Sergio Escudero (footballer born 1988)

Sergio Ariel Escudero (Japaneseエスクデロ アリエル セルヒオ, Esukudero Arieru Seruhio; born September 1, 1988 in Granada, Spain) is a Japanese footballer Spanish- Argentine origin. He is currently in the K-League FC Seoul under contract.

He is also in possession of the Argentine and Spanish nationality.

Club career

Born in Spain, Escudero lived from 1991 to 1996 in Japan, where his father worked as a football Legionnaire. After the end of his career and the associated return of the family to Argentina, he came in 1996 in the youth team of CA Velez Sarsfield.

2001, the family moved back over to Japan, whereupon Escudero initially found shelter for a year in the youth of Kashiwa Reysol and from 2003 to his father, the former club Urawa Red Diamonds, changed. There he underwent a rapid development and soon had the reputation of being a great talent.

At the age of 16, he debuted then on 16 May 2005 in the match against Albirex Niigata in the first team the Reds. As a result he came in his first season to a total of five season games without a goal. 2006 Sergio Escudero has been chosen at DaimlerChrysler Junior Cup for the best player of the tournament. Contrary to expectations, he managed in the following two seasons and not the breakthrough came in each case to only one season use. Escudero was at this time a lack of professional attitude accused, which was underlined by his temporarily augenscheinliches overweight.

Only in 2008 under coach Gert Engels he was back in the first team and was promoted at the end of the season under new coach Volker Finke team regular. In August 2009 he became subsequently involuntarily to a key figure in a media- hyped discussion about " fair play ".

After a negative run of six defeats, he let himself in the game against Sanfrecce Hiroshima, despite a clear fouls on him in the penalty area, but do not fall match. Urawa thereby received no penalty and lost the game 1-2. After the game was reported by the media, Volker Finke had his players criticized for not to have been dropped after the physical contact in the penalty area in order to get a penalty. This was followed by a wave of indignation, which ended in an official release of the Japanese Football Association, the Finke " unsportsmanlike conduct, " accused. The message went halfway around the world before it was put into perspective by the President of the Reds, Mitsuo Hashimoto, denied such an approach by the coach. Finke survived the alleged incident without consequences, Escudero played the season as a regular player at the end.

In July 2012, Escudero was awarded to the season end of 2012 to the Korean first division side FC Seoul. This then pulled the option to purchase and committed Escudero fixed on 1 January 2013.

National

In 2005 he received a nomination of a training camp of the Argentine U-15 national team. He was then appointed to any youth selection of his original home country.

On June 11, 2007, he received analogous to the naturalization of his father, the Japanese citizenship. Actually, he was provided for the levy of the Japanese for the Junior World Cup in 2007 in Canada, but this failed due to the entry deadline for the tournament to which he has not yet held the Japanese citizenship.

In 2008, he debuted in the Japanese eventually U -23 during the international tournament in Toulon, during which he managed a score.

Achievements

Others

In addition to his father and his uncle Osvaldo Escudero was a professional footballer. This was in 1979 with the Argentine U-20 national junior champion. Furthermore, his cousin Damián Escudero is a professional footballer.