Jérôme Leroy (soccer player)

Jérôme Leroy
Jérôme Leroy at FC Évian TG (2011)
Personnel
birthday	4th November 1974
place of birth	Béthune ,  France
size	185 cm
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
1991-1995	Paris Saint-Germain
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1995-1999	Paris Saint-Germain	73 0(0)
1995-1996	→  Stade Laval  (loan)	39 0(4)
2000-2002	Olympique Marseille	47 0(7)
2002-2003	Paris Saint-Germain	48 0(8)
2003-2004	EA Guingamp	28 0(5)
2004-2005	RC Lens	46 0(3)
2006	Beitar Jerusalem	15 0(2)
2006-2007	FC Sochaux	30 0(3)
2007-2011	Rennes stadium	127 (13)
2011–2012	FC Evian Thonon Gaillard	19 0(4)
2013-2014	FC Istres	35 0(8)
2014-2015	Le Havre AC	12 0(2)
2015	LB Châteauroux	5 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Jérôme Leroy (born November 4, 1974 in Béthune ) is a former French football player .

Career

Youth and breakthrough in Paris (until 2000)

Leroy played at local clubs in his hometown of Béthune and La Clarence during his youth . In 1991 he was accepted into the youth department of the Paris Saint-Germain professional club . In the course of the 1992/93 season he was accepted into the second team and also made his professional debut when, on December 8, 1992, at the age of 18, he played a 1-1 draw in the UEFA Cup against RSC Anderlecht in 89. Minute was substituted on. However, further considerations for the first team did not follow before he was accepted into the first division squad at the age of 20 and loaned directly to the second division team Stade Laval . The midfielder, who was also used for the French U-21 team , was the undisputed regular player in the second-highest division and returned to Paris in 1996. For the capital club, he made his debut on August 10, 1996 in a 1-0 win against Racing Strasbourg in the first division and from then on posted regular appearances there. With the team he made it to the European Cup final in 1997 , in which he was on the field, but missed a possible title win due to a 0-1 against FC Barcelona . A few months earlier he had already witnessed a failure in the UEFA Super Cup. Leroy, who was substituted on as a joker for the last phase of the game in most cases, was given up to league rivals Olympique Marseille during the winter break of 1999/2000 .

Player at various clubs (2000-2007)

At Marseille he had to fight relegation to the second division and under these conditions became a regular player before he was ousted from the first team again in the second half of 2001. In view of this, he decided to return to Paris in January 2002. With a 1: 2 defeat against AJ Auxerre in the national cup final in 2003 , he missed a possible first title win in his career. Although he was able to establish himself as a regular there, his commitment was not long-lasting, as he was given free transfer to the first division competitor EA Guingamp in September 2003 . Within the team from Brittany he was one of the top performers, but he could not avert relegation in 2004. Because of this, he left the club after a single season and signed with the first division club RC Lens . He remained an integral part of the team in the north of France until he went to the Israeli first division club Beitar Jerusalem for a transfer fee of 500,000 euros during the winter break in 2005/06 . His only stay in a foreign league was short-lived, however, because he was brought back to the top division of France by FC Sochaux in the summer of 2006 . With this he managed to qualify for the national cup final in 2007 and won the trophy for the first time through a success on penalties against his ex-club Marseille.

Last years in the first division (2007-2012)

In 2007 he made another move when he found the sixth French first division club in Stade Rennes to sign him. In contrast to the previous positions, however, his employment there was of a longer duration, and despite his advanced age he was consistently a regular. With Rennes he played the cup final in 2009 , but suffered a 2-1 defeat against his former comrades from Guingamp. In 2011, Rennes refused to extend the contract to the then 36-year-old, even if he had been regularly called up until recently. The FC Évian Thonon Gaillard , promoted to the first division, signed him in the same year. With this he could no longer firmly establish himself and thus had to accept that he was without a contract in the summer of 2012, which ended his career in the top national league after 418 games and 45 goals.

Return from the end of a career (2013-2015)

At the beginning of the 2013/14 season he returned to the professional business at the age of 38 when he was accepted into the squad of the second division club FC Istres . He led the team as captain, was an undisputed part of the first team despite his age, but was unable to avert relegation in 2014. He then turned his back on the club and found a new employer in the second division in Le Havre AC . In January 2015, the now 40-year-old made another change and signed with league rivals LB Châteauroux . In this he was only called up sporadically and ended his active career at the end of the 2014/15 season. He then stayed with the association as an adviser to the president. In the 2014/15 season he was the oldest player to play in Ligue 2, although he was 40 years, four months and five days old when he last played on March 9, 2015. A year earlier, he was the second oldest player used and was only surpassed by goalkeeper Grégory Malicki , who was almost a year older .

Possibility of confusion

There are two other well-known people in his generation who have the same name: an author (born 1964) and a composer and orchestra conductor (born 1981).

Web links

Commons : Jérôme Leroy  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jérôme Leroy complete profile ( Memento of November 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), soccerdatabase.eu
2. ^ Jérôme Leroy , transfermarkt.de
3. ↑ Football: Jérôme Leroy , footballdatabase.eu
4. ↑ Jérôme Leroy - Fiche et statistiques , stade-rennais-online.com