Roberto Jiménez Gago

Roberto
Roberto Jiménez (2019)
Personnel
Surname	Roberto Jiménez Gago
birthday	February 10, 1986
place of birth	Fuenlabrada ,  Spain
size	192 cm
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
2005-2007	Atlético Madrid
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2005-2008	Atlético Madrid	1 (0)
2007-2008	→  Gimnàstic de Tarragona  (loan)	28 (0)
2008-2009	Recreativo Huelva	0 (0)
2009-2010	Atlético Madrid	3 (0)
2010	→  Real Saragossa  (loan)	15 (0)
2010-2011	Benfica Lisbon	25 (0)
2011-2013	Real Zaragoza	71 (0)
2013-2014	Atlético Madrid	0 (0)
2013-2016	Olympiacos Piraeus	88 (0)
2016-2019	Espanyol Barcelona	4 (0)
2017-2018	→  Málaga CF  (loan)	34 (0)
2019–	West Ham United	8 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2001	Spain U-16	1 0(0)
2002-2003	Spain U-17	7 0(0)
2003	Spain U18	2 0(0)
2004-2005	Spain U-19	3 0(0)
2005	Spain U-20	1 0(0)
2007-2008	Spain U-21	6 0(0)
1 Only league games are given. As of December 29, 2019

Roberto Jiménez Gago , Roberto for short (born February 10, 1986 in Fuenlabrada ) is a Spanish football goalkeeper who is under contract with the English first division club West Ham United .

Career

society

Roberto Jiménez comes from the youth of the traditional Spanish club Atlético Madrid . For the second team he played from 2005 to 2007. He made his first team debut on December 22, 2005 in a 2-1 draw against CA Osasuna . It was then, however, only in the Segunda División B used. For the 2007/08 season he was loaned to first division relegated Gimnàstic de Tarragona , where he became a regular goalkeeper.

After his return to Madrid, however, he had no prospect of a regular place, as this position was occupied by Leo Franco . Therefore, he was given in the summer of 2008 to the league rivals Recreativo Huelva , with Atlético receiving Florent Sinama-Pongolle in exchange . During his time in Huelva he was only used in the cup.

In the summer of 2009, the goalkeepers Leo Franco and Grégory Coupet Atlético Madrid finally left , so that the Colchoneros from the Spanish capital pulled the buyback option of the contract and provided Roberto with a three-year contract. However, he remained in the reserve role, at this time behind the talented Spanish goalkeeper Sergio Asenjo . Only when he was called to Egypt for the U-20 World Cup 2009 did Roberto make a few appearances. A short time later, another talented goalkeeper, David de Gea , penetrated the ranks of Atlético and Roberto now saw himself as the third choice in his position. With the capital club he won the UEFA Europa League , which was held for the first time under this name, in the 2009/10 season .

Due to being a reservist, Roberto decided to leave the club, but initially did so on loan. He spent the second half of the 2009/10 season at league rivals Real Saragossa , where he was able to oust Juan Pablo Carrizo as the goalkeeper. After the loan deal ended, he fulfilled his wish for a move and was finally signed by the traditional Portuguese club Benfica Lisbon . There he completed a large part of the league games.

Despite good performances and the position of goalkeeper, Roberto moved back to Spain for the 2011/12 season. He returned to Real Zaragoza , where he had already been employed once in 2010. He signed a five-year contract there and is regularly in the starting line-up again. He made his debut on August 28, 2011 against Real Madrid , where his team suffered a 6-0 home defeat. Roberto moved to Atlético Madrid in the summer of 2013.

He was awarded by his old and new club to the Greek record champions Olympiacos Piraeus for a year . Thanks to his outstanding performances in the championship and the UEFA Champions League , Roberto quickly became a crowd favorite. In February 2014, the Greek club secured the rights to the Spanish goalkeeper early. An agreement was reached with Atlético Madrid on a transfer fee of six million euros. Roberto signed a four-year contract with Olympiacos.

He has been under contract with Espanyol Barcelona since 2016 . In 2017 he was loaned to the league rivals FC Málaga for a year . After this loan expired, he returned to Espanyol Barcelona. With the end of his contract with Espanyol, he signed a two-year contract with West Ham United in the English Premier League in the summer of 2019 .

National team

He went through all Spanish youth national teams, but was often overshadowed by Sergio Asenjo and David de Gea , as was the case with Atlético Madrid .

successes

Atlético Madrid

• UEFA Europa League : 2009/10

Benfica Lisbon

• Portuguese Cup : 2011

Olympiacos Piraeus

• Greek champion : 2013/14 , 2014/15 , 2015/16
• Greek Cup Winner : 2014/15

Web links

• Roberto Jiménez Gago in the database of weltfussball.de
• Roberto Jiménez Gago in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Roberto Jiménez Gago in the soccerway.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ José Criado: Roberto Jiménez ya es portero del Málaga CF. In: La Opinión de Málaga . July 5, 2019, accessed July 31, 2019 (Spanish).
2. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match report CA Osasuna - Atlético Madrid (accessed on September 24, 2011)
3. ↑ marca.com : " Roberto Jiménez acompañará a Sergio Asenjo" (Spanish, accessed on September 24, 2011)
4. ↑ goal.com: "Official: Roberto Leaves Atletico Madrid For Benfica" (accessed September 24, 2011)
5. ↑ slbenfica.pt: "Roberto transferido para o Saragoça" (Portuguese, accessed on September 24, 2011)
6. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match report Real Saragossa - Real Madrid (accessed on September 24, 2011)
7. ↑ UEFA.com: "Olympiacos win as Roberto keeps Benfica at bay" (accessed February 5, 2013)
8. ↑ UEFA.com: “Team of the week - Matchday 4” ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2014 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. (English, accessed February 5, 2013) 
9. ↑ superleaguegreece.net: "Season Statistics" ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Greek, accessed February 5, 2013) 
10. ↑ Olympiacos.org: "Official statement of the association" (Greek, accessed on February 5, 2013)
11. ↑ Joe Brophy: UNDER THE HAMMER: West Ham sign veteran Spanish keeper Roberto on two-year deal. The Sun . May 31, 2019, accessed on July 31, 2019.