Cédric Carrasso

Cédric Carrasso in 2008

Cédric Carrasso ( born December 30, 1981 in Avignon ) is a French football goalkeeper who is under contract with the French first division club Girondins Bordeaux since 2009. His younger brother Johann Carrasso is also active as a professional goalkeeper in France.

At the age of 13 he was accepted into the youth academy of Olympique Marseille. After five years of training, he signed his first professional contract there. As might be expected, he made a single game and was one and a half years later loaned to the English second division club Crystal Palace, but where he also made ​​a game. In the following season, he returned as number 2 behind the former goalkeeper Vedran Runje to Olympique Marseille. In 2003, he injured his knee and fell hard for several months. Prior to the 2004/05 season he was loaned to French second division club En Avant de Guingamp. There Carrasso was from the outset the number one goal and became more and more service providers. When he again a year later returned to his club Olympique Marseille, he tended goal for the long-term locked Fabien Barthez. He convinced all along the line and was therefore entitled under the contract end of Fabien Barthez after the World Cup in Germany to the goalkeeper of the South of France.

His services at the beginning of the 2007/08 season were promising, what Olympique Marseille prompting to extend his contract until 2011. But after only four games to Carrasso injured on 22 August 2007 in training. An Achilles tendon injury put him almost five months out of action. Since mid-January 2008, the man from Avignon was back in the squad, but not yet on the court again. His representative Steve Mandanda an excellent job and thus further guarded the gate of the South of France. Also in the French national team was Mandanda and not, as was once expected Carrasso appointed. In summer 2008 he decided therefore to a move to Toulouse, where he was a regular player again. At the end of his first season with TFC, he was awarded as the best goalkeeper of the league season with the Etoile d'Or and was the beginning of 2009 a first appointment to the extended A-team of the Équipe Tricolore.

1 July 2009 Carrasso joined the champions and Champions League hopefuls FC Girondins Bordeaux.

In the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, he was a member of the French squad, but came as the third goalkeeper to no use. Even then he was a regular in the squad of Les Bleus; but it was not until June 2011, rather he made his debut in a friendly match in Poland - was allowed to enter - then even in the initial lineup.

Achievements

• UI Cup winner: 2005 with Olympique Marseille
• Winner of the Coupe de France: 2013 with Girondins Bordeaux ( and finalist in 2006 and 2007 with Olympique Marseille)
• French runners-up: 2007 with Olympique Marseille