Jonathan de Guzmán
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Full name | Jonathan Alexander de Guzmán[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 13 September 1987 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth |
Scarborough, Ontario , Canada | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Sparta Rotterdam | ||||||||||||||||
Number | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
North Scarborough SC | |||||||||||||||||
1999–2005 | Feyenoord | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
2005–2010 | Feyenoord | 109 | (23) | ||||||||||||||
2010–2011 | Mallorca | 34 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
2011–2014 | Villarreal | 20 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2012–2014 | → Swansea City (loan) | 71 | (9) | ||||||||||||||
2014–2017 |
Napoli | 23 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
2016 |
→ Carpi (loan) | 5 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
2016–2017 |
→ Chievo (loan) | 27 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
2017–2020 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 52 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
2020–2022 | OFI | 42 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
2022– | Sparta Rotterdam | 48 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
2008 | Netherlands U21 | 4 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
2013–2015 | Netherlands | 14 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13 April 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 31 March 2015 |
Jonathan Alexander de Guzmán (born 13 September 1987) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Sparta Rotterdam. Born in Canada, he represented the Netherlands internationally.
De Guzmán is Canadian-born, but made himself available for the Netherlands after he gained Dutch citizenship in 2008, having lived in the country since the age of 12. 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.
In 2014 De Guzmán was described as a player with good technique, vision, and shooting ability from distance;
Early life
De Guzmán was born in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, Ontario and is of Jamaican and Filipino descent.[7] 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.[8] De Guzmán's older brother, Julian de Guzman, is also a former professional football player who retired as the most capped player for the Canada men's national soccer team and was the general manager at Ottawa Fury from 2017 until 2019. Julian was the first Canadian to play in the Spanish La Liga.[9]
De Guzmán's childhood was completely focused on football. His father first wanted his sons to play
Club career
Youth career
Like his brother, De Guzmán started his youth career at North Scarborough Soccer Club in Canada, training six times a week to improve his skills. Julian left Canada to join
Feyenoord
The rise
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
Initial difficulties
At the beginning of the season
With the
Injuries
De Guzmán had a personal agreement with Manchester City, but Feyenoord could not agree on a transfer fee with the Citizens: "Last summer, I assumed that I would depart from Rotterdam That eventually fell through, at that time was mainly to Feyenoord. Personally, I already said yes and I thought it was quite a nice sum (reportedly ten million, ed.). But the clubs were not there and later took another City player, Shaun Wright-Phillips."[21]
Despite a turbulent pre-season full of transfer speculations, De Guzmán remained at Feyenoord. However, De Guzmán also had a disappointing start to the season, as he was sent off in Feyenoord's season opening Eredivisie match. On 31 August 2008, De Guzmán 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.[22] Not much later, De Guzmán started having physical problems. What started with minor groin, thigh and knee injuries, ended with a serious meniscus surgery in January 2009.[23] He was out for the rest of the season. Due to his injuries, he only played two Eredivisie matches in the 2008–09 season.
De Guzmán made his comeback in the
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 Guzmán was subs cartilage in the right knee, needed surgical intervention and was out for over two months.
Mallorca
On 27 July 2010, de Guzmán signed a three-year contract with
Villarreal
On 31 August 2011, hours before the transfer deadline Villarreal completed a transfer for de Guzmán, the deal was for an undisclosed fee believed to be worth around €8.5 million.[34] De Guzmán made his debut on 10 September as a second half sub for Javier Camuñas during a 2–2 home draw against Sevilla.[35] Days later de Guzmán 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.[36] De Guzmán 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.[37] After receiving consistent playing time after joining the club in both league and domestic play de Guzmán began to struggle to find playing time under newly hired manager José Francisco Molina in early 2012, and rumors started about a potential move back to the Eredivisie.[38]
Loan to Swansea City
On 10 July 2012, de Guzmán completed a move to
On 19 January 2013, de Guzmán netted two goals against
Napoli
On 20 August 2014, de Guzmán transferred to
He made his debut as the team began their league campaign on 31 August away to Genoa, replacing Marek Hamšík after 74 minutes and scoring the winning goal in the 5th and last minute of extra time.[49]
On 6 November 2014, he scored a hat-trick in a 3–0 win at San Paolo against Young Boys in the group stage of the Europa League.[50]
In the same year, 22 December, he won as a protagonist his first trophy with the light blue jersey, the prestigious Italian
In the first Italian season he collected 36 appearances and 7 goals between league and cups.
In March 2015, de Guzmán first noticed abdominal pains. He was told by the Napoli club doctor to rest, but the pains did not improve. Consequently, he was excluded from the first-team squad, sidelined from training and asked to leave the club on loan. He has made claims that club medical staff thought he was lying about his symptoms and that he was punched in the face by Napoli's technical director, Cristiano Giuntoli, as a result of his refusal to leave the club on loan with an untreated injury.[12] Around the time he was finally loaned to Carpi in January 2016, he sought a second medical opinion and was immediately diagnosed with an abdominal hernia.[12]
Loan to Carpi
On 28 January 2016, de Guzmán joined
Loan to Chievo
On 26 August 2016, de Guzmán joined
Eintracht Frankfurt
On 10 July 2017, de Guzmán joined Eintracht Frankfurt on a three-year contract until 30 June 2020.
OFI
On 19 October 2020, de Guzmán signed a one-year deal with Greek club OFI.[56]
Sparta Rotterdam
On 22 July 2022, de Guzmán signed a contract with Sparta Rotterdam for one year with an option to extend.[57]
International career
After much speculation on which country de Guzmán would choose to represent internationally, de Guzmán made himself available for selection by the
In 2011, de Guzmán expressed an interest to play alongside brother
Personal life
De Guzmán has a son named Jaden born on 18 January 2007.[63] Jaden plays alongside Robin van Persie's son Shaqueel at the Feyenoord Academy.[64]
Career statistics
- As of match played 13 April 2024[65]
Club | Season | League | Cup[a] | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Feyenoord | 2005–06 | Eredivisie | 29 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1[b] | 0 | 2[c] | 0 | 33 | 5 |
2006–07 | Eredivisie | 32 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6[b] | 1 | 1[c] | 0 | 40 | 8 | |
2007–08 | Eredivisie | 33 | 9 | 6 | 2 | — | — | 39 | 11 | |||
2008–09 | Eredivisie | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1[b] | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | ||
2009–10 | Eredivisie | 13 | 3 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 15 | 3 | |||
Total | 109 | 23 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 130 | 26 | ||
Mallorca | 2010–11 | La Liga | 33 | 5 | 3 | 1 | — | — | 36 | 6 | ||
2011–12 | La Liga | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 1 | |||
Total | 34 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 37 | 7 | |||
Villarreal | 2011–12 | La Liga | 19 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6[d] | 1 | — | 26 | 1 | |
Swansea City (loan) | 2012–13 | Premier League | 37 | 5 | 2 | 0 | — | 6[e] | 3 | 45 | 8 | |
2013–14 | Premier League | 34 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11[f] | 2 | 1[e] | 0 | 48 | 7 | |
Total | 71 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 93 | 16 | ||
Napoli
|
2014–15
|
Serie A | 23 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 1[g] | 0 | 36 | 7 |
Carpi (loan)
|
2015–16
|
Serie A | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 5 | 1 | ||
Chievo (loan)
|
2016–17
|
Serie A | 27 | 2 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 29 | 2 | ||
Eintracht Frankfurt | 2017–18 | Bundesliga | 16 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 19 | 0 | ||
2018–19 | Bundesliga | 28 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9[f] | 0 | 1[h] | 0 | 39 | 3 | |
2019–20 | Bundesliga | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2[f] | 1 | — | 10 | 1 | ||
Total | 52 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 68 | 4 | ||
OFI | 2020–21 | Super League Greece | 17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 17 | 5 | ||
2021–22 | Super League Greece | 23 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 25 | 0 | |||
Total | 40 | 5 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 42 | 5 | ||||
Sparta Rotterdam | 2022–23 | Eredivisie | 21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 21 | 2 | |
2023–24 | Eredivisie | 27 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 28 | 1 | |||
Total | 48 | 3 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 49 | 3 | |||
Career total | 428 | 55 | 32 | 4 | 44 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 515 | 69 |
- ^ Includes KNVB Cup, Copa del Rey, FA Cup, Coppa Italia, DFB-Pokal, and Greek Football Cup
- ^ UEFA Cup
- ^ a b Appearances in Eredivisie European play-offs
- ^ Appearances in UEFA Champions League
- ^ Football League Cup
- ^ a b c Appearances in UEFA Europa League
- ^ Appearance in Supercoppa Italiana
- ^ Appearance in DFL-Supercup
Honours
Feyenoord
Swansea City
Napoli
Eintracht Frankfurt
Netherlands
- FIFA World Cup third place: 2014[69]
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External links
- Official website
- Jonathan de Guzmán at FootballDatabase.eu
- Jonathan de Guzmán at BDFutbol
- Jonathan de Guzmán profile and career statistics at Voetbal International (in Dutch)
- Jonathan de Guzmán at ESPN FC
- Jonathan de Guzmán – FIFA competition record (archived)