Pascal Chimbonda

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Pascal Chimbonda
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Personnel
birthday February 21, 1979
place of birth Les Abymes ,  Guadeloupe
size 182 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
Pointe-à-Pitre
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1999-2003 Le Havre AC 85 (5)
2003-2005 SC Bastia 67 (4)
2005-2006 Wigan Athletic 38 (2)
2006-2008 Tottenham Hotspur 65 (3)
2008-2009 Sunderland AFC 13 (0)
2009 Tottenham Hotspur 3 (0)
2009-2011 Blackburn Rovers 30 (1)
2011 Queens Park Rangers 3 (0)
2011-2013 Panetolikos
2013– Market Drayton Town
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2006 France 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of August 9, 2013

Pascal Chimbonda (born February 21, 1979 in Les Abymes , Guadeloupe ) is a French football player .

Club career

Pascal Chimbonda, mostly used on the right side of defense , grew up in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean and began playing football there at a club in Pointe-à-Pitre . In Europe he was first known in 1999 for his commitment to the then first division club Le Havre AC . He stayed with le HAC , the doyen of French football, even after it was relegated in 2000, and two years later contributed significantly to its return to Ligue 1 . When the club had to return to Ligue 2 at the end of the 2002/03 season , Chimbonda moved to SC Bastia and became a regular here as well. When the Corsicans were relegated from the top division in 2005, he accepted an offer from Wigan Athletic , who had just been promoted to the English Premier League . The reason for this change he cited was the fact that, in his opinion, the club management and the team were “hungry” and wanted to achieve ambitious goals.

Pascal Chimbonda is considered a physically very strong player, equipped with an offensive urge and an above-average header game. He also scored two point goals for Wigan in the 2005/06 season. The Premier League professionals even voted him the best right defender of the season. On the other hand, at Le Havre and especially in Bastia on the lawn, he has occasionally done "duty according to regulations" when he did not agree with the tactical instructions of his coaches; and especially in Bastia, he repeatedly quarreled with viewers because they did not always agree with his attitude and expressed this in chants - from Chimbonda's point of view, racist remarks, which the club presidium officially rejected ( see below, web links ).

After Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur recently expressed interest in signing Chimbondas and he himself - despite the contract until 2009 - was toying with a move, the Wigan board of directors set his transfer fee in May 2006 at the equivalent of € 8.7 million; on the last day of the transition period, he actually signed with Spurs. From here it moved to Sunderland AFC in 2009 . After only half a season at Sunderland, however, he was transferred back to the Spurs to be sold directly to the Blackburn Rovers by them , again after only half a season .

On January 21, 2011 Pascal Chimbonda moved to the Queens Park Rangers in the Football League Championship , from which he was loaned to Panetolikos after a short time . In the summer of 2013 he returned to English football and joined the Northern Premier League club - a seventh division club - Market Drayton Town .

National player

Pascal Chimbonda played his first and only game for the French national team on May 31, 2006; however, it was only a brief appearance from the 88th minute of play against Denmark . A good two weeks earlier, national coach Raymond Domenech had called the newcomer to the 23-man squad for the 2006 World Cup , to the surprise of the media and the public .

Individual evidence

  • France Football , issue 3137 of 23 May 2006, p. 32
  • Sophie Guillet / François Laforge, Le guide français et international du football éd. 2005 Vecchi Paris 2004 ISBN 2-7328-6825-6
  1. ↑ France Football, August 6, 2013, p. 14

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Chimbonda, Pascal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Les Abymes , Guadeloupe