Péguy Luyindula

Péguy Luyindula
Personal information
Full name Péguy Makanda Luyindula
Date of birth 25 May 1979 (1979-05-25) (age 32)
Place of birth Kinshasa, Zaire
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Striker
Club information
Current club Paris Saint-Germain
Number 8
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1997–1998 Niort 27 (8)
1998–2002 Strasbourg 85 (19)
2002–2004 Lyon 91 (33)
2004–2007 Marseille 37 (10)
2005–2006 → Auxerre (loan) 33 (10)
2006–2007 → Levante (loan) 10 (0)
2007– Paris Saint-Germain 130 (19)
National team‡
1999–2002 France U21[1] 26 (14)
2004– France 6 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 12 May 2011.

† Appearances (Goals).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 22 February 2010

Péguy Luyindula (born 25 May 1979 in Kinshasa) is a French footballer, who plays as a striker for Paris Saint-Germain in the French League.

Contents

Club career

Early career

Luyindula began his career at Niort and in his first professional season scored 8 goals where he caught the eye of Strasbourg scoring 19 goals in 24 months. He earnt a reputation as one of the hottest French prospects.

Lyon

Luyindula continued his progress up the football ladder after coming to the attention of French giants Lyon. In January 2002 he completed a £5.5m transfer to Lyon and continued his good form scoring 6 goals and helping Lyon win the French League. He remained at Lyon for the next two season winning two more League Championships.

Marseille

Following the club record sale of Didier Drogba for £24 million pounds to Chelsea, Marseille set their sights on Luyindula as a replacement. Although Luyindula expressed his desire to remain at Lyon and despite their recent success the club still suffered from financial troubles and a sale looked probable. Eventually he completed a £7.5m move to l'OM.

He quickly found himself out of favour at the Vélodrome, in spite of being the club's best goalscorer for 2004–05. Loaned out to AJ Auxerre, where he reunited with his former Lyon coach Jacques Santini, during the 2005–06 season, Luyindula failed to convince the club to keep him on a permanent basis. In the summer of 2006, he thus moved back to Marseille and found himself on the fringes of the first team, before another loan move materialized, this time to Spanish club UD Levante.

Luyindula didn't last long in Spain. Following six months during which he saw little first team action, he resiliated his deal with the Spanish side to move to Paris Saint-Germain, again on loan. He debuted for the French capital club on 10 February 2007, and netted his first goal two months later against Le Mans, in a crucial game for the battle against relegation. Before the season ended, he scored two more against the likes of Toulouse and Nantes to keep PSG in the top flight.

In the summer of 2007, the Parisian club purchased Luyindula on a definite basis. The club endured a horrendous 2007/08 campaign, only avoiding relegation on the last day of the season. Luydindula scored just 5 goals during the whole season, and became something of a hate figure among PSG fans.

The 2008–09 season proved to be much more positive for the Kinshasa-born forward. With the arrival of no less than four attacking reinforcements (Ludovic Giuly, Guillaume Hoarau, Stéphane Sessègnon and Mateja Kežman) in the summer, Luyindula lost his spot in the starting line-up. However, he was often used as a supersub, especially in UEFA Cup games, and appeared to played better without the pressure of being an automatic starter. He scored twice in a 4-0 win over Dutch club FC Twente in December 2008, which qualified the Parisian club for the following round of the UEFA Cup.

In September 2009, Luyindula signed a two-year extension to his deal with the club, to which he is now tied until 2012.

International career

He has been capped six times and scored his lone goal for the France national team in a 2004 friendly match against Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2009, Luyindula briefly revived his international career by starting two games on the right-wing against Lithuania in France's 2010 World Cup Qualification campaign.

International goals

Under–21

Scores and results list France U21's goal tally first.
# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 20 January 1999 Stade des Costières, Nîmes  Mexico
2 – 0
4 – 0
 1999 Toulon Tournament
2.
3 – 0
3.
4 – 0
4. 14 June 1999 Stade Parsemain, Istres  Argentina
1 – 0
1 – 2
 1999 Toulon Tournament
5. 16 June 1999 Stade Mayol, Toulon  Mexico
2 – 0
3 – 2
 1999 Toulon Tournament
5. 25 April 2000 Stade Pierre Brisson, Beauvais  Slovenia
4 – 0
5 – 1
 Friendly
6. 16 August 2000 Torpedo Stadium, Moscow  Russia
1 – 1
1 – 1
 Friendly
7. 3 September 2000 Stade Francis-Le Blé, Brest  Israel
1 – 0
3 – 0
 2002 European Under-21 Football Championship qualifier
8.
2 – 0
9. 6 October 2000 Stade Francis-Le Blé, Brest  Austria
1 – 0
2 – 1
 2002 European Under-21 Football Championship qualifier
10. 28 February 2001 Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv  Israel
3 – 2
4 – 3
 2002 European Under-21 Football Championship qualifier
11. 24 April 2001 Feine Sorgen Arena, Ried im Innkreis  Austria
1 – 0
1 – 1
 2002 European Under-21 Football Championship qualifier
12. 6 October 2001 Stade Francis-Le Blé, Brest  Bosnia and Herzegovina
1 – 0
1 – 0
 2002 European Under-21 Football Championship qualifier
13. 16 April 2002 Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia, Como  Italy
3 – 0
3 – 2
 Friendly
14. 21 May 2002 Charmilles Stadium, Geneva  Belgium
2 – 0
2 – 0
 2002 European Under-21 Football Championship

Senior team

Scores and results list France's goal tally first.
# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 18 August 2004 Stade de la Route de Lorient, Rennes  Bosnia and Herzegovina
1 – 0
1 – 1
 Friendly

References

  1. ^ "France – U-21 – International Results – Details". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesf/fran-u21-intres-det.html. Retrieved 24 December 2011. 

External links

France squad – 2002 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship
Paris Saint-Germain F.C. – current squad