Emmanuel Rivière

Emmanuel Rivière AS Saint- Étienne (ca. 2009)

Emmanuel Rivière (born 3 March 1990 in Le Lamentin, Martinique ) is a French footballer who is currently under contract with AS Monaco.

Club career

Beginnings on Martinique and Saint- Étienne

Born on the French island of Martinique, Rivières began career as a youth player in the town of Sainte -Luce. In a soccer tournament the French power center Clairefontaine he woke at the age of 14 years, the interest of several clubs from the mainland. In 2005 he finally moved to AS Saint- Étienne. There he played for several years for the youth teams of the club until he first belonged to the senior squad in the 2008 /09 season. On 17 December 2008 he competed in the UEFA Cup made ​​his professional debut when he came into the game for Dimitri Payet shortly before the end of the game. On 10 January 2009, he sat for the first time in a league game on the bench, on February 1 of the year of the then 18 -year-old came off the bench for the first time with a game against Olympique Lyon. In a game against Le Havre on 13 May 2009, he scored his first goal in Ligue 1

In the following season, the young striker became the starting players. After he had been previously loaded in the year in all of its eight league games, he stood on Matchday 1 2009/10 from the start on the course. Overall, he came up with 35 appearances for his club, where he was ten times as successful scorer during the season. After the season he signed a new and valid contract in July 2014 in Saint- Étienne. However, the 2010/11 season his last at the club he left the following summer. Was

Change to Toulouse and Monaco

On 12 July 2011, the Toulouse FC announced the commitment Rivières. He signed a four-year contract. The transfer fee was reportedly at about six million euros. At this time, the 21 -year-old was considered by many experts as one of the greatest talents and French as the future national team. His first game for his new club, he completed on 17 September 2011, when he immediately scored his first goal in the league match against Girondins Bordeaux. Overall, however, the start was mixed, and throughout the first round he managed only one scoring. In his first year in Toulouse he came on 26 missions in which he scored five goals.

The season 2012/13 started Riviere at his old club Toulouse. There, he played throughout the Hinserie before the ambitious second division club AS Monaco joined in the winter, where he signed a four and a half year contract. The transfer fee, which mustered the club is said to have been about four million euros. In the second half Rivière was still four goals to - in the summer of 2013 realized - contribute resurgence of the club. In the 2013/14 season, in which the climber with numerous expensive Neueinkäufen as Radamel Falcao and Joao Moutinho went, he was so far to the starting eleven. On August 18, the second match of the season, Rivière scored the first hat-trick in his career.

National

Emmanuel Rivière played so far for French youth teams. Starting with the U- 16, he also went through the U- 17, U -18, U-19 and U- 21st His first major tournament was the U -17 World Cup in South Korea, where the team failed in the quarter-finals to Spain in 2007. Two years later he was active for his country at the U-19 European Championship in Ukraine. In the semifinals, the team failed to England. He is currently a National Player of the U- 21st

Achievements

• Second division champions: 2012/13

Statistics

As of December 27, 2013