Eljero Elia
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Elia in 2012 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Eljero George Rinaldo Elia | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 13 February 1987 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Voorburg, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Winger | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| SV Voorburg | |||||||||||||||||
| TONEGIDO | |||||||||||||||||
| 1996–2000 | ADO Den Haag | ||||||||||||||||
| 2000–2002 | Ajax | ||||||||||||||||
| 2002–2004 | ADO Den Haag | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2004–2007 | ADO Den Haag | 59 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007–2009 | Twente | 64 | (11) | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | Hamburger SV | 52 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Juventus | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2015 | Werder Bremen | 66 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015 | → Southampton (loan) | 16 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2017 | Feyenoord | 55 | (17) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2020 | İstanbul Başakşehir | 68 | (9) | ||||||||||||||
| 2020–2021 | Utrecht | 20 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | ADO Den Haag | 9 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 413 | (58) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2008 | Netherlands U21 | 7 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Netherlands B | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2018 | Netherlands | 30 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Eljero George Rinaldo Elia (born 13 February 1987) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a winger.
He turned professional at ADO Den Haag and then played for Twente before moving abroad to represent Hamburger SV, Juventus and Werder Bremen. In 2015, he came back to his home country to play for Feyenoord before moving to İstanbul Başakşehir in 2017. After three seasons in Turkey he returned to the Netherlands to play a season at Utrecht and another at his boyhood club ADO Den Haag, where he retired in 2022.
Elia scored on his debut for Netherlands in September 2009 and was part of the Netherlands squad which reached the final of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.