Aurélie Kaci

Aurélie Kaci
Photo taken in 2012
Personnel
birthday	December 19, 1989
place of birth	Lyon ,  France
size	163 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
0000-2002	ASCEM Villeurbanne
2002-2004	FC Lyon
2004-2006	Olympique Lyon
Women
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2006–2012	Olympique Lyon	57 (1)
2012-2015	Paris Saint-Germain	56 (7)
2015-2017	Olympique Lyon	18 (0)
2017-2019	Atlético Madrid	39 (2)
2019-2020	CD Tacón	19 (2)
2020–	real Madrid
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2007-2013	France U-19	2 (1)
2013–	France	6 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2020 2 As of October 6, 2018

Aurélie Kaci (born December 19, 1989 in Lyon ) is a French soccer player . She holds the position of midfielder .

Club career

Aurélie Kaci grew up in Villeurbanne , on the outskirts of her native town; as a child and teenager, she played there from 1997 for the ASC Électro Mécanic and then for the successful neighbor FC Lyon . As his wife footballers in 2004 with her successful coach Farid Benstiti the local rivals Olympique Lyon joined, they took with this step. At the age of sixteen, she made her first six appearances for Olympique's first division women's team in the 2006/07 season . In the same season she was substituted on shortly before the end in the final of the national cup , which ended with a defeat on penalties against HSC Montpellier . By 2009, however, only four more point games followed; Instead, the player who can be used defensively and offensively in midfield mostly played for Lyons B-Elf, who played in the third division. It was only in the following years that Aurélie Kaci grew into Olympique's “star ensemble” and made another 47 premier league appearances without becoming the undisputed regular player. Coach Patrice Lair used them in the previous rounds of the competition, but not in the finals won by OL for the Coupe de France (2012) and the European Cup (2011 and 2012). At European level, Aurélie Kaci was only substituted on in the 2010 final against Turbine Potsdam during the second half and proved to be accurate in the decisive penalty shoot-out, but Lyon's women were ultimately defeated 6: 7.

After six national championship titles in eight years, she therefore moved to Paris Saint-Germain FC together with Shirley Cruz Traña in 2012 , where she was hoping for a fresh start - also due to the fact that her “discoverer” Farid Benstiti had taken over the head coach position at the same time. Despite equally strong competitors for places in the starting line-up, Kaci, who has meanwhile also become more dangerous, has prevailed at the capital club; there she also became a national player (see below) . However, when PSG lost to Lyon in the 2014 French Cup final , she was missing again in a final. Instead, she scored the 1-0 lead that is important for advancement in the 2014/15 Champions League semi-final second leg against VfL Wolfsburg . In the final, however, she lost 2-1 with PSG against 1. FFC Frankfurt .

At the beginning of 2014, however, Kaci hesitated whether she should extend her contract with Paris because the qualified executive in wholesale - she earned a Brevet de technicien supérieur , or BTS for short - was seriously engaged in an occupation beyond sports. In addition, she stated that her performance was too dependent on her mood. For Benstiti, these are signs that, in order to exploit her playful potential, she would have to accept football as a profession. She returned to Olympique Lyon in 2015, where she did not get beyond the role of a supplementary player. In 2017 she faced a new sporting challenge with her move to Spain to Atlético Madrid . There she won the championship title in both 2017/18 and 2018/19 . She then moved within the Primera División to the newcomer CD Tacón , with whom she finished the championship in 10th place. In the summer of 2020, CD Tacón was incorporated by Real Madrid and transformed into the club's new women's football section .

Stations

• Amicale SC Électro Mécanic Villeurbanne
• FC Lyon (until 2004)
• Olympique Lyon (2004–2012)
• Paris Saint-Germain FC (2012-2015)
• Olympique Lyon (2015-2017)
• Atlético Madrid (2017-2019)
• CD Tacón (2019/20)
• Real Madrid (since 2020)

National player

Apart from two appearances with France's U-19s in 2007, in which she also scored a goal, Aurélie Kaci did not go through the age group selection teams typical of top footballers.

She only made her debut in the French national team in October 2013, when national coach Philippe Bergeroo came on after just under an hour for a friendly against Poland . It then took 13 months before her next appointment. So far, she has played six full international matches, two of which are even in the starting line-up. She has not yet scored a goal in the blue jersey. (As of April 11, 2016) Bergeroo had nominated Aurélie Kaci for France's 2015 World Cup squad, if only as a successor.

Palmarès

• French champion: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
• French cup winner: 2008, 2012 (each without use in the final)
• Spanish champion: 2018, 2019
• Champions League winner: 2011, 2012 (each without appearance in the final)

Web links

• Kacis data sheet on the website of the French association
• Datasheet at footofeminin.fr

Notes and evidence

1. ↑ according to Kaci's data sheet at olweb.fr
2. ↑ see the article " There is not only football in your life " from January 18, 2014 in Le Parisien
3. ↑ see the report on the international match in England on October 30, 2007 at footofeminin.fr