David Ginola
| David Ginola | ||
 David Ginola in 2014
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | January 25, 1967 | |
| place of birth | Gassin , France | |
| size | 185 cm | |
| position | Left winger | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| OGC Nice | ||
| Sporting Toulon | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1983-1984 | OGC Nice B | 1 (0) |
| 1984-1988 | Sporting Toulon B | 26 (2) |
| 1985-1988 | Sporting Toulon | 82 (4) |
| 1988-1990 | Matra Racing Paris | 61 (8) |
| 1988-1989 | Matra Racing Paris B | 3 (0) |
| 1990-1992 | Stade Brest | 50 (14) |
| 1992-1995 | Paris Saint-Germain | 115 (33) |
| 1994-1995 | Paris Saint-Germain B. | 1 (0) |
| 1995-1997 | Newcastle United | 58 (6) |
| 1997-2000 | Tottenham Hotspur | 100 (13) |
| 2000-2002 | Aston Villa | 32 (3) |
| 2002 | Everton FC | 5 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1990-1995 | France | 17 (3) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
David Ginola (born January 25, 1967 in Gassin ) is a former French football player . The left winger was active until 2002 and then appeared sporadically as a cinema actor .
Athletic career
Promotion in French club football
Although Ginola had already shown good performances during his active time at Matra Racing (today: "RC Paris") and Stade Brest , he only made his final breakthrough at Paris Saint-Germain . In the Prinzenparkstadion , he achieved great popularity among the general public due to his spectacular and elegant style of play and was voted the best player of the season at the end of the 1993/94 championship season. During this time he also appeared on the international stage for the first time and was able to impress with his team, especially with victories against top Spanish clubs. After defeating Real Madrid (1993 and 1994) in a European competition with PSG in two consecutive years and also eliminating FC Barcelona in 1995 , he was ennobled by the Spanish press with the title "El Magnifico". In the time before the 1998 World Cup in his own country, when the media presence was much less pronounced, Ginola (like only Éric Cantona and Jean-Pierre Papin ) was one of the few driving forces in French football and was often outside of the sport found in television programming, advertising, and fashion.
"Problem case Ginola" in the national team
In contrast to his club career, which was going very well, Ginola did not manage to play a decisive role in the French national team. After he was first appointed to the selection by Michel Platini at the end of 1990 , it took until August 1992 when he came to his second assignment under the new coach Gérard Houllier . Then Ginola took part in the qualifying games for the 1994 World Cup in the United States , which resulted in a great disappointment when France gambled away the qualification that had already been believed safe in the last game against Bulgaria . Although Ginola was only substituted in the 63rd minute of the game and the French team tried primarily to ensure the draw, Ginola was subsequently made almost exclusively the scapegoat in the French press, as he played the ball to the opponent in the final minute, who played through a quick counterattack to achieve the decisive goal and thus instead of France could participate in the World Cup. Houllier, too, had always pilloried Ginola. In a book published in October 2011, Ginola was again responsible for the missed World Cup qualification and described him as a "bastard". Ginola then sued Houllier for character assassination. The criminal court in Toulon rejected the application for payment of 5,000 euros in compensation on April 4, 2012.
When Aimé Jacquet then took over the coaching post from Houllier, Ginola was still regularly appointed to the squad. However, he rarely got beyond the role of reserve player. The reason given was that despite Ginola's undisputed technical abilities, his sometimes self-centered nature - both on and off the field - led to difficulties in classifying into the team collective. In addition, personal differences with key players such as Didier Deschamps and Marcel Desailly meant that Ginola rarely played in the team.
When Ginola had to cancel due to a thigh injury just a few days before the decisive qualifying game for the 1996 European Championship in England against Romania , he was never called back to the national team after a total of 17 international matches. Quite a few experts saw this Romania game as the starting point for a better future for France. Nevertheless, this decision polarized large parts of the public, although the increasing quality of the French "Equipe Tricolore" brought few arguments for a renewed consideration of Ginola.
The move to England
In the summer of 1995, Ginola left the French capital. Despite existing connections with FC Barcelona, he surprisingly signed with the less renowned club Newcastle United in England. Under the coach there, Kevin Keegan , he quickly became a crowd favorite and almost achieved a status similar to that of his compatriot Cantona, who had already made a name for himself in England. For a long time Newcastle played for the championship in Ginola's first season, but then missed it on the finish line and had to let Manchester United pass. Since Ginola had played a remarkably good season overall, he fed his hopes of a return to the French national team, especially since the tournament was to take place in his new home England. But that didn't happen.
In the next few years he was unable to confirm the overall performance shown. After the coaching change from Keegan to Kenny Dalglish , he moved to Tottenham Hotspur in 1997 and disappeared there more and more - despite some individual highlights and spectacular goals - in a certain anonymity. However, he subsequently managed to steadily improve his form, which ultimately led to his being voted England's Footballer of the Year in 1999 by both his professional teammates and local journalists . The following year he fell out with the trainer George Graham , who accused him of being overweight and then sorted it out. Ginola then moved to Birmingham to Aston Villa , where he could not celebrate any great success in two years. This was followed by a brief engagement at Everton , after which he remained without a club. Speculations about a move to OGC Nice could not be confirmed afterwards, so that Ginola decided to end his playing career.
successes
- French football champion : 1994
- French cup winner : 1993, 1995
- French league cup winner : 1995
- English league cup winner : 1999
- France's Footballer of the Year : 1993
- England's Footballer of the Year : 1999
Trivia
- David Ginola can be seen on the European cover of the game FIFA 97 .
- In addition to short appearances in television series, David Ginola was in the 2006 war film The Last Mission as Cpl. To see Dieter Max .
- In 2011 he took part in the first season of the dance show Danse avec les stars and reached third place.
Individual evidence
- ^ Youtube video of the last minute of the World Cup qualifier France-Bulgaria , with David Ginola's unlucky cross, November 17, 1993.
- ↑ David Ginola's character assassination lawsuit against Gerard Houllier dismissed
- ↑ [1]
Web links
- Photo by David Ginola
- David Ginola in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| predecessor | title | successor |
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Ligue 1 Player of the Year Division 1 1993/94 |
Vincent Guérin |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ginola, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gassin |