Mickaël Madar

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Mickaël Madar
Personnel
birthday May 8, 1968
place of birth Paris ,  France
size 180 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
Red Star Paris
until 1984 Paris FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1984-1991 FC Sochaux B 105 (33)
1986-1992 FC Sochaux 70 (14)
1989-1990 →  Stade Laval  (loan) 29 0(9)
1992-1994 AS Cannes 54 (27)
1994-1996 AS Monaco 52 (14)
1996-1998 Deportivo La Coruña 24 0(6)
1998-1999 Everton FC 19 0(6)
1999-2001 Paris Saint-Germain 35 (12)
2001-2002 US Créteil 11 0(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1995-1996 France 3 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Mickaël Madar (born May 8, 1968 in Paris ) is a former French football player and current players' agent .

During his career he was often laughed at because of his sometimes wooden-looking style of play. He was also considered an extremely emotional player who, among other things, maintained an atypical public friendship with mentor and coach Luis Fernández . During his time at AS Cannes and Paris Saint-Germain , however, he was considered a big crowd favorite.

In 1996 he was a member of France's squad for the European Football Championship in England , but was not used during the tournament.

Club career

Career start

Growing up in the 12th arrondissement of Paris , Madar began his career at the local Red Star . He later moved to Paris FC , but where he was denied inclusion in the professional squad, whereupon he joined FC Sochaux .

As a result, he completed 65 games with 21 goals for the B-team from Sochaux from 1984 to 1986, before he was used in eight games of the professional team. After the club's relegation to Division 2 , he became a successful joker who was able to contribute eight goals in 16 season appearances to an immediate promotion and championship title in the division. Then the club advanced to the surprise team of France and established itself as a climber in the upper third of the table. Madar, who was on the verge of breakthrough, was considered the victim of this development, as coach Silvester Takač relied on a well-rehearsed offensive line and relegated him to the B-team for most of the season.

For the season 1989/90 he was then awarded to first division relegated Stade Laval , where he formed a powerful storm duo on the side of François Omam-Biyik . However, as fourth in the table, the club missed the announced immediate resurgence, whereupon he moved back to Sochaux. In the following two seasons he did not manage to establish himself as a regular player and did not get beyond the role of the joker.

AS Cannes

In 1992 he then moved to AS Cannes on the Côte d'Azur as the preferred player for the then newcomer Luis Fernández . Fernández underwent a drastic rejuvenation at the traditional club that had just been relegated and formed a successful team around the self-made players Bernard Lambourde , Laurent Charvet and Johan Micoud . However, the storm duo around veteran Franck Priou and Madar turned out to be the showpiece of the team . Together, the two strikers scored 38 of the total of 50 goals this season and were guarantors of promotion. In Ligue 1, the upward trend was prolonged and a UEFA Cup starting place was achieved with sixth place in the table . With ten goals this season, Madar established himself for the first time as a top scorer in the top division and attracted the interest of Arsène Wenger , who brought him to AS Monaco the following season .

AS Monaco

In Wenger's system, who with Youri Djorkaeff , Sonny Anderson , Dan Petersen , Victor Ikpeba , Enzo Scifo and Thierry Henry , who had just become a professional at the time , had only strong offensive players in the squad, Madar took on the missing role of the classic striker. He often had to be content with the role of the joker, who was often substituted on when the team was behind. Overall, he came in his first season with the Monegas on 23 missions with six goals and met the expectations. After Wenger left for Nagoya Grampus Eight in Japan , he was often preferred as a strike partner to Sonny Anderson under his successors Jean-Luc Ettori and Gérard Banide , had a strong season and was rewarded with a nomination for the European Football Championship in 1996 .

Years abroad

After the European Championship, in which he remained without a mission, coach John Toshack then brought him to Spain to Deportivo La Coruña . Right at the beginning of his time at Depor, he broke his right leg due to a serious foul by the then Sporting Gijón defensive player Yuri Nikiforov and was out for four months. After his return, he presented himself very out of shape and scored only three goals this season in a total of 17 league appearances. The following season there was a violent argument between Madar and top performer Mauro Silva , as a result of which the striker fell out of favor with the then Brazilian coach Carlos Alberto Silva . After seven missions with three goals, he was no longer used and was forced to transfer to Everton FC free of charge in England .

In Liverpool he started the season brilliantly with a goal on his debut against Crystal Palace , but then showed a clear fitness deficit and also had to struggle with getting used to the new style of play in the Premier League . Nevertheless, the coach Howard Kendall surprisingly put on a striker formation with Duncan Ferguson , which ensured a static offensive of the Toffees due to the similar player types . After a relatively strong half-year with six goals in 17 games, he fell after the coach change to Walter Smith , who pushed Ferguson to the old star Kevin Campbell and the then up-and-coming self-made player Francis Jeffers . Since Ferguson in particular was stuck in a severe form crisis and could hardly score a goal, Madar demanded his chance through the media, whereupon he finally maneuvered himself offside. In the winter transfer period, Everton then gave him free transfer to his dream club Paris Saint-Germain in his hometown.

PSG

At PSG , which was in a very difficult situation , he was received by the fans as a kind of savior. Before that, he had already publicly expressed his great affinity for the club several times, which made him a crowd favorite even before his first game. As a result, he mostly had to be content with the "joker role" under coach Philippe Bergeroo , since Madar only managed to score one goal in his first four missions and favored the storm duo Bruno Rodriguez / Marco Simone .

At the beginning of the 1999/00 season, he formed the regular formation in the storm of the Parisians, favored by the move from Simone to AS Monaco with the Brazilian Christian . As a beneficiary of good assists from the formidable midfielders Ali Benarbia , Jay-Jay Okocha and Laurent Robert , he then showed strong performances and met expectations for the first time. After an injury at the beginning of the second half of the season, he lost his place to Laurent Leroy , who was able to achieve a hat trick against RC Lens in his absence . Frustrated that he was once again a reservist, he asked for clearance.

The following season he was about to move to Racing Strasbourg before Bergeroo was fired in the fall and replaced by Madar's mentor Luis Fernández. Since the friendly relationship between player and coach was known to the French public, Fernández did not use him in the first half of the season due to his lack of match practice, but extended his contract, which expired in winter, by another six months. In the meantime, the club had brought back Nicolas Anelka for a horrific transfer fee , which Madar could not avoid. He found himself only in fourth position in the striker hierarchy and only made three season appearances with one goal. At the end of the season, his contract was not renewed, which led to a public discussion about an alleged break between Fernández and Madar.

Abrupt resignation

As a result, he moved to his former club US Créteil in Ligue 2 to thank the former Cannes President Alain Pedretti , who once brought him from Sochaux . However, Madar often presented himself listless in the second division and soon drew the anger of the fans who had high expectations of his commitment. After a red card in the away game against AS Beauvais , he surprisingly ended his career in the middle of the season. A few years later he regretted his hasty departure from professional business.

National team

After he was already active in the French U-23 and B national team, he celebrated his debut in the Equipe Tricolore after strong performances at AS Monaco on October 11, 1995 in a 1: 3 away win against Romania in the qualification for the European Championship in 1996 .

This was followed by another qualifier against Israel , before he surprisingly made it into France's final squad for the European Championship just before the finals, by scoring a goal in the preparatory game against Armenia .

France made it to the semi-finals in the course of the European Championship, where they lost to the Czech Republic on penalties . Madar, in the squad behind Patrice Loko , Christophe Dugarry and Youri Djorkaeff only striker number four, remained together with Frank Lebœuf and Corentin Martins as the only field player without a minute.

After the finals, he was no longer considered by national coach Aimé Jacquet and his successor Roger Lemerre .

After the active career

After the end of his career he settled in Antibes , Juan-les-Pins on the Côte d'Azur , where he ran two clothing stores and a restaurant. At the same time, he advanced his coaching training and organized children's soccer camps in the region. Since the spring of 2010 he has been pushing his return to the professional business and has also been active as a players' agent since then. In the summer of 2015, his old club AS Cannes , which had just been promoted to the sixth division after two forced relegations (2011 and 2014) , hired Madar as head coach.

successes

society

National team

Participation:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Tous les joueurs - Mickael Madar (French) ( memento June 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) afterfoot.com, accessed October 24, 2010
  2. ↑ Qué fue de ... Mickaël Madar? (Spanish) eldepor.com, accessed October 22, 2010
  3. ↑ Violentas discusiones entre jugadores en la pretemporada del Depor (Spanish) elpais.com, accessed on October 22, 2010
  4. ↑ a b International Archive: Madar (English) evertonfc.com, accessed on October 22, 2010
  5. ↑ a b Mickael Madar - Striker (English) toffeeweb.com, accessed on October 22, 2010
  6. ^ Romanie - France 1: 3 ff. Fr, accessed on October 24, 2010.
  7. ↑ France - Arménie 2: 0 ff.fr, accessed on October 24, 2010.
  8. ↑ Que deviens-tu? / Mickael Madar? (French) football365.fr, accessed October 24, 2010.
  9. ↑ after the article "Mickaël Madar à la croisette des chemins" in France Football of October 7, 2015, p. 38
personal data
SURNAME Madar, Mickaël
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris