Marcus Thuram

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Marcus Thuram
Personnel
Surname Marcus Lilian Thuram-Ulien
birthday August 6, 1997
place of birth Parma ,  Italy
size 192 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
2007-2010 Olympique de Neuilly
2010–2012 AC Boulogne-Billancourt
2012-2014 FC Sochaux
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2014-2017 FC Sochaux B 38 0(6)
2015-2017 FC Sochaux 37 0(1)
2017-2019 EA Guingamp 64 (12)
2019– Borussia Monchengladbach 31 (10)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2014 France U17 4 0(1)
2014-2015 France U18 5 0(2)
2015-2016 France U19 15 0(3)
2016-2017 France U20 11 0(3)
2019 France U21 5 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

2 As of October 30, 2019

Marcus Lilian Thuram-Ulien (born August 6, 1997 in Parma , Italy ) is a French football player on the position of a striker who is under contract with Borussia Mönchengladbach . Thuram is the eldest son of the record French national player and world and European champion Lilian Thuram .

Club career

Marcus Thuram was born in 1997 in the Italian city of Parma, where his father was playing for the very successful AC Parma at the time, as the eldest son of Lilian Thuram and his first wife Sandra. With Khéphren , born in 2001 , he also has a younger brother who is also active as a professional footballer.

From 2007, Marcus Thuram played in the youth division of Olympique de Neuilly , a lower-class club from Neuilly-sur-Seine , a western suburb of Paris . There he was active until 2010 before he moved to the youth department of the football division of the Athletic Club de Boulogne-Billancourt . At the club from Boulogne-Billancourt , southwest of Paris, he went through several leagues until 2012 and switched to the offspring of FC Sochaux . There he went through the last higher youth division until 2014 and then came to his first assignments in the French fourth division from the 2013/14 season , although he was also in action for the U-19 team. In the reserve of Sochaux, he played his first men's compulsory game at the end of the season on April 12, 2014, when he came on the pitch for the Turkish-born Frenchman Selim Ilgaz in the 2-2 away draw against the reserves of Olympique Lyon in the 58th minute . By the end of the season he made three more league appearances, but never played through and was never successful as a goalscorer; with the team he reached 10th place in the table in the densely staggered final classification.

In the 2014/15 season he developed into a strong player who made a total of 19 fourth division appearances, although he was not always on the field for the full duration of the game. He also scored three goals for his team over the course of the season, which only just ended the season in the again closely staggered final table on a non-relegation place. That year he finally celebrated his professional debut for the Ligue 2 team, for which he sat on the bench for the first time on March 6, 2015 without being used.

On March 20, 2015, Marcus Thuram made his debut in the 3-0 win over LB Châteauroux when he was substituted on by Olivier Echouafni in the 83rd minute for striker Édouard Butin . After that, Thuram was no longer in the squad in any other professional league match until the last game of the season, before he spent the last game on the bench again and finished the championship with the team in tenth place in the table. He also won the Coupe Gambardella , the most important football cup for French youth club teams, with the club's U-19 team that year . In the 2-0 final victory over the youth of Olympique Lyon, Thuram scored the goal in minute 39 to make it 2-0 and won with the team, under the leadership of Éric Hély , for the third time (in a total of five finals) after 1983 and 2007 this cup competition.

At the end of July 2015, Marcus Thuram signed the first professional contract in his career and should follow in the footsteps of his famous father. In the following season he was used twice as a substitute. In the 2016/17 season, his number of appearances increased to 14, making his debut in the starting XI on October 29, 2016 against Racing Strasbourg and scoring his first professional goal on April 14, 2017 against Tours FC .

After the season, Thuram moved to the first division club EA Guingamp , where he immediately played 32 games and scored 3 goals in the following season 2017/18. The next season 2018/19 Guingamp finished bottom of the table, but Thuram played 32 games again and scored 9 goals as the best scorer of his team.

He then left the club in July 2019 and signed a contract with the German Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach until 2023. In the first competitive game of the season he scored the 1-0 winner with a header over SV Sandhausen in the first round of the DFB Cup and thus secured his new club to remain in the competition. In the Bundesliga , Thuram was a regular player from the start and scored 10 goals. An injury on matchday 31 in the away game at FC Bayern Munich on June 13, 2020 ended his season prematurely. Thuram made his debut in the Europa League on September 19, 2019 in the home game against Wolfsberger AC . He scored his first goal in this competition on November 7, 2019 in a 2-1 home win over AS Roma with the winning goal in the 95th minute of the game. In his first year, Thuram played all 39 Borussia games and scored 14 goals until his injury.

On the 29th matchday of the 2019/20 Bundesliga season on May 31, 2020 in the home game against FC Union Berlin, Marcus Thuram showed his attachment to the police violence on May 25, 2020 after scoring 2-0 through a knee that was widely reported in the press Minneapolis killed African American George Floyd . The control committee of the DFB refrained from initiating investigative proceedings against these and other actions prohibited by Thuram's and Bundesliga players from other clubs in connection with Floyd's death.

Marcus Thuram is by Mino Raiola as Player's agent represented one of the most successful, but at the same time most controversial personalities consultant in professional football business.

National team career

On February 13, 2014, Thuram made his debut under Laurent Guyot at the age of 16 for six months and seven days in the French U-17 national team, with which he qualified for the U-17 European Championship 2014 and in the elite round of the Quali was used. The French did not make it to the finals in Malta and Marcus Thuram was used in a total of four U-17 internationals in which he scored a goal by the end of the year. Also this year he made his debut on October 8 under Ludovic Batelli for the French U-18 national team, for which he was mainly used in friendly internationals and so far (as of July 12, 2015) he has five internationals and two goals, including one in a 2-0 win over their peers from Germany .

In June 2015, Patrick Gonfalone brought the young talent to the French squad at the U-19 European Championship in Greece . There he made his debut on July 6th in the first group game, a 1-0 victory over Austria, when Maxwel Cornet , the assistant to the winning goal , came on in the 91st minute . After he only sat on the bench in the second group game against Ukraine and was not used, he was not even in the French squad for the third and final group game against Greece. After three wins in the group stage, he reached the semi-finals of the European Championship with the French, where the team was eliminated 2-0 against Spain, Thuram was substituted on in the 90th minute.

Thuram also took part in the U19 European Championships in Germany in 2016 . The team won this tournament in the final on July 24, 2016 with a 4-0 victory over Italy . In the top-class squad around the future world star Kylian Mbappé , Thuram played as a substitute in all 5 tournament games.

At the 2017 U20 World Cup in South Korea , Thuram was used in all four games, sometimes from the start. With the 1-0 win against Vietnam in the group game on May 25, 2017, he scored his first goal in an international youth tournament at this level. France were eliminated in the round of 16 with a 1: 2 against Italy.

Also at the U-21 European Championship 2019 in Italy and San Marino Thuram of the French team again participated as a player. Here, too, he was used in all four games, twice as a substitute. The tournament ended for the French with a 1: 4 defeat in the semi-finals against eventual European champions Spain .

After this tournament, Thuram's career as a junior national player ended for reasons of age.

Awards

  • In September 2019, Marcus Thuram was chosen as the official rookie of the month of the Bundesliga in a vote split between fans, clubs and experts. He was able to repeat this success in October and November.
  • During the winter break of the 2019/20 season, Marcus Thuram was selected as the promoter of the first half of the season in a survey by the sports magazine Kicker among 239 Bundesliga players.
  • In the 2019/20 season, Marcus Thuram was voted Player of the Month and Player of the Season four times by Borussia Mönchengladbach fans.

Trademarks and private items

At Borussia Mönchengladbach, Marcus Thuram invented a characteristic victory cheer in his first games, which after a short time attracted a lot of attention from the fans. First he prepares a corner flag by hanging a jersey or something similar over it. Often it is his own jersey, but sometimes also that of a successful team-mate or the stadium announcer's Christmas sweater. Then he presents this flag to the fans and then celebrates waving wildly in front of them.

Thuram goes by the nickname Ticus . He is a combination of the abbreviation ti for the French petit (small) and the second part of his first name, meaning little Marcus . The nickname comes from Thuram's youth, when he played on a team with several players with the same first name. Although the name no longer fits the 1.92 meter tall player, he has kept it for his friends as well. Also Torsten Knippertz , the stadium announcer at Borussia-Park , announces Thuram with his nickname.

Marcus Thuram is friends with the French rapper Gradur .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marcus Thuram (Sochaux) passe pro (French), accessed on July 12, 2015
  2. ↑ a b Thuram is Borussia's player of the season. In: borussia.de. July 14, 2020, accessed July 14, 2020 .
  3. ↑ mrk: kneeling while celebrating goals - Thuram shows solidarity with Floyd. In: Spiegel online. May 31, 2020, accessed June 1, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Oliver Jensen: Marcus Thuram - the shooting star who dances with the corner flag. In: web.de. November 22, 2019, accessed December 3, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Marcus Thuram is the rookie of the month for September. In: bundesliga.de. October 2019, accessed October 30, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Bundesliga Rookie Award. In: bundesliga.de. Retrieved December 21, 2019 .
  7. ↑ kicker.de : kicker player survey: Lewandowski best field player, summer best goalkeeper . Retrieved January 6, 2020.
  8. ↑ Thuram more and more valuable - "Already a cult in Mönchengladbach". In: kicker.de. November 7, 2019, accessed November 8, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Jannik Sorgatz, Achim Müller: In keeping with the Advent season of Gladbach's Thuram, cheering at the corner flags is even crazier. In: express.de. December 1, 2019, accessed December 2, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Hannah Gobrecht, Jannik Sorgatz: He would even wear it on the jersey Borussia's Frenchman explains his nickname. In: express.de. September 26, 2019, accessed December 3, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Achim Müller, Hannah Gobrecht: Already gone after the season? In: Express. November 16, 2019, accessed November 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Thuram, Marcus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thuram-Ulien, Marcus Lilian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Parma , Italy