french association football player

Adil Rami ( wear 27 December 1985 ) is a french master football player who plays as a centre-back for Ligue 1 slope Troyes. Rami began his football career play for amateur club Étoile Fréjus Saint-Raphaël, then known as ES Fréjus. Due to only playing the sport as a hobby, he spent three seasons at the golf club meet in the Championnat de France amateur, the fourth division of french football. In 2006, Rami ascended three divisions after signing with Ligue 1 baseball club Lille. At Lille, Rami developed into a newcomer, making his professional introduction in May 2007. He is nicknamed “Shrek” by teammates and Lille supporters. In January 2011, Rami joined spanish club Valencia on a four-year abridge. however, he was immediately loaned back to his previous club and was a part of the Lille team which won the league and cup doubling.

Despite ceaseless early inquiries from Morocco anterior to his first excerpt, Rami chose to play for his home state of France. He was in the preliminary list to play for France at the 2010 FIFA World Cup finals but did not make the final squad. Rami made his senior debut on 11 August 2010 in a friendly match against Norway. Rami was a member of the France team that won the 2018 FIFA World Cup .

early life [edit ]

Rami was born in the city of Bastia on the island of Corsica to Moroccan parents. As a youth, his syndicate moved to the mainland, finally settling in the southern coast city of Fréjus, where his mother worked as a member of the city council. Rami is the third base of four children and has two sisters and one brother. [ 4 ] While training to become a professional football musician, Rami worked for the city after his family grew concerned for his future. He often did odd-jobs such as taking worry of the care and cleanliness of the city. [ 4 ]

Club career [edit ]

early career [edit ]

ramus registered as a youth player for Étoile Fréjus Saint-Raphaël, then known as ES Fréjus, in 1994 at the age of nine. Despite harbouring ambitions of playing football professionally, Rami lone played the sport as a hobby and worked for city hall to support himself. [ 5 ] He made his amateur debut for the club during the 2003–04 temper while Fréjus were playing in the Championnat de France amateur, the fourthly division of french football. He appeared in four matches in his first season. [ 6 ] In the 2004–05 temper, Rami appeared in 24 matches as Fréjus finished mid-table. [ 7 ] ahead of the 2005–06 temper, Rami switched to playing in cardinal defense. He initially played as an offensive player frequently in the midfield, but following an injury to a teammate, whom Rami described as his best supporter, his coaches inserted him into defensive structure. [ 8 ] The transition was a success, with Rami appearing in 30 matches with Fréjus finishing mid-table for the third base consecutive season. [ 9 ] Midway through the crusade, Rami was offered a trial by professional cabaret Lille. Eager to leave the amateur club, he took the opportunity and after a week ‘s train school term with Lille, which Rami described as “ hard ”, he was signed to an amateur contract with Fréjus receiving €10,000. [ 8 ]

Lille [edit ]

Upon his arrival to the golf club, Rami was inserted onto the cabaret ‘s Championnat de France amateurish team and was supervised by passenger car Pascal Planque, who Rami stated gave him the best opportunity to grow as a actor. [ 8 ] Rami appeared in 27 matches as the team finished in third put, the highest eat up amongst professional clubs ‘ reserve team ‘s play in the group. [ 10 ] With two months remaining in the 2006–07 Ligue 1 season, Rami was called up to the senior team by director Claude Puel. He made his master debut on 19 May 2007 in a Ligue 1 equal against Auxerre, starting at centre-back. The follow workweek, Rami started again, against Rennes. On 4 June, Rami signed his first professional sign after agreeing to a three-year batch lasting until 2010. [ 11 ] He was then promoted to the senior team on a permanent footing and assigned the count 23 shirt. In the 2007–08 temper, Rami was declared a starter by Puel and inserted at centre-back, aboard captain Grégory Tafforeau. In the opening catch of the season, against Lorient, Rami featured in the match until the 69th minute, when he suffered an injury to ligaments in one of his knees. [ 12 ] He subsequently missed three-and-a-half months ascribable to the wound, returning in November 2007. Upon his revert, Rami featured in every remaining match for Lille, write for one league match. Lille finished the crusade in one-seventh position, one spot out of Europe. After the temper, Rami signed a biennial narrow propagation with the club. [ 13 ] For the 2008–09 season, Rami ‘s Ligue 1 season debut against Nancy was halted in injury time after earning a square crimson wag. [ 14 ] On 18 October 2008, he scored his beginning professional goal in a 2–2 absorb against Lyon. [ 15 ] The following calendar month, Rami scored against Marseille in another 2–2 pull back. [ 16 ] On 1 February 2009, he scored the manque game-winner against Bordeaux in the 57th moment. however, the goal was canceled out eight minutes late by Yoann Gourcuff to draw the catch at 2–2. [ 17 ] Rami ‘s one-fourth and concluding goal of the season was the team ‘s second goal in a 3–2 succeed over Nancy on the concluding day of the league season. [ 18 ] The victory secured fifth place for Lille, which resulted in the club qualifying for the newly created UEFA Europa League. Following the temper, Rami drew considerable concern from several clubs, which included french clubs Marseille and Lyon, English clubs Liverpool and Arsenal and italian club Milan. Despite suitable offers for the actor, Lille president Michel Seydoux declared that Rami was not going to be leaving the golf club after a reported move to Marseille for €12 million was abruptly canceled in July 2009. [ 19 ] The announcement led to a distraught and angry Rami announce he would see out the stay of his shrink with Lille playing in the reserves if he was not transferred. He even went deoxyadenosine monophosphate far as to state that there was a conspiracy between Lille and Lyon, due to the club ‘s easy negotiations during transfers between each other, deoxyadenosine monophosphate good as Seydoux ‘s brother, Jérôme, being a stockholder of Lyon. [ 20 ] On 15 August 2009, Rami apologized for the comments and said he would remain at Lille. [ 21 ] Rami began the 2009–10 season again as a newcomer as Lille struggled early on due to its street fighter schedule, in which the team faced Marseille, Paris Saint-Germain and Toulouse in the first four weeks of the season. He made his UEFA Europa League debut on 30 July 2009 in the first gear leg of the clubhouse ‘s third qualifying round match. [ 22 ] Rami scored his first finish of the season on 19 September in the annual Derby du Nord match against Lens. With Lille trailing 1–0 in wound time at a hostile Stade Félix-Bollaert, Rami connected on a header following a corner kick in the 93rd hour to draw the equal at 1–1, which was the final consequence. [ 23 ] On 28 October, he scored his second finish against Saint-Étienne in a 4–0 victory after delivering a curling free-kick from about 35 metres out. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] On 25 February 2010, Rami scored the aggregate-winning finish in the team ‘s round of 32-second stage tie away to Fenerbahçe after connecting on a header five minutes from clock. [ 26 ]

valencia [edit ]

On 3 January 2011, spanish clubhouse Valencia confirmed on its web site it had reached an agreement with Lille for the transfer of Rami, with the La Liga outfit paying Lille a reported transplant fee believed to be in the range of €6–10 million. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] Rami finished the 2010–11 campaign with Lille on loan from Valencia and formally joined his parent club on 13 June after successfully passing a medical. [ 29 ] Rami made his debut for Valencia against Racing de Santander in a 4–3 home gain. In the same equal, he scored his first goal for the club from a corner gripe, making it 2–3. [ 30 ]

milan [edit ]

On 25 September 2013, Valencia temporarily suspended Rami from his condense after he gave an interview on Radio Valencia in which he openly criticised his teammates and his passenger car, Miroslav Đukić. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] He was besides fined €275,000 ( €130,000 net income ) of his remaining wage owed for the half of the season, the largest ever imposed by Valencia. [ 33 ] interim, Rami left the spanish golf club and started training with Milan. On 16 October 2013, Valencia gave him permission to train with the italian golf club and an agreement was reached between the clubs that the musician would be loaned to Milan when the winter transfer window opened, on 3 January 2014, with an choice to purchase. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] On 6 January 2014, Rami made his debut in Serie A, coming on as a substitute for Cristián Zapata in a match against Atalanta, a 3–0 succeed. On 1 February, he scored his first goal in Serie A, against Torino. On 23 February, he scored his second goal against Sampdoria. His third base and final goal of the Serie A season came on 16 March, against Parma. On 12 July 2014, Milan signed Rami on a three-year contract with a £3.37 million ( €4.25 million ) fee to Valencia. [ 36 ] Rami personally paid €500,000 to cover the requital difference with Valencia, as Milan refused to pay the original buy-out article of €7.5 million, only offering €3.75 million. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] He scored his first finish in the 2014–15 season on 28 September 2014 with a glancing header in a 1–1 draw with Cesena. [ 39 ]

sevilla [edit ]

On 1 July 2015, spanish newspaper Marca confirmed that Sevilla had reached an agreement with Milan to sign Rami for four seasons, with the transfer tip believed to be €3.5 million. [ 40 ]

Marseille [edit ]

Rami playing for Marseille in 2018 On 13 July 2017, Rami joined Ligue 1 baseball club Olympique de Marseille on a four-year condense for a €6 million remove fee. [ 41 ] On 27 July, he made his competitive debut for Marseille, in their 2017–18 UEFA Europa League third base qualifying circle, first base stage meet against Oostende at the Stade Vélodrome, playing the full moon 90 minutes of the 4–2 victory. He made his Ligue 1 debut for Marseille on 6 August in their home match against Dijon, again playing the broad 90 minutes of the meet, which Marseille won 3–0. On 14 September, he headed home Dimitri Payet ‘s corner to score his first competitive finish for Marseille in their 2017–18 UEFA Europa League group stage 1–0 home acquire over Konyaspor. [ 42 ] On 3 May 2018, he played every moment of the Europa League semi-final second leg match away to FC Red Bull Salzburg which Marseille lost 2–1 after extra-time but won 3–2 on aggregate to secure a place in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final [ 43 ] which was played at the Parc Olympique Lyonnais in Décines-Charpieu, Lyon, France on 16 May 2018, [ 44 ] against Atlético Madrid. Rami played the full 90 minutes of the final, which Atlético Madrid won 3–0. On 11 November 2018, Rami scored his first base Ligue 1 goal of the 2018-19 season and besides assisted the unfold goal that was scored by Lucas Ocampos in the 2–0 home succeed over Dijon. [ 45 ] On 19 December, Rami missed the last penalty of the punishment shoot-out of the 2018–19 Coupe de la Ligue polish of 16 family match against Strasbourg, resulting in Marseille ‘s elimination from the contest. [ 46 ] Rami was left out of Marseille ‘s pre-season tour to the United States in the summer of 2019 and left out of the team for the club ‘s possibility competitive match of the 2019–20 season on 10 August 2019 under newly appointed head passenger car André Villas-Boas, a 2–0 Ligue 1 home defeat to Stade de Reims. On 13 August 2019, Rami was sacked by Marseille for ‘gross misbehave ‘. He had been under probe by the club for missing a coach session at the end of the 2018–19 season after claiming that he had an injury. But on the lapp day as the miss discipline session, Rami took part in the recording of an sequence of the french television game show Fort Boyard where contestants compete in a hardening of challenges to win prize money, including participation in a variation of mire wrestle and performing demanding physical stunts. [ 47 ] [ 48 ]

Fenerbahçe [edit ]

On 27 August 2019, 2 weeks after being sacked by Olympique de Marseille for ‘gross misbehave ‘ and as a exempt agent, Rami signed a short-run compress with turkish Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe that would run until the end of the 2019–20 season and included the option of a second temper. [ 49 ] [ 50 ]

Sochi [edit ]

On 21 February 2020, by reciprocal agreement with the club, he terminated his compress with Fenerbahçe [ 51 ] and joined the Russian team PFC Sochi on the same day. While the championship was stopped because of the COVID-19 pandemic, his contract was terminated on 27 May 2020 without him having played a single match. [ 52 ] Rami claims not to have been paid. [ 53 ]

Boavista [edit ]

After terminating his abridge with Sochi, Rami went to Portugal ‘s top flight by joining Boavista on a biennial deal on 4 September 2020 meeting his ally Ricardo Costa. [ 54 ] He played 22 games and left by reciprocal accord the following 29 July. [ 55 ]

Troyes [edit ]

On 24 August 2021, Rami signed with Ligue 1 side Troyes on a one class deal. [ 56 ]

International career [edit ]

Rami is a french international, having made his debut on 11 August 2010 in a friendly match against Norway. Prior to representing France, he drew concern from the Moroccan national team. Ahead of the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations, Rami was offered a prospect to play with Morocco at the contest by director Henri Michel. however, Rami declined the propose, citing his ambition to play for France. [ 5 ] He has stated on several occasions that he would prefer to “ represent Morocco within the France team ”. [ 8 ] On 20 March 2008, Rami received his first call-up to the France national team by then head bus Raymond Domenech for a friendly match against England. Rami was informed of the call-up by Lille teammate and captain Rio Mavuba, which Rami initially considered a joke. [ 5 ] The call-up was indeed considered surprising by the french media and supporters, as Rami had lone played 17 Ligue 1 matches. [ 57 ] Rami featured with the B team in its friendly against Mali on 25 March 2008. Due to the match being unofficial, Rami was again offered the gamble to play for Morocco after being called up for the team ‘s friendly match against the Czech Republic on 11 February 2009 by new director Roger Lemerre. Rami again declined the opportunity. On 19 March, he was called up again by Lemerre for the team ‘s FIFA World Cup qualification match against Gabon. [ 58 ] For the third prison term, Rami declined the opportunity and late accepted his call-up to the France police squad for its FIFA World Cup reservation matches against Lithuania. On 11 May 2010, despite having not made a single appearance for France, Rami was named to the 30-man preliminary number by Domenech to play in the 2010 FIFA World Cup finals, but failed to make the concluding 23-men squad .
On 5 August 2010, Rami was called up to the senior team by the new director Laurent Blanc for the team ‘s friendly match against Norway on 11 August 2010. He earned his first aged cap in that couple, starting at centre-back aboard Philippe Mexès. After appearing regularly in UEFA Euro 2012 qualify, on 29 May 2012, Rami was named to the squad to participate in the finals of that contest. [ 59 ] Two days early, he had scored his first international finish in a 3–2 friendly comeback succeed over Iceland. [ 60 ] Rami made his debut in the finals of a World Cup or UEFA European Championship on 11 June in his team ‘s Euro 2012 opening match against England. He started and played the entire match, which ended in a 1–1 draw. He besides played every minute of France ‘s last three matches of the tournament – the remaining two Group D matches against Ukraine and Sweden, and the quarter-final against defending champions – and eventual winners – Spain. [ 61 ] Rami took partially in the finals of the UEFA Euro 2016 tournament, called up to replace the injure Raphael Varane, [ 62 ] Rami played every minute of the inaugural four matches ( group stage and round of 16 ) of the finals, against Romania, Albania, Switzerland and the Republic of Ireland. however, he did not play the quarter-final, semi-final and final matches against Iceland, Germany and Portugal respectively. [ 63 ] The host-nation France finished as runner-up of the tournament after losing to Portugal 1–0 after excess time in the final examination. [ 64 ] On 17 May 2018, Rami was called up to the 23-man french team for the 2018 World Cup finals in Russia. [ 65 ] He announced his retirement from the national team after winning the trophy. Rami was the only unused outfield musician in that tournament. [ 66 ] Despite his retirement announcement, Rami was named in Deschamps ‘ team for three of the four league phase matches of the inauguration 2018–19 UEFA Nations League against Germany and the Netherlands. He was an idle substitute for all those three matches, with France failing to reach the finals that was held in Portugal. [ 63 ] [ 67 ]

personal life [edit ]

Rami is the founder of twins, Zayn and Madi ( b. 2016 ), with early companion Sidonie Biémont. [ 68 ] In 2017, he began dating canadian actress Pamela Anderson and as of November 2018, the two were living together in a sign of the zodiac in Cassis, near Marseille, in the french Riviera. In June 2019, Anderson declared in an Instagram post that they had ended their relationship. [ 69 ]

career statistics [edit ]

club [edit ]

Statistics accurate as of 25 August 2021[70][71]
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Europe Other[72] Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Fréjus 2003–04 National 2 4 0 0 0 — — — 4 0
2004–05 National 2 24 0 0 0 — — — 24 0
2005–06 National 2 30 0 0 0 — — — 30 0
Total 58 0 0 0 — — — 58 0
Lille 2006–07 Ligue 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 — — 2 0
2007–08 Ligue 1 24 0 3 0 0 0 — — 27 0
2008–09 Ligue 1 33 5 4 0 1 0 — — 38 5
2009–10 Ligue 1 34 3 0 0 2 1 13 1 — 49 5
2010–11 Ligue 1 36 0 4 0 2 0 5 0 — 47 0
Total 129 8 11 0 5 1 18 1 — 163 10
Valencia 2011–12 La Liga 33 2 7 0 — 13 2 — 53 4
2012–13 La Liga 25 0 5 1 — 6 1 — 36 2
2013–14 La Liga 3 0 0 0 — 1 0 — 4 0
Total 61 2 12 1 — 20 3 — 93 6
Milan 2013–14 Serie A 18 3 2 0 — 2 0 — 22 3
2014–15 Serie A 21 1 1 0 — — 22 1
Total 39 4 3 0 — 2 0 — 44 4
Sevilla 2015–16 La Liga 28 0 6 2 — 11 1 1 0 46 3
2016–17 La Liga 21 0 3 0 — 7 0 2 0 33 0
Total 49 0 9 2 — 18 1 3 0 79 3
Marseille 2017–18 Ligue 1 33 1 3 0 0 0 18 1 0 0 54 2
2018–19 Ligue 1 16 1 0 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 21 1
Total 49 2 3 0 1 0 22 1 0 0 75 3
Fenerbahçe 2019–20 Süper Lig 1 0 6 0 — 0 0 0 0 7 0
Boavista 2020–21 Primeira Liga 22 0 0 0 — — — 22 0
Troyes 2021–22 Ligue 1 0 0 0 0 — — — 7 0
Career total 408 16 44 3 6 1 80 6 3 0 541 26

International [edit ]

As of 20 November 2018[73]
National team Season Apps Goals
France 2010 6 0
2011 10 0
2012 8 1
2013 2 0
2016 7 0
2018 3 0
Total 36 1
As of 27 May 2012[ citation needed]
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 27 May 2012 Stade du Hainaut, Valenciennes, France  Iceland 3–2 3–2 Friendly

Honours [edit ]

Lille
Sevilla
France
Individual

  • UEFA Europa League Squad of the Season: 2015–16[76]

Orders

References [edit ]