Marcel Desailly

Marcel Desailly 2011

Marcel Odenkey Addy Desailly ( born September 7, 1968 in Accra, Ghana; originally Odonkey Abbey ) is a former French footballer.

Club career

The center-back started his career at FC Nantes, which he already joined the age of eleven, and until 1992 remained faithful. After one and a half years at Olympique Marseille, which at this time of the championship - it would Desaillys only title in Division 1 have been - has been revoked, he moved to AC Milan in November 1993; here he remained until 1998 before he organized the defense of Chelsea the next six years. From October 2004 to November 2005, he was (Al- Gharafa and Qatar Sports Club ) end his career at two clubs in Qatar.

National players

Just as in its clubs was unspectacular, but highly effective playing Marcel Desailly also from the French national team indispensable: between August 1993 and June 2004, he played 116 matches, scored three goals and was also doing 50 times their captain. Since 30 April 2003, he was now the sole French international record before him Lilian Thuram replaced it in June 2006.

He has helped shape all the great successes of the Équipe Tricolore since the 1990s. His first major tournament was the European Football Championship in England in 1996. In 1998 he was World Champion and participated in all the games of the tournament. Negative for him on the day of 3-0 Final victory against Brazil in Paris only his second yellow card in 68 minutes.

Two years later he was in the final of the European Football Championship in 2000 and was also European champion against Italy.

Low points in his national team career were the Football World Cup 2002 in South Korea, when his team as the defending champion without a goal to shoot in the first round was eliminated, and the failure in the quarter- finals of the European Football Championship 2004 in Portugal against Greece (0-1).

Achievements

With its clubs

  • UEFA Champions League: 1993, 1994
  • European Super Cup: 1994, 1998
  • Italian Championship: 1994, 1996
  • Italian Super Cup: 1994
  • English Cup: 2000
  • English Super Cup winner: 2000
  • Qatar Cup: 2005

With the national team

  • World Champion: 1998
  • European Championship: 2000
  • Confed Cup: 2001 and 2003

Others

Desailly 's athlete ambassador of development organization Right to Play. In 2011 he founded just outside of Accra, a youth soccer academy and built the The Lizzy Sports Complex in East Legon in Accra.

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