Sergi Roberto

Sergi Roberto

Roberto playing for Barcelona B in 2012
Personal information
Full name Sergi Roberto Carnicer[1]
Date of birth (1992-02-07) 7 February 1992
Place of birth Reus, Spain
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Barcelona
Number 20
Youth career
2001–2005 Santes Creus
2005–2006 Gimnàstic
2006–2009 Barcelona
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
2009–2013 Barcelona B 106 (7)
2010– Barcelona 62 (0)
National team‡
2008–2009 Spain U17 11 (3)
2010–2011 Spain U19 9 (0)
2011 Spain U20 5 (1)
2011–2014 Spain U21 14 (2)
2016– Spain 1 (0)
2011– Catalonia 5 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 May 2016.
† Appearances (goals)

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 27 March 2016
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Roberto and the second or maternal family name is Carnicer.

Sergi Roberto Carnicer (born 7 February 1992) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for FC Barcelona. Mainly a central midfielder, he can also operate as a defensive midfielder, full back or winger.[2]

Club career

Born in Reus, Tarragona, Catalonia, Sergi Roberto began playing football with local UE Barri Santes Creus at the age of 9,[3][4] arriving in FC Barcelona's youth academy five years later from neighbours Gimnàstic de Tarragona.[5] In the 2009–10 season, at only 17, he first appeared with Barça's reserves, contributing with 22 games as the team returned to the second division after 11 years.

On 10 November 2010, Roberto made his debut for the first team, playing the second half of a 5–1 home win against AD Ceuta for the campaign's Copa del Rey (7–1 on aggregate).[6] On 27 April of the following year he made his first UEFA Champions League appearance, coming on as a substitute for David Villa in the last minute of a 2–0 away win against Real Madrid, for the competition semifinals' first leg.[7]

Roberto first appeared in La Liga on 21 May 2011, playing the full 90 minutes in a 3–1 win at Málaga CF in the season's last round.[8] His first start for the main squad came on 6 December of that year, against FC BATE Borisov in the Champions League group stage, as manager Pep Guardiola rested all his starters for the upcoming El Clásico: in the 35th minute, he opened the scoring in an eventual 4–0 home win.[9]

In only his third official appearance for Barcelona's first team, on 12 January 2012, Roberto scored his second goal, helping the visitors come from behind to win it 2–1 against CA Osasuna in the domestic cup (6–1 on aggregate).[10] On 16 December 2014, also in that competition, he netted his third, contributing to an 8–1 demolition of SD Huesca at the Camp Nou.[11]

In the 2015–16 season, after being reconverted by manager Luis Enrique and merely months after nearly being deemed surplus to requirements,[12][13] Roberto appeared as a right back in several games.[14][15] In two consecutive games against Athletic Bilbao in January 2016, one for the league and another for the Spanish Cup, he featured on the other flank in the place of injured Jordi Alba,[16] going on to play in as many as seven different positions.[2]

International career

Sergi Roberto playing for Catalonia against Cape Verde in 2013.

In October 2009, shortly after making his Barcelona B debuts, Sergi Roberto was summoned by the Spanish under-17 team for the 2009 FIFA World Cup in Nigeria. On 5 November, before being substituted by Javier Espinosa in the 88th minute, he scored a hat-trick against Burkina Faso at the Sani Abacha Stadium in Kano.[17] Spain eventually finished third in the tournament, with him and Atlético Madrid's Borja González accounting for eight of the team's total goals.

Roberto made his debut for the under-21 side on 5 September 2011, playing the last four minutes of the 2–0 win in Lugo over Georgia for the 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifiers.[18] He received his first call up to the senior squad in March 2016, for friendlies against Romania and Italy.[19] His debut took place in the latter match on the 27th, as he started in a 0–0 draw in Cluj-Napoca.[20]

Club statistics

As of 1 May 2016[21]
Club Season League Copa del Rey Europe Other Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Barcelona B 2009–10 290—290
2010–11 262—262
2011–12 284—284
2012–13 231—231
Total 1067—1067
Barcelona 2010–11 10101[lower-alpha 1]00030
2011–12 10211[lower-alpha 1]10042
2012–13 10301[lower-alpha 1]00050
2013–14 170604[lower-alpha 1]000270
2014–15 120422[lower-alpha 1]0—182
2015–16 300508[lower-alpha 1]14[lower-alpha 2]0471
Total 620213172401045
Career totals 16872131724021012
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 All appearances in UEFA Champions League
  2. ↑ One appearance in UEFA Super Cup, one appearance in Supercopa de España and one appearance in FIFA Club World Cup

Honours

Club

Barcelona[1]

International

Spain U17

References

  1. 1 2 3 "S. Roberto". FC Barcelona. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Sergi Roberto is ‘Mr.Versatile’". FC Barcelona. 19 January 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  3. ↑ El fax que le cambió la vida a Sergi Roberto (The fax that changed the life of Sergi Roberto); Sport, 13 November 2015 (Spanish)
  4. ↑ "Reus, la cantera del Barça" [Reus, Barça's youth system] (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 27 July 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  5. ↑ Youth: Sergi Roberto aims to make a future at Barça; Total Barça, 21 March 2010
  6. ↑ Hay Barça para rato (We have Barça for a long time); Marca, 11 November 2010 (Spanish)
  7. ↑ Ten-man Madrid undone by Messi magic; UEFA.com, 27 April 2011
  8. ↑ Second XI ease to win; ESPN Soccernet, 21 May 2011
  9. ↑ Youthful Barcelona breeze past BATE; UEFA.com, 6 December 2011
  10. ↑ Messi enciende las antiniebla (Messi turns fog lamps on); Marca, 12 January 2012 (Spanish)
  11. ↑ "Barcelona 8–1 Huesca (agg 12–1): Pedro nets first-half hat-trick as Catalan giants cruise through to Copa del Rey last 16". Daily Mail. 16 December 2014. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
  12. ↑ "El extraño caso de Sergi Roberto" [The strange case of Sergi Roberto] (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 2 November 2013. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  13. ↑ "Sergi Roberto, la decisión más inteligente de Luis Enrique" [Sergi Roberto, Luis Enrique's smartest decision] (in Spanish). Eurosport. 2 October 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  14. ↑ "Revealed: How Luis Enrique convinced Sergi Roberto to switch to right-back". Sport. 2 September 2015. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
  15. ↑ "Eusebio Sacristán: Sergi Roberto será el futuro lateral derecho del Barcelona" [Eusebio Sacristán: Sergi Roberto with be Barcelona's future right-back] (in Spanish). Goal.com. 3 October 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  16. ↑ "Sergi Roberto, el comodín de Luis Enrique" [Sergi Roberto, Luis Enrique's joker] (in Spanish). Marca. 20 January 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  17. ↑ "Sergi Roberto catapulta a España Sub-17 a cuartos del Mundial" [Sergi Roberto catapults Spain Under-17s to the World Cup quarter-finals] (in Spanish). Europa Press. 5 November 2009. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  18. ↑ "Canales double earns Spain the points". UEFA.com. 5 September 2011. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  19. ↑ "Diego Costa overlooked as Spain call up striker Aritz Aduriz instead". ESPN FC. 18 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  20. ↑ "A Rumanía y España se les atraviesa el gol en el debut de Sergi Roberto" [Romania and Spain wanted nothing to do with goal in debut of Sergi Roberto] (in Spanish). Sport. 27 March 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
  21. ↑ "Sergi Roberto". Soccerway. Retrieved 26 May 2015.

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