Gabriel “Gabi” Fernandez Arenas ( Spanish: Gabriel Fernández Arenas ; born July 10, 1983 in Madrid , Spain ) - Spanish footballer , Al Sadd club midfielder .
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| Full name | Gabriel Fernandez Arenas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Career
Club
Atletico Madrid (2004-2007) and rentals at Getafe
Gabi Fernandez is a graduate of the club Atletico Madrid . In 2002-2004, he played for the second team ( Atletico Madrid B ). The debut of the footballer in La Liga took place on February 7, 2004 at the Mestalla [1] . The next season, Gaby was leased to the Getafe club, where he played in 32 championship matches and scored 2 goals. After the lease was over, he returned to Atlético Madrid and spent two more seasons here.
Zaragoza
In February 2007, Gaby joined the Real Zaragoza team for 9 million euros, signing a four-year contract [2] . On July 1, Gaby officially became a player of Zaragoza, and on August 25 made his debut for the club in the 1st round Examples 2007/08 [3] and almost immediately became a regular player of the main team [4] . At the end of the season, Zaragoza flew to Segunda , but a year later returned to Example again. In the 2009/10 season, the team finished in 14th place, and Gaby first put on the captain's armband of the Aragonese.
The 2010/11 season turned out to be rich in goals for the Spaniard: he scored 11 goals, six of them from the penalty spot . On March 12, 2011, Gaby took a double in the match against Valencia (both goals from the penalty spot), as a result, his team won 4-0 [5] . He scored Real Madrid in a victory for Zaragoza match [6] and twice Levant in the last round Examples (both times from the game) [7] . Gaby played 36 matches in the championship of Spain, having missed two rounds due to disqualification, and “Zaragoza”, as in the last season, took 14th place.
Atletico Madrid (2011—)
On July 1, 2011, Gaby moved to Atletico Madrid , his former club, for 3 million euros [8] . Already on July 28, he held an official match for the " mattresses ", playing in the qualifying round of the Europa League against the Norwegian " Stremsgodset ". The first goal after the return of Gaby scored on December 4 at the gate of “ Rayo Vallecano ” (the 14th round of the championship of Spain). True, in the same match he sent the ball into his own net, which did not prevent Atlético from winning 3-1 [9] .
In the Europa League 2011/12, Gaby played 17 matches, he took part in both semifinals against Valencia and in the final match with Athletic from Bilbao , where, together with Mario Suarez, he successfully opposed the creative Basque midfielders [10] . Atlético won 3-0, and Gaby won the first trophy of his career. In La Liga, Madrid took 5th place.
In the summer of 2012, after Antonio Lopez and Luis Perea and Alvaro Dominguez (second and third captains) left Atlético [11] , the head coach of mattresses Diego Simeone appointed Gaby as team captain. One of the first matches for Gaby as a captain was the game for the UEFA Super Cup (August 31), in which Madrid defeated Chelsea thanks to Falcao's hat-trick .
In the 2012/13 season, as in the previous one, Gaby remained one of the key players in his club's midfield. He spent 8 matches in the Spanish Cup , including the final, where Real Madrid were rivals Atletico. This game ended with the score 2: 1 in favor of Atlético (the decisive goal was scored in overtime) [12] . At the 114th minute, for a foul on Gabi, Cristiano Ronaldo received a direct red card: in the fall, he hit the captain of the " mattresses " with his foot in the face [13] . But Gaby himself was removed in the last added minute, receiving a second yellow for a time delay. Victory in the finals allowed Atlético not only to win the trophy, but also to win in the Madrid derby for the first time in 14 years [12] .
The next season, Gaby played his 200th match in the Atletico T-shirt (round 25 examples, away against Osasuna ) [14] . He entered the field in 36 games of the championship of Spain, including May 17, 2014 at the Camp Nou , when the fate of the championship title was decided. At the beginning of the second half, Gaby made a pitch from the corner flag, which was closed by Diego Godin ; this allowed the " mattresses " to even the score (1: 1) [15] . The result lasted until the end of the match and allowed Atlético to win gold medals in the Spanish Championship for the first time since 1996, while Barcelona remained in second place.
In addition to success in the national championship, “Atletico” reached the Champions League final , where he lost to “Real”, although the “ mattresses ” were leading up to the last minutes of regular time [16] . On July 4, 2014, Gaby signed a contract with Atlético until 2017, extending the current agreement with the club for one season [17] .
In August 2014, Gaby took part in two matches of the Spanish Super Cup , where the champion of the country “Atletico” opposed the owner of the cup - “Real”. The “ mattress ” went to the trophy thanks to the winning goal of Mario Mandzhukich in the home match [18] . In the 2014/15 season, Atletico took 3rd place in La Liga, and also reached the quarter finals of the Champions League and the national cup. In the second cup match with Barcelona, when the semi-finalist of the tournament was determined, Gaby was removed during the break due to an incident that took place in the tribune room [19] .
Team
As part of the Spanish national team for players under the age of 20, Gabi participated in the World Cup among youth teams —2003. At the tournament, the Spanish midfielder played 7 matches and scored one goal against peers from Argentina [20] .
Incident with Levante-Zaragoza match
In September 2014, information appeared in the Spanish press that the match between the Levante and Zaragoza clubs, held on May 21, 2011, could be negotiable [21] . The guests needed a victory to stay in the example, and they achieved it, and the then captain of Zaragoza Gaby scored two goals. On October 2, 2014, Gabi testified to Spain’s special prosecutor’s office to combat corruption and organized crime, confirming the contractual nature of the match; in addition, he stated that he acted at the request of the club and had no personal interest in the outcome of this game, as he had already agreed on a contract with Atlético [22] . According to the prosecutor’s office, the Zaragoza coach Javier Aguirre and 9 team players donated 965,000 euros in cash to the Levante football players to ensure the desired result [23] .
In January 2015, a court in Valencia accepted a lawsuit to hold a match between Levante and Zaragoza [24] .
Achievements
- Atletico Madrid
- Champion of Spain : 2013/14
- Spanish Cup Winner: 2012/13
- Super Bowl Spain : 2014
- European League Winner ( 2 ): 2011/12 , 2017/18
- UEFA Super Cup Winner: 2012
- Champions League Finalist ( 2 ): 2013/14 , 2015/16
Total: 6 trophies
Performance Statistics
| Club | Season | League | Cups [25] | Eurocups [26] | Others [27] | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Games | Goals | Games | Goals | Games | Goals | Games | Goals | Games | Goals | ||
| Atletico Madrid | 2003/04 | 6 | 0 | one | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 2004/05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2005/06 | 32 | one | one | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | one | |
| 2006/07 | 20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0 | |
| Total | 58 | one | four | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 65 | one | |
| → Getafe | 2004/05 | 32 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 2 |
| Total | 32 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 2 | |
| Real Zaragoza | 2007/08 | 32 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 0 |
| 2008/09 | 35 | four | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | four | |
| 2009/10 | 32 | one | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | one | |
| 2010/11 | 36 | ten | 2 | one | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | eleven | |
| Total | 135 | 15 | 7 | one | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 144 | sixteen | |
| Atletico Madrid | 2011/12 | 31 | 2 | one | 0 | 17 | one | 0 | 0 | 49 | 3 |
| 2012/13 | 35 | 0 | eight | 0 | 2 | 0 | one | 0 | 46 | 0 | |
| 2013/14 | 36 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 57 | 3 | |
| 2014/15 | 34 | 0 | five | one | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 48 | one | |
| 2015/16 | 35 | one | four | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 52 | one | |
| 2016/17 | 34 | 0 | five | 0 | eleven | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 0 | |
| 2017/18 | 34 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 13 | one | 0 | 0 | 50 | one | |
| Total | 239 | 6 | 33 | one | 75 | 2 | five | 0 | 352 | 9 | |
| Total career | 464 | 24 | 46 | 2 | 80 | 2 | five | 0 | 595 | 28 | |
(adjusted as of May 20, 2018)
Notes
- ↑ Gabi cumple 300 partidos en Primera División (Spanish) . Clubatleticodemadrid.com (19 de octubre de 2014). Archived January 7, 2016.
- ↑ Zaragoza move early to get Gabi (inaccessible link) . UEFA.com (February 5, 2007). Archived February 20, 2012.
- ↑ Gabi F. (Spanish) . Somosleyenda.realzaragoza.com . Archived on September 24, 2015.
- ↑ Gabi, el gran capitán (Spanish) . Realzaragoza.com (29 de marzo de 2011). Archived on September 24, 2015.
- ↑ Zaragoza crush Valencia . ESPN (March 12, 2011). Date of treatment March 30, 2011. Archived on February 20, 2012.
- ↑ Zaragoza end Real title dream . ESPN (April 30, 2011). Date of treatment April 30, 2011. Archived on February 20, 2012.
- ↑ Zaragoza end drop fears . ESPN (May 21, 2011). Date of treatment June 1, 2011. Archived on February 20, 2012.
- ↑ El Zaragoza hace oficial traspaso de Gabi al Atlético (Spanish) . Diario AS (1 de julio de 2011). Date of treatment July 1, 2011. Archived on February 20, 2012.
- ↑ Aperitivo de calidad que no llena (Spanish) . Marca (4 de diciembre de 2011). Archived on September 25, 2015.
- ↑ Atletico Madrid 3-0 Athletic Bilbao . BBC Sport (May 9, 2012). Archived on September 25, 2015.
- ↑ Gabi y Domínguez, en la lista de capitanes del Atlético (English) . Diario AS (August 29, 2011). Archived on September 25, 2015.
- ↑ 1 2 Jose Mourinho and Cristiano Ronaldo off in Real Madrid loss . BBC Sport (May 17, 2013). Archived on September 25, 2015.
- ↑ Final Copa del rey 2013 - Patada en la cara de Cristiano Ronaldo a Gabi . Youtube (May 17, 2013). Archived on September 25, 2015.
- ↑ Un capitán bicentenario (Spanish) . Clubatleticodemadrid.com (23 de febrero de 2014). Archived January 7, 2016.
- ↑ Barcelona 1 Atletico Madrid 1, La Liga: match report . The Daily Telegraph (17 May 2014). Archived January 7, 2016.
- ↑ Real Madrid 4-1 Atl Madrid . BBC Sport (May 24, 2014). Archived January 7, 2016.
- ↑ Captain Gabi commits to Atlético (inaccessible link) . UEFA.com (July 4, 2014). Archived January 7, 2016.
- ↑ Atlético Madrid v Real Madrid: Spanish Super Cup - as it happened . The Guardian (August 22, 2014). Archived January 7, 2016.
- ↑ Atl Madrid 2-3 Barcelona . BBC Sport (January 28, 2015). Archived January 7, 2016.
- ↑ Argentina 2-1 Spain (inaccessible link) . FIFA.com (November 28, 2003). Archived January 7, 2016.
- ↑ Anticorrupción cita a integrantes del Levante-Zaragoza de 2011 (Spanish) . Diario AS (25 de septiembre de 2014). Archived March 22, 2016.
- ↑ Gabi declaró en la Fiscalía y deja entrever apaño en el Levante-Zaragoza (Spanish) . Mundo Deportivo (2 de octubre de 2014). Archived March 22, 2016.
- ↑ Ander Herrera: Man Utd midfielder says he has never fixed games . BBC Sport (December 16, 2014). Archived March 22, 2016.
- ↑ Admitida a trámite la querella por amaño del Levante-Zaragoza (Spanish) . Marca (14 de enero de 2015). Archived March 22, 2016.
- ↑ Spanish Cup .
- ↑ UEFA Champions League , UEFA Europa League , Intertoto Cup .
- ↑ Spanish Super Cup, UEFA Super Cup .
Links
- Profile on the Atlético website (Spanish)