Personal information | |||
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Full name | Gerard Badía Cortés | ||
Date of birth | 18 October 1989 | ||
Place of birth | Horta de Sant Joan, Spain | ||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
Tortosa | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
2006–2008 | Tortosa | 68 | (7) |
2008–2009 | Gavà | 25 | (3) |
2009–2010 | Murcia B | 12 | (0) |
2010–2013 | Guadalajara | 59 | (3) |
2013–2014 | Noja | 18 | (1) |
2014–2021 | Piast Gliwice | 196 | (23) |
2021–2022 | Ascó | 23 | (1) |
Total | 401 | (38) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Gerard Badía Cortés (born 18 October 1989) is a Spanish former footballer who played as a midfielder.
He spent his professional career with Guadalajara and Piast Gliwice, winning the Ekstraklasa with the latter club. [1]
Born in Horta de Sant Joan, Province of Tarragona, Catalonia, Badía all but spent his career in his country in the lower leagues. [2] The exception to this was in the 2011–12 and 2012–13 seasons, when he appeared for CD Guadalajara in the Segunda División. [3] [4] [5] [6]
Badía signed with Polish club Piast Gliwice in February 2014, from SD Noja. [7] He made his Ekstraklasa debut on the 17th, coming on as a late substitute in a 0–1 home loss against Wisła Kraków. [8]
In the 2018–19 campaign, Badía contributed 21 matches and two goals [9] [10] as Piast won the first national championship in their 74-year history. [11] During his spell at the Stadion Miejski, he made more than 200 competitive appearances. [2]
Badía returned to both Catalonia and amateur football on 14 July 2021, with the 31-year-old joining FC Ascó. [12] After retiring, he took a job at a vulcanization facility. [13]
Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Guadalajara | 2010–11 | Segunda División B | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 6 [a] | 0 | 26 | 1 | |
2011–12 | Segunda División | 26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | 26 | 2 | ||||
2012–13 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 14 | 0 | |||||
Total | 59 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 66 | 3 | ||
Noja | 2013–14 | Segunda División B | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 18 | 1 | |||
Piast Gliwice | 2013–14 | Ekstraklasa | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 15 | 0 | |||
2014–15 | 31 | 4 | 2 | 2 | — | 33 | 6 | |||||
2015–16 | 30 | 2 | 1 | 2 | — | 31 | 4 | |||||
2016–17 | 32 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 [b] | 0 | — | 34 | 9 | |||
2017–18 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | 20 | 2 | |||||
2018–19 | 21 | 2 | 2 | 0 | — | 23 | 2 | |||||
Total | 149 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 156 | 23 | ||
Career totals | 226 | 23 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 240 | 27 |
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