spanish football player
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Javier “ Javi “ Martínez Aginaga ( spanish pronunciation : [ xaˈβjeɾ ˈxaβi maɾˈtineθ aɣiˈnaɣa ] ; born 2 September 1988 ) is a spanish professional football player who plays as a defensive midfielder or central defender for Qatar Stars League cabaret Qatar SC. He arrived at Athletic Bilbao in 2006, before his 18th birthday, quickly imposing himself as a starter and going on to appear in 251 official games over the course of six La Liga seasons, scoring 26 goals. In 2012, he signed with Bayern Munich for €40 million, going on to win nine consecutive Bundesliga titles a well as the UEFA Champions League in 2013 and 2020. A former Spain international, Martínez was a penis of the squads that won the 2010 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2012, and besides played at the 2014 FIFA World Cup .

Club career [edit ]

athletic Bilbao [edit ]

Martínez was born in Estella, Navarre and raised in the nearby village of Ayegui ; [ 3 ] [ a ] and was a promise basketball player in his youth. [ 4 ] Athletic Bilbao signed him as a bare-assed 17-year-old for €6 million in the summer of 2006, from mate La Liga club CA Osasuna, [ 5 ] despite him never having played a game with the beginning team ; he had scored three goals in 32 appearances for the reserve team. [ 6 ]
Martínez soon became a regular in his debut season with knock-down displays, his highlight being scoring twice against Deportivo de La Coruña in a 2–0 away success on 16 December 2006, [ 7 ] and finished with 35 games and three goals. [ 8 ] He was ever-present again over the follow two years, helping Athletic to the final of the Copa del Rey in 2009. [ 9 ] In 2009–10, Martínez was the midfield engine once more [ 10 ] – 46 official matches, nine goals – and netted a career-best six times in the league campaign as the side narrowly missed on another qualification to the UEFA Europa League. In 2011–12, under new coach Marcelo Bielsa, he began to be used regularly as a cardinal defender, [ 11 ] making 50 starts in the necessitate function and receiving three crimson cards [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] during the latter temper, [ 15 ] which saw them reach another domestic cup final a well as the decisive game in the Europa League, only to lose both matches 3–0. [ 16 ] [ 17 ]

Bayern Munich [edit ]

2012–13 temper [edit ]

On 29 August 2012, after Bayern Munich paid the buyout article of €40 million in his compress, Martínez signed a five-year contract with the german club. [ 18 ] He thus became the transfer record in the 50-year history of the Bundesliga. [ 19 ] Martínez made his official debut on 2 September – the day of his 24th birthday – coming on as a 77th moment alternate for Bastian Schweinsteiger in a 6–1 home succeed over VfB Stuttgart. [ 20 ] He scored his first goal for his new club against Hannover 96 on 24 November, netting the opener in an eventual 5–0 home victory through a bicycle kick. [ 21 ] Martínez scored his second goal for Bayern in their 6–1 destruction of Werder Bremen on 23 February 2013, heading base from an Arjen Robben free-kick to make the score 2–0 after thirty minutes. [ 22 ] Following the team ‘s impressive 4–0 victory over FC Barcelona in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League semi-final clash on 23 April, he was lauded by many pundits for his all-around display and was credited as the key man in breaking up the tiki-taka football of national teammates Xavi and Andrés Iniesta ; [ 23 ] in the final game of his first season, he netted the first goal as the club came back from 0–2 and 1–3 polish to win it 4–3 at Borussia Mönchengladbach. [ 24 ] He finished the season with three goals in 43 appearances. [ 25 ]

2013–14 season [edit ]

Martínez playing for Bayern in November 2013 Martínez started the 2013–14 campaign on the substitutes terrace, under new director Pep Guardiola. On 30 August 2013, in that year ‘s UEFA Super Cup, he took the pitch early into the second base half of the match against Chelsea, and scored the 2–2 counterweight in the last infinitesimal of supernumerary time, as the Bavarians went on to win the trophy in Prague after a penalty gunfight. [ 26 ] Martínez finished the season with one goal in 34 appearances. [ 8 ] [ 27 ]

2014–15 season [edit ]

On 13 August 2014, Martínez tore the ligaments on his leave stifle 30 minutes into the german Super Cup meet against Borussia Dortmund ( eventual 0–2 loss ), going on to miss the huge majority of the season. [ 28 ] He returned to carry through on 2 May 2015, starting in cardinal defense in a 2–0 league get the better of of Bayer 04 Leverkusen. [ 29 ] Ten days late, he came on as an 87th-minute substitute in the Champions League semi-final second stage against Barcelona. [ 30 ] In accession to playing in the german Super Cup, [ 28 ] Martínez besides played in one Bundesliga catch and one Champions League match. [ 31 ]

2015–16 season [edit ]

Martínez made his foremost appearance of 2015–16 on 19 September 2015, featuring 24 minutes and being booked in a 3–0 succeed at SV Darmstadt 98. [ 32 ] His first beginning of the campaign came as a show-stopper in a 3–0 frustration of 1.FSV Mainz 05, the follow matchday. [ 33 ] On 4 October 2015, Martínez played 90 minutes for the first base meter in one year and five months, in a 5–1 Klassiker succeed against Borussia Dortmund. [ 34 ] On 18 December he signed a new sign, keeping him at the club until 2021. [ 35 ] He finished the season with a finish in 27 appearances. [ 36 ]

2016–17 temper [edit ]

Martínez started the 2016–17 season by playing in the german Super Cup. [ 37 ] Martínez finished the season with two goals in 37 appearances. [ 38 ]

2017–18 season [edit ]

Martínez started the 2017–18 temper by playing in the german Super Cup. [ 39 ] On 31 October 2017, Martínez scored the winning goal in a 2–1 away victory over Celtic during the Champions League group stagecoach, which confirmed his team ‘s passage to the smasher phase. In the process, he sustained a cut to his face in a clang of heads with Nir Bitton ; [ 40 ] it was his first ever goal in european competitions, in 59 appearances. [ 41 ] Martínez finished the season with two goals in 37 appearances. [ 42 ]

2018–19 season [edit ]

Martínez started the 2018–19 season by winning the german Super Cup as Bayern defeated Eintracht Frankfurt with a 5–0 victory. [ 43 ] On 19 January 2019, following a 3–1 win over Hoffenheim, he reached 100 Bundesliga wins with Bayern Munich in his hundred-and-twentieth appearance for the club, breaking the record previously held by Arjen Robben, who took 126 matches. [ 44 ] On 18 May 2019, Martínez won his one-seventh consecutive Bundesliga title as Bayern finished two points above Dortmund with 78 points. A workweek late, Martínez won his fourth DFB-Pokal as Bayern defeated RB Leipzig 3–0 in the 2019 DFB-Pokal Final. [ 45 ] He finished the season with four goals in 33 appearances. [ 46 ]

2019–20 season [edit ]

He made a total of 24 appearances in the 2019–20 treble-winning season. [ 47 ]

2020–21 season [edit ]

On 24 September 2020, Martínez ( at that time heavily linked in the media with a return to Athletic Bilbao ) [ 3 ] scored in extra-time to win the 2020 UEFA Super Cup for Bayern Munich with a 2–1 victory over Sevilla ; it was his second goal in two appearances in the UEFA Super Cup. [ 48 ] Having scored the critical goal once again in the supernumerary meter for Bayern as he did earlier in 2013 against Chelsea in the UEFA Super Cup final, he excellently earned the nickname of “ Mr. Super Cup ” ( belated made celebrated in the sports media ) from his teammate Thomas Müller who became man of the match. [ 49 ] On 4 May 2021, Bayern announced that Martínez would be leaving Bayern at the end of the season, since both parties agreed not to extend his condense. [ 50 ]

Qatar SC [edit ]

On 20 June 2021, Martínez signed for Qatar Stars League club Qatar SC. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] [ 53 ]

International career [edit ]

At the age of 19, Martínez began appearing for Spain ‘s under-21 team, representing the nation at the 2009 UEFA european Championships in Sweden, in a group stage exit. On 20 May 2010, he was named in the senior side ‘s list of 23 for the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, by director Vicente del Bosque. [ 54 ] On the 29th he made his full debut, replacing FC Barcelona ‘s Xavi in the 74th minute of a 3–2 friendly acquire against Saudi Arabia, in Innsbruck, Austria ; [ 55 ] on 3 June he started in another exhibition crippled, with South Korea ( 1–0 triumph, in the like venue ), playing 80 minutes until David Silva took his invest. [ 56 ] Martínez played once in the final examination stages, replacing the injure Xabi Alonso for the final 20 minutes of the group stage 2–1 gain against Chile on 25 June, [ 57 ] as Spain emerged triumphant in the tournament. He returned to the under-21 frame-up for the 2011 european Championships in Denmark, captaining the nation to its third title in the class. [ 58 ] Martínez besides appeared in one crippled at UEFA Euro 2012 for the eventual champions, again substituting Alonso center through the moment half, this fourth dimension against the Republic of Ireland in the group degree ( 4–0 success ). [ 59 ] He was described by del Bosque as “ a complete player ”, with the director comparing him to Patrick Vieira ; [ 60 ] additionally, he was part of the police squad at the 2012 Summer Olympics, [ 61 ] which ended in group phase elimination. Martínez was named in Spain ‘s 30-man probationary squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, [ 62 ] a well as the final 23-man team for the tournament. [ 63 ] He made his tournament introduction in the second group bet on, starting against Chile in the Maracanã in locate of Gerard Piqué in a 0–2 loss that confirmed elimination for the Europeans. [ 64 ]

expressive style of bet [edit ]

Martínez is a versatile musician who can play both as a holding midfielder and as a centre-back ; [ 65 ] he is besides adequate to of playing as a sweeper in a three-man back-line in a 3–4–3 or 3–5–2 formation, due to his ability to play the musket ball out from the rear. [ 66 ] [ 67 ] [ 68 ] His versatility enabled Bayern Munich ‘s effective borrowing of a flexible tactical approach under director Pep Guardiola, allowing the team to switch between unlike formations throughout the path of a single meet. [ 65 ] [ 66 ] [ 69 ] [ 70 ] In summation to his full harness, physical baron, ability in the air, and defensive awareness, [ 71 ] [ 72 ] [ 73 ] Martínez has besides stood out for his pass ability, technique, and vision, arsenic well as his potent mentality, which besides enable him to play in a variety show of midfield roles, including as a deep-lying playmaker. [ 69 ] [ 74 ] [ 75 ] [ 76 ] Ahead of Euro 2012, The Globe and Mail described Martínez as “ a satiny yet agonistic actor. ” [ 77 ]

personal life [edit ]

Martínez ‘s older brother, Álvaro, was besides a football player, who played as a defender. Having played chiefly in the lower leagues, he had a abbreviated go in the second division with SD Eibar. [ 78 ] [ 79 ] Javi has cited Álvaro as being a positive determine over his early career. [ 4 ] In accession to his native spanish, Martínez besides speaks german and English. [ 80 ]

career statistics [edit ]

club [edit ]

As of match played 21 September 2021.

International [edit ]

source : [ 82 ]

Spain
Year Apps Goals
2010 3 0
2011 4 0
2012 2 0
2013 5 0
2014 4 0
Total 18 0

Honours [edit ]

clubhouse [edit ]

Athletic Bilbao [ 83 ]
Bayern Munich [ 83 ] [ 2 ] [ 84 ]

International [edit ]

Spain [ 83 ]
Spain U21 [ 83 ]
Spain U19 [ 87 ]

person [edit ]

References [edit ]