Jose Bosingwa Profile, Biography and Pictures

Profile :
Name: Jose Bosingwa
Nationality: Portuguese
Date of Birth: 24/08/1982
Height: 6' 0" (183cm)
Weight: 11st 11lbs (75.0kg)
Position: Defender

Career Club :
2001-2003 : Boavista
2003-2008 : Fc Porto
2008- : Chelsea

Biography :
José Bosingwa agreed terms with Chelsea Football Club on May 12 and officially joined after Euro 2008. He agreed a three-year contract.

The 25-year-old joined us from Porto, where he spent the past five seasons since signing from Boavista in 2003.

While with Porto, he played alongside our own Ricardo Carvalho and Paulo Ferreira, and established himself as first choice right-back upon Ferreira's switch to Stamford Bridge in the summer of 2004.

Used just 13 times in his first season by José Mourinho, Bosingwa became a regular during 2004/5 and has kept his place since, playing over 100 times.

He played twice against Chelsea, at Stamford Bridge in September 2004 in our 3-1 group stage win over the reigning European champions (he was an unused sub for the away fixture) and in the first leg of last season's first knockout round, a 1-1 draw in Porto with Andriy Shevchenko scored for the Blues.

However injury ruled Bosingwa out of the second leg when Chelsea progressed.

The player's consistency for club allowed him to break into the Portugal squad, where he faces a battle with Valencia's Miguel for the starting berth, Ferreira a regular on the left, while Carvalho plays in the centre.

Born in Mbandaka, Congo, the same birthplace as Claude Makelele, José Bosingwa da Silva moved to Portugal at an early age, and was recruited by Boavista where he developed his all-round game - solid at the back, energetic down the flanks and incisive in attack. Used mainly in defence now, he can also be employed as a right-sided midfielder.

He made 41 league appearances in two seasons for Boavista before joining Porto in the summer of 2003.

He has also represented his country at under-21 level, as well as playing in the 2004 Olympics in Athens, and to date he has four Superliga championships and a Portuguese Cup to his name, as well as a Champions League winners' medal from 2004, when he was an unused substitute as Porto triumphed 3-0 against Monaco.

In the season just finished, he was part of a championship-winning Porto side that conceded just 13 goals in 30 games.

Bosingwa became the fourth Portuguese in our first team squad, with Hilario also involved, and quickly established himself as first choice right-back with his energetic displays on the wing. Demonstrating a keenness to get forward and support attacks, he was instrumental in our early season form, creating a host of chances for team-mates while also scoring his first Chelsea goal at Stoke in September.

This was followed by a long-range, left-footed curler at West Brom in mid-November, as Bosingwa continued to impress into the new year

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