Sunday, January 16, 2011

Profile Eric Abidal

Personal information

Full name : Éric Sylvain Abidal
Date of birth : 11 September 1979
Place of birth : Lyon, France
Height : 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position : Defender
Current club : Barcelona
Number : 22
Youth career :
1999–2000 Lyon Duchère
Senior career :
2000–2002 Monaco
2002–2004 Lille
2004–2007 Lyon
2007– Barcelona
National team :
2004– France

Club career

Abidal was taught at Lyon-Duchère, a group playing in the suburbs of Lyon. He begun his expert vocation with Monaco on 16 September 2000, where he made 25 first-team appearances. He shifted to Lille where he was reunited with his previous supervisor Claude Puel and acquired 62 first-team appearances. At the end of 2004, he returned to his native district by connecting
Lyon, which had just won its second successive Ligue 1 championship. During his time in France he was advised "one of the best fullbacks in the Ligue 1", self self-assurance of this name was shown when Lyon performed Manchester United: "As a protector, my objective is to infuriate the opponent," Abidal explained. "I desire him to be so ill of the view of me that he has to proceed somewhere additional on the throw to get away." In the Lyon protection, he performed beside other French internationals (Grégory Coupet, François Clerc, and Anthony Réveillère) and two Brazilian internationals (Cris and Caçapa).
On 17 January 2007, Abidal tallied the first aim of his vocation in a 1–0 Lyon triumph over Le Mans on a 2006–07 Coupe de la Ligue semi–final match. Later the identical year on 30 June, Abidal shifted to FC Barcelona for €15 million, after frequently asserting that he would not come back to teaching if he did not get the proceed, marking a four-year agreement and taking the number 22 jersey, as the number 20 he was dressed in at Lyon was currently taken by Deco. Barça leader Joan Laporta furthermore cited that Abidal's agreement would comprise a €90 million issue clause, and that Lyon would obtain an additional €500,000 if Barcelona win the Champions League in any of the next four seasons.
Abidal missed the 2009 UEFA Champions League Final, performed contrary to Manchester United, due to picking up a red business card in the semi-final contrary to Chelsea. The referee regarded Abidal to have fouled young individual French International Nicolas Anelka, and rejecting a aim tallying opening, whereas video clues proposes that any communicate was minimal. Abidal was afresh questionably dispatched off in the next agree he performed, a association bind with Villareal. The ensuing suspension intended that he missed the Copa del Rey final;
Barcelona won with a 4–1 triumph over Athletic Bilbao.
He proceeded to be first alternative left back throughout Pep Guardiola's second time of the year in ascribe, regardless of the appearance of Maxwell, until February 2010 when he endured a sinew wound that kept him out for round 2 months.
On the 5th of January 2011, Abidal tallied his first aim with Barcelona at the San Mamés Stadium in a Copa del Rey agree vs Athletic Bilbao. His aim intended that Barcelona could accelerate to the quarter-final due to the away aim rule.

International career

Abidal has acquired 55 caps with the French nationwide group, having acquired his debut hat on 18 August 2004. Despite many wounds and disagreements with FIFA in the past couple of times of the year, Abidal performed on the French group in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, beginning at left back and playing every minute of the tournament with the exclusion of France's agree contrary to Togo, from which he was hovering after making two yellow cards over the preceding two games. Mikaël Silvestre topped up Abidal's left back slot for that game. When France and Italy were compelled into a punishment shootout in the Final, he was put third in France's five shooters and tallied, but since it was a punishment shootout, it is not identified as a aim, and Abidal has yet to tally for France proper.
He went on to become France adviser Raymond Domenech's peak alternative for left-back in almost every UEFA Euro 2008 qualifier. Abidal was selected as centre back in their last assembly agree of Euro 2008 contrary to Italy, but he accepted a punishment and was dispatched off in the first half; France lost the agree 2–0 and were eradicated from the tournament. He performed the 2010 FIFA World Cup as a centre back.

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