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Gerard Badía - Wikipedia

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Gerard Badía
Personal information
Full name	Gerard Badía Cortés
Date of birth	(1989-10-18) 18 October 1989 (age 35)
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 professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

He spent his professional career with Guadalajara and Piast Gliwice, winning the Ekstraklasa with the latter club.^[1]

Club career

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]

Career statistics

**Appearances and goals by club, season and competition**^[14]
Club	Season	League			Cup^[a]		Continental		Other		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Gavà	2008–09	Segunda División B	25	3	2	1	—		—		27	4
Murcia B	2009–10	Segunda División B	12	0	0	0	—		—		12	0
Guadalajara	2010–11	Segunda División B	20	1	0	0	—		6^[b]	0	26	1
	2011–12	Segunda División	26	2	0	0	—		—		26	2
	2012–13	Segunda División	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	Ekstraklasa	31	4	2	2	—		—		33	6
	2015–16	Ekstraklasa	30	2	1	2	—		—		31	4
	2016–17	Ekstraklasa	32	9	1	0	1^[c]	0	—		34	9
	2017–18	Ekstraklasa	20	2	0	0	—		—		20	2
	2018–19	Ekstraklasa	21	2	2	0	—		—		23	2
	2019–20	Ekstraklasa	25	4	2	4	4^[d]	0	1^[e]	0	32	8
	2020–21	Ekstraklasa	22	0	3	0	1^[c]	0	—		26	0
	Total		196	23	11	8	6	0	1	0	214	31
Ascó	2021–22	Tercera Federación	23	1	0	0	—		—		23	1
Career totals			333	31	14	9	6	0	7	0	360	40

^ Includes Copa del Rey, Polish Cup
^ Appearances in Segunda División B play-offs
^ ^a ^b Appearance in UEFA Europa League
^ Two appearances in UEFA Champions League, two appearances in UEFA Europa League
^ Appearance in Polish Super Cup

Honours

Piast Gliwice

Ekstraklasa: 2018–19^[11]

Individual

Ekstraklasa Player of the Month: March 2017^[15]
Ekstraklasa Hall of Fame: 2023^[16]

References

^ Podstufka, Szymon (20 March 2020). "Gerard Badia: "Jak pokazujesz jaja na boisku, kibic wybaczy ci dużo więcej"" [Gerard Badia: "If you show your balls on the pitch, the fans will be a lot more forgiving"] (in Polish). Weszlo. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
^ ^a ^b Algueró, Enric (19 February 2021). "Gerard Badia alcanza los 200 partidos con el Piast" [Gerard Badia reaches 200 matches with Piast]. Diari de Tarragona (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 July 2021.
^ "2–2: Florian salva un punto para el Sabadell en el añadido" [2–2: Florian rescues point for Sabadell in injury time]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 24 March 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
^ "El sueño del Córdoba pasa por volver a ganar" [Córdoba have to win to keep dreaming]. Marca (in Spanish). 26 April 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
^ Sánchez, Jorge (5 June 2012). "¡Terrazas prescinde de 17 futbolistas!" [Terrazas releases 17 footballers!]. Marca (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 July 2021.
^ "El Guadalajara podría sentenciar a otro histórico" [Guadalajara could finish another historic]. La Información (in Spanish). 25 May 2013. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
^ "Transfery 2014. Gerard Badia piłkarzem Piasta Gliwice" [2014 Transfers. Gerard Badia a Piast Gliwice player]. Super Express (in Polish). 6 February 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
^ "Zadecydował rzut karny. Wisła wygrała w Gliwicach" [Penalty kick the decider. Wisła won in Gliwice] (in Polish). TVP Sport. 17 February 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
^ Kuczyński, Tomasz (29 September 2018). "Piast Gliwice – Górnik Zabrze 1:0. Barcelona ma Messiego, a Piast Badiego ZDJĘCIA + OPIS" [Piast Gliwice – Górnik Zabrze 1:0. Barcelona have Messi and Piast have Badía PICTURES + SUMMARY]. Dziennik Zachodni (in Polish). Retrieved 25 July 2021.
^ "Ekstraklasa: Porażka Legii Warszawa. Piast Gliwice włącza się do walki o mistrzostwo" [Ekstraklasa: Legia Warsaw beaten. Piast Gliwice join championship fight]. Rzeczpospolita (in Polish). 4 May 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
^ ^a ^b Manchón, Martín (20 May 2019). "Gerard Badía y Jorge Félix conquistan la Ekstraklasa" [Gerard Badía and Jorge Félix conquer the Ekstraklasa]. Diario AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 July 2021.
^ "Gerard Badía piłkarzem FC Ascó" [Gerard Badía a FC Ascó player] (in Polish). 90 Minut. 14 July 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
^ Dębek, Tomasz (22 June 2023). "Legenda Ekstraklasy prowadzi nietypowy biznes. "Brudzę ręce dla moich dzieci" – mówi Faktowi" [Ekstraklasa legend runs unusual business. "I get my hands dirty for my children" – he tells Fakt]. Fakt (in Polish). Retrieved 9 November 2023.
^ Gerard Badía at Soccerway
^ "Badia piłkarzem miesiąca w Lotto Ekstraklasie!" [Badía is the Lotto Ekstraklasa player of the month!] (in Polish). Piast Gliwice. 29 March 2017. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
^ "Kamil Grosicki piłkarzem sezonu w PKO Bank Polski Ekstraklasie!" [Kamil Grosicki is the PKO Bank Polish Ekstraklasa player of the season!] (in Polish). Ekstraklasa. 29 May 2023. Archived from the original on 30 May 2023. Retrieved 29 May 2023.

External links

Gerard Badía at BDFutbol
Gerard Badía at 90minut.pl (in Polish)