Emmanuel Laurent Petit ( born 22 September 1970 ) is a french early professional football player who played as a midfielder at club floor for Barcelona, Monaco, Arsenal and Chelsea. He represented France at international level in two FIFA World Cups and two UEFA european Championships ; he scored the third gear finish in France ‘s 3–0 victory in the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final and was besides a member of the french team that won UEFA Euro 2000 .
early life [edit ]
Petit was born in Dieppe, Seine-Maritime. [ 4 ]
Reading: Emmanuel Petit
Club career [edit ]
Petit ( center ) in 2000 Petit began his career at minor cabaret ES Arques-la-Bataille before being signed by Arsène Wenger ‘s Monaco side at the age of 18. He made his debut soon after and played in the 1989 Coupe de France concluding. Petit became a regular at Monaco, playing as a left-sided or central midfielder. In 1991, he won the Coupe de France with Monaco and besides played in the 1992 european Cup Winners ‘ Cup final ( which Monaco lost to Werder Bremen ). In 1996–97, his final examination season at Monaco, he captained his side to the Ligue 1 title. [ citation needed ] Petit joined Arsenal in June 1997 for £2.5 million, where he was reunited with his erstwhile Monaco coach Arsène Wenger. Wenger switched Petit from cardinal midfielder to defensive midfielder, and partnered him with boyfriend Frenchman Patrick Vieira. The french couple formed a midfield partnership which brought moment success, as Petit won the double with Arsenal in his very inaugural season, clinching both the Premier League title and the FA Cup. Altogether, in the three seasons in his Arsenal career, Petit made 118 appearances and scored 11 goals, including a sandbag drive from outside the area against Derby County ( which was besides the winning goal ), during the 1997–98 season. [ citation needed ] Petit moved to Barcelona ( together with Arsenal teammate Marc Overmars ) in the summer of 2000 for £7 million ( €14 million ). At Barcelona, he was moved back into defense and suffered a rash of niggling injuries. As a result, he failed to settle and could not hold down a regular stead. In his biography, published in 2008, the midfielder gave his time at Barcelona a special chapter in which he exposed that bus Lorenzo Serra Ferrer did not even know what placement he played when he joined the team. His only goal for Barcelona came on 13 May 2001 at base to Rayo Vallecano in a 5–1 succeed. [ 5 ] After his first temper at the Camp Nou, Petit was linked with moves second to England with Manchester United, Tottenham and Chelsea, joining the latter in 2001 in a £7.5 million transfer deal. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] He initially was a first-team regular for the Blues in a largely disappointing first base season and played in the 2002 FA Cup final [ 8 ] which Chelsea lost to his old club, Arsenal. He scored his first gear finish for Chelsea in a 2–1 acquire over Derby on 30 March 2002. [ 9 ] His second season saw a meaning improvement, as he formed an impressive midfield partnership with Frank Lampard as Chelsea impressed in the winner-takes-all final game of the temper against Liverpool as Chelsea secured the fourth UEFA Champions League berth. He besides scored twice throughout the temper : against Everton in the League Cup, [ 10 ] and former club Arsenal in the league. [ 11 ] After a series of knee injuries, however, he spent a lot of his final season of his career on the sidelines, and he was released on a free transfer in the summer of 2004, his final appearance for the club coming against Blackburn Rovers on 1 February 2004. [ 12 ] After being released by Chelsea, Petit rejected the casual to sign for Bolton Wanderers, [ 13 ] [ 14 ] and he announced his retirement on 20 January 2005 after failing to fully recover following knee operating room. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ]
International career [edit ]
Playing for the France national team, Petit earned 63 caps and scored six international goals in his career and won the 1998 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2000. He scored twice in the 1998 World Cup, the first from a herculean shoot from good outside the box against Denmark, which turned out to be the match achiever, and a irregular in the concluding against Brazil. The goal he scored in the concluding was particularly memorable, as he had embarked on an affirmative campaign across field before sedately slot in the goal in the final examination minute of regular time. That lapp goal happened to be the 1,000th goal in the history of the french Football Federation, and the last World Cup goal of the twentieth century. France won the match 3–0. An earlier Petit corner kick had set up Zinedine Zidane ‘s header for France ‘s first gear goal. [ 18 ] Petit was besides depart of the 2002 World Cup team, though France failed to advance past the group stages and failed to score a single goal in three matches during their defense of the trophy. [ citation needed ] Petit retired from external football in September 2003. [ 19 ]
style of play [edit ]
Although adequate to of playing as a defender, Petit normally played as a defensive midfielder throughout his career, and was known for his energy, work-rate, force, harness, antenna art, and positional intelligence in this situation, vitamin a well as his elegance, and his pass range and striking ability from distance with his left foot ; as such, he was not merely able of breaking up attacks, but of dictating play in midfield, creating chances for teammates, and even scoring goals. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] [ 24 ]
personal life [edit ]
Petit married french actress Agathe de La Fontaine, [ 25 ] in 2000, but late divorced her in 2002 after having one child, Zoe. He now shares a life with Maria Servello, with whom he had another child, Violet, in 2007. He has much appeared on french television receiver as a football analyst. His brother Olivier was an amateur football player when Petit was a adolescent. While playing for his clubhouse Arques in 1988, Olivier collapsed and was rushed to hospital where he was pronounced dead due to a blood clog of the brain. [ 26 ] In his biography, Petit explained that this consequence shocked him to such an extent that it about made him quit football. He viewed his brother as a endow young man who had good looks and did good in all his endeavours, whether it was football or education. He starred as himself, in a Christmas limited sequence of british police show The Bill in 1998. [ 27 ]
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Petit has been an ambassador for the Homeless World Cup movement since the tournament was hosted by Paris in 2011. [ 28 ] Petit was added in EA Sports FIFA 16 as an ultimate team legend
career statistics [edit ]
club [edit ]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition[29]
Club
Season
League
National Cup
League Cup
Continental
Total
Division
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Monaco
1988–89
Division 1
9
0
9
1
–
0
0
18
1
1989–90
28
0
1
0
–
7
0
36
0
1990–91
27
1
6
0
–
5
0
38
1
1991–92
28
0
4
0
–
7
0
39
0
1992–93
25
1
2
0
–
–
27
1
1993–94
28
0
2
0
–
10
0
40
0
1994–95
25
1
1
0
1
0
–
27
1
1995–96
23
1
3
0
0
0
1
0
27
1
1996–97
29
0
1
0
3
0
7
0
40
0
Total
222
4
29
1
4
0
37
0
292
5
Arsenal
1997–98
Premier League
32
2
7
0
3
0
2
0
44
2
1998–99
26
4
3
2
0
0
3
0
32
6
1999–2000
27
3
3
0
0
0
10
0
40
3
Total
85
9
13
2
3
0
15
0
116
11
Barcelona
2000–01
La Liga
23
1
5
0
–
10
0
38
1
Chelsea
2001–02
Premier League
27
1
6
0
2
0
3
0
38
1
2002–03
24
1
5
0
1
1
1
0
31
2
2003–04
4
0
1
0
0
0
2
0
7
0
Total
55
2
12
0
3
1
6
0
76
3
Career total
385
16
59
3
10
1
68
0
522
20
International [edit ]
Appearances and goals by national team and year[30]
National team
Year
Apps
Goals
France
1990
1
0
1991
0
0
1992
5
0
1993
7
0
1994
1
0
1995
0
0
1996
1
0
1997
2
0
1998
10
2
1999
5
1
2000
14
1
2001
7
1
2002
9
1
2003
1
0
Total
63
6
- Scores and results list France’s goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Petit goal.
Honours [edit ]
Monaco
Arsenal
France
Individual
Orders