Wendell (soccer player)

Wendell
Wendell (2014)
Personnel
Surname	Wendell Nascimento Borges
birthday	July 20, 1993
place of birth	Fortaleza ,  Brazil
size	178 cm
position	External defense (left)
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000–2011	Iraty SC	11 (0)
2012-2014	Londrina EC	40 (3)
2012	→  Paraná Clube  (loan)	15 (0)
2013-2014	→  Grêmio Porto Alegre  (loan)	24 (1)
2014–	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	164 (7)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2014	Brazil U20	4 (0)
2014-2016	Brazil U23	8 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20

Wendell , whose full name is Wendell Nascimento Borges , (born July 20, 1993 in Fortaleza , Ceará ) is a Brazilian football player . The left defender has been under contract with German Bundesliga club Bayer 04 Leverkusen since the 2014/15 season .

Career

societies

Wendell started his career at Iraty SC in Brazil. After moving to the Londrina EC , he was awarded to the clubs Paraná Clube and Grêmio Porto Alegre . For the clubs mentioned, he was used in Série A , Série B and the Copa Libertadores . In 2014, the German Bundesliga club Bayer 04 Leverkusen became aware of the left-back and gave him a five-year contract. On September 21, 2014, the Brazilian made his Bundesliga debut in a 4-1 defeat at VfL Wolfsburg . He scored his first goal on March 13, 2015 in a 4-0 home game against VfB Stuttgart when he made it 1-0 in the 32nd minute of the game. In his first season, Wendell became a regular on the left defensive flank and played 34 season games in the league as well as in the DFB Cup and the Champions League . In the following years he was able to assert himself on the Leverkusen defense, only missing a few games due to suspensions or injuries. On matchday 12 of the 2019/20 Bundesliga season , the Brazilian played his 200th competitive game for Bayer in a 1-1 draw against SC Freiburg .

His contract in Leverkusen runs until 2022.

National team

Wendell played four games for the Brazilian U20 national team and won the Toulon tournament with them in 2014 . He was used eight times for the U23 selection . On September 27, 2016, Wendell was nominated by national coach Tite for the first time in the squad of the senior national team for the qualifying games for the 2018 World Cup , but was not used.

successes

National team

• Toulon Tournament : 2014

Private

Wendell is the father of a son born in January 2016 and a daughter born in June 2017.

Web links

Commons : Wendell  - Collection of Images

• Wendell in the database of weltfussball.de
• Wendell in the database of kicker.de
• Wendell in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Defense talent: Bayer Leverkusen sign Brazilian Wendell on spiegel.de on February 27, 2014, accessed on June 3, 2014
2. ↑ Match report Bayer 04 Leverkusen versus VfB Stuttgart on transfermarkt.de from March 13, 2015, accessed on April 25, 2015
3. ↑ Records, anniversaries, curiosities: Matchday 12 in numbers , bundesliga.com, accessed on June 3, 2020.
4. ↑ Until 2022: Bayer 04 extended with Wendell ; bayer04.de, June 3, 2020, accessed on June 3, 2020
5. ↑ After just one game: English national coach must go to Abendblatt.de on September 27, 2016, accessed on September 27, 2016
6. ↑ Bayers Jedvaj before comeback on sport1.de on January 22, 2016, accessed on January 29, 2016
7. ↑ Report from Bayer 04 Leverkusen via Twitter from June 13, 2017, accessed on June 25, 2017