Bixente Lizarazu

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Bixente Lizarazu
Bixente Lizarazu.jpg
Bixente Lizarazu (2011)
Personnel
birthday 9th December 1969
place of birth Saint-Jean-de-LuzFrance
size 169 cm
position Left-back
Juniors
Years station
1977-1988 Les Églantins Hendaye
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1986-1989 Girondins Bordeaux B 43 (10)
1988-1996 Girondins Bordeaux 246 (22)
1996-1997 Athletic Bilbao 16 0(0)
1997-2004 FC Bayern Munich 151 0(7)
2004 Olympique Marseille 14 0(0)
2005-2006 FC Bayern Munich 31 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
France U21
France U23
France B
1992-2004 France 97 0(2)
1993 Basque Country 1 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Bixente Lizarazu [ bi'ʃente lisa'ɾasu ] (born December 9, 1969 in Saint-Jean-de-Luz , France ) is a former French football player and member of the Basque ethnic group. In his professional career, which he began at Girondins Bordeaux in 1988 and finished at FC Bayern Munich in 2006 , he was active in the professional leagues in France , Spain and Germany and has won numerous national and international titles. He was also a French national player and was selected world and European champion . Between November 27, 2001 and May 15, 2002 he was the first and so far only player who was simultaneously reigning World and European Champion, Confederate Cup, Champions League and World Cup winner.

Career

societies

Lizarazu began his football career in 1977 with the French provincial club Les Églantins Hendaye . From there he moved in 1988 to the first division club Girondins Bordeaux . At that time, Bordeaux was one of the strongest and most successful teams in France and in 1987 had become French champions and cup winners with players like Battiston , Tigana or Lacombe . In Lizarazu's debut season (in which Christophe Dugarry was also committed), however, they finished only a disappointing 13th place. Although Girondins appeared again successfully the following year and finished 2nd in the championship, the big crash followed: Due to financial problems, Bordeaux was forcibly transferred to Division 2 at the end of the 1990/91 season . After the immediate resurgence in 1992, Girondins was initially back at the top of the league. Reinforced by Zinédine Zidane (from 1992) and Richard Witschge (from 1993), the team finished fourth twice in a row, but then slipped again in the table.

In 1995 the club qualified for the UEFA Cup through the UEFA Intertoto Cup and reached the finals on May 1 and 15, 1996 against FC Bayern Munich . Before that, Bordeaux u. a. Betis defeated Sevilla and AC Milan . The missed title, however, marked the start of their international careers for some players. Zidane and Dugarry moved to Italy , Lizarazu to Spain to first division club Athletic Bilbao , known for only accepting Basque players into its ranks. Since Lizarazu was born in the French part of the Basque region, he was also allowed to play for Bilbao and is one of the few non-Spaniards who was ever allowed to play for Athletic and also once for the Basque football team. After only one season, Lizarazu moved to Germany to the record champions FC Bayern Munich.

On August 2, 1997 (1st matchday) he made his debut in the Bundesliga in the 0-1 defeat in the home game against 1. FC Kaiserslautern . On September 9, 1998 in a 6-1 win at home against Hansa Rostock , he also scored his first Bundesliga goal with his goal to make it 3-0. With Bayern he played - apart from the Hinserie at Olympique Marseille 2004 - until the end of the 2005/06 season and won 18 titles. The return from Marseille was due to the long-term injury to Philipp Lahm , who was to take Lizarazu's position. After Lizarazu still hung on a season, he declared on April 30, 2006 the end of his professional career at the end of the season. In the first leagues of France, Spain and Germany, the Basque had played more than 400 games at the end of his career. In the European Cup he was on the ball in 90 games.

National team

Lizarazu made her debut on November 14, 1992 in Paris in the World Cup qualifier in a 2-1 victory over Finland in the senior team . He scored his first international goal on November 15, 1995 in Caen in the European Championship qualifier in a 2-0 win over Israel . With the 0-1 defeat in the quarter-final of the 2004 European Championship in Portugal on June 25th against eventual European champions Greece , his career as a national player also ended. On August 5, 2004, the Basque , who is only 1.69 meters tall and weighs 69 kg, retired from the national team after 97 international matches, with which he achieved the following successes.

successes

National team

societies

Successes with Girondins Bordeaux:

Successes with Bayern Munich:

Awards

Trivia

After the end of his professional career, he became a co-presenter on the French television channel Canal Plus . He also moderates live football broadcasts as a co-host on what is now the largest private French television broadcaster TF1 . In addition to Champions League games, he also commented on broadcasts of the 2010 and 2014 World Cups .

In 2000, Lizarazu, who was born in the French Basque Country , received a ransom note from the Basque terrorist organization ETA accusing him of playing for a hostile nation , namely France. That's why he had to pay protection money (the notorious revolution tax) to protect himself and his family from the consequences. Lizarazu was then placed under police protection. Despite playing for France, Lizarazu feels like a Basque.

On December 27, 2008, he and his former teammates from Girondins Bordeaux , Alain Boghossian and Zinédine Zidane, bought the Olympique Croix de Savoie 74 team from the National Championnat .

Bixente Lizarazu is the brother of Peyo Lizarazu . He was the European Youth Surf Champion and is considered one of the best surfers in the world. In the city of Hendaye , a football stadium, the Stade Bixente Lizarazu , is named after the player . After his active football career, Lizarazu wanted a second sporting career. He wanted to take part in the skeleton competitions for France at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , but rejected this idea because he would have had to move to the Alps for serious training. In addition, on January 31, 2009 in Lisbon he became European Champion in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in the Blue Belt Senior 1 - Light class.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Bixente Lizarazu - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF.com . November 7, 2019. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  2. Marcel Haisma: Bixente Lizarazu - Matches in European Cups . RSSSF.com . November 7, 2019. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  3. ^ Emilio Pla Diaz: Bixente Lizarazu - International Appearances . RSSSF.com . November 7, 2019. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  4. Goalscorer of the month February 2000 . ARD sports show . Retrieved August 15, 2012.
  5. Lizarazu rejoint TF1 (French) , L'Équipe . September 5, 2009. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013 Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved August 15, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lci.tf1.fr 
  6. Footballer Lizarazu wants to start at the Winter Olympics , Nachrichten.ch. October 14, 2007. Retrieved July 5, 2010.