Guy Demel
| Guy Demel | ||
 Guy Demel (2010)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Guy Roland Demel | |
| birthday | June 13, 1981 | |
| place of birth | Orsay , France | |
| size | 188 cm | |
| position |
Right external defense Internal defense |
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| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| Olympique Marseille | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1999-2000 | Olympique Nîmes | 1 (0) |
| 2000-2001 | Arsenal FC | 0 (0) |
| 2001-2005 | Borussia Dortmund | 33 (0) |
| 2001-2005 | Borussia Dortmund II | 43 (6) |
| 2005-2011 | Hamburger SV | 131 (2) |
| 2007 | Hamburger SV II | 1 (0) |
| 2011-2015 | West Ham United | 76 (1) |
| 2015-2016 | Dundee United | 15 (1) |
| 2017– | Red Star Paris | 0 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2004-2011 | Ivory Coast | 32 (0) |
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1 Only league games are given. As of April 15, 2017 |
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Guy Roland Demel (born June 13, 1981 in Orsay ) is a French - Ivorian football player .
Life
youth
Guy Demel, who was born in the Paris suburb of Orsay , grew up in Saint-Antoine in the north of Marseille , a district marked by violence, drugs and no-night exit bans. He later told of his former friends who were in prison and that he had been able to get out of misery with football .
Professional career
Demel began his professional career in Ligue 2 at Olympique Nîmes . He then moved for the 2000/01 season to the English top club Arsenal , where he only played in the reserve round for a year, as he could not prevail due to the great competition.
After this one-year interlude in London , he moved to Borussia Dortmund's German Bundesliga in 2001 for 600,000 marks . As before in London, Demel could not prevail in Dortmund due to strong competition on the right side of the defense and in the center of the defense. In the 2001/02 championship season Demel was not yet used in the Bundesliga. Also in 2002/03 he played largely in the regional league team of BVB.
Only with the coach change at the beginning of the 2004/05 season Demel was able to fight for a regular place on the right side of defense under coach Bert van Marwijk . Thus, among other things, the HSV became aware of the very versatile man from the Ivory Coast as a right defender, central defender and as a "vacuum cleaner" in front of the defense (central defensive midfield). That is why Demel then moved to HSV for the 2005/06 season, where he immediately fought for a regular place and was also used in the right midfield.
On August 31, 2011, West Ham United , who had previously been relegated from the Premier League , signed Demel. He signed a two-year contract until June 30, 2013 with an option for a further year, with which he returned to England after ten years in Germany. With West Ham Demel reached third place in the 2011/12 Football League Championship and celebrated promotion to the Premier League via the play-off round. In the summer of 2015 Demel moved to Dundee United in Scotland, but with the club he was relegated from the Scottish Premiership and, after a brief period of non-membership, joined Red Star FC in the French Ligue 2 in January 2017.
National team
Guy Demel became a citizen of Ivory Coast in 2004 because his parents were from that country. Since then he has been a regular member of the Ivorian national soccer team , with which he qualified for the 2006 World Cup in Germany and the 2010 World Cup in South Africa . On February 10, 2006, Ivory Coast reached the final of the Africa Cup and only lost to the winner Egypt on penalties . Demel played in this tournament in a preliminary round game and in the semi-finals.
Private
Guy Demel has been married since spring 2007 and has two daughters. He is also the uncle of the French soccer player Jonathan Béhé .
Web links
- Official homepage of Guy Demel
- Guy Demel in the database of weltfussball.de
- Guy Demel in the soccerbase.com database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b http://www.kicker.de/fussball/2bundesliga/startseite/artikel/249952/
- ↑ Hammers Grab Guy. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 8, 2016 ; accessed in 2011 . 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.
- ↑ Internet source url = http://www.ballondor.fr/news/Guy-demel-au-red-star/766364 , from January 6, 2017, accessed on February 14, 2017
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Demel, guy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Demel, Guy Roland (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Franco-Ivorian football player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Orsay , France |