Carl Medjani
| Carl Medjani | ||
 Carl Medjani, 2014
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | May 15, 1985 | |
| place of birth | Lyon , France | |
| size | 183 cm | |
| position | Defense | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| -2003 | AS Saint-Etienne | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2002-2003 | AS Saint-Etienne B | 4 (0) |
| 2003-2006 | Liverpool FC | 0 (0) |
| 2004-2005 | → FC Lorient (loan) | 25 (0) |
| 2005-2006 | → FC Metz (loan) | 23 (0) |
| 2006-2007 | FC Lorient | 9 (0) |
| 2007-2013 | AC Ajaccio | 188 (9) |
| 2013-2014 | AS Monaco | 15 (0) |
| 2013 | → Olympiacos Piraeus (loan) | 4 (0) |
| 2014 | → Valenciennes FC (loan) | 16 (1) |
| 2014-2016 | Trabzonspor | 39 (8) |
| 2016 | Levante UD | 14 (1) |
| 2016 | CD Leganés | 8 (0) |
| 2017 | Trabzonspor | 13 (0) |
| 2017-2019 | Sivasspor | 37 (0) |
| 2019– | Ohod Club al-Madīnah | 15 (3) |
| 2020– | FC Salaise-sur-Sanne | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2000-2001 | France U-15 | 13 (0) |
| 2001-2002 | France U-16 | 16 (0) |
| 2002-2003 | France U-17 | 10 (0) |
| 2003-2004 | France U18 | 8 (0) |
| 2004-2006 | France U-21 | 5 (1) |
| 2010-2018 | Algeria | 62 (4) |
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1 Only league games are given. As of April 18, 2020 |
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Carl Medjani ( Arabic كارل مجاني, DMG Kāril Maǧānī ; * May 15, 1985 in Lyon , France ) is a French- Algerian soccer player .
From 2000 to 2006 he ran a total of 54 times for various French youth teams. In 2010 he changed associations and played for Algeria for a total of eight years . Between 2015 and 2017 he was the regular captain of the Algerian national team.
Club career
Born 1985 in Lyon, France, Medjani began his career in the academy of the traditional French club AS Saint-Étienne , where he matured into one of the greatest talents of his year. In the season 2002/03 he came at the age of 17 to a total of 4 games in the B-team of the club, but without being used for the professional department. As a result, he turned down a professional contract that was offered to him by Saint-Étienne, making him one of the most coveted transfer shares of the summer transition period.
In addition to Bayern Munich , Juventus Turin and Arsenal , Manchester United and Liverpool in particular showed great interest in signing the player. At Manchester United, Alex Ferguson personally sought the transfer and invited him to the club's premises in February 2003 to introduce him to the club's training complex. A contract offer from ManU followed, but Medjani chose compatriot Gérard Houllier , manager of Liverpool FC at the time, who offered him better prospects.
In Liverpool he should be carefully introduced to the professional team and initially strengthened the reserve team, which he was allowed to lead as captain on the field for the second half of the season. For the following season, everything pointed to his promotion to the professional team of the Reds, before Houllier was replaced by Rafael Benítez . Benítez built the team in a row according to his ideas and signed a total of four new defenders. Medjani then had no prospects of playing in the Reds' Premier League team and was loaned to FC Lorient in Ligue 2 .
Medjani was able to establish himself straight away in the team, which was studded with talents like Karim Ziani or André-Pierre Gignac , and together with Richard Martini formed the central defense of the Bretons . However, the season was disappointing for the club. Started as an ambitious candidate for promotion, they broke in especially in the second half of the season and ended the season in 10th place in the table. As a result, Lorient coach Christian Gourcuff, known as a talent promoter, tried to extend Medjani’s loan contract, which Liverpool refused.
Above all, Benítez had vetoed another loan of the player, as he planned him after his strong performance for Lorient as an alternative for the professional team of the Reds. As a result, he completed the entire season preparation of the club and sat in the qualification for the Champions League in the home game against FBK Kaunas for the first time in a competition game on the bench of the professionals. After it turned out for Medjani in a row that he is planned by Benítez as an addition to the professional team and would mostly be used again in the reserve, he asked for another loan deal to collect match practice in a professional league. He was then loaned to FC Metz in Ligue 1 for a year .
In Metz he started alongside Jamal Alioui as a regular central defender in the season, which he soon lost after poor performance at the start of the season. 23 games followed, almost exclusively over the full 90 minutes, in which he had to adjust to a different defense partner in almost every game. The team presented itself over the entire season as not suitable for the first division, although major weaknesses were revealed, especially on the defensive. Medjani, who at that time had the reputation of being one of the greatest defensive talents in the country, apparently suffered from the resulting high expectations. Although he delivered consistent performance, but without shining, for which he was often criticized in the media. Metz rose at the end of the season as the bottom of the table with the worst defense, Medjani went back to Liverpool.
Back at the Reds, Benítez informed him that the interim obligations of Antonio Barragán , Jan Kromkamp and Daniel Agger would result in an oversupply of defensive players and that he would not play a role in future plans for the professional team.
As a result, especially the FC Lorient with coach Gourcuff tried to get the player who had made strong performances for the club in the 2004/05 season. In July 2006 he then moved back to Lorient on a free transfer.
Back in Lorient, he was called up in the second and third round of the regular team before he was out due to injury until November 2006. After that he was a regular player until the winter transfer time, but played mostly weak, which he lost his regular place to Sylvain Marchal in the second half of the season. In the second half of the season the club started a run for success and the regular central defense Marchal / Guillaume Moullec shone with strong performances. Medjani became a big loser and did not play another game for Lorient until the end of the season. As a result, the club decided to lend the stagnant player in Ligue 2 to Corsica to AC Ajaccio .
In league 2 he then offered again strong performances and developed to the defense chief of the "Ajacciens" , which committed him in the sequence for an unknown transfer fee from Lorient. With the Corsicans, Medjani failed to rise again three times before the leap back to the House of Lords could be mastered in May 2011. He then played 54 first division games for Ajaccio before moving to AS Monaco in January 2013 . A few months later, in the summer of 2013, he was loaned to the Greek record champions Olympiacos Piraeus . Medjani could not prevail at the Greek club and made four league appearances in the first half of the season. In the winter of 2013 he returned to AS Monaco to join Valenciennes FC , again on loan .
For the 2014/15 season, Medjani moved to the Turkish Süper Lig for the traditional club Trabzonspor . Medjani was able to establish himself there promptly and scored seven goals in 30 league games in his first season; he also played nine games in the Europa League (one goal).
In February 2016 he moved to UD Levante . Medjani stayed in Levante until the end of the 2015/16 season and then signed with CD Leganés . He made eight league appearances for CD Leganés and returned to Trabzonspor during the 2017 winter break. In the summer of 2017, he then moved on to Sivasspor within the Süper Lig .
In the 2018/19 winter transfer period, he moved to the Ohod Club al-Madīnah in Saudi Arabia and from there a year later to the French sixth division club FC Salaise-sur-Sanne .
National team
Already at the age of 14, Medjani made his international debut in the French U-15 for his home country in 2000. As a result, he was in the U-15 / U-16 / U-17 / U-18 and the U-21 team captain and was used in a total of 54 youth international matches for France until 2006 . He celebrated his greatest success with the U-17 national team, with whom he advanced to the finals at the 2002 European Championships in Denmark , where they lost 4-2 on penalties against Switzerland.
After he was denied the expected breakthrough in professional business, he was never called up for the French national football team .
Since his father is Algerian and he therefore automatically has Algerian citizenship, the Algerian association inquired at the beginning of 2010 about a change of nation. He confessed his willingness to play for Algeria on an international level .
On June 1, 2010 he was nominated by national team coach Rabah Saâdane , without having completed any international match, in the final squad for Algeria for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa . After he remained in this World Cup without use, he made his debut on August 11, 2010 in a friendly against Gabon .
With Algeria he took part in the Africa Cup of 2013 , where he was only used in the first group game against Tunisia . After the tournament, Medjani finally established himself as a regular under national coach Vahid Halilhodzic and completed 27 of the national team's 29 international matches between March 2013 and June 2015.
He also took part in the 2014 World Cup, where he made it to the round of 16 for the first time with Algeria.
At the 2015 African Cup of Nations, Medjani was one of the pillars of the team under the new national coach, his former sponsor Christian Gourcuff, and played the full distance in all three group matches and in the quarter-finals.
After Madjid Bougherra's resignation in March 2015, he was named the new captain of the national team. In June 2017, the new national coach Lucas Alcaraz announced that Medjani would hand over the armband to goalkeeper Raïs M'Bolhi .
He had completed a total of 62 games by June 7, 2018, in which he scored four times.
successes
- 1 × U-17 Vice European Champion : 2002
- 2 × Winner of the Toulon tournament : 2005, 2006 ( U-21 )
- 1 × Greek champion : 2014
Web links
- Carl Medjani in the database of weltfussball.de
- Carl Medjani in the database of transfermarkt.de
- Carl Medjani in the database of L'Équipe (French)
- Carl Medjani in the Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu database (English)
- Carl Medjani in the Lfchistory.net database
- Carl Medjani in the database of mackolik.com (Turkish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Reds sign French starlet (English) skysports.com, accessed on June 6, 2010
- ↑ Reds starlet back in France (English) skysports.com, accessed on June 6, 2010
- ↑ a b Medjani wants Rafa chat (English) skysports.com, accessed on June 6, 2010
- ↑ Rafa to rebuff approach (English) skysports.com, accessed on June 6, 2010
- ↑ Medjani nears Metz switch (English) skysports.com, accessed on June 6, 2010
- ↑ Dudek's injury blow skysports.com, accessed June 6, 2010
- ↑ a b Reds star set for France (English) skysports.com, accessed on June 6, 2010
- ↑ Reds starlet heads home (English) skysports.com, accessed June 6, 2010
- ↑ Medjani, de retour chez les Merlus (French) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. lfp.fr, accessed June 6, 2010
- ↑ Rodrigo prêté à Strasbourg (French) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. francefootball.fr, accessed June 6, 2010
- ↑ trtspor.com.tr: "Trabzonspor'da imza şov sürüyor" (accessed on August 6, 2014)
- ^ Algeria: German trio in the World Cup squad fifa.com, accessed on June 6, 2010
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Medjani, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Franco-Algerian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lyon , France |