Fabien Barthez
Barthez with Olympique de Marseille in 2006
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Fabien Alain Barthez | ||
| Date of birth | 28 June 1971 | ||
| Place of birth | Lavelanet, France | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1986–1990 | Toulouse | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1990–1992 | Toulouse | 79 | (0) |
| 1992–1995 | Marseille | 106 | (0) |
| 1995–2000 | Monaco | 143 | (0) |
| 2000–2004 | Manchester United | 92 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | → Marseille (loan) | 20 | (0) |
| 2004–2006 | Marseille | 54 | (0) |
| 2006–2007 | Nantes | 14 | (0) |
| Total | 455 | (0) | |
| National team | |||
| 1994–2006 | France | 87 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Fabien Alain Barthez (French pronunciation: [fa.bjɛ̃ baʁ.tɛz]; born 28 June 1971) is a French former footballer who played as a goalkeeper with Toulouse, Marseille, AS Monaco, Manchester United, Nantes and the France national team, with whom he won the 1998 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2000, and reached the final of the 2006 World Cup. He shares the record for the most World Cup finals clean sheets with Peter Shilton, with ten. In club football, he won the UEFA Champions League as well as several Ligue 1 and Premier League titles.
Born in Lavelanet, France, Barthez made his first division debut for Toulouse on 21 September 1991, against Nancy. He joined Marseille in 1992, and won both the French championship and the Champions League at the end of his first season in Marseille. The 1993 victory made him the youngest goalkeeper to win a Champions League title until Iker Casillas did so in 2000.
Marseille, however, would be stripped of their domestic title, though not of the Champions League crown, due to their involvement in a domestic match fixing scandal, and a year later (1994) would suffer a forced relegation to the second division due to a related financial bankruptcy. He stayed with the club in Division 2 for the 1994–95 season despite many offers from elite French clubs.
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