Nampalys Mendy
Nampalys Mendy ( born June 23, 1992 La Seyne -sur -Mer ) is a French football player whose parents are from Senegal. He is the cousin of Bafetimbi Gomis and also born in the same city. Because of his stature and playing style it is compared, at least since his time in Monaco from coaches and journalists with the former French star player Claude Makélélé.
Club career
AS Monaco
During his youth Nampalys Mendy played for several clubs in Toulon, the neighboring town of his birthplace La Seyne -sur -Mer. In the youth of Sporting Toulon he was in 2007, discovered by Christophe Didier, a former French international and tätigem at this time for the AS Monaco scout and committed to their youth team.
It first came into use for the youth teams and reserve the Monegasque, the young Mendy signed his first professional contract in April 2010. Under coach Guy Lacombe, the defensive midfielder had a regular place in the starting XI. Already on the opening day of the 2010/11 season he made his debut in the 0-0 draw against Olympique Lyon over the full 90 minutes. But Monaco did not play successfully and changed in January 2011, his coach. Under the new head coach Laurent Banide Nampalys Mendy came only to two other operations until the end of the season. The descent could not prevent the Monegasque and therefore had to take the course in the Ligue 2. In September 2011 Banide Monaco had six game winless days left since beginning of the season and was replaced by the new coach and former striker Marco Simone. Both under Banide and under the Italian Simone Mendy received in the 2011/12 season back his place and came in 28 league games for use.
From the meantime the new club President Dmitry Rybolowlew Claudio Ranieri 13 was introduced as the new coach for the 2012 season /. Even Ranieri put on the young Frenchman, leaving him 32 times in the league accrue. At the end of the season as champions of Monaco rose Ligue 2 after two years of absence, on the Ligue 1. In May 2013 Mendy told his club that he will not renew his contract in Monaco and left the club at the end of the season.
OGC Nice
The transfer had already indicated in the previous months. All requests of top European clubs despite himself Mendy decided to league rivals OGC Nice from Monaco neighboring town.
National
Nampalys Mendy played for almost all French junior national teams. He was, for example, to the French squad at the U- 17 Football Championship 2009 in Germany. There, however, his country was eliminated in the preliminary round and Mendy came only in the first group match against Switzerland (1:1 ) are used. For the U-19 national team, he was set up in October 2010 during the first round of qualifying for the U-19 European Football Championships 2011 in all three successful group games over the full distance. This did not change in the second qualifying round in May 2011, nothing. However, the French lost their second group game against the representation of Greece and therefore not qualified for the final tournament. For Mendy it were the last appearances in the U- 19th At the tournament of Toulon in 2013, he reached the third place with the U-20 national team and was used in all games of the French. For the U -21 midfielder graduated in the years 2010 and 2011 a game. He was in his first U-21 match against Russia on 16 November 2010 at age 18 the youngest player in the entire squad.
Title
- Coupe Gambardella 2011