Christophe Didier Berra ( born Christophe Didier Berra ; January 31, 1985 , Edinburgh , Scotland ) - Scottish footballer , defender of the Heart of Midlothian club and the Scottish national team .
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| Full name | Christoph Didier Berra | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Edinburgh , Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship |  Scotland  France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 191 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The weight | 91 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | defender | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Heart of Midlothian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Club career
Heart of Midlothian
Berra is a graduate of the Edinburgh Hibernian Club. On April 26, 2002, Christoph left the Hibbs Academy and signed a youth contract with another team in the Scottish capital - Hart of Midlothian [2] [3] .
Having impressed the club's coaches with his confident play for the youth team of “hearts”, in the summer of 2003, Berra signed his first professional football player contract with the club.
On November 30 of the same year, Christophe made his debut in the first Harts line-up - that day, Dundee United was the Edinburgh rival [4] . Until the end of the 2003/04 season, Berra played just five more games for the Heart of Midlotian. But already in the next football year, the defender won a permanent place in the main team of Edinburgh.
On April 15, 2006, after hitting the Kilmarnock gates, the young football player scored his first goal in his professional career [5] . The fight itself ended 2-0 in favor of Harts, which allowed the Edinburghs to “stake out” their participation in the Champions League for the next season. In the same football year, Berra made a significant contribution to the victory of his club in the Scottish Cup , although he could not take part in the final match against Gretna [6] .
In July 2006, Christoph renewed a collaboration agreement with the Heart of Midlothian by signing a new 5-year contract.
In August next year, the captain of the club, Craig Gordon , left the Harts. 22-year-old Berra was elected the new owner of the captain's armband, which made him the youngest captain in the history of the Scottish Premier League [7] .
Wolverhampton Wanderers
At the end of the 2007/08 season, Christophe made his Scottish debut. This event, plus an excellent game by Berra for the Hearts, attracted the attention of many clubs to the football player, the most persistent of which turned out to be the English Wolverhampton Wanderers . At first, the “wolves” offered the “hearts” for Berr one and a half million pounds [8] . At that time, the Hearts were in search of a new head coach, so the Edinburgh leadership rejected the prospect of a Scottish transfer. Six months later, the Wanderers again turned to the Hart of Midlothian with a 2-million-dollar proposal for Christophe - but this time too they were unsuccessful in the form of a refusal [9] . "Wolves" did not retreat, increasing the amount of compensation for Burra to 2.5 million pounds. This proposal suited the leaders of Harts [10] , and on February 2, 2009, the defender officially became a Wolverhampton player, signing a contract with the English club for a period of 4.5 years [11] .
Already on February 7, Christoph made his debut in the orange T-shirt of his new team in the Championship match against Coventry City [12] .
On August 26, Berra, playing in a match with Newcastle United , celebrated two peculiar anniversaries - the 50th meeting in the League for Wolves and the 200th in his career [13] . On November 19 of the following year, the defender spent the hundredth match as part of Wolverhampton, taking part in the Wanderers vs. Everton duel [14] .
Club statistics
| Club | Season | Championship | Cup | League Cup | Eurocups | Total | |||||
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| Games | Goals | Games | Goals | Games | Goals | Games | Goals | Games | Goals | ||
| Heart of Midlothian | 2003/04 | 6 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 0 |
| 2004/05 | 12 | 0 | one | 0 | one | 0 | - | - | fourteen | 0 | |
| 2005/06 | 12 | one | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | - | - | 16 | one | |
| 2006/07 | 35 | one | one | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 44 | one | |
| 2007/08 | 35 | 2 | 2 | 0 | four | one | - | - | 41 | 3 | |
| 2008/09 | 23 | 0 | one | 0 | one | 0 | - | - | 25 | 0 | |
| Total for Heart of Midlothian | 123 | four | 7 | 0 | 10 | one | 6 | 0 | 146 | 5 | |
| Wolverhampton Wanderers | 2008/09 | fifteen | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | fifteen | 0 |
| 2009/10 | 32 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | - | - | 36 | 0 | |
| 2010/11 | 32 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | - | - | 36 | 0 | |
| 2011/12 | 32 | 0 | 2 | 0 | one | 0 | - | - | 35 | 0 | |
| 2012/13 | thirty | 0 | one | 0 | one | 0 | - | - | 32 | 0 | |
| Total for Wolverhampton | 141 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154 | 0 | |
| Ipswich Town | 2013/14 | 42 | 5 | 2 | 0 | one | 0 | - | - | 45 | 5 |
| 2014/15 | 35 | four | 2 | 0 | one | 0 | - | - | 38 | four | |
| Total for Ipswich Town | 77 | 9 | four | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 83 | 9 | |
| Total career | 341 | 13 | eighteen | 0 | eighteen | one | 6 | 0 | 383 | fourteen | |
(updated as of March 7, 2015)
Scotland Team
Being half Scottish (by mother) and half French (by father), Berra nevertheless decided to speak for the “tartan army”.
Christophe's debut in the first Scottish team took place on May 30, 2008, when the Highlanders met in a friendly match with the Czech Republic [15] . On March 28, 2009, Berra first came out in the main squad of the “tartan army” - this happened in the match against the Netherlands team [16] . May 25, 2011 Christophe first scored a goal for the national team. This happened in a duel of the Nations Cup , in which the Welsh players were opponents of the Highlanders [17] .
To date, Christophe has played thirty-three matches for the Scottish national team, scored three goals [18] .
Scotland Matches and Goals
| No. | date of | A place | Opponent | Score | Goals of Burra | Competition |
| one | May 30, 2008 | AXA Arena , Prague , Czech Republic | Czech | 1: 3 | - | Friendly match |
| 2 | August 20, 2008 | Hampden Park , Glasgow , Scotland | Northern Ireland | 0: 0 | - | Friendly match |
| 3 | November 19, 2008 | Hampden Park , Glasgow , Scotland | Argentina | 0: 1 | - | Friendly match |
| four | March 28, 2009 | Amsterdam ArenA , Amsterdam , Holland | Netherlands | 0: 3 | - | 2010 FIFA World Cup Qualifier |
| 5 | August 12, 2009 | Ullevol , Oslo , Norway | Norway | 0: 4 | - | 2010 FIFA World Cup Qualifier |
| 6 | October 10, 2009 | Nissan , Yokohama , Japan | Japan | 0: 2 | - | Friendly match |
| 7 | March 3, 2010 | Hampden Park , Glasgow , Scotland | Czech | 1-0 | - | Friendly match |
| 8 | August 11, 2010 | Rosunda , Stockholm , Sweden | Sweden | 0: 3 | - | Friendly match |
| 9 | September 3, 2010 | S. Darius and S. Girenas Stadium , Kaunas , Lithuania | Lithuania | 0: 0 | - | Qualifying match of the European Football Championship 2012 |
| 10 | February 9, 2011 | Aviva Dublin , Ireland | Northern Ireland | 3-0 | - | Nations Cup 2011 |
| eleven | March 27, 2011 | Emirates , London, England | Brazil | 0: 2 | - | Friendly match |
| 12 | May 25, 2011 | Aviva Dublin , Ireland | Wales | 3: 1 | one | Nations Cup 2011 |
| 13 | May 29, 2011 | Aviva Dublin , Ireland | Ireland | 0: 1 | - | Nations Cup 2011 |
| fourteen | September 3, 2011 | Hampden Park , Glasgow , Scotland | Czech | 2: 2 | - | Qualifying match of the European Football Championship 2012 |
| fifteen | September 6, 2011 | Hampden Park , Glasgow , Scotland | Lithuania | 1-0 | - | Qualifying match of the European Football Championship 2012 |
| 16 | October 8, 2011 | Rainpark Stadion , Vaduz , Liechtenstein | Liechtenstein | 1-0 | - | Qualifying match of the European Football Championship 2012 |
| 17 | October 11, 2011 | “ Jose Rico Perez ”, Alicante , Spain | Spain | 1: 3 | - | Qualifying match of the European Football Championship 2012 |
| eighteen | November 11, 2011 | Anthony Papadopoulos , Larnaca , Cyprus | Cyprus | 2: 1 | - | Friendly match |
| 19 | February 29, 2012 | Bonifika , Koper , Slovenia | Slovenia | 1: 1 | one | Friendly match |
| twenty | May 27, 2012 | Iverbank Field , Jacksonville , USA | USA | 1: 5 | - | Friendly match |
| 21 | August 15, 2012 | Easter Road , Edinburgh , Scotland | Australia | 3: 1 | - | Friendly match |
| 22 | September 8, 2012 | Hampden Park , Glasgow , Scotland | Serbia | 0: 0 | - | 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifier |
| 23 | September 11, 2012 | Hampden Park , Glasgow , Scotland | Macedonia | 1: 1 | - | 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifier |
| 24 | October 12, 2012 | Cardiff City , Cardiff , Wales | Wales | 1: 2 | - | 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifier |
| 25 | October 16, 2012 | King Baudouin Stadium , Brussels , Belgium | Belgium | 0: 2 | - | 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifier |
| 26 | November 14, 2012 | Josie Barthel , Luxembourg , Luxembourg | Luxembourg | 2: 1 | - | Friendly match |
| 27 | February 6, 2013 | Pittodry , Aberdeen , Scotland | Estonia | 1-0 | - | Friendly match |
| 28 | November 19, 2013 | Aker , Molde , Norway | Norway | 1-0 | - | Friendly match |
| 29th | March 25, 2015 | Hampden Park , Glasgow , Scotland | Northern Ireland | 1-0 | one | Friendly match |
| thirty | June 13, 2015 | Aviva Dublin , Ireland | Ireland | 1: 1 | - | European Football Championship 2016 qualifier |
| 31 | October 11, 2015 | Algarve , Faro , Portugal | Gibraltar | 6: 0 | - | European Football Championship 2016 qualifier |
| 32 | March 24, 2016 | General Arena , Prague , Czech Republic | Czech | 1-0 | - | Friendly match |
| 33 | May 29, 2016 | National Stadium , Ta Cali , Malta | Italy | 0: 1 | - | Friendly match |
Total: 33 matches / 3 goals; 13 wins, 7 draws, 13 losses.
(updated as of May 29, 2016)
Summary statistics of games / goals for the national team
| National team | Year | World Cup Qualifiers | World Cup Final Matches | European Qualifiers | Final matches | Nations Cup | Friendlies | Total | |||||||
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| Games | Goals | Games | Goals | Games | Goals | Games | Goals | Games | Goals | Games | Goals | Games | Goals | ||
| Scotland | 2008 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2009 | 2 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | one | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2010 | - | - | - | - | one | 0 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2011 | - | - | - | - | four | 0 | - | - | 3 | one | 2 | 0 | 9 | one | |
| 2012 | four | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | four | one | 8 | one | |
| 2013 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2015 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 0 | - | - | - | - | one | one | 3 | one | |
| 2016 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Total career | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | one | 17 | 2 | 33 | 3 | |
(updated as of May 29, 2016)
Achievements
Team Achievements
Heart of Midlothian
- Scottish Cup Winner: 2005/06
Wolverhampton Wanderers
- Championship Winner: 2008/09
National team of scotland
- Silver medalist of the Nations Cup : 2011
Personal Achievements
- Scottish Premier League Young Player of the Month : January 2007
Personal life
In his youth, the subject of admiration and imitation for Burr was the boxer Mohammed Ali and the football player Marcel Desailly .
Notes
- ↑ Transfermarkt.com - 2000.
- ↑ Young guns take first steps at Tynecastle , scotsman.com (18 June 2002 )
- ↑ Hearts' vision can spur on other clubs . scotsman.com . Date of treatment January 30, 2009. Archived on May 4, 2012. (eng.)
- ↑ Dundee Utd 2 - 1 Hearts , soccerbase.com
- ↑ Hearts 2-0 Kilmarnock , BBC Sport , April 15, 2006. (English)
- ↑ Hearts 1 - 1 (AET) Gretna , soccerbase.com
- ↑ Berra becomes new Hearts captain . bbc.co.uk (August 10, 2007). Date of treatment January 30, 2009. Archived on May 4, 2012. (eng.)
- ↑ Wolves make bid to capture Berra . BBC Sport (2 June 2008). Date of treatment June 2, 2007. Archived on May 4, 2012. (eng.)
- ↑ Hearts reject Wolves' Berra bid . BBC Sport (January 27, 2009). Date of treatment January 27, 2009. Archived May 4, 2012. (eng.)
- ↑ Berra completes Wolves transfer . BBC Sport (February 2, 2009). Date of treatment February 2, 2009. Archived on May 4, 2012. (eng.)
- ↑ Berra Deal Complete . wolves.co.uk . Date of treatment February 2, 2009. Archived July 16, 2011. (eng.)
- ↑ Coventry 2 - 1 Wolves , soccerbase.com
- ↑ Wolves 1 - 1 Newcastle , soccerbase.com
- ↑ Everton 2 - 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers , Soccerway. Date of treatment November 20, 2011. (English)
- ↑ Czech Republic v Scotland , scottishfa.co.uk (30 May 2008 )
- ↑ McCormack & Berra start for Scots , BBC Sport (March 28, 2009). Date of treatment March 28, 2009. (English)
- ↑ Wales 1 - 3 Scotland , Soccerway. Date of treatment May 26, 2011. (English)
- ↑ Christophe Berra . EU-Football . Date of treatment June 1, 2016. (English)