Frédéric Piquionne
Frédéric Piquionne in the season 2004/ 05
Frédéric Piquionne ( born December 8, 1978 in Noumea, New Caledonia ) is a French football player at the position of a striker. He currently plays for the Portland Timbers in Major League Soccer.
Club career
Before Piquionne, whose ancestors came from Martinique, hired in the 2000 /01 season at Nîmes Olympique for the Division 2, he played for the youth of Paris FC and at Golden Star from Fort-de -France in Martinique. In 2001 he moved to Stade Rennes and thus in the highest league in France. In Rennes, he completed three seasons in 63 games and scored 18 goals.
In the summer of 2004 he moved for a transfer fee of three million euros from Stade Rennes for AS Saint -Étienne. Here he scored in the 2004/05 season eleven goals in 37 games. He missed only one game. However, in the sequel he met only six times. By January 2007 he played at Saint- Étienne; as his club rejected a 5.5 - million. -Euro offer from Olympique Lyon, Piquionne refused to continue to play for the Greens and threatened to stop all the professional football.
Then, the club initially lent him for a million euros until the summer of 2007 to AS Monaco. The Monegasque had moreover an option to be able to undertake Piquionne for additional six million euros over the end of the season also. This option has been taken in the new season, scoring seven goals in 32 games Piquionne.
For the 2008/09 season Piquionne transferred for a transfer of 4.7 million euros to Olympique Lyon. There he was given the jersey number 39 and had a contract until 2012.
In August 2009, he spent a year on loan at Portsmouth. There he was to replace the migrated to the Tottenham Hotspur Peter Crouch. After 34 league inserts and five goals for the first team as well as an insert and two hits for the second team, he returned to France at end of season. On July 16, 2010, he signed a three -year contract with West Ham United.
After more than 50 duty stakes in the hammer and a Kurzleihe at Doncaster Rovers, he signed in Winter 2013 in the U.S. with the Portland Timbers.
National
Instead aground recognized by FIFA for the New Caledonian national team, to Piquionne decided, with the national team of Martinique at the CONCACAF Gold Cup to take part in 2003.
However, since the selection of Martinique is not a member of FIFA, Piquionne could continue to play for the French national team. When EM Qualifying Game on March 24, 2007 against Lithuania for the first time he was in the squad of the French; He celebrated his debut on 28 March 2007 in a friendly match against Austria.