Jean-François Gillet

Gillet ( 2011)

Jean -François Gillet ( born May 31, 1979 in Liège ) is a Belgian football goalkeeper.

Career

In the club

Jean -François Gillet played until 1996 in the youth division of Standard Liege, where he played a few games in three years. In 1999 he left Belgium and signed for AC Monza Brianza in the Italian. At Monza he was able to quickly establish itself as a first-choice goalkeeper and made with the Lombards relegation in Serie B. He then moved to Bari, in which he was relegated after a poor first season in Serie A. He could in the following six seasons in the second division in Italy, with the Galletti as the club is called in Italy, establish. The Belgian has been awarded for the 2003/ 04 season due to differences with the then coach of the club, Marco Tardelli, the FBC Treviso.

While Gillet with Bari in the season 2004/ 05 the resurgence just missed out, he stayed in 2006/ 07 with the Apuliern just above the relegation zone. The results of AS Bari improved, the following season ended with 55 points to rank 11th in the 2008/ 09 season was achieved with 80 points clearly to the promotion to Serie A and Gillet received in 40 games only 30 goals. With over 320 league games for Bari ( 93 games in Serie A, 229 games in Serie B ) he is on the first place in the rankings and now has eternal Giovanni Loseto (318) and Mario Mazzoni (313 ) exceeded. He also took over the captaincy at the Apuliern. In the current 2013/14 season Gillet has lost the lock the position in the goal from FC Turin to Daniele Padelli.

In the National Team

Gillet made ​​his debut on 5 September 2009 at the World Cup qualifier against Spain for the Belgian national football team. The debut failed completely and Gillet had to suffer a 5-0 defeat after five goals against. In the four days later following match against Armenia defeated Gillet with the Belgians. In his third appearance for Belgium on 14 November 2009 he was able to celebrate a victory and remained in the 3-0 home win against Hungary for the first time without conceding for the first time. The game against Qatar, three days later the keeper survived without conceding a goal. Gillet played his last international game in February 2013 against Slovakia and is currently closed due to match-fixing until February 2017.

Ban for match-fixing

Gillet has been disabled on July 16, 2013 for three years and seven months by the disciplinary board of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC ). He had in his time at AS Bari two games against Treviso (2008) and Salernitana (2009) manipulated.