Pascal Chimbonda
Pascal Chimbonda (born 21 February 1979 in Les Abymes Guadeloupe ) is a French football player.
Club career
The Pascal mostly used on the right-back Chimbonda grew up in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean and began with a club in Pointe -a-Pitre to play soccer. In Europe, it was first known for his commitment to the then first division club Le Havre AC 1999. In le HAC, the doyen of French football, he remained even after his descent in 2000 and two years later was instrumental to its return to Ligue 1 at. When the club had in the Ligue 2 again at the end of the season 2002/ 03, Chimbonda joined the SC Bastia and was also immediately regulars. As the Corsicans in 2005 descended from the top flight, he accepted an offer from Wigan Athletic, who had just gained in the English Premier League. The reason for this change, he cited the fact that the club management team and in his opinion, " hungry " and that they wanted to achieve ambitious goals.
Pascal Chimbonda is considered to be physically very strong player, equipped with offensive drive and an above-average heading ability. He has also achieved in the 2005 /06 Wigan two point Goals. The professionals of the Premier League have voted for him even the best right-back player of the season. On the other hand, he has completed at Le Havre and especially in Bastia on the lawn even occasionally " work to rule " if he did not agree with tactical instructions of his coaches; and in particular in Bastia, he has repeatedly applied with spectators because they were not always agree with his attitude and this brought in chants to express - from Chimbondas view racist remarks, which the club presidency officially rejected (see below links).
After Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur have recently expressed interest in signing Chimbondas and he himself - despite contract until 2009 - toying with a change, the Board of Wigan began in May 2006, his transfer fee the equivalent of € 8.7 million fixed; on the last day of the exchange period, he signed actually at Spurs. From here it moved in 2009 to the Sunderland AFC. After only half a season at Sunderland but was transferred back to the Spurs to be resold by these, again after only half a season, just to the Blackburn Rovers.
On January 21, 2011 Pascal Chimbonda joined Queens Park Rangers in the Football League Championship, of which he was but borrowed after a short time to Panetolikos. In the summer of 2013 he returned to English football and joined the Northern Premier League club - at Market Drayton Town - ie a seventh division.
National players
His first and only play for the French national team A has played on 31 May 2006 Pascal Chimbonda; there it was, however, only a brief appearance from the 88th minute against Denmark. About two weeks earlier, coach Raymond Domenech had called the novice to the surprise of media and the public in the 23 players squad for the 2006 World Cup.