Olivier Lacoste-Lebuis
 Lacoste-Lebuis against USA | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | August 28, 1990 | ||
| Place of birth | Mount Royal, Quebec, Canada | ||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Defensive Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2001 | Mont-Royal Outremont | ||
| 2002 | Strasbourg | ||
| 2002–2006 | Lakers du Lac Saint-Louis | ||
| 2006–2008 | Strasbourg | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2009 | UMCP | ||
| 2012 | McGill | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2006–2008 | Strasbourg[2] | 1 | (0) |
| Total | 1 | (0) | |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2005 | Canada U15 | 8 | (0) |
| 2006–2007 | Canada U17 | 10 | (1) |
| 2007 | Canada U20[3] | 7 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of September 19, 2017 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of September 19, 2017 | |||
Olivier Lacoste-Lebuis (born September 28, 1990) is a retired Canadian soccer defender.
Career
Lacoste-Lebuis was born in Mount Royal, Quebec.[4] and Les Griffons.[5] Before his first went to France in 2002 to play in the Danone Cup international soccer tournament as an 11-year-old, he didn't know he would eventually return to train at the academy of a professional French team.[6]
But the seeds for that destiny were first sown at that tournament more than five years ago, when Lacoste-Lebuis captained the Canadian team to a top-12 finish out of 24 countries.
"That experience sparked something in me," Lacoste-Lebuis, 17, said in a telephone interview from Strasbourg, where he trains under the watch of first-division club Racing Team.[7] "That really made me want to reach another level of soccer.".[8] He was than named as Canadian U-17 Player of the Year 2007.[9]
Lacoste-Lebuis has reached that level and then some. Lacoste-Lebuis shot his way up the Canadian soccer ranks before signing a two-year contract with RC Strasbourg in 2006.[10] He played his one and only professional game for Strasbourg on 29 September 2008 against Clermont Foot in Ligue 2, he played ninety minutes.[11] In January 2009, he joined the Maryland Terrapins of the NCAA.[12]
Attributes
He is a fast player with good anticipation, powerful fighting capacity and great solo runs.[13]
International career
Lacoste-Lebuis represented Canada at the 2007 CONCACAF Under-17 Qualification Tournament in Kingston, Jamaica, Canada finished fourth in Group B. He was member for Canada at the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Canada.[14]
He was the youngest member of the Canadian team that competed at the U-20 World Cup last summer, and in December he was named Canada's U-17 men's player of the year, two clear indications he represents one of the country's brightest hopes in the sport.[15]
In 2004, he became the youngest player to be selected for a spot at the Canadian Soccer Association's National Training Centre, and he made his national team debut with the U-15 side a year later.
In 2006, he captained the U-17 Canadian team and was named the top player at the Ballymena Tournament in Ireland, which led him to Strasbourg.
Personal life
The Montreal-native speaks French and English.[16]
Honours
- 2007: Canadian U-17 Player of the Year[17]
- 2008: Gala de la Mi-Temps: Joueur senior excellence[18]
References
- ^ act-sportsgroup.de : Lebuis
- ^ http://www.footballdatabase.eu/football.joueurs.olivier.lacoste-lebuis.21057.en.html
- ^ Olivier Lacoste-Lebuis - FÉDÉRATION DE SOCCER DU QUÉBEC
- ^ Keep track of all these names
- ^ Notre Club
- ^ Une Saison de Soccer Exceptionnelle pour Olivier Lacoste-Lebuis
- ^ Un Québécois à Strasbourg!
- ^ Europe beckons Quebecer
- ^ Sinclair voted top female
- ^ http://www.expressoutremont.com/article-57699-Une-saison-de-soccer-exceptionnelle-pour-Olivier-LacosteLebuis.html
- ^ Match Ligue 2 2008/2009 Clermont - Strasbourg on www.footballdatabase.eu
- ^ National Champion Men's Soccer Announces Signing Class of 2009
- ^ ACT Sportsgroup Profile
- ^ Lacoste-Lebuis: génie du ballon rond
- ^ Une saison de soccer exceptionnelle pour Olivier Lacoste-Lebuis
- ^ Team Canada - CBCSports.ca
- ^ http://www.sirc.ca/news_view.cfm?id=19166&search=&show=&month=1&year=2008&search_where=
- ^ RHIAN WILKINSON WINS QUEBEC SOCCER AWARD
External links
- 1990 births
- Living people
- Canadian expatriate soccer players
- Canadian expatriate sportspeople in France
- Canada men's youth international soccer players
- Canadian soccer players
- Expatriate footballers in France
- Association football defenders
- French Quebecers
- Maryland Terrapins men's soccer players
- People from Mount Royal, Quebec
- RC Strasbourg Alsace players
- Soccer players from Montreal