Olivier Dacourt

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Olivier Dacourt
Serata di beneficenza con i calciatori John Carew (Lione), Olivier Dacourt (as Roma), Donati Lorenzo (al-Shamal) .jpg
Olivier Dacourt (second from right)
Personnel
Surname Olivier Nicolás André Dacourt
birthday September 25, 1974
place of birth MontreuilFrance
size 178 cm
position Defensive midfielder
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1992-1998 Racing Strasbourg 127 (4)
1998-1999 Everton FC 30 (2)
1999-2000 RC Lens 26 (2)
2000-2003 Leeds United 57 (3)
2003-2006 AS Roma 94 (2)
2006-2009 Inter Milan 34 (0)
2009 →  Fulham FC  (loan) 9 (0)
2009-2010 Standard Liege 9 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2001-2004 France 21 (1)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of career

Olivier Nicolás André Dacourt (born September 25, 1974 in Montreuil ) is a former French football player .

Career

Dacourt began his professional career in 1992 with Racing Strasbourg . In the 1997/98 season, the midfielder moved to the English Premier League for Everton , but could not gain a foothold and in 1999 went back to France for RC Lens . In 2000, the second attempt in the Premier League at Leeds United followed . In Leeds , he developed into one of the best midfielders in the English league. During his time at Leeds, he advanced to the French national team, but could not prevail in the fight for a place in the squad for the 2002 World Cup . It was only since his move to the Italian club AS Roma in 2003 that he was part of the French national team and played his first major tournament at the 2004 European Football Championship in Portugal . In 2006 he moved to league rivals Inter Milan and won the Italian championship three times.

The Milanese awarded him in February 2009 until the end of the season in the Premier League for Fulham FC . At the end of the 2009/10 season, his contract in Milan was not renewed and Dacourt found a new employer in September 2009. He signed a one-year contract with Belgian champions Standard Liège . On February 8, 2010, the player and club agreed the termination agreement after the player had only been used nine times in the season, including three times in the starting eleven.

After the end of his playing days, Dacourt worked from 2011 to 2016 for the television channel Eurosport as a football expert, in 2016 he switched to Canal + . His documentary “Ma Part d'Ombre” caused a sensation, in which he talked to footballers like Franck Ribéry and Zlatan Ibrahimovic about difficult moments in their careers and their public image. After his film “Je ne suis pas un singe”, in which he discussed racism in football, was broadcast, Dacourt received threatening phone calls.

Personal

Dacourt's son Tewin (born April 25, 1997 ) has been part of the racing team at Racing Strasbourg since autumn 2014 .

Achievements / titles

As a national player

With his clubs

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. "Dacourt Loan" ( memento of the original from February 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (fulhamfc.com) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fulhamfc.com
  2. [1] "Salzburg opponent Liège separates from Dacourt"
  3. RMC SPORT: Médias: Olivier Dacourt passe d'Eurosport à Canal +. Retrieved March 13, 2020 (French).
  4. ^ "Ma part d'ombre": six stars du foot à confesse . In: Le Monde.fr . January 7, 2018 ( lemonde.fr [accessed March 13, 2020]).
  5. Olivier Dacourt menacé de mort pour son docu "Je ne suis pas un singe". Retrieved March 13, 2020 (French).
  6. Dacourt, prénom Tewin ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.totalsportlive.com