Profile Sergio Busquets

Personal information

Full name : Sergio Busquets Burgos
Date of birth : 16 July 1988
Place of birth : Sabadell, Spain
Height : 1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in)
Playing position : Defensive midfielder
Current club : Barcelona
Number : 16
Youth career :
1999–2003 Lleida
2003–2005 Unió Jabac
2005–2007 Barcelona
Senior career :
2007–2008 Barcelona B
2008– Barcelona
National team :
2008–2009 Spain U21
2009– Spain :
2008– Catalonia

Club career



Busquets as long as 2008's Joan Gamper Trophy

Busquets was born in Sabadell, Barcelona, Catalonia. In 2005–06, he united restricted FC Barcelona's youth ranks, counting seven goals in 26 equates for the Juvenil A assembly in the subsequent season. Two years afterwards, he was endorsed to the B assembly under Josep Guardiola, and aided it realise endorsement to the third stage, with one objective in his 32 appearances. In that matching time of the year, Busquets would make his first assembly debut, in a Catalonia Cup correspond, drawing close on as a substitute.

On 13 September 2008, Busquets acted his first apex plane tour correspond, 90 minutes in a 1–1 household draw in resistance to Racing de Santander. During Barcelona's UEFA Champions League correspond in resistance to FC Basel at St. Jakob-Park on 22 October 2008, he counted the second objective in the 15th minute in a 5–0 win. In early December, in another start, he counted his second objective with Barça in the struggle, netting in the 83rd minute of a 2–3 household forfeit in resistance to FC Shakhtar Donetsk. On 22 December, Busquets noted a bond widening until 2013, with a buy-out clause of €80 million.

On 7 March 2009, Busquets netted his first objective in the La Liga in a 2–0 household win over Athletic Bilbao. On 27 May, having been commonly employed in the governing body as he vied for the site with internationals Seydou Keita and Yaya Touré, he in addition included in Barcelona's commencing XI in the Champions League terminal, a 2–0 win over Manchester United. With that win, Carles and Sergio Busquets became only the third male parent and teenager combo to both have won Europe's apex group struggle playing for the matching assembly, uniting Manuel Sanchís Martínez and Manuel Sanchís Hontiyuelo (won it with Real Madrid) and Cesare Maldini and Paolo Maldini (Milan).

Busquets' fine configuration carried on in the 2009–10 time of the year, with Guardiola having a preference him to Yaya Touré as Barcelona's keeping midfielder. In the Champions League semi-final in resistance to Internazionale at Camp Nou on 28 April 2010, Busquets went down and writhed on the ground after Thiago Motta had lifted his arm and dropped Busquets in the neck.[9] As a effect, Motta was shown a second yellow card. Busquets was subsequently judged badly by the broadcasting and Motta for faking injury.

International career

On 11 October 2008, Busquets rake in his first covering for Spain's under-21, in their 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship condition play-offs first leg correspond, in resistance to Switzerland. He counted in the 17th minute but Spain lost the correspond 2–1, ultimately arising victorious 4–3 on aggregate.
On 6 February 2009, he was called-up to the major squad for the congenial in resistance to England, on 11 February.[11] Busquets lastly made his debut for La Furia Roja on 1 April 2009, in a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier in resistance to Turkey, playing 16 minutes in a 2–1 win in Istanbul, after returning David Silva. Four days beforehand, he had been labelled as a replacement when the matching boundaries joined in Madrid, where Spain ran out 1–0 champions, with a objective from assembly buddy Gerard Piqué.

Busquets was picked by director Vicente del Bosque for the finals in South Africa, supposing the keeping midfielder job naturalized Brazilian Marcos Senna had beforehand had in the conquest of UEFA Euro 2008: he acted all the equates and minutes for the eventual World champions (save for the last 30 minutes of the 0–1 gathering stage forfeit in resistance to Switzerland).