Enrique Mata (footballer)

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Enrique Mata
Personal information
Full name Enrique Mata
Date of birth (1957-05-10) 10 May 1957 (age 66)
Place of birth Valencia, Spain
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Midfielder, Forward
Youth career
FC Nordstern Basel
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1977–1982 FC Nordstern Basel 102 (15)
1981–1982 FC Grenchen 15 (0)
1982–1985 Neuchâtel Xamax 86 (7)
1985–1991 FC Basel 104 (18)
1991–1992 FC Laufen
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Enrique Mata (born 10 May 1957) is a Spanish-Swiss retired footballer who played in the late 1970s, the 1980s and early 1990s. He played mainly as an attacking midfielder, but also as a forward.

Mata played his youth football with FC Nordstern Basel and advanced to their first team in the 1977–78 season. At the end of that season Nordstern achieved promotion as division champions to the Nationalliga A. [1] The following season Mata suffered relegation with Nordstern, the team coming last in the relegation round, but Mata stayed with the club. The following season Nordstern again achieved promotion as division runners-up. [2] Mata also played the following season with the club.

But soon after the start of the 1981–82 season he moved on to FC Grenchen one league lower. Here he played for only half a year and again Mata moved on, this time to Xamax. Mata was always first choice midfielder by Xamax and played three seasons for the club.

Mata joined FC Basel's first team in their 1985–86 season under team manager Helmut Benthaus. After playing in five test games, Mata played his domestic league debut for his new club in the home game in the St. Jakob Stadium on 7 August 1985 as Basel played against Luzern. [3] Mata scored his first goal for his club just three days later on 10 August in the away game against Vevey-Sports. It was the first goal of the game in the 6th minute, but it could not help Basel to a victory, the end result was a 2–2 draw. [4]

Mata stayed with Basel for six seasons. Mata injured himself in the 1986–87 season and this kept him out for longer than half a year. Despite suffering relegation at the end of their 1987–88 season Mata stayed with the club until the end of the 1990–91 season. Between the years 1985 and 1991 Mata played a total of 173 games for Basel scoring a total of 30 goals; 104 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, 14 in the Swiss Cup and 55 were friendly games. He scored 18 goals in the domestic league, five in the cup and the other seven were scored during the test games. [5]

After his time with Basel, Mata retired from professional football and moved on and he played one season for local team FC Laufen in the 1st League.

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References

  1. ↑ Nackaerts, Luc; Garin, Erik. "Nationalliga A 1977/78". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  2. ↑ Nackaerts, Luc; Garin, Erik. "Nationalliga A 1979/80". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  3. ↑ "FC Basel - FC Luzern 0:1 (0:0)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  4. ↑ "Vevey-Sports - FC Basel 2:2 (1:1)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  5. ↑ "Enrique Mata - FCB-Statistik". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.

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