Profile Urby Emanuelson

Personal information

Full name : Urby Vitorrio Diego Emanuelson

Date of birth : 16 June 1986

Place of birth : Amsterdam, Netherlands

Height : 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)

Playing position : Left wingback / Left winger

Current club : Milan

Number : 4

Youth career :

–1994 Voorland

1994–2004 Ajax

Senior career :

2004–2011 Ajax

2011– Milan

National team :

2006– Netherlands

Club career

Ajax

Emanuelson is a commodity of Ajax's youth system, stringing them from Voorland SC. He prepared his debut during the 2004–05 season on April ten, 2005 in a 4–2 home win across AZ. As of the 2005–06 season he became first-choice retired rear and he won his first career trophies, beginning with the 2005 Johan Cruijff-schaal and the 2006 KNVB Cup. During the transfer term in the summer of 2007, Ajax released a do-not-touch label on Emanuelson as a warning to other clubs whoever planned to produce a bid for the young talent.

When Marco van Basten took across as club bus in 2008–09, Emanuelson originated on the retired rear position. But subsequent, afterwards many of discouraging suits and evil guarding, Emanuelson was placed as retired midfielder or retired winger, letting him concentrate more on assailing play than defensive. On thirty November 2008, Emanuelson played his 150th suit for the club. Now, Emanuelson initially dramas as a retired midfielder because of his diluted guarding abilities. He has since thrived in his fresh role on the retired wing, regularly earning runs and attending from the flanks whereas scoring targets himself.

A.C. Milan

On January 23, 2011, Serie A club Milan broadcast the capture of Emanuelson; signing a three-and-a-half year contract for a payment of circle 1.7 million euros.

International career

He was a member of the Dutch squad that won the UEFA U-21 Championship in 2006 and was dubbed in the UEFA Team of the Tournament as a retired back. On August 16, 2006 he prepared his debut for the Dutch national team in a friendly suit against the Republic of Ireland. As a effect for his exertions he was dubbed "Amsterdam talent of the year 2006". Both the Johan Cruijff-schaal and the KNVB Cup were successfully guarded in the 2006–07 season and the Johan Cruijff-schaal was won for the third consecutive time at first of the 2007–08 season. Despite playing for the Netherlands on many occasions during the qualifiers for Euro 2008, he was not chosen in the final squad that would participate in the tournament itself.