Patrice Bernier
Patrice Bernier (2013 )
Patrice Bernier ( born November 23, 1979 in Brossard ) is a Canadian soccer player who also has French nationality. Since 2003 he is also active for the Canadian national team.
Career
Association
His career as an athlete began Patrice Bernier during his youth not in football, but in hockey. He graduated from the Foreurs de Val- d'Or and later for the Castors de Sherbrooke in Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec, one of Canada's three top junior leagues, a total of 143 games in which he scored 17 goals and 73 points. With its height of 1.77 m but was considered by the authorities as too small for a future career in hockey.
In parallel, Bernier began his career as a football player; his talent was recognized by various scouts, so that the right-footer was first appointed to the U- 17 National Team Canada 1994. His first team was Syracuse Orange, the team of Syracuse University in the U.S. state of New York, for a year, played defensive midfielder to 1999. For the new season 2000 he was engaged by Montreal Impact, whose team took in the A-League. Here Bernier continued as a regular player through and won despite the club bankruptcy in 2001, after which the association remained but continue to exist in 2002 with the team the Voyageurs Cup.
At the start of the new season in January 2003, he moved together with his compatriot Rob Friend to Norway to the second division side Moss FK. This, however, he left after one and a half years in summer 2004 again to switch the payment of a transfer fee of less than 500,000 Norwegian kroner ( about 60,000 euros ) to Tromsø IL in the Tippeligaen, Norway's first league. There Patrice Bernier completed the mandatory endurance test with the best result in the club's history. After Bernier played an outstanding second half and first round of the new season 2005, Tromsø leaning in the summer of 2005 from a bid of 10 million Norwegian kroner ( 1.3 million euros ) of the Turkish first division club Beşiktaş Istanbul. Instead, Bernier took with Tromsø IL in part by successfully passing the qualifying rounds of the group stage of the UEFA Cup 2005/ 06, while still regarded as one of the strongest players in the Tippeligaen. An extension of his expiring contract leaned Bernier 2007, however, since he wanted to switch to a stronger league play.
So Patrice Bernier moved in summer 2007 to Germany in the 2nd Bundesliga for 1.FC Kaiserslautern, in which Kjetil Rekdal was coach. Under him, Bernier was a regular player; after Rekdals dismissal in February 2008 but was not taken into account by the successor Milan Šašić. Overall, he thus came this year to 15 times, in which he scored a goal.
Therefore, its really up to 2010 operating contract was terminated with Kaiserslautern after only one year, Bernier then moved in summer 2008 to the Danish first division club FC Nordsjælland. With the club he took again after a successful qualification, in which he was able to achieve the only two goals of his career in an international competition, the UEFA Cup 2008/ 09 part, but retired in the first round out. In the UEFA Europa League 2010/11, he retired with the Danes out already in the qualification round. With the two-time winning the Danish Football Cup Bernier also reach national success during his time at FC Nordsjælland 2010 and 2011.
After three years in Nordsjælland Bernier joined in summer 2011 free transfer to Premier League rivals Lyngby BK. Here he remained, however, only half a year; the start of Canadian 2012 season, he returned Europe in January 2012 after nine years back and to his home to his first professional Station Montreal Impact back, who took now in Major League Soccer.
National
1994 Bernier was first appointed to the U- 17 national team in Canada; with her, he took part in the 1995 U -17 World Championship in Ecuador, but already retired in the group stage in a group with Germany, Brazil and Oman as Table from. During his time at Syracuse Orange, he completed in 1998 for the Canadian U-20 national team at least three games in which he scored a goal, and from 1999 served in 13 games of the U-23 national team in the ball
After his move to Norway Patrice Bernier made his debut at the age of 23 years on 15 November 2003 in a friendly match against the Czech Republic in the senior team in Canada. With her he took in the years to repeatedly participate in the CONCACAF Gold Cup; after the team was eliminated together with Cuba after the group stage against the United States and Costa Rica in 2005, she was defeated in 2007 only in the semi-finals to U.S. and retired in 2009 from the quarter-final against Honduras, while one had finished both times the group stage as group winners. The Gold Cup 2011 he missed due to injury.