Sergio Busquets

Sergi Busquets ( 2009)

Sergio Busquets Burgos [ seɾxio βuskets ] (born 16 July 1988 in Sabadell, Catalonia ) is a Spanish footballer who plays for FC Barcelona since 2008 as a midfielder.

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

Club career

Busquets took effect in 2005, the A - youth team of the FC Barcelona, with whom he won three titles within two years and next Crosas, Giovani and Bojan one of the key players was. In 2007 he rose to FC Barcelona B, where he scored under coach Josep Guardiola, two goals in 23 games.

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

On 22 December 2008 he extended his contract with Barcelona until 2013 with a release clause of 80 million euros. Despite the strong competition of the international Yaya Toure and Seydou Keita in midfield for FC Barcelona Busquets completed in his first 24 league games Erstligasaison, including 16 from the beginning. He was also both in the Spanish Cup final and the final of the UEFA Champions League 2008 /09 on the grid, thus contributing to Barça's first triple profit. In the 2009/10 season continued his good form and he was preferred to Touré in the defensive midfield. He denied 2009/10 33 league games and defended successfully with Barcelona, the Spanish league title. End of January 2011 Busquets extended his contract by two years until 2015; again in August 2013 to 2018 with an option to extend for a further year. The Treaty also an amount of 150 million euros has been written as a transfer fee.

National team career

On October 11, 2008 Busquets played for the first time for the U- 21 team of his country in the 1-2 defeat against Switzerland in which he scored the first goal of the game. However, the return match Spain won 3-1 after extra time, so that they could qualify for the 2009 U-21 European Championship. In the final round even he could not take part due to his participation in the concurrent Confederations Cup 2009.

His international debut in the senior national team of Spain he gave on April 1, 2009 in a World Cup qualifier against Turkey.

At the Confederations Cup 2009, he was third with Spain. It came in this tournament three times for use.

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

Playing style and skills

The strengths of the tall, defensive midfielder lie mainly in its game overview, his ball security, and competitive situations and in winning the ball.

Achievements

Club:

  • Spanish Cup: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013
  • Spanish Cup: 2009, 2012
  • Supercopa de España: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013
  • UEFA Champions League: 2009, 2011
  • UEFA Super Cup: 2009, 2011
  • FIFA Club World Cup: 2009, 2011

National team:

  • World Champion: 2010
  • European Championship: 2012
  • Confederations Cup: 2013 Finalist, Third 2009

Personal:

  • Trofeo Bravo: 2009
  • All- star team of Euro 2012
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