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David Trezeguet
Personal information
Full name David Sergio Trézéguét
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Juventus
Number 17
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15:31, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

David Sergio Trézéguét (IPA: [david sɛʀʒjo tʀezeˈgɛ]) (born 15 October, 1977 in Rouen, France) is a French football striker who plays for Juventus and played for France. He is the son of Jorge Trezeguet, an Argentinean football player of French ancestry (the name Trézéguet is from Gascogne).

Club Career

At club level, Trezeguet has played for Platense in Argentina (1994), AS Monaco in France (1995-2000), and Juventus (since 2000). He won two Serie A titles playing for Juventus. Due to the Serie A scandal of 2006, the club was stripped of two Serie A titles for the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons, although the legal charges themselves did not accuse him or other players of any wrongdoing.

On 16 September, 2006, before the match against Vicenza, Trezeguet was awarded a commemorative plate, in recognition of 125 goals from 207 matches he scored for Juventus.

After the match, his tally came to 128 goals making him the highest scoring foreigner in Juventus history. He is now the fifth highest scorer for Juventus, with 160 goals as of 18 May 2008. This also makes him seven goals behind Omar Sivori, the fourth highest goal-scorer, whose record holds 167 goals.

In 1997 while still at Monaco, Trezeguet scored the fastest goal ever in terms of ball speed in UEFA Champions League history in a quarter-final match against Manchester United. The shot that resulted in a goal was clocked at 97.76 mp/h (157.33 km/h). He also scored the 3000th goal in UEFA Champions League history by netting against the Greek side Olympiakos in 2004.

Trezeguet caused controversy in Juventus' final match of the 2006-07 season against Spezia by making a gesture towards the club President, making a number 15 with his fingers – the number of goals he scored throughout the Serie B season – and then a gesture which, in Italian, means “I’m out of here.” However, Juventus announced on 25 June 2007 that Trezeguet had renewed his contract until 2011[1], despite reported interest from Barcelona and Arsenal.[2]

National Career

Trezeguet won the 1998 FIFA World Cup with France, and in the 2000 European Championship scored the golden goal in the final against Italy to give France the title. He also played for France in the 2002 and 2006 FIFA World Cups and Euro 2004. Trezeguet was named one of the top 125 greatest living footballers in 2004. He also played in 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship.

On 9 July, 2006, Trezeguet took part in the final of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The match, against Italy, went to penalty kicks after a 1-1 tie and Trezeguet was the sole player from either team to miss a penalty kick, hitting the cross-bar. Italy won 5-3, having taken the first kick.

On 19 October, 2007, Trezeguet threatened to quit France after being overlooked for two Euro 2008 qualifying matches by French manager Raymond Domenech. [3]However, Trezeguet was included in the French squad on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 for a friendly against England National football team to replace the injured Karim Benzema. Although on May 18th 2008 Trezeguet was not included within the French provisional squad for EURO 2008, which placed his international future in doubt.[4]

On 9 July, 2008, Trezeguet announced his retirement from international football.[5] He cited 'the awful Euros and the reappointment of the coach' being the mains reasons for this decision. He also added 'I see soccer differently from how they see it in France. The Euros were very negative but what annoys me more is that Domenech is staying'. [6]

Personal life

Trezeguet and Barcelona's Thierry Henry are good friends. Their friendship started while they were both playing for Monaco. In an interview David stated that Thierry was like a big brother to him when they were team-mates. [7] David and Béatrice have two children, Aaron born on 18 May, 2000, and Noraan, born on 28 May 2008. [8]

Career statistics

Template:Football player statistics 1 Template:Football player statistics 2 |- |1993-94||rowspan="2"|Platense||rowspan="2"|Primera División||3||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||3||0 |- |1994-95||2||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||2||0 Template:Football player statistics 2 |- |1995-96||rowspan="5"|Monaco||rowspan="5"|Division 1||4||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||4||0 |- |1996-97||5||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||5||0 |- |1997-98||27||18||colspan="2"|-||9||4||36||22 |- |1998-99||27||12||colspan="2"|-||5||2||32||14 |- |1999-00||30||22||colspan="2"|-||7||2||37||24 Template:Football player statistics 2 |- |2000-01||rowspan="8"|Juventus||rowspan="6"|Serie A||25||14||2||0||5||1||32||15 |- |2001-02||34||24||2||0||10||8||46||32 |- |2002-03||17||9||1||0||10||4||28||13 |- |2003-04||25||16||4||2||5||4||34||22 |- |2004-05||18||9||1||1||5||4||24||14 |- |2005-06||32||23||1||0||9||6||42||29 |- |2006-07||Serie B||31||15||1||0||colspan="2"|-||32||15 |- |2007-08||Serie A||36||20||3||0||colspan="2"|-||39||20 Template:Football player statistics 35||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||5||0 Template:Football player statistics 493||52||colspan="2"|-||21||8||114||60 Template:Football player statistics 4218||130||15||3||44||27||277||160 Template:Football player statistics 5316||182||15||3||65||35||396||220 |}

Notes

  1. ^ Peter O'Rourke (2007-06-26). "Trez extends Juve deal". Sky Sports. Retrieved 2007-06-28. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ "Trezeguet claims he snubbed United and Liverpool". ESPN. 2007-06-25. Retrieved 2007-06-25. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ Euro 2008 - Trezeguet threatens to quit France - Yahoo! Eurosport UK
  4. ^ "France drop Trezeguet from Euro 2008 squad". FourFourTwo. Retrieved 2008-05-19.
  5. ^ "Trezeguet quits France scene". Sky Sports. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
  6. ^ "Trezeguet retires from international football". FourFourTwo. Retrieved 2008-07-09.
  7. ^ Stade2 (2007-07-02). "Interview with Henry and Trezeguet". Stade2. Retrieved 2007-07-02. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ "E' nato Noraan, auguri David!". Juventus.com. 2008-05-28. Retrieved 2008-05-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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