Vincent Pericard
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Vincent de Paul Péricard | ||
| Date of birth | 3 October 1982 | ||
| Place of birth | Efok, Cameroon | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1999–2000 | Saint-Étienne | 2 | (0) |
| 2000–2002 | Juventus | 0 | (0) |
| 2002–2003 | → Portsmouth (loan) | 32 | (9) |
| 2003–2006 | Portsmouth | 12 | (0) |
| 2005 | → Sheffield United (loan) | 11 | (2) |
| 2006 | → Plymouth Argyle (loan) | 15 | (4) |
| 2006–2009 | Stoke City | 38 | (2) |
| 2008 | → Southampton (loan) | 5 | (0) |
| 2009 | → Millwall (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 2009–2010 | Carlisle United | 10 | (4) |
| 2010–2011 | Swindon Town | 34 | (2) |
| 2011–2012 | Havant & Waterlooville | 5 | (0) |
| 2015 | Moneyfields | 1 | (0) |
| Total | 167 | (23) | |
| National team | |||
| France U21 | |||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Vincent de Paul Péricard (born 3 October 1982) is a French former professional football player, who played in France with Saint-Étienne and in Italy with Juventus before moving to England, where he played for several clubs. He has also played for the France U21 team.
Péricard was born in Efok, Cameroon but moved to France aged 4. He holds dual French and Cameroonian citizenship.
Péricard started his career at Saint-Étienne in France at the age of six. In 1999, he advanced to the first team and played two league matches.
He soon came to the attention of Italian Serie A club Juventus, who signed him in 2000. Promised by the media to a bright future, Julien Courbet made a documentary on Péricard entitled "the man who will be worth billions". Péricard made only one appearance for the club in two seasons, as a 61st-minute substitute for Tomás Guzmán in a UEFA Champions League match against Arsenal on 20 March 2002.
Despite only making one appearance for Juventus, he attracted the attention of Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp.
Péricard initially moved to Portsmouth on loan for the 2002–03 season. Péricard began his Portsmouth career in superb fashion, scoring on his debut in a 2–0 win over Nottingham Forest, although he struggled with injury in the latter half of the season. Despite this, he impressed enough to earn a permanent switch in July 2003, having scored nine times in 32 games as they won the First Division title.
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