Giuly pictured in 2006 with Barcelona |
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Ludovic Giuly | ||
| Date of birth | 10 July 1976 | ||
| Place of birth | Lyon, France | ||
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 4 1⁄2 in)[1] | ||
| Playing position | Attacking midfielder / Winger | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Monaco | ||
| Number | 8 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1994–1998 | Lyon | 100 | (21) |
| 1998–2004 | Monaco | 184 | (47) |
| 2004–2007 | Barcelona | 85 | (19) |
| 2007–2008 | Roma | 32 | (6) |
| 2008–2011 | Paris Saint-Germain | 100 | (16) |
| 2011– | Monaco | 8 | (1) |
| National team | |||
| 2000–2005 | France | 17 | (3) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 10:25, 29 December 2011 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). |
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Ludovic Giuly (born 10 July 1976) is a French footballer who plays for Monaco as an attacking midfielder and winger.[2] He represented France at international level, gaining 17 caps over a five-year period, and was a member of their 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup winning squad.
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After starting his career with Olympique Lyonnais in 1994, Giuly was signed by AS Monaco FC in January 1998.
Giuly captained Monaco on a run to the 2004 UEFA Champions League Final, where they lost 3-0 to José Mourinho's F.C. Porto.[3]
Barcelona paid about €7 million to Monaco in order to sign Giuly on 28 June 2004, with Giuly signing a three-year deal.[4]
Giuly helped Barcelona to win La Liga in the 2004–05 season. He was the second top scorer for the club scoring 11 goals. Although his season was disrupted by several muscle injuries, Giuly was able to fulfil his promise to reach double digits in goals in his first year at his new club.
In 2005–06 he helped win the Spanish title again, as well as capture the second Champions League trophy for the Catalan club. Giuly propelled Barça into the Champions League Final by scoring the only goal in their semi-final against AC Milan. He played the full 90 minutes in Paris as Barcelona came from a goal down to beat Arsenal F.C. 2-1.[5]
In the 2006–07 season, Giuly, although still a key member of the Barça squad, eventually lost his starting spot in the team, when Lionel Messi was promoted from the club's youth ranks. This resulted in Giuly saying his farewell to Barça.
On 17 July 2007, Giuly signed for Roma on a three-year deal with Barcelona being paid £2.2million.[6] Giuly's only season at Roma had him scoring more than many starting players which made him in the top five scorers at the club for the season he spent at Stadio Olimpico.[7]
On 18 July 2008, Giuly signed with Paris Saint-Germain on a three-year deal, with PSG paying a transfer fee reported to be €2.5 million to Roma.[8] In his first season at the club, PSG had moderate success in Ligue 1 finishing in 6th place and narrowly missing out on European play because of goal differential. In his second season, PSG's league form was much worse as they finished in 12th place. However with the experience of Giuly, Claude Makélélé and Grégory Coupet PSG won the Coupe de France title, over his former team AS Monaco.[9] In June 2011, he left PSG after his contract expired.[2]
He spent the summer of 2011 training with his old club AS Monaco[10]
On 9 August 2011, Giuly signed a two-year contract with French Ligue 2 side Monaco, where he played between 1998 and 2004.[11]
Giuly has been capped for France, but was removed from his country's Euro 2004 squad due to a leg injury he sustained in the 2004 Champions League Final.[12]
Giuly was not selected for the French 2006 World Cup squad, as young Marseille playmaker Franck Ribéry was selected over Giuly.[13] However, with Djibril Cissé having broken his leg in a World Cup warm-up match against China, Giuly could have been called up, but he asserted after the initial France squad was announced that he would go on holiday to Dubai and Kish instead of waiting idly in the stand-by squad, and Sidney Govou was called up instead.
He also qualifies for the non-FIFA affiliated team of Corsica, having been called up for their May 31, 2011 friendly with Bulgaria.
| Giuly – goals for France | ||||||
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| # | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
| 1. | 22 June 2003 | Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France | New Zealand | 4–0 | 5–0 | 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup |
| 2. | 8 September 2004 | Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands | Faroe Islands | 1–0 | 2–0 | 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 3. | 12 October 2005 | Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France | Cyprus | 4–0 | 4–0 | 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification |
During his career, Giuly has been employed as a wide midfielder and as a second striker playing behind and to the side of an out-and-out forward. He is known to play a direct style by running straight at defenders with pace. At Barcelona, Giuly played on the right side of a three man forward line, usually playing alongside Ronaldinho and Samuel Eto'o.
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