José Enrique
Appearance
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | José Enrique Sánchez Díaz | ||
Date of birth | 23 January 1986 | ||
Place of birth | Valencia, Spain | ||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Left back | ||
Youth career | |||
Levante | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2004–2005 | Levante B | 19 | (1) |
2005–2006 | Valencia | 0 | (0) |
2005–2006 | → Celta (loan) | 14 | (0) |
2006–2007 | Villarreal | 23 | (0) |
2007–2011 | Newcastle United | 119 | (1) |
2011–2016 | Liverpool | 76 | (2) |
2016–2017 | Real Zaragoza | 27 | (1) |
Total | 278 | (5) | |
National team | |||
2001 | Spain U16 | 2 | (0) |
2005 | Spain U20 | 4 | (0) |
2006–2008 | Spain U21 | 3 | (1) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
José Enrique Sánchez Díaz (born 23 January 1986) is a Spanish former footballer. He played as a left back.
Enrique was born in Valencia. He started career with Levante before signing for rivals Valencia. He also made La Liga appearances for Celta and Villarreal. He then spent nine years in England with Newcastle United and Liverpool, totalling 161 Premier League appearances. With Liverpool, He won the League Cup and lost the FA Cup final in 2012. He retired because of injury in 2017, after a year back in Spain with Real Zaragoza.[1]
Enrique was diagnosed with chordoma, a rare brain tumour, in May 2018. In April 2019, he was given the all-clear.[2]
Honours
[change | change source]Newcastle United
- Football League Championship: 2009–10
Liverpool
- Football League Cup: 2011–12
- FA Cup runner-up: 2011–12
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Jose Enrique: Ex-Liverpool and Newcastle defender retires with persistent knee injury". BBC Sport. 6 September 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ↑ "Jose Enrique: Ex-Liverpool and Newcastle defender given all clear by surgeons". BBC Sport. 15 April 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
Other websites
[change | change source]Wikimedia Commons has media related to José Enrique Sánchez.
- José Enrique at Soccerbase