Patrice Bernier

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Patrice Bernier
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Patrice Bernier (2013)
Personnel
birthday September 23, 1979
place of birth Brossard ,  Canada
size 175 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
1998-1999 Syracuse orange 38 (12)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2000-2002 Montreal Impact 73 0(5)
2003-2004 Moss FK 40 0(1)
2004-2007 Tromso IL 68 0(4)
2007-2008 1. FC Kaiserslautern 15 0(1)
2008-2011 FC Nordsjælland 76 0(3)
2011 Lyngby BK 12 0(2)
2012-2017 Montreal Impact 151 (15)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1994-1995 Canada U-17 9 0(1)
1998 Canada U-20 3 0(1)
1999-2001 Canada U-23 13 0(0)
2003-2017 Canada 56 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.

Patrice Bernier (born September 23, 1979 in Brossard ) is a former Canadian football player who also has French nationality.

Career

society

Early years: ice hockey career

Patrice Bernier began his career as an athlete during his youth not in football , but in ice hockey . He played for the Foreurs de Val-d'Or and later for the Castors de Sherbrooke in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec , one of Canada's top three junior leagues , a total of 143 games, in which he scored 17 goals and 73 points. With his height of 1.77 m, he was considered by those responsible as too small for a further career in ice hockey.

Start of football career from 1994

At the same time, Bernier started his career as a football player; his talent was recognized by various scouts, so that the right-footed in 1994 was appointed for the first time in the U-17 national team of Canada. His first team was Syracuse Orange , the team from Syracuse University in the US state of New York , for which the defensive midfielder played for a year until 1999. For the new 2000 season he was committed by Montreal Impact , whose team competed in the A-League . Here Bernier prevailed as a regular player and despite the club's bankruptcy in 2001, after which the club continued to exist, won the Voyageurs Cup in 2002 with the team .

From 2003: Club stations in Europe

At the start of the new season in January 2003, he and his compatriot Rob Friend moved to Norway to the second division club Moss FK . However, he left this after a year and a half in the summer of 2004 to move to Tromsø IL in the Tippeligaen , the first Norwegian league, for a transfer fee of less than 500,000 Norwegian kroner (about 60,000 euros) . There Patrice Bernier completed the mandatory endurance test with the best result in the club's history. After Bernier played an outstanding second round and preliminary round of the new 2005 season, Tromsø turned down an offer for 10 million Norwegian kroner (around 1.3 million euros) from Turkish first division club Beşiktaş Istanbul in the summer of 2005 . Instead, Bernier took part with Tromsø IL after successfully passing the qualifying rounds in the group stage of the UEFA Cup of the 2005/06 season, while he was still considered one of the strongest players in the Tippeligaen. However, in 2007 Bernier refused an extension of his expiring contract because he wanted to move to a more powerful league.

In the summer of 2007, Patrice Bernier moved to Germany in the 2nd Bundesliga for 1. FC Kaiserslautern , where Kjetil Rekdal was coach. Under him, Bernier became a regular player; after Rekdals dismissal in February 2008, he was no longer considered by successor Milan Šašić . Overall, he came this year on 15 missions in which he scored a goal.

Therefore, his contract with Kaiserslautern, which actually ran until 2010, was terminated after only one year, and Bernier then moved to the Danish first division club FC Nordsjælland in summer 2008 . With the club he participated again after successful qualification, in which he could achieve the only two goals of his career in an international competition, in the 2008/09 UEFA Cup , but was eliminated in the first main round. In the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League , he was eliminated with the Danes in the qualifying round. By winning the Danish Football Cup twice , Bernier also achieved national successes during his time at FC Nordsjælland in 2010 and 2011.

Return to Canada 2012

After three years in Nordsjælland, Bernier moved to league rivals Lyngby BK on a free transfer in summer 2011 . However, he only stayed here for half a year; At the beginning of the MLS 2012 season , he turned his back on Europe in January 2012 after a total of nine years and returned to his home country to his first professional station, Montreal Impact . Montreal Impact had meanwhile been re-established as a franchise and now competes in Major League Soccer . Bernier was able to establish himself as a regular player there from the start and had played 84 games with 13 goals by the end of the 2014 season . 2013 and 2014 Bernier was the Canadian Championship (with Impact each Canadian Championship win). In February 2014, Bernier was named team captain of the Montreal team for the 2014 season; he also held this position in the 2015 season .

National team

1994 Bernier was appointed to the U-17 national team of Canada for the first time ; with her he took part in the U-17 World Cup in Ecuador in 1995 , but was eliminated in the group stage in a group with Germany, Brazil and Oman as bottom of the table. While still at Syracuse Orange , he played at least three goals for the Canadian U-20 national team in 1998 and was on the ball in 13 games for the U-23 national team from 1999 onwards.

After moving to Norway, Patrice Bernier made his debut at the age of 23 on November 15, 2003 in a friendly against the Czech Republic in the senior national team of Canada . With her he took part repeatedly in the CONCACAF Gold Cup in the following years ; after the team was eliminated together with Cuba after the group stage against the USA and Costa Rica in 2005, they were only defeated in the semifinals in 2007 by the eventual winner USA and in 2009 in the quarter-finals against Honduras, while both times the group stage had ended as group winners . He missed the Gold Cup 2011 due to an injury.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Patrice Bernier in the database of MLSSoccer.com (English)
personal data
SURNAME Bernier, Patrice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Brossard , Canada