David Silva

David Silva

Personal information
Full name	David Josué Jiménez Silva
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Attacking midfielder / Winger
Team information
Current team	Valencia
Number	21
Youth career
	San Fernando
2000–2003	Valencia
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2003–2004	Valencia B	14	(1)
2004–	Valencia	119	(21)
2004–2005	→ Eibar (loan)	35	(5)
2005–2006	→ Celta Vigo (loan)	34	(4)
International career‡
2002–2003	Spain U17	20	(5)
2004–2005	Spain U19	14	(5)
2005	Spain U20	5	(4)
2004–2006	Spain U21	9	(7)
2006–	Spain	37	(7)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16 May 2010 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22 June 2010

Template:Spanish name 2 David Josué Jiménez Silva (born 8 January 1986) is a Spanish footballer who currently plays for Valencia CF and the Spanish national team.

Silva is capable of playing on either wing or as a traditional number 10, and sometimes as a supporting striker.

Club career

Valencia

Silva made his professional debut in 2004–05, at Segunda División's SD Eibar, on loan from Valencia CF, playing 35 league games and scoring on five occasions. In the following season, he was again loaned, this time to Celta de Vigo, where he played 34 matches, scoring four goals. After two late substitute appearances, the first in a 2–0 home win over Málaga CF on 28 August 2005, Silva finished as an undisputed starter as the Galician side reached the UEFA Cup straight from the second-tier.

Silva returned to Valencia in the 2006 summer, proceeding to become an automatic first-choice despite his young age (20). In two seasons combined, he only missed six matches while netting 14 goals (his first coming on 5 November 2006 in a 1–1 draw at RCD Espanyol).

After not having appeared in the first three months of 2008–09 due to a chronic ankle ailment, Silva returned to the call-ups in mid-December. On 3 January 2009, he scored twice in a 3–1 home win over Atlético de Madrid, still contributing with 19 matches (four goals) as the Che qualified for the Europa League.

In the 2009–10 season, Silva scored a career-best eight goals, as Valencia finished in third position and returned to the UEFA Champions League. On 15 April 2010, he scored a brace against Athletic Bilbao for a 2–0 home win, adding three assists in the 4–4 thriller at SV Werder Bremen, for the Europa League's round of 16.

Manchester City

On 30 June 2010, Manchester City announced that they had reached an agreement with Valencia over the transfer of Silva, and that he would join them after the 2010 World Cup, on a four-year contract subject to a medical.

International career

Silva first represented Spain alongside Cesc Fàbregas in the 2003 FIFA U-17 World Championship in Finland, scoring three goals. In 2006, he became an under-21 international and scored four goals during the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship; this was enough to earn him joint 4th place in the goal ranking alongside Italian striker Graziano Pellè.

Silva made his senior international debut in the 1–0 friendly home defeat to Romania on 15 November 2006. He continued to receive call-ups to the side after good contributions in his first games. On 22 August 2007, Silva scored his first two goals for Spain, netting twice in a 3–2 friendly win versus Greece. He was then called up to the squad of 23 for UEFA Euro 2008.

In the semi-finals game versus Russia, Silva scored the third goal for Spain after a quick counter-attack in which Fàbregas delivered a low cross, and he sent the ball into Igor Akinfeev's goal with his left foot.

In the final, Silva was involved in an incident with Germany's Lukas Podolski. After he pulled Podolski to the ground, the German approached Silva, which resulted in an angry exchange of words and a coming together of heads that the referee decided not to punish. Shortly afterward, Spanish coach Luis Aragonés substituted Silva for Santi Cazorla in an attempt to calm the tensions.

International goals

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition	Ref.
1	22 August 2007	Toumba Stadium, Thessaloniki, Greece	Greece	2–2	2–3	Friendly
2	22 August 2007	Toumba Stadium, Thessaloniki, Greece	Greece	2–3	2–3	Friendly
3	26 June 2008	Ernst Happel Stadion, Wien, Austria	Russia	0–3	0–3	UEFA Euro 2008
4	5 September 2009	Riazor, A Coruña, Spain	Belgium	1–0	5–0	2010 World Cup qualifying
5	5 September 2009	Riazor, A Coruña, Spain	Belgium	4–0	5–0	2010 World Cup qualifying
6	14 October 2009	Bilino Polje, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0–2	2–5	2010 World Cup qualifying
7	8 June 2010	Estadio Nueva Condomina, Murcia, Spain	Poland	2–0	6–0	Friendly Club statistics Club Season League Cup Europe Other Total Apps Goals Assists Apps Goals Assists Apps Goals Assists Apps Goals Assists Apps Goals Assists Eibar 2004–05 35 5 7 0 0 0 - - - - - - 35 5 7 Total 35 5 7 0 0 0 - - - - - - 35 5 7 Celta 2005–06 34 4 5 0 0 0 - - - - - - 34 4 5 Total 34 4 5 0 0 0 - - - - - - 34 4 5 Valencia 2006–07 36 4 8 2 1 1 11 3 2 - - - 49 8 11 2007–08 34 5 8 3 0 2 8 1 3 - - - 45 6 13 2008–09 19 4 7 3 0 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 25 5 9 2009–10 30 8 9 2 1 2 4 1 1 - - - 36 10 12 Total 119 21 24 10 2 6 25 6 7 0 0 0 155 29 45 Manchester City 2010–11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - - 0 0 0 Total 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Honours Club Valencia: Spanish Cup: 2007–08 International UEFA European Championship: 2008 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship: 2004 Individual FIFA U-17 World Championship: Bronze Ball 2003 ESM Team of the Month: February 2007 Personal Silva was born to Fernando Jiménez, a former municipal police officer who also worked for Valencia as responsible for the safety of its stadium, and Eva Silva. His father is Canarian and his mother is of Japanese descent. He has two younger siblings, sister Natalia and brother Nano. References External links BDFutbol profile National team data Template:Es icon David Silva – FIFA competition record (archived) Official website Template:Es icon