Anthony Knockaert

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Anthony Knockaert
Anthony Knockaert 2018.jpg
Anthony Knockaert (2018)
Personnel
birthday November 20, 1991
place of birth Roubaix ,  France
size 174 cm
position Midfielder , winger
Juniors
Years station
2001-2007 RC Lens
2007-2009 US Lesquin
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2010–2012 EA Guingamp 60 (13)
2012-2015 Leicester City 93 (13)
2015-2016 Standard Liege 20 0(5)
2016– Brighton & Hove Albion 127 (25)
2019– →  Fulham FC  (loan) 8 0(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2011–2012 France U-20 10 0(4)
2012 France U-21 3 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.
As of September 21, 2019

Anthony Knockaert (born November 20, 1991 in Roubaix ) is a French football player who is on loan from Brighton & Hove Albion for Fulham FC in the 2019/20 season .

Club career

Knockaert began his professional career in the 2010/11 season with the French third division club EA Guingamp . He played 24 league games (two hits) in his debut season and rose with his team as third in the second division. The 2011/12 season ended the climber in seventh place in the table. Knockaert was the top scorer of his team with eleven league goals.

On August 8, 2012, the 20-year-old Knockaert moved to the English then second division Leicester City and signed a three-year contract. In the Football League Championship 2012/13 he needed little adjustment time and scored eight league goals. On the last day of the regular season, he scored the 3-2 winning goal in stoppage time in the game at Nottingham Forest , which secured his team a place in the play-offs. In the semi-finals of the play-offs, he missed a penalty in the second leg at Watford FC in the 97th minute; In return, Watford FC scored their winning goal to make it 3-1, which brought them into the final.

In the summer of 2015 Knockaert went to the Belgian first division club Standard Liège and received a four-year contract. During the 2015/16 winter break, he moved to the English second division club Brighton & Hove Albion . He was instrumental in the Premier League promotion and was elected to the second division team for the 2016/17 season. After two years in the Premier League, he was loaned to second division FC Fulham for the entire 2019/20 season with a final purchase option.

French national team

Knockaert, who had previously played in the U-20 team, made his debut in the French U-21 national team on September 10, 2012 in a 4-0 home win over Chile, scoring his first goal for the U-21s.

Title / Awards

Personal honors

  • PFA Team of the Year : Season 2016/17 (Championship)
  • Player of the Month (England): April 2016 (Championship)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anthony Knockaert completes Leicester move. BBC Sport, August 8, 2012, accessed January 5, 2014 .
  2. ^ Owen Phillips: Nottingham Forest 2-3 Leicester City. BBC Sport, May 4, 2012, accessed January 5, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Mandeep Sanghera: Watford FC 3-1 Leicester City. BBC Sport, May 12, 2012, accessed January 5, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Anthony KNOCKAERT bij de Rouches! ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. standard.be, accessed January 8, 2016 (Dutch)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.standard.be
  5. ↑ Anthony Knockaert signs for Albion on the Brighton & Hove Albion website, accessed January 8, 2015.
  6. ↑ Anthony Knockaert Signs (Fulham FC)
  7. ↑ Debut in the French U-21 (Fédération Française de Football)
personal data
SURNAME Knockaert, Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Roubaix , France