Cyril Rool

Cyril Rool ( born April 15, 1975 in Pertuis / Vaucluse ) is a French former football player. He is the one player in the 80 year history of Ligue 1, which was sent off during his career lasted until 2010 most of the field.

The club career

Cyril Rool, a rather lanky defensive midfielder, started at a small club from Aix -en- Provence to play soccer and was founded in 1993 - although he had been trained not in a soccer boarding of a professional clubs (Centre de Formation ) - from the Corsica second division club SC Bastia under taken contract. A year later he was the first time in its eleven ascended into the top flight and then was starting to root formation. In his 27 matches this season he has been booked 17 times and placed twice from the square. He received, as in the following years, these personal punishments hardly ever for a particularly brutal way of playing, but mostly because Unsportsmanlike conduct ( Ballwegschlagen, talk back against the referee's decisions, etc.) or foul play. The impulsive South of France paid so well for his great will to win and his fierce temper, which made ​​him very popular in the separate annex, let him be known, however, can quickly become negative at the referees. Rool himself acknowledges that he is aware that especially the dismissals also hurt his team ( after every fourth yellow card also follows a game lock), but: "When I play, I think no more about it ."

In 1998 he moved to RC Lens, for which he also five years laced football boots - interrupted by a season at Olympique Marseille, but which after only two months loaned him to AS Monaco - without the cooler northern French air something on to his temperament the square and the regular sanctions would have changed. With Lens 1999 he succeeded after all, winning the League Cup. The season 2004 /05 he graduated in navy blue dress from Bordeaux, where it next to the notorious number of yellow and red cards after all, also scored his first league goal. In 2005 he returned to the Mediterranean coast, where he has since then played for OGC Nice. The season 2005/ 06 was ( after 1996 /97 and 2000/ 01) only the third in his three ten-year professional career in which he was referred to a single time of the field. In the season 2006/ 07 he has already brought it after the first 20 matchdays ten warnings, had thus been exposed twice; in the cup he saw in January 2007 after a dig in the ribs then red again and has been banned for five games, which results in France on league games. And he was asked for the 20th time in his career from the field due to a yellow-red card on matchday 30 of the Ligue 1. In the 2007 /08 season his coach Frédéric Antonetti nevertheless appointed him one of equal captains of OGC. Matchday 5 of the 2008/09 season he was once again a red card, this time for a foul in the penalty area over which the referee subsequently admitted that he had his linesman better not familiar.

Towards the end of his career played Rool in Nice and Marseille, in which he undertook in 2009 a second attempt, also on the left side of the back four. Apart from the League Cup victory with Lens and the role of " cards in the League " Cyril Rool was late yet participating in two more championship titles, as Olympique Marseille classifying 2010 League Cup and national championship in his trophy cabinet. The coach of the Équipe Tricolore have his fighting spirit never served. Overall, it brought Rool in his career on 25 red and 187 yellow cards.

Playing Career

  • Aix -en- Provence (until 1993, as a teenager )
  • SC Bastia (1993-1998; 100 D1 games, six red and 47 yellow cards )
  • RC Lens (1998-2001, 64 games, five red and 27 yellow cards )
  • Olympique Marseille (July / August 2001; 4 games, one red and two yellow cards )
  • AS Monaco ( 2001/ 02, 19 games, two red and ten yellow cards )
  • RC Lens (2002-2004, 30 games, three red and 16 yellow cards)
  • Girondins Bordeaux ( 2004/ 05; 28 games, two red and seven yellow cards )
  • OGC Nice (2005-2009, 106 games, two red cards )
  • Olympique Marseille (2009-2010; 2 games, no red card)

Palmarčs

  • French Champion: 2010
  • French Cup Winners: None so far
  • French League Cup Winners: 1999, 2010
  • European Cup Appearances: 23 games between 1997 and 2003, including 10 in the Champions League ( with Lens) and 13 in the UEFA Cup ( with Bastia and Lens)

Swell

  • France Football dated 29 August 2006, p 18, and 22 April 2008, pp. 20-22

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