Roger García Junyent

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Roger
Personnel
Surname Roger García Junyent
birthday 15th December 1976
place of birth Sabadell ,  Spain
size 180 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
1987-1994 FC Barcelona
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1994-1995 FC Barcelona B 26 0(6)
1995-1999 FC Barcelona 78 0(4)
1999-2003 Espanyol Barcelona 114 (17)
2003-2006 Villarreal CF 55 0(4)
2006-2007 Ajax Amsterdam 11 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1993-1995 Spain U18 6 0(3)
1995 Spain U-19 5 0(2)
1996-1998 Spain U-21 12 0(4)
1997-1998 Catalonia 2 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Roger García Junyent (born December 15, 1976 in Sabadell ), or Roger for short , is a former Spanish football player . The left foot was mostly used as a midfielder .

Club career

Roger joined FC Barcelona's youth academy in 1987 at the age of ten . On the 32nd matchday of the 1994/95 season , Roger made his debut for the first team of FC Barcelona against Deportivo La Coruña . He scored his first league goal in the following season at El Clásico , in which he scored the 1-1 final.

After Roger played just eight of 76 league games from the start in the 1997/98 and 1998/99 seasons , in which Barça won the championship, he moved to Espanyol Barcelona for the 1999/00 season . During his four-year stay with Espanyol, he was mostly part of the starting line-up and achieved there in his last season 2002/03 his career best of nine league goals , making him the third best scorer of his team, and helped Espanyol to stay in the league.

In 2003 the transfer to Villarreal followed , for which he could only play one league game in his second season due to a serious knee injury.

Between 2002 and 2003, Roger scored three goals from his own half of the field.

Roger ended his career after the 2006/07 season, in which he was active for the Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam .

National team career

With the Spanish U-21 selection , Roger won the European Championship in 1998 .

Between 1997 and 1998 Roger also played two games for the Catalan football team .

successes

Others

Roger's brothers, Óscar and Genís , were also professional football players. They all played for FC Barcelona in their youth , but only Roger and Óscar managed to get promoted to the first team.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Garcia Junyent, Roger. In: veteransfcbarcelona.cat. Archived from the original on January 8, 2010 ; accessed on August 23, 2014 .
  2. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match schedule / line-up: Deportivo La Coruña - FC Barcelona (Primera Division 1994/1995)
  3. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match schedule / line-up: Real Madrid - FC Barcelona (Primera Division 1995/1996)
  4. ↑ guardian.co.uk: Is there a greater long-range goalscorer than Xabi Alonso? , October 4, 2006
  5. ↑ uefa.com: 1998: Francesc Arnau
  6. ↑ FCBarcelona.com: Barca Brothers ( Memento of the original dated December 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) 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. (English), October 29, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fcbarcelona.com
personal data
SURNAME García Junyent, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roger (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 15th December 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Sabadell , Spain