Patrick Vieira

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patrick Vieira
Patrick Vieira NYCFC.JPG
Patrick Vieira (2016)
Personnel
birthday June 23, 1976
place of birth Dakar ,  Senegal
size 193 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
FC Trappes
FC Drouais
FC Tours
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1993-1995 AS Cannes 49 0(2)
1995-1996 AC Milan 2 0(0)
1996-2005 Arsenal FC 279 (29)
2005-2006 Juventus Turin 31 0(5)
2006-2010 Inter Milan 67 0(6)
2010-2011 Manchester City 28 0(3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1997-2009 France 107 0(6)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2011-2015 Manchester City (Youth)
2016-2018 New York City FC
2018– OGC Nice
1 Only league games are given.

Patrick Vieira (born June 23, 1976 in Dakar , Senegal ) is a former French football player and current coach . As a 107-time national player, he won the World Cup with France in 1998 and the European Championship two years later . At club level, he celebrated his greatest successes in England with Arsenal FC and in Italy with Inter Milan . He won three English championships for Arsenal ( 1998 , 2002 , 2004 ) and then three times the Scudetto for Inter ( 2007 , 2008 , 2009 ).

Career

As a player

Beginnings

Vieira first grew up in Senegal. The Portuguese surname is explained by the mother's Cape Verdean descent, while the father - a student from Gabon - did not play a sustainable role in his life. His mother then emigrated to France, although the formalities were relieved by the fact that her father had served in the French army. Patrick Vieira traveled to Europe with his only one year older brother and an uncle. He was eight years old when he arrived in Paris in 1984. After three years in Trappes , a planned town in the vicinity of the French capital, the family went a little further west to Dreux . In Dreux, his football talent was also noticed for the first time. At the age of 16 he was already 1.90 meters tall and the second division FC Tours signed him. A year later he moved to AS Cannes . The coach Luis Fernández , who was active there, had been Vieira's childhood idol alongside Frank Rijkaard .

In the club

Via Cannes to Milan (1993–96)

He played for Cannes in the French premier league for a good two years. In October 1995 he moved to Italy for AC Milan . In “Milan”, however, he rarely got beyond the role of a substitute. On the one hand, this was due to the fact that a maximum of three foreigners were allowed to stand in a team and Vieira's competition with Marcel Desailly , George Weah , Paulo Futre , Dejan Savićević and Zvonimir Boban was top-class. Furthermore, in his midfield position, next to Desailly and Boban, the Italian international and "long-running" Demetrio Albertini was considered "set". After he had completed only two league games in Serie A in the 1995/96 season , he sought another change. The trainer Arsène Wenger , who was still employed in Japan at the time , had already observed him and offered him the chance for regular assignments after a possible transfer. Vieira first traveled to Atlanta for the Summer Olympics in July , but had to cancel his participation there before the tournament began due to a knee injury. After a small operation followed by “rehab”, he flew to London and signed a contract with Arsenal FC . It was Wenger's first commitment and this came into effect at a time before Wenger had officially taken over as coach of the "Gunners".

Arsenal FC (1996-2005)

Thanks to his emphatically physical style of play, Vieira found his way around English football - a circumstance that was surprising at the time, as non-British players were often considered "too soft". With the equalizer to 2-2 in stoppage time against Derby County on December 7, 1996, he scored his first goal for Arsenal. He also impressed with a good passing game and reminded the London fans of the famous ex-player Liam Brady . Vieira was considered a key player in Arsenal FC, who won the "double" of the English championship and FA Cup in the 1997/98 season . He showed himself in the midfield center at the side of his French national team colleague Emmanuel Petit consistently, strong in duels, passable and equipped with a good overview. Vieira only missed seven competitive games and was particularly in shape in the last third of the season. Another runner- up followed in the following year and although he was more likely to be noticed by warning cards (which were not due to “bad intentions”), he was elected “ Team of the Year ” at the end of the 1998/99 season - he also won this award in the following five years. Meanwhile also matured into a regular player with the "Equipe Tricolore", Vieira moved into the final of the UEFA Cup with Arsenal in the 1999/2000 season . This was lost on May 17, 2000 on penalties and Vieira missed the decisive penalty where his teammate Davor Šuker had previously tried in vain.

After winning the European Championship in 2000, Vieira started the new 2000/01 season unhappy with two red cards, then reported back with two goals for a 5-3 win against Charlton Athletic . With his expansive steps through midfield, he often shifted the Arsenal game to the opposing half and in the 2-1 semi-final win over local rivals Tottenham Hotspur he scored another important goal in the FA Cup . On October 17, 2000, an incident made headlines during a Champions League game against Lazio when the opposing captain Siniša Mihajlović racially insulted him as a “black monkey”. Four years after the first domestic double success, Vieira won both the Premier League title and the English Cup a second time with the "Gunners" in the 2001/02 season . He then inherited the longtime captain Tony Adams after his resignation. Due to a knee injury, however, he missed a number of league games in the 2002/03 season and he could only watch the final victory in the FA Cup ; he was represented in the 1-0 win against Southampton FC as captain by David Seaman .

Although he had to take a break in the first two months of the 2003/04 season, he then won his third English championship with Arsenal . He was one of the "The Invincibles" called team, which did not lose a single league game that year. In the summer of 2004 rumors of a possible transfer from Vieira to Real Madrid increased and after he rejected the speculations, his sporting performance initially seemed a bit unstable. It took him a little time to regain his form, and although he ultimately won the FA Cup again and set his personal record annual result with seven goals this season, he was not elected to the Premier League's "Allstar-Eleven" for the first time in six years.

Legendary at the big derbies between Manchester United and Arsenal London were the clashes between the two captains Patrick Vieira and Roy Keane, who fought bitterly on and off the pitch. One of the most famous incidents occurred in February 2005 when there was a scuffle between the two captains in the Highbury players' tunnel. So Keane said to the referee Graham Poll "Tell him [Vieira] to shut his fucking mouth!" . Patrick Vieira had previously tackled his opponent Gary Neville , whereupon Keane intervened. The dispute was broadcast live on Sky Sports . In 2013 the journalist Gabriel Clarke published the TV documentary "Keane & Vieira - Best of Enemies" in which the two opponents meet and report together on the old enmity.

Back in Italy: Juventus Turin & Inter Milan (2005-10)

On July 14, 2005, Vieira signed a four-year contract with the Italian record champions Juventus Turin after paying a transfer fee of 20 million euros , which means he worked again with the coach Fabio Capello ten years after his first move to Italy . Wenger's decision to let Vieira go was very controversial and he justified it with the fact that the up-and-coming Cesc Fàbregas harmonized much worse with Vieira than with Gilberto Silva and the departure of Fàbregas should not be risked. The 2005/06 season was overshadowed by a manipulation scandal in Italy and "Juve" was punished in this context with a forced relegation to the second division. This led to the departure of numerous top performers, including that of Vieira, who moved on to Inter Milan in August 2006 for only 9.5 million euros .

For the team coached by Roberto Mancini , he scored two goals in the Italian Supercup against AS Roma (4-3 aet) and in the following three years he won the Italian championship with “Inter”. Due to injury problems, however, he increasingly only played the role of a supplementary player, with competitors such as Olivier Dacourt , Dejan Stanković and Esteban Cambiasso being preferred to him during this time , as well as actors such as Thiago Motta and Sulley Muntari later under Mancini's successor José Mourinho . At the beginning of 2010, Vieira moved back to the English Premier League for Manchester City on a free transfer - there he met his ex-coach Mancini again.

Career finale at Manchester City (2010-11)

Vieira signed a six-month contract in Manchester with an option for another year. Manchester City took advantage of the option and extended the contract for another year at the end of the 2009/10 season. On July 14, 2011, Vieira ended his active career. He then began working as a coach in the Manchester City youth department.

In the national team

After his debut on February 26, 1997 in the French senior team against the Netherlands (2-1), he completed three games at Tournoi de France in June of the same year . A year later, coach Aimé Jacquet also nominated him for the World Cup in his own country . He made two appearances on the way to title success. After the first appearance in the starting line-up against Denmark (2-1) he replaced Youri Djorkaeff in the final against Brazil (3-0) for the last fifteen minutes . Two years later he was a regular at Euro 2000 in the Netherlands and Belgium . In the course of the tournament, which ended with another title win, he formed the midfield center behind the more offensive Zinédine Zidane with captain Didier Deschamps .

At the 2001 Confederations Cup in Japan and South Korea , he scored two goals in five games, making him the top scorer with six other players. He also decided the final against Japan with his goal to make it 1-0. In contrast, the 2002 World Cup was disappointing . France were eliminated as defending champions after the group stage and could not score a single goal. Vieira herself was in the starting line-up in all three games and was substituted for Johan Micoud after a good 70 minutes in the last encounter against Denmark (0-1) . At the Euro 2004 in Portugal it looked like Vieira could rehabilitate with France for the defeat two years earlier. He played through in all group encounters and helped his team to two wins and one draw. For the quarter-finals, however, he had to pause due to a calf injury and his team was eliminated 0-1 against eventual European champions Greece .

In August 2006, Vieira was appointed the new captain of the French national team and he succeeded the resigned Zinédine Zidane . Shortly before that, he had made it into the final of the World Cup with the French . In two games he was named “Man of the Match” - in the third group game against Togo (2-0) and in the round of 16 against Spain (3-1), when he was also one Tor could contribute to the victories. Vieira played through to the final; there he was substituted for Alou Diarra against Italy after just under an hour and had to follow the game from the bench until the penalty shoot-out was lost. At Euro 2008 he was also part of the French squad again . Due to a torn muscle fiber in his thigh , however, he could not be used in any game and France was eliminated from the bottom of the group. He was then no longer nominated for the 2010 World Cup . He played his 107th and last international match against Nigeria on June 2, 2009 (0-1).

As a trainer

From 2011 to the end of 2015, Vieira coached Manchester City youth teams . On 1 January 2016 he took over - like Manchester City at the City Football Group belongs - MLS - franchise New York City FC . In summer 2018 he became the head coach of the French first division club OGC Nice .

Title / Awards

As a national player

With his clubs

Individual successes / honors

Season statistics

society league season league Nat. Cup European Cup Other total
Games Gates Games Gates Games Gates Games Gates Games Gates
AS Cannes Division 1 1993/94 5 0 1 0 - - - - 6th 0
1994/95 31 2 2 0 4th 1 1 1 38 4th
1995/96 13 0 1 0 4th 0 - - 18th 0
total 49 2 4th 0 8th 1 1 1 62 4th
AC Milan Series A 1995/96 2 0 1 0 2 0 - - 5 0
total 2 0 1 0 2 0 - - 5 0
Arsenal FC Premier League 1996/97 31 2 3 0 1 0 3 0 38 2
1997/98 33 2 9 0 2 0 2 0 46 2
1998/99 33 3 5 1 3 0 2 0 43 4th
1999/00 30th 2 2 0 14th 0 2 0 48 2
2000/01 30th 6th 6th 1 12 0 - - 48 7th
2001/02 36 2 7th 0 11 1 - - 54 3
2002/03 24 3 5 0 12 1 2 0 43 4th
2003/04 29 3 5 0 7th 0 4th 0 45 3
2004/05 32 6th 6th 1 6th 0 - - 44 7th
total 279 29 48 3 68 2 11 0 406 34
Juventus Turin Series A 2005/06 31 5 3 0 7th 0 1 0 42 5
total 31 5 3 0 7th 0 1 0 42 5
Inter Milan Series A 2006/07 20th 1 3 0 4th 1 1 2 28 4th
2007/08 16 3 3 0 3 0 1 0 23 3
2008/09 19th 1 2 0 2 0 - - 23 1
2009/10 12 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 16 1
total 67 6th 9 0 11 1 3 2 90 9
Manchester City Premier League 2009/10 13 1 1 0 - - - - 14th 1
2010/11 15th 2 8th 3 8th 0 1 0 32 5
total 28 3 9 3 8th 0 1 0 46 6th
Career total 456 45 74 6th 104 4th 17th 3 651 58

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Patrick Vieira  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Paul Kimmage : Talk Don't Run, cross-examining sports stars . Covadonga Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-936973-45-7 , pp. 84-85 .
  2. ↑ a b Barry J. Hugman (ed.): The 1997-98 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1997, ISBN 1-85291-581-1 , pp. 278 .
  3. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1998-99 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1998, ISBN 1-85291-588-9 , pp. 308 f .
  4. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1999-2000 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 1999, ISBN 1-85291-607-9 , pp. 306 .
  5. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 2000-2001 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2000, ISBN 1-85291-626-5 , pp. 325 .
  6. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 2001-2002 Official PFA Footballers Factfile . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2001, ISBN 0-946531-34-X , pp. 312 .
  7. ↑ "Racism: Three years imprisonment for Mihajlovic?" (Spiegel Online)
  8. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2002/2003 . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2002, ISBN 1-85291-648-6 , pp. 421 .
  9. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2003/2004 . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2003, ISBN 1-85291-651-6 , pp. 436 .
  10. ↑ "Vieira hope for title push" (BBC Sport)
  11. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2004/2005 . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2004, ISBN 1-85291-660-5 , pp. 419 .
  12. ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2005/2006 . Lennard Queen Anne Press, 2005, ISBN 1-85291-662-1 , pp. 419 .
  13. ↑ Premier League: "There are no crybugs in my team" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 2, 2005, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed January 25, 2017]).
  14. ↑ MC1916: Roy Keane Vs. Patrick Vieira. January 30, 2007, accessed January 25, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Keane vs. Vieira: Trafalgar on the lawn . In: 11FREUNDE.de . ( 11freunde.de [accessed on January 25, 2017]).
  16. ^ Keane & Vieira: Best of Enemies (2013). Retrieved January 25, 2017 .
  17. ↑ "Vieira completes move to Juventus" (BBC Sport)
  18. ↑ "ARSENE WENGER INTERVIEW: The full transcript of Martin Samuel's fascinating meeting with the Arsenal manager - part I" (Daily Mail)
  19. ↑ "Vieira signs with Inter" (Kicker Online)
  20. ^ "Patrick Vieira eyes future job as Manchester City coach" (The Independent)
  21. ↑ "Patrick Vieira completes his move to Manchester City" (BBC Sport)
  22. ↑ The French national soccer player Patrick Vieira changes from the Italian champions Inter Milan to Manchester City. On: sueddeutsche.de January 7, 2010.
  23. ↑ Viera extends ManCity. June 11, 2010.
  24. ↑ Viera ends career. (English) July 14, 2011.
  25. ↑ "Patrick VIEIRA - France - FIFA Coupe du Monde 1998" (Sporting Heroes)
  26. ↑ "Patrick VIEIRA - France - FIFA Coupe du Monde 2002" (Sporting Heroes)
  27. ↑ "Patrick VIEIRA - France - UEFA Championnat d'Europe 2004" (Sporting Heroes)
  28. ↑ "Vieira's absence leaves a hole even Zidane finds impossible to fill" (The Independent)
  29. ↑ New York City FC: Patrick Vieira appointed as New York City FC Head Coach , November 9, 2015, accessed November 9, 2015.
  30. ↑ according to this message from June 11, 2018 at francefootball.fr
  31. ↑ http://www.footballdatabase.eu/football.joueurs.patrick.vieira.348.fr.html
personal data
SURNAME Vieira, Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Dakar , Senegal