André-Pierre Gignac

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André-Pierre Gignac
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André-Pierre Gignac, 2016
Personnel
Surname André-Pierre Christian Gignac
birthday 5th December 1985
place of birth Martigues ,  France
size 187 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
1990-1995 ES Fos
1995-2002 FC Martigues
2002-2004 FC Lorient
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2004-2007 FC Lorient 51 (11)
2005-2006 →  FC Pau  (loan) 18 0(8)
2007-2010 Toulouse FC 98 (34)
2010-2015 Olympique Marseille 155 (59)
2015– UANL Tigres 135 (79)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2009– France 36 0(7)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: October 27, 2018

2 As of October 10, 2016

André-Pierre Christian Gignac (born December 5, 1985 in Martigues ) is a French football player . The striker has been playing for the UANL Tigres in Mexico since summer 2015 .

Career

society

The attacker, who belongs to a small group of professional footballers with a Roma background and whose cousin Jacques Abardonado is also active in this profession, initially played for ES Fos-sur-Mer, FC Martigues and FC Lorient , where he was in 2004 moved up to the league team. Gignac made his professional debut in Ligue 2 when he was substituted on August 13, 2004 when the score was 1: 1 against LB Châteauroux in the 78th minute and shortly afterwards scored the 2-1 winner. At the end of the season, the team rose to Ligue 1 . Gignac, however, was loaned to third division club FC Pau for the winter break in order to gain match practice. There he played regularly and scored eight goals in 18 games. After returning to Lorient, he made his breakthrough in the 2006/07 season and was his team's best shooter. In the summer of 2007, the attacker moved from FC Lorient to league rivals FC Toulouse . After an average first season, Gignac made the breakthrough in the 2008/09 season, scored 24 of his team's 45 goals and was top scorer in the French top division by a clear margin . With this he helped his team to fourth place in the championship. He was also awarded the Étoile d'Or as the best outfield player in Ligue 1 that season . Despite the interest of several clubs in his commitment, he extended his contract with Toulouse until June 30, 2012. In August 2010, he left Toulouse FC for Olympique Marseille . The striker signed a five-year contract with the French champions. The transfer fee was 16 million euros.

On June 18, 2015, his move to the Mexican club UANL Tigres was announced. The first division club from the Monterrey agglomeration has signed Gignac for four years; the Frenchman is said to earn a good four million euros net there every year. In the first year he scored 24 goals for his new club and became Mexican national champion.

National team

In March 2009 André-Pierre Gignac was nominated for an international match for the French national team for the first time . Because of an injury he had to forego the qualifying game for the 2010 World Cup in the first leg against Lithuania . Four days later, on April 1st, he was fit again in the second leg and was waiting for his first appearance. The attacker got the chance when he came on for Péguy Luyindula in the 68th minute . Gignac scored his first goal for the Equipe tricolore on August 13, 2009 in a 1-0 win against the Faroe Islands . He was also nominated for the 2010 World Cup .

At the 2016 European Football Championship in his own country, he was included in the French squad . He was a supplementary player and was only used in 5 of the 7 tournament games in the final quarter of an hour. Only in the last game of the group stage, when some players were spared, he played for the full season. He was also substituted in in the final against Portugal and hit the post of the Portuguese goal in stoppage time. The game went into extra time and ended 1-0 for the Portuguese.

successes

society

National team

Personal awards

  • Ligue 1 top scorer: 2009
  • Étoile d'Or as the best outfield player in Ligue 1: 2009

Web links

Commons : André-Pierre Gignac  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ France Football of August 31, 2010, p. 48
  2. ↑ El viaje a la inversa (Spanish) on futbol.com.uy of June 18, 2015, accessed on June 19, 2015
  3. ↑ Article “Gignac - L'Œil des Tigres” in France Football of June 24, 2015, pp. 30/31
  4. ↑ see photo gallery on RP Online
personal data
SURNAME Gignac, André-Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gignac, André-Pierre Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Martigues , France