MatÃas Fernández
Matías Fernández ( 2006)
Matías Ariel Fernández Fernández ( born May 15, 1986 in Buenos Aires ) is a Chilean football player. It is South America's Footballer of the Year 2006. Considered as fast, tricky, technically gifted and a good free kick taker.
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Family
Matías Fernández was born in Caballito, a suburb of Buenos Aires, the son of an Argentine mother and a Chilean father. He has two brothers, Ezequiel and Nazareno. As Matías was four years old, the family moved to La Calera.
Career
Association
His career began Matías Fernández with 12 years in the youth team Colo Colo de Santiago. There he went through in the following years the youth teams before he aufrückte in the first team of the club. His first Championship Game of the midfielder on 1 August 2004 against Universidad de Chile. A week later he scored his first goal for Colo -Colo. Overall, he scored eight goals in the Clausura 2004 and was named best young player of the season.
In 2006 he won with Colo -Colo his first title, the Apertura and Clausura then. In the Copa Sudamericana Matigol scored nine goals in six games and was able to achieve with Colo-Colo, the final, but which they lost to the Mexican representative CF Pachuca. Because of these achievements, he was elected in 2006 to South America's Footballer of the Year. In the winter of 2006/ 07, the offensive player moved to Spain with Villarreal, who was also headed by Chilean Manuel Pellegrini. Even before players like Argentina's Fernando Gago Young Star Fernández was elected to the "America's Footballer of the Year " in 2006. On 7 January 2007, he made his debut in the dress of Villarreal against league rivals FC Valencia. Although he was able to achieve the benefits of his time never quite in Chile, Fernández was a regular player.
2007/ 08 he led the team to the league 's best result in the club's history, as the team's vice - champion. After the offensive Chilean became the new season by new coach Ernesto Valverde getting less attention, he decided a change. For the season 2009/10, Matías Fernández therefore Portuguese club Sporting Lisbon followed. There he received a four -year contract. Right away he made it into the starting lineup the Leões.
National
Fernández represented Chile in various youth national teams. He was also Chilean team captain at the Junior World Championship 2005 in the Netherlands. Together with players like Nicolas Canales, Carlos Villanueva and José Pedro Fuenzalida, which also was later A-National player, he formed the backbone of the junior teams.
In Chile's last game of qualifying for the 2006 World Cup against Peru on 17 August 2005 Fernández came on for Luis Jiménez and made his debut in the senior team in his home country. The following year he was appointed by then- coach Nelson Acosta in the squad for the Copa America 2007. In the following years he ran regularly as a regular player and qualified with the team for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, for which the defender was appointed in May 2010 in the cadre of Chileans.
Achievements
Association
- Chilean Apertura with Colo -Colo: 2006
- Chilean Clausura with Colo -Colo: 2006
Individually
- South America's Footballer of the Year 2006
- Chilean Footballer of the Year 2006