Urby Emanuelson in October 2006 |
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Urby Vitorrio Diego Emanuelson | ||
| Date of birth | 16 June 1986 | ||
| Place of birth | Amsterdam, Netherlands | ||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Left back / Left winger | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Milan | ||
| Number | 28 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Voorland | |||
| 1994–2004 | Ajax | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2004–2011 | Ajax | 173 | (17) |
| 2011– | Milan | 19 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2006– | Netherlands | 14 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 6 February 2011. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Urby Vitorrio Diego Emanuelson[1] (born 16 June 1986 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch professional footballer of Surinamese descent, who plays for Serie A club Milan. He plays as either a left midfielder or left back. Despite playing as a defender, he is best known for attacking attributes such as pace and dribbling.
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Emanuelson is a product of Ajax's youth system, joining them from Voorland SC. He made his debut during the 2004–05 season on April 10, 2005 in a 4–2 home win over AZ. As of the 2005–06 season he became first-choice left back and he won his first career trophies, starting with the 2005 Johan Cruijff-schaal and the 2006 KNVB Cup. As a result for his efforts he was named "Amsterdam talent of the year 2006". Both the Johan Cruijff-schaal and the KNVB Cup were successfully defended in the 2006–07 season and the Johan Cruijff-schaal was won for the third consecutive time at the start of the 2007–08 season.
During the transfer period in the summer of 2007, Ajax issued a do-not-touch label on Emanuelson as a warning to other clubs who planned to make a bid for the young talent.
When Marco van Basten took over as club coach in 2008–09, Emanuelson began on the left back position. But later, after numerous of disappointing matches and bad defending, Emanuelson was placed as left midfielder or left winger, letting him focus more on attacking play than defensive. On 30 November 2008, Emanuelson played his 150th match for the club. In his last period at Ajax Emanuelson primarily played as a left midfielder because of his weak defending abilities. He has since flourished in his new role on the left wing, frequently making runs and assisting from the flanks while scoring goals himself.
In the 2009-10 Eredivisie season Emanuelson won the KNVB-cup for the third time in his career.
On January 23, 2011, Serie A club Milan announced to have signed Emanuelson with a three-and-a-half-year contract, for a fee of around €1.7 million.[2] After the 2010–11 Serie A Championship of Milan this fee increased with €750,000, making a total fee of around €2.5 million.[3] He made his debut for the club on January 26, 2011 in a Coppa Italia match against Sampdoria, providing an assist for Alexandre Pato. Milan won the match 2-1. He played his first game in Serie A, coming on as a substitute against Catania. Emanuelson scored his first goal for Milan in a Coppa Italia game against Palermo, his goal equalized the game that Milan was losing 2-1, and therefore ended 2-2. He helped Milan to win their first Scudetto in seven years acting mostly as a substitute. He also won the 2011 Supercoppa Italiana with his new club to close off a very successful year for the player.
He was a member of the Dutch squad playing at the FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2005 held in his home country The Netherlands. The team was eliminated in the quarter final against Nigeria. He also was a member of the Dutch squad that won the UEFA U-21 Championship in 2006 and was named in the UEFA Team of the Tournament as a left back. The last major tournament he played was the 2008 Summer Olympics where the team was eliminated in the quarter finals by later winner Argentina.
On August 16, 2006 he made his debut for the Dutch national team in a friendly match against the Republic of Ireland. Despite playing for the Netherlands occasionally during the qualifiers for Euro 2008, he was not selected in the final squad that would participate in the tournament itself.
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Europe | Total | ||||
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| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Ajax | 2004–05 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 2005–06 | 26 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 36 | 1 | |
| 2006–07 | 31 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 41 | 3 | |
| 2007–08 | 31 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 37 | 3 | |
| 2008–09 | 32 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 42 | 4 | |
| 2009–10 | 31 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 48 | 8 | |
| 2010–11 | 19 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 32 | 2 | |
| Total | 173 | 17 | 20 | 4 | 48 | 1 | 241 | 22 | |
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| 2010–11 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | |
| Total | 9 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | |
| Career Total | 182 | 17 | 22 | 5 | 48 | 1 | 252 | 23 | |
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