Morgan Schneiderlin

Morgan Schneiderlin ( born August 11, 1989 in Willer cell ) is a French football player who plays for the English football club Southampton FC since 2008.

Career

Association

Schneiderlin comes from the junior range of Racing Strasbourg, with its Under-19 team, he 2006, the Coupe Gambardella, the French A Youth Cup won. In the same year he became the youngest player in the history of racing a professional contract. His professional debut came on 27 October 2006 in a 2-0 win against FC Gueugnon in Ligue 2, at the end of the season Strasbourg rose to the Ligue 1. There Schneiderlin denied during the 2007/08 season three bets, than the direct re- descent took place.

The English second division side FC Southampton the services of talent secured in the summer of 2008 and paid for a transfer fee, which can rise to up to £ 1.2 million. In Southampton, the defensive -oriented midfielder established immediately and bribed with his mellow style of play, was the descent of the club, who suffered a ten-point deduction, not prevent in the Football League One but. In the third English top Schneiderlin basis at Dean Hammond midfielders headquarters of the Saints, the play-off places and thus the possibility of direct resurgence but was missed by the still existing ten-point deduction. Due to an injury missed Schneiderlin also the final of the Football League Trophy in 2010 at Wembley against Carlisle United, Southampton won 4-1. The resurgence finally succeeded as runners-up in the season 2010/11, Schneiderlin was missing during the second half often due to injury. In 2012 he went with the team on to the Premier League.

National

Schneiderlin belonged since the U-16 squad to the regular French youth teams and won the U -16 tournament from Val- de -Marne in 2004 and the tournament of Montaigu in 2005. With the U- 17, he was in 2006 at the Algarve Cup successfully. With the U -20 in 2009, he took part as a captain at the Mediterranean Games, after defeats against Spain and Libya to the fourth degree rank a medal just missed. The following year, he was one of the Toulon Tournament in the squad, as the French team finished third.

His first of three appearances for the U -21 France had Schneiderlin on September 7, 2010, when he was in the starting line-up against Malta during the qualification match for the U -21 Football Championship 2011.