Álex Bergantiños
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alejandro Bergantiños García | ||
| Date of birth | 7 June 1985 | ||
| Place of birth | A Coruña, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Playing position | Defensive midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Deportivo La Coruña | ||
| Number | 4 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1993–2002 | Imperátor OAR | ||
| 2002–2004 | Deportivo La Coruña | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2004–2008 | Deportivo B | 97 | (10) |
| 2008– | Deportivo La Coruña | 155 | (6) |
| 2008–2010 | → Xerez (loan) | 57 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | → Granada (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 2011 | → Gimnàstic (loan) | 22 | (1) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 00:00, 14 February 2016 (UTC). | |||
Alejandro "Álex" Bergantiños García (born 7 June 1985) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Deportivo de La Coruña as a defensive midfielder.
Football career
Bergantiños was born in A Coruña. He had his first professional spell as a footballer in 2008, at already 23: loaned by local Deportivo de La Coruña, he was an essential midfield figure as Xerez CD achieved a first-ever top flight promotion – 31 games, 21 starts and 2,085 minutes played.
In very late August 2009, Depor agreed to loan Bergantiños once again to the Andalusians, in another season-long move.[1] He made his La Liga debut on 30 August, playing the last 30 minutes in a 0–2 away loss against RCD Mallorca,[2] and produced roughly the same numbers than in the previous campaign as the Andalusians were immediately relegated back.
Bergantiños moved to Granada CF for 2010–11, still owned by Deportivo.[3] In January he ended his contract with the former and joined, in the same predicament, another club in the second division, Gimnàstic de Tarragona.[4]
Bergantiños returned to Galicia for the 2011–12 season, and soon became a first-team regular, appearing in all the league games and helping his team achieve promotion back to the top flight.[5] He scored his first goal in the main category of Spanish football on 20 October 2012, but in a 4–5 home loss against FC Barcelona;[6] on 12 December 2015, against the same opponent but at the Camp Nou, he helped the visitors come from behind 0–2 to draw it 2–2 by netting in the 85th-minute.[7]
References
- ↑ Deportivo y Xerez cierran por escrito la cesión de Álex Bergantiños (Deportivo and Xerez agree to loan of Álex Bergantiños in writing); Diario AS, 27 August 2009 (Spanish)
- ↑ El Mallorca bautiza al Xerez en Primera (Mallorca baptizes Xerez in Primera); Marca, 30 August 2009 (Spanish)
- ↑ Álex Bergantiños se va cedido al Granada (Álex Bergantiños goes on loan to Granada); Marca, 14 July 2010 (Spanish)
- ↑ Gimnàstic: llega Álex Bergantiños (Gimnàstic: Álex Bergantiños arrives); esFutbol, 11 January 2011 (Spanish)
- ↑ Álex Bergantiños confía en sus posibilidades (Álex Bergantiños trusts in his possibilities); Marca, 15 June 2012 (Spanish)
- ↑ "El partido padre" [The mother of all matches] (in Spanish). Marca. 20 October 2012. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
- ↑ "Barcelona held by Deportivo La Coruna as Lucas fires comeback". ESPN FC. 12 December 2015. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
External links
- Deportivo official profile (Spanish)
- Álex Bergantiños profile at BDFutbol
- Álex Bergantiños profile at Futbolme (Spanish)
- Álex Bergantiños profile at Soccerway
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