Matthieu Delpierre

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Matthieu Delpierre
Matthieu Delpierre championship celebration.jpg
Matthieu Delpierre (2007)
Personnel
birthday April 26, 1981
place of birth NancyFrance
size 193 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1994-1996 Sports-études à La Colinière
1996-1999 Lille OSC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1999-2004 Lille OSC 83 (3)
1999-2004 Lille OSC II 42 (0)
2004–2012 VfB Stuttgart 162 (3)
2004–2012 VfB Stuttgart II 6 (0)
2012-2014 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 23 (1)
2014 FC Utrecht 14 (0)
2014-2016 Melbourne Victory 38 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
France U18 2 (0)
2000-2001 France U-20 11 (0)
2001-2002 France U-21 15 (0)
2008 France B 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Matthieu Delpierre (born April 26, 1981 in Nancy ) is a former French football player . He was most recently under contract with Melbourne Victory in the Australian A-League . Before that he was active in France, Germany and the Netherlands.

Career

Childhood, Youth and Beginnings

Matthieu Delpierre was born in Nancy and grew up in Nantes . He played for Lille OSC since the age of 14 and was eliminated with the club in the UI Cup against VfB Stuttgart in the summer of 2002 . Because of his achievements, the scouts Herbert Briem and Erwin Hadewicz noticed him. After he had rejected a contract extension in Lille during the winter break of the 2003/04 season, he was relegated to the reserve team by coach Claude Puel . In the following period he received an inquiry from RC Lens from France , but favored a move abroad. In addition to VfB Stuttgart, 1. FC Cologne was also interested in him.

VfB Stuttgart

In the end, VfB Stuttgart made the race for Delpierre. In his first season at VfB Stuttgart, he was not used regularly. It was only when coach Giovanni Trapattoni was signed for the 2005/06 season that the young defender became a fixture in the VfB defense. Despite a ligament tear at the start of the season, Delpierre played 29 Bundesliga games, eight UEFA Cup games and two league cup appearances . In the 2006/07 season he became a regular player and was German champion with VfB . It was the first title win in Delpierre's career. He was also in the final of the DFB Cup with VfB .

On December 1, 2009 Delpierre became team captain of VfB Stuttgart. Head coach Bruno Labbadia appointed Serdar Tasci as the new team captain on January 12, 2012 , fulfilling Delpierre's request to replace him.

After his contract with Stuttgart expired, Delpierre moved to TSG 1899 Hoffenheim for the 2012/13 season and signed a two-year contract until June 30, 2014. There he was sorted out by Markus Gisdol and had to train in TSG's controversial "training group 2".

Netherlands and Australia

On January 31, 2014 Delpierre moved to FC Utrecht . In July 2014, the Australian club Melbourne Victory signed him . There he ended his career as a professional football player in April 2016.

National team

Delpierre went through the French national youth teams up to the U-21 . After he was called up by the French national coach Raymond Domenech in the squad of the senior team for the games against Mali and England , he put Delpierre on March 25, 2008 in the game against the senior team of Mali from the beginning. However, this game is only rated as an A 'international match by the French association , which corresponds to a B international match in German.

successes

Others

Delpierre learned German at school and is married to a German woman.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b http://www.razyboard.com/system/morethread-monsieur-delpierre-findet-das-glueck-kaethchenrebellen-542692-2072422-0.html
  2. a b Stephan von Nocks: Wessels extended until 2007, FC interest in Delpierre. In: kicker online. Olympia Verlag GmbH, April 15, 2004, accessed on July 16, 2014 .
  3. George Moissidis: The defense is up: Matthieu Delpierre. In: kicker online. Olympia Verlag GmbH, June 17, 2004, accessed on July 16, 2014 .
  4. Olympia Verlag GmbH (ed.): VfB gets Matthieu Delpierre. In: kicker online. June 16, 2004, accessed July 16, 2014 .
  5. vfb.de, Matthieu Delpierre is the new VfB captain , accessed on December 1, 2009
  6. vfb.de, Serdar Tasci is the new captain ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , January 12, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vfb.de
  7. Delpierre moves to Hoffenheim. (No longer available online.) VfB Stuttgart 1893 eV, April 18, 2012, archived from the original on February 2, 2014 ; Retrieved April 18, 2012 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vfb.de
  8. TSG 1899 Hoffenheim Fußball-Spielbetriebs GmbH (ed.): Matthieu Delpierre strengthens TSG for the new season. April 18, 2012, Retrieved April 18, 2012 .
  9. Two less on the payroll? , Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung of September 3, 2013
  10. Defensieve aanwinst Matthieu Delpierre (32). (No longer available online.) FC Utrecht, January 31, 2014, archived from the original on February 2, 2014 ; accessed on January 31, 2012 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / fcutrecht.nl