Mickaël Landreau
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Landreau with PSG in 2009
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Mickaël Vincent André-Marie Landreau |
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| Date of birth | 14 May 1979 | ||
| Place of birth | Machecoul, France | ||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1985–1992 | Étoile arthonnaise | ||
| 1992–1993 | GS Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire | ||
| 1993–1996 | Nantes | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1996–2006 | Nantes | 335 | (0) |
| 2006–2009 | Paris Saint-Germain | 114 | (0) |
| 2009–2012 | Lille | 119 | (0) |
| 2013–2014 | Bastia | 50 | (0) |
| Total | 618 | (0) | |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2001–2014 | France | 11 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 9 June 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 9 June 2016 |
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Mickaël Vincent André-Marie Landreau (French pronunciation: [mikaɛl lɑ̃dʁo]; born 14 May 1979 in Machecoul) is a retired French professional football goalkeeper who last played for Bastia. He has 11 caps for the French national team. Landreau has made the most top-flight appearances of any player in the French league.
Landreau graduated from the Nantes Atlantique "Centre of Excellence" in La Jonelière. His first professional match for Nantes was a 0–0 draw against Bastia on 2 October 1996 and saved the penalty from Ľubomír Moravčík Since 1996, he remained a mainstay in the Nantes starting line-up, and consistently produced excellent performances. At age 19, Landreau became captain. He was selected to represent the France youth national team at the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship.
In the next ten years, he hardly missed a mandatory meeting, completed in July 2005 his 300th Point game and was an important support for his team during their successes around the turn of the millennium. Having won two consecutive Coupe de France trophies in 1999 and 2000 (captained in the 2000 final), Nantes were crowned 2001 Ligue 1 champions for the first time since 1995. In the same when Nantes won the Ligue 1, Landreau signed a new contract, keeping him until 2006. His good performance at Nantes led Landreau drew strong interest from clubs like Barcelona,Monaco, Roma, Juventus,Marseille,Manchester United and Celtic.
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