Radja Nainggolan
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Radja Nainggolan | ||
Date of birth | 4 May 1988 | ||
Place of birth | Antwerp, Belgium | ||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Roma | ||
Number | 4 | ||
Youth career | |||
2000–2005 | Germinal Beerschot | ||
2005–2007 | Piacenza | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2006–2010 | Piacenza | 71 | (4) |
2010 | → Cagliari (loan) | 7 | (0) |
2010–2014 | Cagliari | 131 | (7) |
2014 | → Roma (loan) | 17 | (2) |
2014– | Roma | 70 | (11) |
International career‡ | |||
2004 | Belgium U16 | 1 | (0) |
2007 | Belgium U19 | 2 | (0) |
2008–2009 | Belgium U20 | 2 | (0) |
2007–2010 | Belgium U21 | 13 | (1) |
2009– | Belgium | 24 | (6) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:29, 14 May 2016 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 July 2016 |
Radja Nainggolan (born 4 May 1988) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Italian club A.S. Roma and the Belgian national team.
He spent most of his professional career in Italy, representing Piacenza, Cagliari and Roma and making over 200 Serie A appearances.
A Belgian international since 2009, Nainggolan appeared for the country at Euro 2016.
Early life
Nainggolan was born in Antwerp, the son of Lizy Bogaerts, a Belgian of Flemish ethnicity who raised him with his three half brothers and his twin sister,[1][2] and Marianus Nainggolan, an Indonesian of Batak background and member of the Batak Christian Protestant Church[3] who left them with nothing when he was just a child.[4]
Nainggolan's mother died in 2010,[5] and after her death he tattooed two large wings on his back with her dates of birth and death.[4][6] He was raised Roman Catholic and speaks Dutch, English and Italian fluently, as well as understanding French.[7][8]
Club career
Piacenza
Nainggolan arrived at Piacenza Calcio 1919 in late 2005 at the age of 17, from local K.F.C. Germinal Beerschot. Still a junior he managed to appear in two Serie B games for the club, over the course of two separate seasons.
Nainggolan played 38 matches in the 2008–09 campaign for the Emilia-Romagna side, scoring three goals for an eventual 10th-place finish.
Cagliari
On 27 January 2010, Nainggolan was loaned to Cagliari Calcio in Serie A,[9] with the Sardinians having an option to buy the player permanently at the end of the season. He made his league debut on 7 February, playing seven minutes in a 0–3 away loss against Inter Milan.[10]
On 21 June 2010, Cagliari acquired Nainggolan on a permanent basis. In early October 2013, after three seasons as an undisputed first-choice,[11] he renewed his contract until 2016.[12]
However, on 7 January of the following year, Nainggolan was loaned to fellow league team A.S. Roma until the end of the campaign for a fee of €3 million, with an option to purchase 50% of his rights in the ensuing summer for €6 million.[13][14]
Roma
Nainggolan made his debut for his new club on 9 January 2014, starting in a 1–0 home win over U.C. Sampdoria for the season's Coppa Italia which qualified to the quarter-finals.[15] In the same competition, he also helped dispose of Juventus F.C. in said stage by playing the full 90 minutes 12 days later.[16]
On 22 February 2014, Nainggolan scored his first goal for the capital side, grabbing the 1–0 winner against Bologna F.C. 1909.[17] His second, which arrived on 19 April against ACF Fiorentina (same result) ensured his team automatic qualification to the UEFA Champions League.[18]
Nainggolan signed a permanent deal with Roma in the 2015 off-season, for €9 million.[19] On 6 July of the following year, after being the subject of three bids from Chelsea, with the last one reportedly valued at €40 million, he decided to stay after receiving an improved contract until June 2020.[20][21]
International career
Nainggolan earned his first cap for Belgium on 29 May 2009, against Chile in the Kirin Cup.[22] On 5 March 2014 he scored his first goal for the Red Devils, in a 2–2 friendly draw with Côte d'Ivoire.[18]
On 13 May 2014, Nainggolan was selected in a standby list for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.[23][24] He did not make the final cut, however.
Nainggolan was an undisputed starter for the Marc Wilmots-led Red Devils during the UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying campaign,[25] scoring in an away draw with Bosnia and Herzegovina[26] and a 4–1 win in Andorra as the team qualified for the tournament for the first time in 16 years.[27]
Nainggolan was selected to the finals in France.[28] He made his debut in the tournament on 13 June, playing 62 minutes in a 0–2 loss against Italy.[29] After featuring as a second-half substitute in the second game, a 3–0 defeat of the Republic of Ireland,[30] he returned to the starting XI against Sweden, scoring the game's only goal at the Stade de Nice after a counter-attack to send his country to the knockout stage as second;[31] in the quarter-finals, he netted from 25 meters to put his country ahead against Wales after 12 minutes, but in an eventual 1–3 loss.[32]
Career statistics
Club
Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Piacenza | 2005–06 | Serie B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | ||
2006–07 | Serie B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | |||
2007–08 | Serie B | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 11 | 0 | |||
2008–09 | Serie B | 38 | 3 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 39 | 3 | |||
2009–10 | Serie B | 21 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 22 | 1 | |||
Total | 71 | 4 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 74 | 4 | ||||
Cagliari | 2009–10 | Serie A | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 7 | 0 | ||
2010–11 | Serie A | 36 | 2 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 38 | 2 | |||
2011–12 | Serie A | 37 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 39 | 1 | |||
2012–13 | Serie A | 34 | 2 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 35 | 2 | |||
2013–14 | Serie A | 17 | 2 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 18 | 2 | |||
Total | 131 | 7 | 6 | 0 | — | 137 | 7 | |||||
Roma | 2013–14 | Serie A | 17 | 2 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 20 | 2 | ||
2014–15 | Serie A | 35 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | — | 46 | 5 | ||
2015–16 | Serie A | 35 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | — | 42 | 6 | ||
Total | 87 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 16 | 0 | — | 108 | 13 | |||
Career total | 289 | 24 | 14 | 0 | 16 | 0 | — | 329 | 24 |
International
- As of match played 1 July 2016[35]
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Belgium | 2009 | 1 | 0 |
2011 | 1 | 0 | |
2012 | 1 | 0 | |
2013 | 1 | 0 | |
2014 | 4 | 2 | |
2015 | 9 | 2 | |
2016 | 7 | 2 | |
Total | 24 | 6 |
International goals
- As of match played 1 July 2016 (Belgium score listed first, score column indicates score after each Nainggolan goal)[35]
No. | Date | Venue | Cap | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 5 March 2014 | King Baudouin, Brussels, Belgium | 5 | Ivory Coast | 2–0 | 2–2 | Friendly |
2 | 13 October 2014 | Bilino Polje, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 8 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1–1 | 1–1 | UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying |
3 | 7 June 2015 | Stade de France, Paris, France | 11 | France | 3–0 | 4–3 | Friendly |
4 | 10 October 2015 | Estadi Nacional, Andorra la Vella, Andorra | 15 | Andorra | 1–0 | 4–1 | UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying |
5 | 22 June 2016 | Stade de Nice, Nice, France | 22 | Sweden | 1–0 | 1–0 | UEFA Euro 2016 |
6 | 1 July 2016 | Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France | 24 | Wales | 1–0 | 1–3 | UEFA Euro 2016 |
Honours
Individual
References
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External links
- Stats at Tutto Calciatori Template:It icon
- Radja Nainggolan at National-Football-Teams.com
- Radja Nainggolan – UEFA competition record (archive)
- Belgium stats at Eu-Football
- Use dmy dates from December 2010
- 1988 births
- Living people
- Indo people
- Flemish people
- Belgian people of Indonesian descent
- People of Batak descent
- Belgian Roman Catholics
- Twin people from Belgium
- Twin sportspeople
- Flemish sportspeople
- Sportspeople from Antwerp
- Belgian footballers
- Association football midfielders
- Serie A players
- Serie B players
- Piacenza Calcio 1919 players
- Cagliari Calcio players
- A.S. Roma players
- Belgium youth international footballers
- Belgium under-21 international footballers
- Belgium international footballers
- UEFA Euro 2016 players
- Belgian expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Italy
- Belgian expatriates in Italy