Sébastien Pocognoli

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Sébastien Pocognoli
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Pocognoli as a player from Hannover 96 (2013)
Personnel
birthday August 1, 1987
place of birth Seraing ,  Belgium
size 181 cm
position Full-back (left)
Juniors
Years station
1992-1996 RFC seraing
1996-2002 Standard Liege
2002-2005 KRC Genk
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2005-2007 KRC Genk 46 (1)
2007-2009 AZ Alkmaar 64 (5)
2010-2013 Standard Liege 76 (2)
2013-2014 Hannover 96 30 (0)
2014-2017 West Bromwich Albion 16 (0)
2016-2017 →  Brighton & Hove Albion  (loan) 20 (1)
2017-2019 Standard Liege 32 (2)
2019 Standard Liege Reserve 1 (0)
2020– Royale Union Saint-Gilloise 4 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2002-2003 Belgium U-16 19 (1)
2003-2004 Belgium U-17 12 (2)
2004-2006 Belgium U-19 17 (2)
2006-2008 Belgium U-21 12 (1)
2008 Belgium Olympia 6 (0)
2008-2014 Belgium 13 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: February 28, 2020

Sébastien Pocognoli (born August 1, 1987 in Seraing ) is a Belgian football player .

Career

In the club

The son of Italian immigrants started playing soccer at RFC Seraing . In 1996 Pocognoli moved to the youth department of the neighboring first division club Standard Liège . At the beginning of the 2002/03 season he moved to KRC Genk , for whom he played two years in youth. For the 2005/06 season he rose to the senior squad of KRC Genk at the age of 17. He made his debut on January 22, 2006 in the Pro League for the professional team in the 1: 2 loss to Sporting Charleroi . Four days later Pocognoli scored his first goal in the league game against KVC Westerlo and came to a total of 15 missions by the end of the season. After the following season with 30 first division appearances, he went to AZ Alkmaar in the Dutch Eredivisie . There he made his debut on August 18, 2007, when he was substituted on on the first match day against VVV-Venlo by coach Louis van Gaal in the 75th minute. On September 20, 2007, he made his debut in the first round first leg of the UEFA Cup against FC Paços de Ferreira and marked the 1-0 winner. Pocognoli scored his first goal in the league on December 9, 2007 in a 2-1 win over FC Utrecht . In the UEFA Cup he came to five appearances; in the league he came to 28 inserts (two goals). In the 2008/09 season, in which AZ Alkmaar was Dutch champions, coach Louis van Gaal put him in a total of 25 games in the Eredivisie. After eleven league games and one goal in the first half of the following season as well as five appearances in the 2009/10 UEFA Champions League , he moved back to Standard Liège. Pocognoli was in the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League in all six games of the Liège, which were defeated by Hamburger SV in the quarter-finals .

In the 2010/11 season Pocognoli were level with Standard Liège on points behind KRC Genk runner-up and then won the Belgian Cup in the final against KVC Westerlo . He came this season to 24 appearances and one goal in the league and ten appearances in the play-offs. Furthermore, six appearances followed - including in the final - in the cup competition. The 2011/12 season was less successful, however, because he missed the European Cup participation with Liège after fourth place in the regular season with a fifth in the play-offs. Pocognoli made a total of 32 appearances in the league and in the play-offs and in all ten Liège games in the 2011/12 UEFA Europa League . In the first half of the following season, Pocognoli played seven more times in the Belgian league before signing a contract with German Bundesliga club Hannover 96 on January 22, 2013, which ran until June 30, 2016 . In his first game on January 26, 2013 against VfL Wolfsburg , he received the red card and was suspended for three games. Pocognoli came in the second half of the 2012/13 season to eleven and in the following season to 19 missions.

In July 2014 he moved to West Bromwich Albion in the English Premier League . In the 2016/17 season he was loaned from there to Brighton & Hove Albion . After this loan expired, he switched back to Standard Liège at the beginning of the 2017/18 season .

After he had only played one game of the reserve team in the 2019/20 season, the club agreed with him to terminate his contract for the winter break. A few days later, Pocognoli signed a contract until summer 2021 with an option for another year with the second division Royale Union Saint-Gilloise .

In the national team

Pocognoli went through various youth national teams. In 2006 he played all three games at the U-19 European Championship and was eliminated with Belgium as bottom of the table. With the Belgian U-21 national team , he then took part in the 2007 European Championship in the Netherlands, where he scored a goal. His team failed only in the semifinals against Serbia with 0-2. Pocognoli made his debut for the Belgian senior team on May 30, 2008 in a friendly against Italy . A little later Pocognoli was in the squad of the Belgian national team for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing appointed. During the Olympic tournament, he did not succeed, but he reached the semi-finals with his team, in which they were eliminated against the selection of Nigeria . In the years that followed he failed with the national team in both the 2010 World Cup qualification and the 2012 European Championship qualification , in which he was only in the squad and was not used. In qualifying for the 2014 World Cup , Pocognoli was used twice and qualified with the team for the finals.

titles and achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pocognoli strengthens 96 defense. Hannover 96, January 22, 2013, archived from the original on June 11, 2015 ; accessed on August 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Pocognoli moves to West Bromwich. Hannover 96, July 12, 2014, archived from the original on July 30, 2014 ; accessed on September 2, 2018 .
  3. ↑ sebastien-pocognoli-de-retour-chez-les-rouches. Standard Liège, June 16, 2017, accessed on August 27, 2018 (French).
  4. ↑ Sebastien Pocognoli. Standard Liège, January 20, 2020, accessed January 2, 2020 (French).
  5. ^ Bienvenue Sebastien Pocognoli. Royale Union Saint-Gilloise, January 8, 2020, accessed January 9, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Pocognoli, Sébastien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Seraing , Belgium