Samir Nasri

Samir Nasri at the 2012 European Football Championship

Samir Nasri ( born June 26, 1987 in Marseille ) is a French professional footballer of Algerian origin. He plays for Manchester City.

Career

Association

Olympique Marseille

Growing up in the neighborhood Gavotte Peyret he started five years ago, for the same local club to play at. After some time, he spent two seasons at Pennes Mirabeau, before the scouts discovered him from Olympique Marseille. With the consent of his parents, he joined as a 13 year old to Marseille.

Only 17 years old, he played in Marseilles A-Team, but could not prevail, and was mostly off the bench. Only when he showed good performance at the U- 20 World Cup in 2005, he became a fixture in his club.

In the season 2006/ 07 he played 37 of 38 games and was one of the most prominent players. He was elected by the fans player of the season 2006/ 07 and also being courted by several top clubs. In addition, he also received the award for best young player of the year in Ligue 1, which gave him his friend and mentor Zinédine Zidane.

At the start of the following season 2007/ 08 he suffered a small Blessur for which he turned out some games. This season he also played his first games in the UEFA Champions League.

Arsenal FC

In May 2008, Nasri first extended the contract with Olympique Marseille until 2012, moved in July but for Arsenal. There he was to replace its lost to FC Barcelona Aliaksandr Hleb. Arsenal paid for the French € 15 million at Olympique Marseille. On August 16, 2008, while League opener against West Bromwich Albion of the offensive player made ​​his debut in the Premier League. In the same batch, Nasri scored his first competitive goal for the Gunners. Eleven days later, on 27 August, he came for the first time internationally for the Red and Whites to train. During qualifying for the Champions League Nasri could, as in the Premier League, scoring a goal.

While preparing for the 2009/10 season, the midfielder injured. In the Austrian training camp, the French Young Star broke the fibula and missed his team three months.

In the summer 2011, Nasri joined after weeks of negotiations to Manchester City. Competition Cross he had played over three years 125 times for the Gunners and scored 27 goals.

Manchester City

Nasri signed a four -year contract until 30 June 2015. Among his first league appearance for the Citizens Nasri came directly after his commitment and prepared the 5-1 against Tottenham Hotspur three hits before. Under coach Mancini Samir Nasri was always sitting on the bench, first as Manuel Pellegrini took over, the Frenchman became the key players and performers.

National

On the occasion of the international match against Austria on 28 March 2007, he was employed for the first time by coach Domenech in France's A- national team and also prepared the same as the winning goal from Karim Benzema before. His first goal for France he succeeded during the European Championship qualifying match against Georgia on June 6, 2007.

In the European Championship finals in 2008, he belonged to the French squad. However, he only came to two short sessions. Was remarkable especially the last. Nasri was one - and replaced again in the decisive match against Italy for the injured Franck Ribéry only 15 minutes later tactical reasons for Jean -Alain Boumsong. In his first appearance against Romania, he played 12 minutes, when he came on for Benzema.

For World Cup 2010, he was not nominated; after the French debacle in South Africa, Domenech's successor Laurent Blanc called him but again regularly in the array, and at the end of this year, Nasri was voted French Player of the Year. He was in the squad for the 2012 European Championship and came in all games to use; against England, he managed to make the score 1-1 draw. After the French withdrawal in the quarterfinals, he was an editor of the news agency AFP against verbally abusive, what it both Blanc and association president Noël Le Graët criticized. Nasri was 2012 before the Disciplinary Committee of the French Association FFF loaded because of his behavior for the end of July, and locked in a row for three games. The new French coach Didier Deschamps took into consideration Nasri in August 2013 for the first time, even if only as a substitute.

Achievements / Title

In the National Team

  • U-17 Football Championship: 2004

With the club

  • UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2005
  • Finalist of the Coupe de France: 2006, 2007
  • FA Premier League: 2012
  • FA Community Shield Winner: 2012
  • League Cup: 2014

Personal Achievements

  • Player of the Month in Ligue 1 March 2007
  • Best young player of Ligue 1 2006/ 07
  • French Player of the Year: 2010
  • England Player of the Month: December 2010
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