Personal information | |||
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Full name | Bertrand Bossu | ||
Date of birth | 14 October 1980 | ||
Place of birth | Calais, France | ||
Height | 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) | ||
Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Gravelines | ||
Youth career | |||
1989–1997 | Calais RUFC | ||
1997–1999 | RC Lens | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1999–2000 | RC Lens | 0 | (0) |
2000–2001 | Barnet | 1 | (0) |
2000 | → Hayes (loan) | 1 | (0) |
2001 | → Rushden & Diamonds (loan) | 0 | (0) |
2001–2003 | Hayes | 60 | (1) |
2003–2005 | Gillingham | 4 | (0) |
2004 | → Torquay United (loan) | 2 | (0) |
2004 | → Oldham Athletic (loan) | 0 | (0) |
2005–2006 | Darlington | 9 | (0) |
2005 | → Accrington Stanley (loan) | 1 | (0) |
2006–2008 | Walsall | 1 | (0) |
2008–2009 | Aberdeen | 1 | (0) |
2009 | Crewe Alexandra | 0 | (0) |
2011–2013 | Harlow Town | 22 | (0) |
2013–2015 | Calais RUFC | 0 | (0) |
2015– | Gravelines | 0 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 10:37, 13 July 2010 (UTC). |
Bertrand Bossu (born 14 October 1980) is a French footballer who plays as a goalkeeper who plays for Isthmian League Division One North club Harlow Town.
Born in Calais, Pas-de-Calais, Bossu started out as a boy at small French amateur club US Blériot-Plage, before joining Calais RUFC. When he was 16 he moved to RC Lens but never managed to play for the professional team there as he was confined to the third and fourth teams.
Bossu joined Barnet in March 2000. He made his debut and subsequently only first team appearance for Barnet on 17 May 2000 in the second leg of the play-off semi-final. Barnet were trailing 2–0 (4–1 on aggregate) away to Peterborough United when Bossu replaced the injured Lee Harrison in the Barnet goal. He conceded one more goal, giving David Farrell his hat-trick and confirming Peterborough's place in the final.
He joined Conference side Hayes on loan in December 2000. His one-man heroics in the 1–0 win away to Boston United on 2 December ended a run of seven consecutive defeats. However, in the process Bossu broke a finger and returned to Barnet to recuperate.
He joined Rushden & Diamonds on loan in March 2001, but failed to make a first team appearance for them and was released by Barnet at the end of the season. He rejoined Hayes in August 2001, but lost his place as Hayes were relegated from the Conference. Although he began the following season as second-choice, he regained his place in the side and went on to win the Hayes Supporters' Player of the Year Award in 2003. In the midst of this he had also become the first Hayes goalkeeper to score a goal, with a last-minute header in the game away to St Albans City.