Sergio Busquets

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Sergio Busquets
Sergio Busquets 2018.jpg
Sergio Busquets (2018)
Personnel
Surname Sergio Busquets Burgos
birthday July 16, 1988
place of birth Sabadell ,  Spain
size 189 cm
position Defensive Midfield
Juniors
Years station
1999-2003 UE Lleida
2003-2005 Unió Jàbac i Terrassa
2005-2007 FC Barcelona
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2007-2008 FC Barcelona B 25 (2)
2008– FC Barcelona 369 (9)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2008-2009 Spain U21 3 (1)
2008– Catalonia 3 (0)
2009– Spain 116 (2)
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 7, 2020

2 As of November 18, 2019

Sergio Busquets Burgos [ ˈseɾxio βusˈkets ] (born July 16, 1988 in Sabadell , Catalonia ) is a Spanish football player . The defensive midfielder has been under contract with FC Barcelona since 2008 .

He is the son of Carles Busquets , who guarded the goal of FC Barcelona in the early 1990s.

Club career

Busquets joined FC Barcelona's A youth team in 2005, with whom he won three titles within two years and was one of the key players alongside Crosas , Giovani and Bojan . In 2007 he rose to FC Barcelona B , for whom he scored two goals in 23 games under coach Pep Guardiola .

He made his league debut for the A team of FC Barcelona , again under Guardiola, on September 13, 2008 against Racing Santander , when he played for the full season. Busquets scored his first competitive goal for Barcelona less than a month later in Barça's 5-0 victory over FC Basel in the UEFA Champions League .

On December 22, 2008, he extended his contract with Barcelona until 2013 with a release clause of 80 million euros. Despite the strong competition from national players Yaya Touré and Seydou Keita in the defensive midfield of FC Barcelona, ​​Busquets played 24 league games in his first first division season, 16 of them from the start. He was also in the starting line-up in both the Spanish Cup final and the 2008/09 UEFA Champions League final , contributing to Barça's first triple win . In the 2009/10 season his good form continued and he was preferred to Touré in defensive midfield. He played 33 league games in 2009/10 and successfully defended the Spanish championship title with Barcelona. At the end of January 2011, Busquets extended his contract for another two years until 2015; in August 2013 again until 2018 with an extension option for a further year. In the contract, an amount of 150 million euros was also set as a transfer fee. For the 2014/15 season Busquets took over the number five shirt from Carles Puyol , who had ended his career. Busquets has been the deputy team captain behind Lionel Messi since the 2018/19 season . At the end of September 2018, Busquets extended its contract until June 30, 2023; his release clause was set at € 500 million.

National team career

On October 11, 2008, Busquets played for the first time for his country's U21 team in the 2-1 loss to Switzerland , in which he scored the first goal of the game. However, Spain won the second leg 3-1 after extra time, so that they could qualify for the U21 European Championship 2009 . He was unable to take part in the final round because of his participation in the 2009 Confed Cup, which was taking place at the same time . He made his international debut in the senior national team of Spain on April 1, 2009 in a World Cup qualifier against Turkey .

At the Confed Cup 2009 he was third with Spain. He was used three times in this tournament.

After he had played a total of three games in the qualifying games for the 2010 World Cup , he was nominated by Vicente del Bosque for the finals of this tournament. As a regular alongside Xabi Alonso in the central defensive midfield, he won the finals of this tournament with a 1-0 win over the Netherlands ( Iniesta scored the decisive goal in the 116th minute), the first world title with the Spanish national team.

At the European Championships in France in 2016 , he was again included as a regular in Spain's squad. He played all four of the team's games over the full 90 minutes. Spain was eliminated with the last 16 defeat against Italy.

Play style and skills

The strengths of the tall, defensive midfielder lie primarily in his overview of the game, the precise passing accuracy, his ball security, in duel behavior and in conquering the ball.

titles and achievements

Busquets (right) and Xavi with the Henri Delaunay Cup (2012)

Society:

National team:

Personally:

Web links

Commons : Sergio Busquets  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Real Federación Española de Fútbol " Sergio Busquets Burgos ( Memento of April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )"
  2. ↑ a b c FCBarcelona.com: Sergio Busquets Burgos ( Memento of the original dated December 6, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fcbarcelona.com
  3. ↑ National Football Teams: Busquets, Sergi
  4. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match schedule / line-up: FC Barcelona - Racing Santander (Primera Division 2008/2009)
  5. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match schedule / line-up: FC Basel - FC Barcelona (Champions League 2008/2009)
  6. ↑ uefa.com: Busquets thrilled to commit future to Barça , December 22, 2008
  7. ↑ BBC Sport: Distractions looming as Barca bid for the double
  8. ↑ fcbarcelona.cat: Busquets extends contract till 2015 ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fcbarcelona.com
  9. ↑ Sergio Busquets signa el seu nou contracte fcbarcelona.cat, accessed on August 27, 2013 (Catalan)
  10. ↑ Sergio Busquets inherits the legendary number 5 shirt fcbarcelona.cat, accessed on August 3, 2014 (English)
  11. ↑ Four captains from La Masia , fcbarcelona.com, August 10, 2018, accessed August 10, 2018.
  12. ↑ Agreement to renew contract of Sergio Busquets , fcbarcelona.com, September 27, 2018, accessed on September 27, 2018.
  13. ↑ de.uefa.com: Sergio Busquets ( Memento of March 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ news.ch: Swiss U21s defeat Spain
  15. ↑ blick.ch: EM dream burst! Swiss U21 loses in Spain
  16. ↑ a b Sergio Busquets in the FIFA database (English)
  17. ↑ weltfussball.de: Busquets> Confederations Cup 2009 in South Africa
  18. ↑ Sergio Busquets in the database of FIFA (English)
personal data
SURNAME Busquets, Sergio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Busquets Burgos, Sergio (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Sabadell