Gerard Badía Cortés (born 18 October 1989) is a Spanish

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays for

FC Ascó Futbol Club Ascó is a Spanish football team based in Ascó, in the autonomous community of Catalonia. Founded in 2010 it plays in Tercera División RFEF – Group 5, holding home matches at ''Estadio Municipal'', which has a capacity of 1,500 ...

as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

. He spent his professional career with

Guadalajara Guadalajara ( , ) is a metropolis in western Mexico and the capital of the list of states of Mexico, state of Jalisco. According to the 2020 census, the city has a population of 1,385,629 people, making it the 7th largest city by population in Me ...

and

Piast Gliwice Gliwicki Klub Sportowy Piast Gliwice () is a Polish football club based in Gliwice. In the 2018–19 season, Piast won its first Polish championship. As of 2022–23, it competes in the Ekstraklasa, Poland's top division. History The club wa ...

, winning the

Ekstraklasa Poland Ekstraklasa (), meaning "Extra Class" in Polish, named PKO Ekstraklasa since the 2019–20 season due to its sponsorship by PKO Bank Polski, is the top Polish professional league for men's association football teams. Contested by 18 cl ...

with the latter club.

Club career

Born in

Horta de Sant Joan Horta de Sant Joan is a village and municipality in comarca of Terra Alta in Catalonia, Spain. Pablo Picasso spent a year in this town and learned a considerable amount of his artistic skills in the town. History Because of its location on a s ...

Province of Tarragona Tarragona (, ) is a province of eastern Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of Catalonia. It is bordered by the provinces of Castellón, Teruel, Zaragoza, Lérida and Barcelona and by the Mediterranean Sea. The province's p ...

Catalonia Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the north ...

, Badía all but spent his career in his country in the lower leagues. The exception to this was in the 2011–12 and 2012–13 seasons, when he appeared for

CD Guadalajara Club Deportivo Guadalajara (); often simply known as Guadalajara () and their nickname ''Chivas'' (), is a Mexican professional football club based in Zapopan, Jalisco. Guadalajara is one of the ten founding members of the Mexican First Divisi ...

in the

Segunda División The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Segunda División, commercially known as LaLiga SmartBank for sponsorship reasons, is the men's second professional association football division of the Spanish football league system. Administrated by the Lig ...

. Badía signed with Polish club

in February 2014, from

SD Noja Sociedad Deportiva Noja is a Spanish football team based in Noja, in the autonomous community of Cantabria. Founded in 1963, it plays in Tercera División RFEF – Group 3, holding home games at '' Estadio La Caseta'', with a capacity of 3,000 se ...

. He made his

debut on the 17th, coming on as a late substitute in a 0–1 home loss against

Wisła Kraków Towarzystwo Sportowe Wisła Kraków Spółka Akcyjna, commonly referred to as Wisła Kraków (), is a Polish professional football club based in Kraków. It currently competes in the I liga, the second level of Polish football league system. It ...

. In the 2018–19 campaign, Badía contributed 21 matches and two goals as Piast won the first national championship in their 74-year history. During his spell at the Stadion Miejski, he made more than 200 competitive appearances. Badía returned to both Catalonia and amateur football on 14 July 2021, with the 31-year-old joining

Career statistics

Honours

Piast Gliwice *

: 2018–19 Individual *Ekstraklasa Hall of Fame: 2023

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Badia, Gerard 1989 births Living people People from Terra Alta (comarca) Footballers from the Province of Tarragona Spanish men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Segunda División players Segunda División B players Tercera División players Divisiones Regionales de Fútbol players CF Gavà players Real Murcia Imperial players CD Guadalajara (Spain) footballers Ekstraklasa players Piast Gliwice players Spanish expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Poland Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Poland FC Ascó players