Stéphane Ruffier

Stéphane Ruffier ( born September 27, 1986 in Bayonne ) is a French football goalkeeper. His father Jean -François Ruffier is world champion in pelota, a game setback Basque origin.

Career

Stéphane Ruffier began at the age of 6 years in the football section of Aviron Bayonnais the football games. At first, he played at the position of a box striker but was at the age of 8 years, from a youth coach on the football academy due to lack of goalkeeper, asked if he would like to try the position of the goalkeeper. The retraining progressed rapidly and at age 14 he had a trial at Montpellier, but could not convince there. 2001 was a Scout AS Monaco, Arnold Catalano, the discoverer of Thierry Henry, aware of him, and so it was that he signed there after a trial on 2 August 2002 a youth contract with the Monegasque.

After just one season in the Academy of Monaco, he was appointed to the second team and was there to ten inserts in the Championnat de France amateur. The following season, he was the number one of the amateur teams and brought it to 17 missions. For the 2005/ 06 season Ruffier was awarded to his hometown club Aviron Bayonnais FC to get it to operate in a professional league. Ruffier sat down right away and played through all 38 league games for the club from Aquitaine, but could not prevent relegation to the descent and returned to Monaco at the end of the season. On 10 May 2006 Stéphane Ruffier signed his first professional contract with AS Monaco, who until June 2010 was valid for three years. He moved up to the second goalkeeper on behind the Italian Flavio Roma, but came in the season 2006/ 07 to no use. In the following season, Roma injured in the third league match against FC Metz whereupon Ruffier in the 58th minute came off the bench and thus celebrated his first professional use in Ligue 1.

The next three games against Sochaux, Le Mans and Lille he played the full 90 minutes and came to the end of the season to a total of 12 inserts for AS Monaco. For the 2008/ 09 season Ruffier was promoted from coach Ricardo Gomes for the number one team. He came in 36 games for use and was able to stay in eleven games without conceding a goal. At the end of the season he extended his contract until June 2013. 2010 he reached the final of the Coupe de Monaco France, but failed there to Paris Saint -Germain 0-1 in extra time. For the season 2010/11 he was diagnosed of coach Guy Lacombe the new captain of the team, but he could not prevent the club descent into second-rate Ligue 2.

In July 2011, AS Saint -Étienne, the obligation Ruffiers announced.

Internationally

On 19 August 2008 he celebrated in the match against the Slovak U -21 debut, the game ended 2-2. He was with two qualifying games for the U -21 European Championship 2009 in use, but missed with the team the entry into the main tournament, as it was eliminated by eventual winners Germany.

During the 2009/10 season Ruffier received much praise from the media, but a convocation of the national team was denied him. Due to a violation of Cédric Carrasso, the third goalkeeper for the 2010 World Cup, he was re-ordered on June 16, 2010 by team manager Raymond Domenech for the tournament. However, FIFA refused to exchange the two players. Ruffier itself was at this time but already in training with the team and sat during the boycott of the players due to the dismissal of Nicolas Anelka in the team bus. After the poor performance and misconduct of the French team during the World Cup was decided by the French Football Federation (FFF ) that all 23 players of the World Cup squad will be blocked for at least one game. Ruffier was not an official member of management, and thus escaped this barrier. On August 5, 2010 Ruffier celebrated under the new team boss Laurent Blanc his debut for the French national team. In the match against Norway, he played through, but was unable to prevent a 2-1 defeat.