Álex Bergantiños
 Bergantiños with Sporting Gijón in 2017 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alejandro Bergantiños García | ||
| Date of birth | 7 June 1985 | ||
| Place of birth | A Coruña, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Defensive midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Deportivo La Coruña | ||
| Number | 4 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1993–2002 | Imperátor OAR | ||
| 2002–2004 | Deportivo La Coruña | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2004–2008 | Deportivo B | 97 | (10) |
| 2008– | Deportivo La Coruña | 231 | (8) |
| 2008–2010 | → Xerez (loan) | 57 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | → Granada (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 2011 | → Gimnàstic (loan) | 22 | (1) |
| 2017–2018 | → Sporting Gijón (loan) | 36 | (1) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 February 2020 | |||
Alejandro "Álex" Bergantiños García (born 7 June 1985) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Deportivo de La Coruña as a defensive midfielder.
Club career
Bergantiños was born in A Coruña. He had his first professional spell as a footballer in 2008, at already 23: loaned by local Deportivo de La Coruña, he was an essential midfield figure as Xerez CD achieved a first-ever top flight promotion – 31 games, 21 starts and 2,085 minutes played.
In very late August 2009, Depor agreed to loan Bergantiños once again to the Andalusians, in another season-long move.[1] He made his La Liga debut on 30 August, playing the last 30 minutes in a 0–2 away loss against RCD Mallorca,[2] and produced roughly the same numbers than in the previous campaign as the Andalusians were immediately relegated.
Bergantiños moved on loan to Granada CF for the 2010–11 campaign.[3] He left in January 2011 to begin yet another loan, at Segunda División rivals Gimnàstic de Tarragona.[4]
Bergantiños returned to Galicia in 2011–12, and soon became a first-team regular, appearing in all the league games and helping his team achieve promotion back to the top flight.[5] He scored his first goal in the competition on 20 October 2012, but in a 4–5 home loss against FC Barcelona;[6] on 12 December 2015, against the same opponent but at the Camp Nou, he helped the visitors come from behind 0–2 to draw it 2–2 by netting in the 85th minute.[7]
On 2 March 2017, in his first league game of the season, Bergantiños had an accidental collision with Fernando Torres, from which the Atlético Madrid striker suffered cranial injuries; he visited the opponent in hospital shortly afterwards.[8] Ten days later, he scored the winner in a 2–1 victory against reigning champions Barcelona at the Estadio Riazor.[9]
On 11 July 2017, Bergantiños was loaned to Sporting de Gijón for one year.[10]
References
- ^ Deportivo y Xerez cierran por escrito la cesión de Álex Bergantiños (Deportivo and Xerez agree to loan of Álex Bergantiños in writing); Diario AS, 27 August 2009 (in Spanish)
- ^ El Mallorca bautiza al Xerez en Primera (Mallorca baptise Xerez in Primera); Marca, 30 August 2009 (in Spanish)
- ^ Álex Bergantiños se va cedido al Granada (Álex Bergantiños goes on loan to Granada); Marca, 14 July 2010 (in Spanish)
- ^ Gimnàstic: llega Álex Bergantiños (Gimnàstic: Álex Bergantiños arrives); esFutbol, 11 January 2011 (in Spanish)
- ^ Álex Bergantiños confía en sus posibilidades (Álex Bergantiños trusts in his possibilities); Marca, 15 June 2012 (in Spanish)
- ^ "El partido padre" [The mother of all matches] (in Spanish). Marca. 20 October 2012. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
- ^ "Barcelona held by Deportivo La Coruna as Lucas fires comeback". ESPN FC. 12 December 2015. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
- ^ "Bergantiños visitó a Fernando Torres en el hospital" [Bergantiños visited Fernando Torres in hospital] (in Spanish). Diario AS. 3 March 2017. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- ^ "Deportivo La Coruña's Alex Bergantinos brings Barcelona back to earth". The Guardian. 12 March 2017. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- ^ "Bergantiños llega cedido por el Dépor" [Bergantiños arrives on loan from Dépor] (in Spanish). Sporting Gijón. 11 July 2017. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
External links
- Deportivo official profile (in Spanish)
- Álex Bergantiños at BDFutbol
- Álex Bergantiños at Futbolme (in Spanish)
- Álex Bergantiños at Soccerway
- 1985 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from A Coruña
- Spanish footballers
- Galician footballers
- Association football midfielders
- La Liga players
- Segunda División players
- Segunda División B players
- Tercera División players
- Deportivo Fabril players
- Deportivo de La Coruña players
- Xerez CD footballers
- Granada CF footballers
- Gimnàstic de Tarragona footballers
- Sporting de Gijón players