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Jonathan de Guzmán
Personal information
Full name Jonathan Alexander de Guzmán
Date of birth (1987-09-13) 13 September 1987 (age 37)
Place of birth Scarborough, Canada
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Attacking Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Swansea City
(on loan from Villareal)
Number 20
Youth career
1999–2005 Feyenoord
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2010 Feyenoord 109 (23)
2010–2011 Mallorca 34 (6)
2011 - Villarreal 19 (0)
2012– → Swansea City (loan) 22 (5)
International career‡
2008 Netherlands U21 4 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16:41, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18:59, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Jonathan Alexander de Guzmán (born 13 September 1987) is a Canadian-born footballer, who plays as an attacking midfielder and is currently playing for Swansea City on loan from Villarreal.

De Guzmán was born in Canada, but made himself available for the Netherlands after he gained Dutch citizenship in 2008. He was capped four times for the Netherlands U21, scoring three goals and was active on the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. De Guzmán progressed through the Feyenoord Academy, making his first team debut in 2005 and has played over 100 matches for the club from Rotterdam. In the summer of 2010 de Guzmán signed a three-year contract with RCD Mallorca following a free transfer. The following summer he was purchased by Villarreal.

De Guzmán is also known for being a free-kick specialist.

Early life

De Guzmán was born in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada and is of Jamaican and Filipino descent.[1] His father Bobby, from the Philippines, and mother Pauline, from Jamaica, came to Canada when they were ten years old and have three children; a daughter Jenelle and the two sons Jonathan and Julian.[2] De Guzmán's older brother, Julian de Guzmán, is also a professional football player, who currently plays for RCD Mallorca. De Guzmán's childhood was completely focused on football. His father first wanted his sons to play basketball, but due to the brothers short height, they started to focus on other sports. Once they started playing football, the brothers fell in love with the sport completely: "After school, all we did was playing football. That was pretty unusual in Canada, because almost nobody of our age did it. Canada is not a football country, we were exceptions."[3]

Career

Youth career

De Guzmán started his youth career at North Scarborough S.C. in Canada. To improve his skills, the youngster trained six times a week and was active in three different teams, including the team of his older brother. When his brother Julian left Canada to join Olympique Marseille's youth academy, De Guzmán's urge to also pursue his career in Europe grew strongly. At the age of 12, two years after his brother went to France, he joined the Feyenoord youth academy in the Netherlands.[3]

Feyenoord (2005–2010)

The rise (2005–2006)

De Guzmán was not allowed to play for Feyenoord's first team before he was 18 years old. On 15 September 2005, three days after turning 18, De Guzmán was part of Feyenoord's first team squad for the first time. However, he remained on the bench in the UEFA Cup home match against Rapid Bucharest (1–1).[4] Three days later, on 18 September 2005, De Guzmán made his official Feyenoord debut in the Eredivisie home match against SC Heerenveen (5–1). He replaced Ghaly in the 87th minute.[5] De Guzman scored his first professional goal on 30 September 2005, in the Eredivisie away match against Willem II (1–3).[6]

After his debut against SC Heerenveen, De Guzmán quickly became a first team regular. On 11 December 2005, he received much praise after outplaying former Barcelona player Philip Cocu in a midfield battle at Feyenoord's Eredivisie home match win against PSV (1–0).[7] De Guzmán finished the Eredivisie season 2005–06 with 29 matches, scoring 4 goals. On 29 December 2005, he signed an improved contract with Feyenoord until summer 2010. His old contract was set to expire in 2008.[8]

First difficulties (2006–2008)

At the beginning of the season 2006–07, Feyenoord sold their star players Dirk Kuyt to Liverpool and Salomon Kalou to Chelsea. The management had high expectations of De Guzmán, who was ready to make the next step in his development.[9] However, the youngster couldn't prevent the club from finishing on a 7th Eredivisie place. De Guzmán's disappointing season ended with a red card in the 21st minute of the first playoff match against FC Groningen on 10 May 2009.[10] Feyenoord lost the double confrontation and missed out on European football for the first time in 16 years. At the end of the season, De Guzmán acknowledged there was perhaps too much pressure on him: "I was only 19 years old, I couldn't just tell everyone what to do. It was really a disappointing season. I didn't make progress as a football player, but I did grow mentally because of all the problems we had. It was a very tough season for me personally."[9]

Jonathan de Guzmán after the first Feyenoord training of the season 2007–08

With the 2007–08 arrival of experienced players like Giovanni van Bronckhorst from Barcelona and Roy Makaay from Bayern Munich, Feyenoord created the perfect circumstances for De Guzmán. The pressure on the youngster was taken away, however De Guzmán wasn't too happy with his new position in the team. Where De Guzmán always played as a midfielder, new manager Bert van Marwijk placed him on the right wing position in a 4–2–3–1 system.[11] De Guzmán played 33 Eredivisie matches, scoring nine goals.

Injuries (2008–2010)

De Guzmán had a personal agreement with Manchester City, but Feyenoord couldn't agree on a transfer fee with the Citizens: "I was really sure I was going to leave Rotterdam. It didn't happen because of Feyenoord. I already said yes and I thought it was a nice transfer fee (allegedly 10 million euro, red.). But the clubs couldn't come to an agreement and not much later City bought another player, Shaun Wright-Phillips."[12]

Despite a turbulent pre-season full of transfer speculations, De Guzman remained at Feyenoord. However, De Guzman also had a disappointing sportive start of the season, as he was sent off in Feyenoord's season opening Eredivisie match. On 31 August 2008, De Guzman received a red card for a flying elbow in the 30th minute in the away match against Heracles Almelo (3–1), resulting in a suspension of four matches.[13] Not much later, De Guzman started having physical problems. What started with minor groin, thigh and knee injuries, ended with an serious meniscus surgery in January 2009.[14] De Guzman was out for the rest of the season. Due to his injuries, De Guzmán only played two Eredivisie matches in the season 2008–09.

De Guzmán made his comeback in the 2009–10 pre-season friendly away match against Sporting Portugal (1–2), scoring the equalizer.[15] Due to his expiring contract, Feyenoord was keen to sell their youth product in the summer. However, new Feyenoord manager Mario Been wanted De Guzman to stay. He stated De Guzman was an important player for the team and was willing to let him play on his favorite central playmaker position.[12] Despite interest from Chelsea[16] and Valencia,[17] De Guzman stayed at Feyenoord. After a promising start of the season, scoring three goals in his first nine matches, injuries kept following the midfielder. On 3 October 2009, De Guzman was substituted in the 46th minute of Feyenoord's home match against RKC Waalwijk (3–0). He tore his cartilage in the right knee, needed surgical intervention and was out for over two months.[18] De Guzman made his comeback after the winter break, but after playing four more matches, he had to leave a training session injured on 4 March 2010. He was struck by the same injury as he had earlier this season, only this time on his left knee.[19] De Guzman made his final comeback in Feyenoord's last match of the season. However, De Guzman couldn't prevent Feyenoord losing the KNVB Cup final against arch rivals Ajax (1–4) on 6 May 2010, and left the club on a free transfer: "For me personally it's nice that I am fit again and still could get some playing time during the finals, but the result is very disappointing obviously. It's very sad I have to leave Feyenoord this way."[20]

Mallorca (2010–2011)

With de Guzman available on a free transfer, he gained offers from Espanyol, PSV Eindhoven and Villarreal but preferred a move to the Premier League with Newcastle also interested.[21] Instead, on 27 July 2010, De Guzman signed a three-year contract with Real Mallorca. He cited the amount of faith shown in him from club owner Lorenzo Serra Ferrer and manager Michael Laudrup for making the move, in spite of the club being expelled from the UEFA Europa League due to financial reasons.[22] de Guzman made his debut for the club and performed brilliantly in a 0–0 draw against Real Madrid 29 August 2010. Three weeks later de Guzman scored his first goal in La Liga in a 2–0 home win vs. Osasuna. On 18 December 2010 de Guzman scored a stunning goal out of nowhere to tie up the game in the 28th minute against Villarreal, the game finished in a 3–1 Villarreal victory.[23] de Guzman had a very strong first season in Spain although his team finished in 17th place one out of relegation. Jonathan made 33 league starts while scoring 5 goals, including one in the last game of the season against Atlético Madrid in a 4–3 loss in which Sergio Agüero scored a hatrick.[24]

After a summer filled with speculation on de Guzman transferring to Villarreal, Jonathan played in Mallorca's first game of the season on 28 August 2011, against Espanyol scoring the lone goal in a 1-0 home victory over the Catalonia team.[25]

Villarreal (2011–2012)

On 31 August 2011, hours before the transfer deadline Villarreal completed a transfer for de Guzman, the deal was for an undisclosed fee believed to be worth around €8.5 million.[26] Jonathan made his debut on 10 September as a second half sub for Javier Camuñas during a 2–2 home draw against Sevilla.[27] Days later De Guzman made his return to European competition since his move to Spain on 14 September against Bayern Munich in a 2–0 defeat in the first game of the UEFA Champions League group stage.[28] De Guzman scored his first goal for Villarreal on 22 November against Bayern Munich, the game ended in a 3-1 away defeat in the second last match in the Champions League Group Stage.[29] After receiving consistent playing time after joining the club in both league and domestic play De Guzman began to struggle to find playing time under newly hired manager José Francisco Molina in early 2012, rumors started about a potential move back to the Eredivisie.[30]

Swansea City (2012-)

On 10 July 2012, de Guzmán completed a move to Swansea City on loan.[31] He made his début against Queens Park Rangers in a 5-0 win at Loftus Road. He scored his first goal for Swansea in a 3-1 League Cup win over Liverpool at Anfield on 31 October 2012.[32] De Guzman scored his first goal in the Premier League and for Swansea on 17 November against Newcastle United, the game ended in a 2-1 away victory for the Swans. De Guzman's second league goal for Swansea came in a 2-1 win over Fulham at Craven Cottage on 29 December, scoring the winning goal for the away side.[33]

International career

Jonathan de Guzmán during a training of the Netherlands U21 in 2008

After much speculation on which country de Guzman would choose to represent internationally, Jonathan made himself available for selection by the Dutch national team, immediately after receiving his Dutch citizenship in February 2008, having applied for it the previous year. His decision was met with disappointment in Canada. Controversially, de Guzman appeared on a nationally televised Canadian sports show a week before this announcement and claimed that he had not made up his mind on his international status, and was focusing on his club career in the Netherlands. His brother Julian does play for the Canadian national team.

After failing to make the final cut in a senior call up, de Guzmán made his international debut for the Netherlands U21 squad on 26 March 2008, in a European Championship qualification match against Estonia U21. He played a significant role, scoring the first and third goal and providing the assist for the second in a 3–0 victory. He was later named in the Netherlands squad for the 2008 Summer Olympics.[34]

Changes to FIFA regulations regarding switching nations[35] now mean that De Guzman may again be eligible for selection by Canada, as well as the countries of his parents, Jamaica and The Philippines, having yet to make an appearance for the senior Netherlands squad.

In 2011, De Guzman expressed interest to play along side brother Julian De Guzman for the Canadian team. However in 2012, De Guzman gave an interview to The Score TV stating that he is dedicated to the Dutch national team and feels he will be called up after the completion of Euro 2012.[36]

Career statistics

As of 19 January 2013
Club performance League Cup Continental Total
Season Club League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Netherlands League KNVB Cup Europe Total
2005–06 Feyenoord Eredivisie 29 4 1 0 1 0 31 4
2006–07 32 7 1 0 6 1 39 8
2007–08 33 9 6 2 - 39 11
2008–09 2 0 0 0 1 0 3 0
2009–10 13 3 2 0 - 15 3
Spain League Copa del Rey Europe Total
2010–11 Mallorca La Liga 33 5 2 1 - 35 6
2011–12 1 1 - - 1 1
2011–12 Villarreal 20 0 1 0 6 1 27 1
England League FA Cup League Cup Total
2012–13 Swansea City Premier League 22 5 1 0 3 1 26 6
Total Netherlands 109 23 10 2 8 1 127 26
Spain 54 6 3 1 6 1 63 8
England 22 5 1 0 3 1 26 6
Career total 185 34 13 3 16 3 216 40

Honours

Feyenoord

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