth pub in Sabadell in September 2003, eleven demonstrators were arrested, including Oleguer, on suspicion of bodily harm to a police officer, according to police. Oleguer has been on trial for this offense since autumn 2007. In September 2008, the responsible public prosecutor demanded a two-year prison sentence.
He is said to still have good contacts with the squatter scene, but is currently limited to writing books with socialist content and appearing at rallies. Oleguer polarized in March 2006 when he presented his latest book in the occupied social center Can Vies in Barcelona , two days before the classic against Real Madrid , which is still symbolic of the Catalan fight against the Spanish central government. In February 2007 he lost a sponsorship contract with the sports shoe manufacturer Kelme after he had demanded the release of an ETA terrorist who had been sentenced to more than 3,000 years in prison for 25 murders in an interview because of poor health. The terrorist was on a hunger strike and was force-fed in prison.
In early 2006, Oleguer graduated from the Autonomous University of Barcelona with a degree in economics . Then he began to study history .
Web links
- 11 friends : the defender of Catalonia
- kicker.de : The silent anarchist - Oleguer in a kicker portrait (2005)
- Oleguer in the database of weltfussball.de
- Oleguer in the database of fussballdaten.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Uefa.com: Oleguer from Barcelona to Ajax. (accessed on July 29, 2008)
- ↑ "Barcas" Oleguer behind bars? Rheinische Post online, September 7, 2007
- ↑ La Fiscalía pide dos años de cárcel para Oleguer por herir a un policía. El País , September 26, 2008
- ↑ Oleguer: Are you in sympathy with a terrorist? kicker online , February 9, 2007
- ↑ a b Ángels Piñol: Kelme rompe con Oleguer. El País, February 9, 2007.
literature
- Damiano Valgolio: The defender of Catalonia. In: 11 friends. No. 56, July 2006, pp. 132-136.
- Oleguer Presas i Renom, Roc Casagran i Casañas: Camí d'Ítaca. Barcelona, Mina, 2006, ISBN 84-96499-43-X .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Oleguer |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Presas i Renom, Oleguer (full name); Presas Renom, Oleguer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | spanish soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sabadell , Spain |