Patrick Mtiliga
| Patrick Mtiliga | ||
 Patrick Mtiliga in the game against Cristiano Ronaldo
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Patrick Jan Mtiliga | |
| birthday | January 28, 1981 | |
| place of birth | Copenhagen , Denmark | |
| size | 171 cm | |
| position | left wing | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| until 1998 | B. 93 Copenhagen | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1998-1999 | B. 93 Copenhagen | 13 (0) |
| 1999-2006 | Feyenoord Rotterdam | 22 (0) |
| 1999-2004 | → Excelsior Rotterdam (loan) | 139 (28) |
| 2006-2009 | NAC Breda | 79 (2) |
| 2009-2011 | Málaga CF | 43 (0) |
| 2011– | FC Nordsjælland | 105 (5) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) 2 |
| 1997-1998 | Denmark U-17 | 20 (0) |
| 1998-2001 | Denmark U-19 | 8 (3) |
| 2000-2002 | Denmark U-21 | 9 (1) |
| 2008–2012 | Denmark | 6 (0) |
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1 Only league games are given. As of June 11, 2015 2 As of October 17, 2012 |
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Patrick Mtiliga (born January 28, 1981 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish football player with Tanzanian roots.
Club career
Career start at B.93
Mtiliga began his career in the youth team of his home club B.93 Copenhagen . At B.93 he developed into one of the country's greatest talents and was already a coveted transfer share as a youth player. At the age of 17 he made his debut in 1998 as an attacking midfielder for B.93 in the Danish Superliga . B.93 was in a chronic relegation battle and displayed a more combat-oriented style of play that came in handy for an offensive player. Nevertheless, he gave some talent tests within his first 13 professional missions. As a result, B.93 was relegated to bottom of the table from the top class and urgently needed transfer proceeds due to a tense financial situation. Rough diamond Mtligia could no longer be kept and was approved.
As a result, a real battle broke out between the two major Dutch clubs Ajax Amsterdam and Feyenoord Rotterdam for the player's transfer rights. Mtligia opted for Feyenoord, which was accepted for a transfer fee of almost half a million euros.
Switch to Feyenoord
Feyenoord then loaned him to his satellite club Excelsior Rotterdam in the Eerste Divisie for an indefinite period , where he worked for the next four and a half years. In his debut season in the Netherlands, he offered some outstanding performances and confirmed the high expectations with ten goals in 23 games this season. Then the first suspicions arose that Feyenoord would take the talent into their squad early, but this did not materialize due to tactical considerations by coach Bert van Marwijk , who preferred a system without an attacking midfielder.
In the following season, Mtligia continued to improve and celebrated with the team the runner-up title in the Eerste Divisie. In the play-off games for promotion, however, they lost and remained in the second division. 2001/02 they defended the runner-up title and rose to the Eredivisie .
Excelsior naturally went into the season with a team consisting exclusively of talents such as Gill Swerts , Brett Holman , Mounir El Hamdaoui or Michel Bastos , which had a difficult time surviving in the relegation battle. Mtligia completed its first full first division season without shining and was viewed more as a disappointment. Excelsior rose again as the penultimate in the second division.
In the 2003/04 season, he then played for the first time on the left flank, as he saw little use chances at Feyenoord as an offensive free spirit. On the left, too, he developed into one of the top performers of the team, which again brought home the runner-up title with champions FC Den Bosch at the end of the season . Mtligia was already in Feyenoord's squad at this point, as van Marwijk brought him back to the home club in the winter due to an injury mishap. In the second half of the season he was then used eleven times, but without being able to fight for a regular place.
Injury bad luck
For the 2004/05 season he was in the squad for the first time in the entire pre-season of Feyenoord and was traded as a promising candidate for the place on the left wing. This had mainly to do with the disembarkation of veteran Ramon van Haaren , who was loaned to Sparta Rotterdam during the preparation . However, the newly appointed Feyenoord coach Ruud Gullit surprisingly decided in favor of the Portuguese Bruno Basto and also preferred Cory Gibbs , who was actually brought in as central defender, on the left. Over the season, Mtiliga only made eleven league appearances without scoring and injured himself seriously, after which he was convalescent for the entire 2005/06 season and could not play a single game.
During his injury-related absence, the newly appointed Feyenoord coach Erwin Koeman decided against an extension of his expiring contract, whereupon he was no longer a member of a club after a year without match practice.
New start in Breda
As a result, he came to league competitor NAC Breda with trainer Ernie Brandts , where he was equipped with a strongly performance-related contract. Contrary to expectations, Mtiliga quickly found his form despite his long forced break and developed into an undisputed regular player and top performer. In the 2007/08 season , Breda, led by a strong Mtiliga, advanced to the surprise team of the season, made it to the semi-finals and played for the Eredivisie title throughout the season. Within one and a half seasons, Mtiliga had gone from being a candidate at Feyenoord to being a sought-after player again. In October 2008, he announced that he would be leaving the club at the end of the season. As a result, he played the season with Breda to the end to move to the Primera División for Málaga FC in the summer transfer period .
Moved to Málaga
At Málaga he was able to build on his strong performances at Breda straight away and was promptly given a regular place as a left full-back. On January 24, 2010, in the game against Real Madrid , he was inadvertently the focus of the media when Cristiano Ronaldo broke his nose with an elbow blow and received the red card. Mtiliga had to take a three-week break due to an injury. At the end of the season, Málaga just managed to stay in the Primera División in seventh place . Because of his strong performance, Mtiliga was then surprisingly nominated by coach Morten Olsen in Denmark's preliminary squad for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa .
National team
On August 6, 1997, Mtiliga made his debut for Denmark in the U-17 national team in a friendly against the Faroe Islands. This was followed by 15 more international matches and participation in the finals at the U-17 European Championship in 1998 . There he moved into the quarter-finals with Denmark after second place in the group matches, where they had to admit defeat to eventual European champions Ireland 2-0.
As a result, he completed a total of eight games with three goals for the Danish U-19 national team from 1998, before making his debut on March 28, 2000 at the age of 19 in a 1-1 friendly match against Portugal in the U-21 national team. In total, he then completed nine U-21 internationals with one goal by 2002, but did not qualify for any final round.
It wasn't until November 19, 2008 that he was allowed to play again for Denmark on an international level. In the friendly against Wales , he came in the 46th minute for Thomas Rasmussen in the game and thus celebrated his A-team debut.
As a result, he was no longer called up for the national team despite acute problems on the left side of the defense. In the run-up to the World Cup, coach Olsen then tested a squad of players, including Chris Sørensen , Michael Lumb and Leon Jessen for the vacant position at the back left, but none of them could convince. After the strong performance of Mtiliga in Spain, Olsen surprisingly nominated him with the experience of only one international match in the provisional squad for the 2010 World Cup . On the other hand, he completely renounced the Lumb and Jessen, previously regarded as the most promising candidates.
Before the qualifying game for the 2014 World Cup against Italy on October 16, 2012, Mtiliga caused a scandal: he refused to play because the coach Morten Olsen originally preferred Simon Poulsen , who sustained an injury shortly before the start of the game. Olsen then banned Mtiliga from the Danish national team.
Web links
- Player profile on the official website of Málaga CF.
- Player profile on the official website of Feyenoord Rotterdam
- Player profile on the official website of the Danish Football Association
Individual evidence
- ↑ Feyenoord en de linksback: een gebed zonder einde volkskrant.nl, accessed on May 19, 2010
- ↑ Mtiliga To Leave NAC Next Summer (English) goal.com, accessed on May 19, 2010
- ↑ New Malaga Signing Mtiliga: I Have Worked Hard To Obtain This Dream goal.com, accessed on May 19, 2010
- ↑ Mtiliga jugará en el Málaga marca.com, accessed on May 20, 2010
- ↑ Cristiano Ronaldo breaks opponent's nose berlinonline.de, accessed on May 20, 2010
- ↑ Mtiliga estará tres semanas de baja (Spanish) marca.com, accessed on May 20, 2010
- ^ Sorensen in Denmark squad as Morten Olsen gambles on Stoke keeper's fitness (English) dailymail.co.uk, accessed May 20, 2010
- ↑ Larsen can hope for the World Cup kicker.de, accessed on May 20, 2010
- ^ The Paul Scharner of Denmark on derstandard.at , accessed on: October 17, 2012
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Mtiliga, Patrick |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mtiliga, Patrick Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen , Denmark |