Allan Saint-Maximin

Allan Saint- Maximin ( born March 12, 1997 Chatenay -Malabry ) is a French football player.

Club career

Saint- Maximin grew up around the French capital Paris and began with a club from Verrières -le- Buisson playing football. He then played for a club from the nearby Ris -Orangis where the striker struck already with eight years as exceptionally gifted technically and to fast. Then he wore for four years the jersey of a club from the also the capital region associated Boulogne- Billancourt, before shortly before his 14th birthday to a few hundred kilometers southeast, AS Saint- Étienne was taken in the summer of 2011, and the youth department of the first division strengthened. The association sought a training of the player on the national youth performance center Centre National Fernand- Sastre technique, which he had to leave some time later because of poor performance but again. The club, however, those responsible put on him, so he was part of the Junior B team that won the French league title in the 2012/13 season under 17 -year-olds. On July 3, 2013 provided wrote at this time 16 -year-old at Saint- Étienne his first professional contract.

Few weeks after the contract was signed Saint- Maximin came at the age of 16 years, 5 months and 17 days to his pro debut when he takes on 29 August 2013 in a 0-1 defeat against Danish club Esbjerg fB in the Europa League on skills aground. This game, although she brought the resignation of his team with him to a 3:4 in the first leg, making him the youngest participants in the European competition in the club's history. Three days later he was on as a substitute in a Erstligabegegnung against Girondins Bordeaux, which ended 2-1 in the 69th minute and thus also debuted in the top French league. The club and league record of his debut for 15 -year-old Laurent Paganelli became the youngest player, however, he could not break it. In the aftermath of the youth was still occasionally used in the first team as a substitute while he got match practice at the same time in the viertklassig antretenden second choice.

National

The first game in the national jersey graduated from Saint- Maximin for the French U-16 selection when he was summoned to a 3-2 victory against Belgium on 21 January 2013. This was followed by regular invitations to the U -16 and in the summer of the same year rose to the ranks U-17 team.