Murad Al-Masry (Dubai)
Barcelona, the holder of the Spanish Football League title, began consolidating its ranks this summer, and the starting strike was with one of the best midfielders in the world at the present time, German international Ilkay Gundogan, who was the captain of Manchester City in the historic last season, during which he achieved a hat-trick of Champions League titles. Europe, English Premier League and FA Cup.
Gundogan, 32, is currently playing the best football performance in his career. The Blaugrana midfielders scored only 11 goals together last season in the Spanish League, but the German scored eight goals in the English Premier League last season, and these are aspects From his life may not be known to everyone.
The beginning of Gundogan, whom the world knew from the gate of Borussia Dortmund, Germany, but he grew up encouraging his rival Schalke, like most children in the German city of Gelsenkirchen, he joined the Schalke Academy, at the age of eight, he was happy, but an ankle problem made him leave after one season. As he recalled in an earlier interview: “I was eight years old and it hit me hard. Much later, I understood that, but then I felt as if my dream was over, and my career was over.”
In fact, the player continued an illustrious career that saw him rise to ranks at Bochum, Nuremberg, Borussia Dortmund, Manchester City and now Barcelona.
This transfer will be particularly exciting for Gundogan because his new coach is Xavi Hernandez, a player he idolized when he started his professional career. As the German international explained in an interview in 2017, with the Spanish newspaper Marca: “I fell in love with Xavi, because he was always my role model and I really looked up to him. He was fantastic, and I really enjoyed his role in Barcelona’s great team.”
This transfer brings together Gundogan and Robert Lewandowski, as the midfielder and striker played in 77 matches together in Borussia Dortmund from 2011 to 2013, and together they won the 2011/2012 Bundesliga, in addition to the German Cup in the same season and the 2013 German Super Cup. The Westphalia Stadium »They developed an excellent chemistry at that time, Lewandowski led the offensive line, while Gundogan took over playing behind the Polish in the midfield, and they will now look forward to repeating that partnership in the «La Liga».
Gundogan is a complete midfielder, who can defend, dribble, pass and score. Not only has he scored a lot, scoring at least 10 goals in each of the past three seasons, but he has also scored fantastic goals, his fantastic goal being chosen just 13 seconds after kick-off. FA Cup final against Manchester United, Manchester City’s best goal this season.
Gundogan is not the only professional athlete in his family, his cousin, Naz Edemir, is one of the best European women’s volleyball players and has won several medals with the Turkish national team. Gundogan often travels with his family, of Turkish descent, to watch them play in international competitions.
2023-06-28 12:59:29
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