Álex Bergantiños

Álex Bergantiños
Personal information
Full name Alejandro Bergantiños García
Date of birth (1985-06-07) 7 June 1985
Place of birth A Coruña, Spain
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Defensive midfielder
Club 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 163 (6)
2008–2010 → Xerez (loan) 57 (0)
2010–2011 → Granada (loan) 6 (0)
2011 → Gimnàstic (loan) 22 (1)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19:00, 14 May 2016 (UTC).


This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Bergantiños and the second or maternal family name is García.

Alejandro "Álex" Bergantiños García (born 7 June 1985) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Deportivo de La Coruña as a defensive midfielder.

Football 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 back.

Bergantiños moved to Granada CF for 2010–11, still owned by Deportivo.[3] In January he ended his contract with the former and joined, in the same predicament, another club in the second division, Gimnàstic de Tarragona.[4]

Bergantiños returned to Galicia for the 2011–12 season, 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 main category of Spanish football 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]

References

  1. ↑ 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 (Spanish)
  2. ↑ El Mallorca bautiza al Xerez en Primera (Mallorca baptizes Xerez in Primera); Marca, 30 August 2009 (Spanish)
  3. ↑ Álex Bergantiños se va cedido al Granada (Álex Bergantiños goes on loan to Granada); Marca, 14 July 2010 (Spanish)
  4. ↑ Gimnàstic: llega Álex Bergantiños (Gimnàstic: Álex Bergantiños arrives); esFutbol, 11 January 2011 (Spanish)
  5. ↑ Álex Bergantiños confía en sus posibilidades (Álex Bergantiños trusts in his possibilities); Marca, 15 June 2012 (Spanish)
  6. ↑ "El partido padre" [The mother of all matches] (in Spanish). Marca. 20 October 2012. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  7. ↑ "Barcelona held by Deportivo La Coruna as Lucas fires comeback". ESPN FC. 12 December 2015. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
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