Benoît Cheyrou

Benoît Cheyrou
Personnel
birthday	May 3, 1981
place of birth	Suresnes ,  France
size	182 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1994-1999	Lille OSC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1999-2004	Lille OSC	100 0(3)
2004-2007	AJ Auxerre	100 0(7)
2007-2014	Olympique Marseille	219 (21)
2015-2017	Toronto FC	55 0(2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
	France U-21	15 0(1)
1 Only league games are given. As of October 15, 2017

Benoît Cheyrou (born May 3, 1981 in Suresnes ) is a former French football player .

Career

During the 1999/2000 season, the central midfielder played his first professional appearances in Ligue 2 at Lille OSC alongside his brother Bruno Cheyrou . Due to the rise of his club a year later, he was also able to look forward to his first appearances in Ligue 1 . In his third year with the Northern French, he was also a regular player for the first time and even played four games in the UEFA Champions League . In the next two years, Benoît Cheyrou became more and more a top performer and finally moved to AJ Auxerre before the 2004/05 season , as Lille could no longer qualify for an international competition.

He spent three years at AJ Auxerre as one of the pillars of the team and always took part in the UEFA Cup . In June 2007 he signed a four-year contract with runner-up Olympique Marseille, where he has the opportunity to participate in the UEFA Champions League. The transfer was about five million euros.

In January 2015, he moved to Toronto FC from Major League Soccer , where he ended his career at the end of the 2017 season.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cheyrou announces the end of his career. In: transfermarkt.de. December 21, 2017. Retrieved August 17, 2018 . 

Web links

• Player profile on the homepage of L'Équipe (French)
• Benoît Cheyrou in the soccerway.com database
• Benoît Cheyrou in the database of weltfussball.de