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David Trezeguet
Personal information
Full name David Sergio Trezeguet
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 March 26 2008

David Sergio Trezeguet French pronunciation: [david sɛʀʒjo tʀezeˈgɛ]; born October 15, 1977 in Rouen) is a French-Argentine football striker who plays for Juventus and played for France national team.

Club career

At club level, Trezeguet has played for Platense in Argentina (1994), Monaco in France (1995-2000), and Juventus in Italy (since 2000). On 16 September 2006, before Juventus' league match against Vicenza, Trezeguet was awarded a commemorative plate in recognition of his 125 career goals. He is a pretty darn good footballer

After the match, his tally came to 128 goals making him the highest scoring foreigner in Juventus history. He is currently the fifth highest scorer for Juventus, with 161 goals as of 1 March 2008, six goals behind Omar Sivori.

In 1997, Trezeguet scored the fastest goal ever in terms of velocity 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 Olympiacos in 2004. In the 2003 UEFA Champions League Final, Trezeguet was one of the three Juventus players to have their penalty saved by AC Milan keeper Dida in the shootout, who appeared to come off his line on each occasion.

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.”[citation needed] However, Juventus announced on 25 June 2007 that Trezeguet had renewed his contract until 2011.[1][2] During the 2007–08 season, Trezeguet scored twenty goals in the league, second only to teammate Alessandro Del Piero for Serie A scoring honors.

In the Serie A 2008-09 season, Trezeguet sustained an injury in the groin that kept out for most of the season. He finally made his return on February 4 against Napoli and had a goal controversially disallowed. Nevertheless, he was one of the players who scored in the penalty shootout, which was won by Juventus 4–3. Trezeguet would shortly get his first goal of 2009 in the 2–0 win at Palermo in late February, in which he received the captaincy for the first time in his professional career, due to captain Del Piero missing the game. Due to his limited playing time as of the 08/09 season, Trezeguet reportedly would like to move on to a different team. Many of Europe's top teams have notified Juventus and seem very interested in acquiring the French Striker. Among these teams are Greek giants Panathinaikos, Lyon, Marseille,Sevilla and Tottenham

International career

Trezeguet first competed internationally on the French youth squad alongside senior squad teammates Thierry Henry, Willy Sagnol and William Gallas, and played in the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship. In the 1998 World Cup, younger players such as Trezeguet, Henry and Patrick Vieira were given a chance to display their talent, gaining squad places in ahead of many long-time French national veterans. They went on to win the World Cup that year, as well as the Euro 2000 competition, which was won when Trezeguet himself scored a golden goal in the final against Italy. He also played for France in the 2002 and 2006 FIFA World Cups and Euro 2004. Trezeguet was named one of the 125 greatest living footballers in 2004.

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 crossbar, as Italy won 5-3.

On 19 October, 2007, Trezeguet threatened to quit France after being overlooked for two Euro 2008 qualifying matches by French manager Raymond Domenech.[3] Trezeguet was selected to the French team in March 2008 for a friendly against England to replace the injured Karim Benzema, but then was not chosen for the French team that competed in Euro 2008.[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 main reasons for this decision. He also added "I see football 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 Thierry Henry of Barcelona 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 his wife Béatrice have two children, Aaron (born on 18 May 2000) and Noraan (born on 28 May 2008).[8]

Career statistics

As of 1 March 2009

[9] 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="9"|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 |- |2008-09||Serie A||4||1||1||0||3||0||8||1 |- 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 4222||131||15||3||47||27||285||161 Template:Football player statistics 5320||183||15||3||68||35||404||221 |}

Honours

International

Monaco

Juventus

Individual

References

  1. ^ Peter O'Rourke (2007-06-26). "Trez extends Juve deal". Sky Sports. Retrieved 2007-06-28.
  2. ^ "Trezeguet claims he snubbed United and Liverpool". ESPN. 2007-06-25. Retrieved 2007-06-25.
  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. ^ Template:Cite web David Trezeguet's mother gave birth to him while his father, also a footballer, was playing in France.
  8. ^ "E' nato Noraan, auguri David!". Juventus.com. 2008-05-28. Retrieved 2008-05-30.
  9. ^ David Trezeguet
  10. ^ "France honors World Cup winners - Government gives Legion of Honor to players, coaches". CNN/SI. 1 September 1998. Retrieved 2006-07-20.
  11. ^ "Décret du 24 juillet 1998 portant nomination à titre exceptionnel". JORF. 1998 (170): 11376. 1998-07-25. PREX9801916D. Retrieved 2009-03-10.


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