Emmanuel Petit

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Emmanuel Petit
Manu-Petit-2000.JPG
Emmanuel Petit (in the middle)
as a player for FC Barcelona in 2000
Personnel
Surname Emmanuel Laurent Petit
birthday September 22, 1970
place of birth Dieppe ,  France
size 185 cm
position Defender and midfielder
Juniors
Years station
1977-1985 ES Arques-la-Bataille
1985-1988 AS Monaco
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1987-1995 AS Monaco B 34 (1)
1988-1997 AS Monaco 222 (4)
1997-2000 Arsenal FC 85 (9)
2000-2001 FC Barcelona 23 (1)
2001-2004 Chelsea FC 55 (2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
France U-17 4 (0)
France U-21
France U-23
1990-2003 France 63 (6)
1 Only league games are given.

Emmanuel Laurent Petit (born September 22, 1970 in Dieppe ) is a former French football player on the position of midfielder . He played for the clubs AS Monaco , Arsenal , FC Barcelona and Chelsea and for the French national team , with whom he 1998 World and 2000 European champion was.

Club career

Petit began his career in 1977 at ES Arques-la-Bataille in Normandy and moved from there in 1985 to the youth department of AS Monaco. At the age of 18, Petit , who could be used as a defender and midfielder, was brought into the professional squad by Arsène Wenger . On March 18, 1989, he made his debut against FC Sochaux and played in the French Cup final that same year . In 1991 he was able to win the French Cup with Monaco and failed a year later in the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1991/92 only in the final at Werder Bremen . In his last season with Monaco, he led the team as captain to the French championship in 1996/97 . In June 1997, his former coach Arsène Wenger - who had been dismissed in Monaco in 1994 - had him signed by Arsenal . This let him now play as a defensive midfielder at the side of Patrick Vieira . Immediately in the first year they were able to win the championship in the Premier League and the FA Cup . The following two years remained untitled. In total, Petit had 118 appearances in his three years at Arsenal, he was able to score eleven goals. In the summer of 2000 he moved to FC Barcelona with Marc Overmars . Here he played on the defensive again, but could not prevail due to several injuries. From 2001 he played again - as a regular at Chelsea  - in England. In 2002 he lost the FA Cup final against his former club Arsenal. After several knee injuries, he had only a few missions in the following years and was released in summer 2004. On January 20, 2005, after six months of unsuccessful search for a new club, he announced his retirement from active professional football due to persistent knee problems and an operation that would entail an operation.

National player

For the French national team , Petit played 63 times, scored six goals and won the World Cup in 1998 and the 2000 European Championship two years later . At the 1998 World Cup he scored twice: against Denmark the decisive goal with a long-range shot and in the final against Brazil the 3-0 stoppage time. At the 2002 World Cup , he was also in the squad of the French national team , which did not survive the group stage. Petit played his last international match in February 2003. When he resigned in September 2003, he complained that although he was in top form, the Equipe Tricolore was being run by the wrong man.

statistics

successes

Private

Emmanuel Petit was married to actress Agathe de La Fontaine since July 3, 2000 . Their daughter was born in March 2002; this marriage was divorced in 2007. Emmanuel Petit had already been married to his former partner Leily from 1993. In April 2007, Petit became the father of a daughter for a second time; in October 2009 a third daughter was added.

Media appearances

After the end of his playing days, Petit worked as a football expert for the sports newspaper L'Equipe and France Télévisions . He later worked for the radio station RMC Sport and as a regular member of the ensemble of the football talk show Le Vestiaire on the TV station SFR Sport 1 . Petit was (co-) author of several books, including his memoirs À fleur de peau , published in 2008 (with Jérôme Le Fauconnier) and the novel Dernier tacle (with Gilles del Pappas) published in 2019 .

Web links

  • Emmanuel Petit on the official website of L'Équipe (French)
  • Emmanuel Petit on the official website of the Ligue de Football Professionnel (French)
  • Emmanuel Petit on the official website of the French Football Association (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prisma Média: Emmanuel Petit - La biographie de Emmanuel Petit avec Gala.fr. Retrieved March 13, 2020 (French).
  2. ↑ RMC SPORT: Dream Team RMC Sport: tous les éditos de Emmanuel Petit sur rmcsport.fr. Retrieved March 13, 2020 (French).
  3. ^ Nicolas Chambaud: Le Vestiaire, nouvelle émission sur SFR Sport 1. In: MediaSportif. August 22, 2016, accessed on March 13, 2020 (French).
  4. ↑ A fleur de peau - Emmanuel Petit - SensCritique. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ [Critique] Dernier Tacle - Emmanuel Petit et Gilles Del Pappas. In: Culturellement Vôtre. March 12, 2019, accessed March 13, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Petit, Emmanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petit, Emmanuel Laurent (full name); Petit, Manu (first name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Dieppe , France