Ludovic Giuly

Ludovic Giuly
Personal information
Full name	Ludovic Giuly
Date of birth	10 July 1976 (age 34)
Place of birth	Lyon, France
Height	1.64 m (5 ft 4 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Winger / Attacking midfielder
Club information
Current club	Paris Saint-Germain
Number	7
Senior career*
National team
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of May 16, 2010.; † Appearances (Goals).;

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Ludovic Giuly (born 10 July 1976) is a French footballer who plays as a winger.

Club career

Early career

After starting his career with Olympique Lyonnais in 1994, Giuly was signed by Monaco in January 1998.

Giuly captained Monaco on a run to the UEFA Champions League Final, where they lost to Porto in the 2003–04 season.

Barcelona

Barcelona paid €7 million to Monaco in order to sign him on 28 June 2004, with a contract until June 2008.¹

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 Milan.

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.

Roma

On 17 July 2007, Giuly signed with Roma for a salary of €1.8 million per year and €4.5 million to his former club. 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.²

Paris Saint-Germain

On 18 July 2008, Giuly signed with Paris Saint-Germain for a fee of €2.5 million. 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 expereince of Giuly, Claude Makélélé and Grégory Coupet PSG won the Coupe de France title, over his former team AS Monaco.³⁴

International career

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.⁵

Giuly was not selected for the French 2006 World Cup squad, as young Marseille playmaker Franck Ribéry was selected over Giuly.⁶ 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.

International goals

#	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

Style of play

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.

Honours

Club

AS Monaco

Barcelona

Roma

PSG

Coupe de France: 2010

International

France

Confederations Cup: 2003

References

External links

Official website
Ludovic Giuly statistics and biography at FootballDatabase.com

[0] 2000 www.footballdatabase.com

[1] Acquisizione del diritto alle prestazioni sportive del calciatore Ludovic Giuly

[2] ttp://www.lfp.fr/ligue1/feuilleMatch.asp?saison=2009/2010&code_evt=D1&num_ordre=7&code_jr_tr=J21&no_groupe=0

[3] ttp://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=780557&sec=europe&cc=5901

[4] Giuly out of Euro 2004 BBC 28 May, 2004

[5] Left-out Giuly hits at out at France coach Soccernet May 21, 2006

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