Clément Pinault
Clément Pinault (born 4 February 1985 in Grasse, † January 22, 2009 in Clermont- Ferrand ) was a French football player at the position of a defender.
He died shortly before his 24th birthday to a heart attack he had suffered at his home.
Career
Youth
Born in Grasse on the Cote d' Azur Pinault began his active career as a football player in Cannes only a few kilometers away in the junior area of the resident AS Cannes. After he went through various youth leagues there, he changed to the north-west of France, where he was admitted to Le Mans in the youth of the Le Mans UC. After some time in the youth section of the club, Pinault was first recorded in 2004 in the cadre of professional team, which was represented at the time in Ligue 2.
Club career
In the 2004/05 season, the young defender made his debut in the French professional football when he came off the bench in a 3-1 away win over LB Châteauroux on 7 March 2005 for half-time for Arnaud Lisembart. Due to the good placement of the team, this rose to second in the table Scrapping, along with the AS Nancy in the first place and the Troyes AC on rank 3 in the top flight, the Ligue 1, on. From this time the young Frenchman mainly the amateur team in the fourth division Championnat de France amateur ( CFA) was active, but came in the 2005 /06 to four inserts in the highest French game level.
His Erstligadebüt he gave here at just before his 21st birthday, on 4 January 2006, as he stood in a 2-0 home win over FC Metz over the full length on the grass. In addition to the four league operations, he was responsible for the professional team even in French football Cup of the season 2005/ 06 in use, where the team was, however, already in Zweiunddreißigstelfinale 0-1 against RC Lens during the current competition out. Also in the Coupe de la Ligue 2005/ 06 Pinault was with his team in action. The team arrived here to the semi-finals and was eliminated there without Pinault's participation, 0-2 against AS Nancy from.
In addition, he also came to 15 Championship appearances for the B team in the Viertklassigkeit and was subsequently awarded for the 2006 /07 to the SCO Angers in the third-class National ( D3) to gather there match practice, and so from the first team to keep Le Mans fit. In Angers, in western France, the 1,86 m tall defender warrior came in a total of 26 league games for use and ranked with the team in the final table in third place in the table. Through this course the team was justified, along with Pinault's later club Clermont Foot ( 1 ) and the U.S. Boulogne ( 2 ) to rise in the Ligue 2.
After returning from his Leihverein Pinault came to a further five Erstligaeinsätzen for Le Mans and was also in three games of the Coupe de la Ligue 2007/ 08 in use. In this Cup competition the team reached the semi-finals and again only difference there without Pinault's participation, after a competitive encounter with 4:5 against RC Lens from. In the B team in the CFA, the young defender came into this season on a record of 14 league operations. After Pinault saw no future in it, to succeed in professional team of Le Mans, he decided to change clubs.
With start of the season 2008/ 09 he signed a contract with the second division club Clermont Foot, for which he henceforth was used. His team debut for the club from the Auvergne region zentralfranzösisichen Pinault came in the first game of the season when he came on nine minutes for the injured Christophe Coue on the field of play and the defensive line of Clermont Foot reinforced. In the end, the team lost the home game 0-1. Until his heart attack, which claimed the lives of at the end, Clément Pinault came in nine league games and was used on 16 January 2009 in a 2-0 home win over Stade Brest for the last time on the lawn when he the full 90 played by minutes.
Heart attack and death
On the evening of January 18, 2009 Pinault had a heart attack when he was leading a telephone call at his home. The infarct was totally unexpected, since Pinault previously never had heart problems and also the club doctor Franck Thiel said to have perceived nothing unusual at the heart of the player. Following the transfer to the University Hospital in Clermont- Ferrand (Auvergne ) Pinault was immediately intubated and put into an artificial deep sleep. Although Pinault was initially in a critical phase, was his condition on January 21 already as stable.
On the following Thursday, January 22, 2009, Pinault died unexpectedly in the late afternoon as the result of myocardial infarction. A soon afterwards conducted autopsy was also no explanation of why the 23- year-old had suffered a heart attack on January 18. The funeral of Pinault was held in his home town of Grasse on January 31, 2009.
Family
Pinault's brother Thomas has been working as a professional soccer player in England for more than ten years. Its stations are or were, among others, Colchester United, Grimsby Town, Brentford FC and Crawley Town. The parents of the brother and sister hot Brigitte and Didier. In addition, Clément Pinault was married, his widow called Julia Emily.