Nicolas Lombaerts
Nicolas Lombaerts in Portrait (2010)
Nicolas Lombaerts ( born March 20, 1985 in Bruges ) is a Belgian football player at the position of a defender, the most left-back arrived in Belgium to use and is used in Russia mainly as a central defender. Since 2007, the left-footer playing at Zenit St Petersburg in the Premjer League, the top division in the Russian football. He is also a national team of his native country.
- 2.1 First Inserts for U -17 and U-19
- 2.2 Appearances in the U -21 and conscription into the senior team
Club career
Career start in Bruges
Born in the largest city of West Flanders Lombaerts began his active career as a football player in 1991 at his hometown club, FC Bruges. After he had gone through the various youth leagues at the club, he was from the season 2003/ 04, included in the Jupiler League, the highest football league in Belgium. There he had next to more experienced defenders, such as Philippe Clement, Hans Cornelis, Olivier De Cock, Ivan Gvozdenović, Birger Maertens, David Rozehnal, Marek Špilár, Birger Van de Ven and Peter Van der Heyden, minimal prospects for use in the highest soccer league Belgium.
As a result of the hopelessness over FC Bruges to become a professional regulars already end of the season looming, a change Lombaerts, this changed in the summer before the 2004 /05 Premier League rivals for KAA Gent. Immediately after the exchange of the capital of West Flanders in the capital of East Flanders gave the young defender his competitive debut for the Ghent. He played on 7 August 2004 in the first round of the 5-0 win over Germinal Beerschot Antwerp the full duration by. Even in the first season at the new club as he came to a total of 13 championship stakes and could be obtained to advance on the way to becoming a regular in the defensive line of the team. He also completed all six games this season his team in the UI - Cup game of 2005, where he became, among other things against opponents like Bohemians Dublin, FC Tescoma Zlín or Valencia.
As a regular player in Ghent
This he did, finally, in the 2005/06 season, in which he of 34 possible gewesenen championship games came in 31 for use and one goal and one assist of contributing. In addition, he scored an own goal this season also, with which he sealed the defeat of his team against KRC Genk. His first regular professional goals were scored Lombaerts 21 January 2006 in a 3-0 home win over RAA La Louviere, when he was already on presentation of Mbark Boussoufa to 3:0 arrived in 23 minutes. At the championship end Lombaerts ranked with his team in fourth place in the table and therefore qualified automatically for the Intertoto Cup in 2006, where the team took from the 3rd round, but there against after a total score of 2:3 in return game Swiss Teams Grasshopper Club Zurich was eliminated from the competition. Lombaerts was present in both games his team in action.
The season 2006/ 07 was similar to that previously gone for the young central defender. A total of 32 league operations, where he remained scoreless, however, managed the team at the end of the season again to fourth place, which meant a fixed place in the Intertoto Cup, as well as in the previous year. There, the team has performed in round 2 against the Northern Irish club Cliftonville FC and came to a total score of 6-0 in return game without problems in the third round, where, however, unhappy with a total score of 2:3 in round- and second leg against Aalborg BK from Denmark from current competition are eliminated. After he had completed his last mission for the club from Gent in the 1-1 away draw against KVC Westerlo 19 May 2007, the 22 -year-old resigned in July 2007, a further change.
Change to Russia
After Lombaerts already first of several clubs, including the former German Second Bundesliga FC Cologne, was courted, Lombaerts changed in July 2007 for a rumored fee of around four million euros to Russia to Zenit St Petersburg in the Premjer League. Again he came in the 2007 season still in 13 championship matches used, whereby he stood by his debut on 15 July 2007, in the 2-0 home win over FK Rostov over the full 90 minutes on the court. Overall, he scored two goals this season for his team. That same season he was. With the team for the first time in the club's history of Zenit St Petersburg Russian football champions after allowing the tracker Spartak Moscow two points behind behind It was the first time since the introduction of Premjer league in a Russian football club champion who does not have his club based in the Russian capital Moscow.
He also took from the second qualifying round of the UEFA Cup 2007/ 08 part, where the team came after the enduring qualification to the group stage of the competition and there in group A than group of third parties together with the Everton FC ( 1 ) and the first FC Nuremberg ( 2 ) progressed to the Round of there and beat Villarreal on the away goals rule. Later in the second round Lombaerts came with his team even on the away goals rule against Olympique Marseille on, then won in the quarterfinals sovereign with a total score of 4-2 over Bayer 04 Leverkusen. After a 4-0 second-leg semi-final victory over Bayern Munich, the Russians stood for entry into the UEFA Cup final in 2007 /08, nothing in the way. There, the team won, but without a use of at this time already injured Lombaerts, 2-0 on the Glasgow Rangers and crowned himself as the UEFA Cup winners 2007/08. The subsequent UEFA Super Cup match against the winner of the UEFA Champions League 2007 /08, Manchester United, who still held at the end of the same month, won the Advocaat coached by force 2-1.
The largest part of the 2008 and also previously a regular part of the UEFA Cup had Lombaert injury resign because he already was injured in the preseason. Having already turned out from February to early April 2008 due to a broken leg, he left immediately afterwards a second time, since he suffered a cruciate ligament injury. Then fell Lombaerts, which was used in his home country mainly on the left side of the defense, but further advanced in Russia in the middle, and his skills finally presented as a central defender proof, almost half a year and only returned in October 2008 in the running game back operation. Over the entire season, it brought Lombaerts so only on two championship operations. In the group stage of the UEFA Champions League 2008 /09 for which the teams automatically qualified as a master in 2007, the team did not get far and different still from in Group H, but was a group of third parties for the round of the UEFA Cup in 2008 / 09 qualified. In the current competition the team finally retired in the second round against Udinese Calcio with a total score of 1:2 in return game.
In the official league events of the game 2009, the left-footer was used in 15 league games in which he contributed one goal for his team and with the team in the final standings behind Rubin Kazan ( 1 ) and Spartak Moscow ( 2 ) was ranked third place in the table. With this good again Saisonendergebnis Lombaerts was with his team entitled to the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League 2010/11 to participate. The team in the play- offs, the actual fourth qualifying round difference, just with a total score of 1:2 against AJ Auxerre. In parallel to ongoing Premjer league Lombaerts came in 14 league games for use in which the center-back offensive acted as in recent years. He brought it to a total of three goals in the league. That same season managed coached by Italian Luciano Spalletti team the entry into the Russian Cup final of the 2010 season, where the team - Nicolas Lombaerts was over the full 90 minutes in use - to FK Sibir Novosibirsk to a penalty goal by Roman Shirokov in the 60 minutes for the second time in club history the Russian Cup winner was.
National team career
First Inserts for U -17 and U-19
After being in his youth already in the Belgian U- 17 national team was used, while in a qualifying match for the U-17 Football Championship in Denmark in 2002 made his debut on 1 October 2001 against the U- 17 team Slovakia, was he was soon to convene in the U-19 national team of Belgium. He participated with the team, among others, at the U -19 Football Championship in Switzerland in 2004. There coached by Marc Van Geersom team was one of the outsiders and proved in the course of the competition as such. Still in the first round lasted just three games separated the team in Group A than Group Last achieved with only a single point. The 2004 European Cup was the only major and significant tournament at the Lombaerts had taken part with the Belgian U-19 national team.
Inserts into the U -21 and conscription into the senior team
Already in the following year, the left-footer was first appointed to the Belgian U- 21 team, where he participated with the team, among others, at the U -21 Football Championship in 2007 in the Netherlands. Under the long-standing U-21 national team coach Jean -François De Sart managed the team to the semifinals, where she retired against peers from Serbia with 0-2. After he came in the Belgian U -21 about three years for use, he finished this in 2007 due to his advanced age, his engagement there.
After he was called up for the first time in the national team of his home country back in 2005, but in the match against Lithuania on 12 October 2005 just sat on the bench, he came in the following year his A-National Team debut. He was employed on 11 May 2006 in a 2-1 victory over Belgium Saudia Arabia while on in the 89 minutes for the younger Steven Defour. After another three convocations without insert and a two minute appearance against Serbia Lombaerts came on 13 October 2007, in the 0-0 draw against Finland for the first time over the full duration of the use. To date (as of 12 October 2010) was convened Lombaerts in 18 international matches, of which he was used in twelve matches. He was taken into account, among others, in 2008 for a single international match in Belgium.
His first goal for Belgium, he scored on 12 October 2010, when he was in the 90th minute scored the goal for the 4-3 lead his team in the European Championship qualifier against Austria. The match ended in a 4-4 draw.
Achievements
- Champion of Russia ( 3): 2007, 2010, 2012
- Russian Cup winner (1 ): 2010
- UEFA Cup Winners' Cup ( 1): 2008
- UEFA Super Cup Winner - (1): 2008 ( O.E. )