Valérien Ismaël

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Valérien Ismaël
FC RB Salzburg versus LASK (February 14, 2020) 36.jpg
Valérien Ismaël (2020)
Personnel
birthday September 28, 1975
place of birth Strasbourg ,  France
size 191 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
1982-1984 AS Holtzheim
1984-1992 Racing Strasbourg
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1992-1997 Racing Strasbourg B 72 (8)
1993-1997 Racing Strasbourg 87 (1)
1998 Crystal Palace 13 (0)
1998-2002 RC Lens 83 (5)
1999-2000 RC Lens B 1 (0)
2001 → Racing Strasbourg (loan) 9 (0)
2002-2003 Racing Strasbourg 26 (2)
2003-2005 Werder Bremen 64 (8)
2005-2007 FC Bayern Munich 31 (0)
2006-2007 FC Bayern Munich II 7 (2)
2008-2009 Hannover 96 18 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1991-1992 France U-17 9 (1)
1992-1993 France U18 6 (0)
1993-1995 France U-19 10 (2)
1995 France U-20 5 (1)
1996 France U-21 1 (0)
France U-23
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2011-2013 Hanover 96 II
2013-2014 VfL Wolfsburg II
2014 1. FC Nuremberg
2015-2016 VfL Wolfsburg II
2016-2017 VfL Wolfsburg
2018 Apollo Smyrnis
2019-2020 LASK
1 Only league games are given.

Valérien Ismaël (born September 28, 1975 in Strasbourg ) is a former French football player and current coach with German nationality . The defender became German champions with both SV Werder Bremen (2004) and FC Bayern Munich (2006).

Childhood and youth

Valérien Ismaël was born to a father from Guadeloupe and an Alsatian in Strasbourg and grew up there. The father was stationed as a soldier in the neighboring German town of Kehl .

Player career

Ismaël started playing football at AS Holtzheim in 1982 and moved to Racing Strasbourg's football school two years later . From 1993 onwards he worked for their professional team for four years in Division 1 , the first French league. He scored one goal in 87 league games. In 1997 he moved to the Premier League for newly promoted Crystal Palace and was used in 13 games in the second half of the 1997/98 season . Then he went to the then French master RC Lens .

During his four-year club membership, Ismaël was loaned to Racing Strasbourg in 2001 and rose with his youth club from Division 1 (now Ligue 1), but won the French Cup . In 2002 Racing Strasbourg signed him for good. Towards the end of the 2002/03 season he was no longer considered by the then coach Ivan Hašek .

Change to the Bundesliga

Valérien Ismaël 2006

After one season, Ismaël moved to SV Werder Bremen in the summer of 2003 to strengthen the defensive, as the previous regular Frank Verlaat had signed with FK Austria Vienna . He made his debut in the Bundesliga on August 2, 2003 (1st matchday) in a 3-0 win in the away game at Hertha BSC . With Werder Bremen he was champion and DFB Cup winner in his first season 2003/04. His trainer was Thomas Schaaf .

From 2005 until the winter break of the 2007/08 season he played for FC Bayern Munich . Under coach Felix Magath , Ismaël was considered a safe central defender as long as he was spared injuries: If he played 30 Bundesliga games in his first season, he was only used once in the following season (2006/07). Shortly after the start of the season, on August 15, 2006, he suffered a broken calf and tibia during training after a benign tumor had been removed from this spot a few weeks earlier. Ismaël only played a competitive match on March 3, 2007: In the Regionalliga Süd he scored a goal in the 2-1 defeat of Bayern II at SV Elversberg .

In January 2008 Ismaël moved to Hannover 96 , but in September 2008 he was hit again on the knee he had operated on two years earlier; since then he has not been able to get rid of the pain due to bone edema . He played the last game of his career on September 19, 2008 (5th match day) in the 4-0 defeat at Bayer 04 Leverkusen . Because of his knee problems, he ended his career in September 2009.

National team

Ismaël played for the national teams of the U-17 to U-21 age groups and for the U-23 of the French Football Association . He was denied a game for the senior national team . There was also no use in the German senior national team , for which Ismaël applied in 2005.

Coaching career

After his time as an active player, Ismaël acquired the coaching license in November 2011 and was then coach on November 27, 2011 with the second team of Hannover 96 in the Regionalliga Nord . For the 2013/14 season he took over the U-23 of VfL Wolfsburg as the successor to Lorenz-Günther Köstner . He signed a contract that ran until June 30, 2016. With VfL he won the championship in the Regionalliga Nord , but failed in relegation to the 3rd division at SG Sonnenhof Großaspach .

For the 2014/15 season Ismaël was the coach of 1. FC Nürnberg, who had been relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga . On August 3, 2014, he made his debut as coach of the Franks in a 1-0 victory on the first matchday of the second division season 2014/15 . On the second match day he lost the Frankenderby with 1. FC Nürnberg with 1: 5 at SpVgg Greuther Fürth . On August 15, 2014 1. FC Nürnberg was eliminated in the first round of the cup against third division club MSV Duisburg . After only four wins in 13 league games, Ismaël was given a leave of absence from the club on November 10, 2014.

From summer 2015 he coached the U-23 team of VfL Wolfsburg again as the successor to Thomas Brdarić , who had only replaced him in summer 2014. On October 17, 2016 he took over as successor to Dieter Hecking, initially provisionally, then finally the first team of VfL Wolfsburg from November 6, 2016 and received a contract that ran until June 30, 2018. However, on February 26, 2017, VfL Wolfsburg separated from Ismaël.

From May to August 2018 Ismaël was under contract as the successor to Georgios Parachos with the Athens first division club Apollon Smyrnis . He left the club after being threatened by the club president.

For the 2019/20 season , Ismaël took over the Austrian Bundesliga club LASK as the successor to Oliver Glasner . With the LASK he finished fourth and in the UEFA Europa League they reached the round of 16. After the 2019/20 season, he was replaced by Dominik Thalhammer .

successes

As a player

As a trainer

Others

Ismaël dubbed the role of Numérodix (played by Zinédine Zidane ) in the German version of the French film Asterix at the Olympic Games . On the audio book Gustav forward, another goal! he speaks the role of referee.

In 2008, Ismaël took a degree in business administration with a focus on international management at the FHDW in Hanover, parallel to his engagement at Hannover 96 . In November 2009 he became assistant to the sports director of Hannover 96.

Ismael speaks fluent German and has also been a German citizen since April 24, 2013 ; He has been married to his German wife for the second time since July 19, 2013. He has a son from his first marriage.

Web links

Commons : Valérien Ismaël  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sven Bremer: German with an accent. Berliner Zeitung, February 23, 2005, accessed on November 17, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Valerien Ismaël gets approval for the club. In: nordbayern.de. June 4, 2014, archived from the original on June 8, 2014 ; Retrieved November 11, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Bavaria's Ismael is considering use for the DFB selection
  4. ↑ a b FAZ (ed.): A boss. February 29, 2004, accessed November 5, 2012 .
  5. ^ Hans-Günter Klemm: Commuters between two clubs. In: kicker online. Olympia Verlag GmbH, July 14, 2003, accessed on January 10, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Statistics on www.transfermarkt.de
  7. ↑ Interview in “11Freunde” ( memento of the original from May 25, 2009 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.11freunde.de
  8. ↑ Metzelder before comeback . kicker.de . Retrieved October 27, 2011.
  9. ↑ Bierhoff: Continue No to Wörns . kicker.de . Retrieved October 27, 2011.
  10. ↑ Oliver Bierhoff: No Ismael deployment for Germany , dfb.de, August 30, 2005
  11. ↑ Valérien Ismaël takes over the U23 with immediate effect ( Memento of November 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Setting the course for the U23
  13. ↑ Valérien Ismaël new head coach at the club
  14. ↑ Olympia Verlag GmbH (ed.): Joker Mlapa prepares Sylvestr's hits. In: kicker online. August 3, 2014, accessed July 13, 2015 .
  15. ↑ Olympia Verlag GmbH (Ed.): 5: 1! Doppelpacker Baba lets the shamrock dance. In: kicker online. August 11, 2014, accessed July 13, 2015 .
  16. ↑ Olympia Verlag GmbH (ed.): Janjic uses the gift. In: kicker online. August 15, 2014, accessed July 13, 2015 .
  17. ^ Club is on leave Valérien Ismaël fcn.de, accessed on July 14, 2015
  18. ↑ Report on the VfL Wolfsburg website, accessed on June 30, 2015
  19. ↑ Report on the VfL Wolfsburg website, accessed on October 17, 2016
  20. ↑ Ismaël becomes head coach at VfL Wolfsburg. Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 6, 2016, accessed on August 27, 2020 .
  21. ^ Separation from Valérien Ismaël. In: vfl-wolfsburg.de. VfL Wolfsburg , February 26, 2017, accessed on February 26, 2017 .
  22. ↑ Ishmael the new trainer of Apollon Smyrnis. Retrieved June 11, 2018 .
  23. ↑ fcapollon.gr: ΑΝΑΚΟΙΝΩΣΗ. Retrieved September 1, 2018 .
  24. ↑ https://regionalsport.de/valerien-ismael-verlaesst-athen-der-praesident-drohte-mir/
  25. ↑ Welcome to LASK Valérien Ismaël! , lask.at, May 27, 2019, accessed on May 27, 2019.
  26. ↑ Dominik Thalhammer new trainer at LASK lask.at, on July 11, 2020, accessed on July 11, 2020
  27. ↑ Report in "RTL Regional"
  28. ↑ Article in "kicker" from January 23, 2009
  29. ↑ "Beer, Football, Currywurst": Valerién Ismaël loves regular table culture neuepresse.de, accessed on January 21, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Ismaël, Valérien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg , France