french association football musician

Bixente Jean-Michel Lizarazu ( Basque pronunciation : [ biˈʃente liˈs̪araˌs̪u ], born 9 December 1969 ) is a french former professional football player who played as a leave back for Bordeaux and Bayern Munich, among other teams. He besides had 97 caps for the France home team. In a twelve-year international career from 1992 to 2004, Lizarazu played in three european championships and two World Cups for France, winning the 1998 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2000.

early life [edit ]

Lizarazu was born in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques. [ 3 ]

Club career [edit ]

bordeaux [edit ]

An fancier in several sports from a unseasoned long time, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Lizarazu began his professional career with Bordeaux, joining the club ‘s youth frame-up as a 15-year-old in 1984 and initially playing as a winger. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] After being told he would not make a career from football ascribable to his frail animalism as a adolescent, [ 6 ] he impressed the staff with his determination and became a member of the senior squad in 1988 [ 5 ] aboard forth Christophe Dugarry. He was retrained to play as a counter-attacking left back at the trace of bus Didier Couécou [ 6 ] and soon replaced the seasoned Gernot Rohr ( later to be the baseball club ‘s coach ) in the stead. [ 5 ] In 1990 Bordeaux finished runner-up in the french backing, but the succeed year they were administratively relegated amid fiscal problems. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Lizarazu remained with the club and helped them immediately regain their top tier condition in 1992. [ 5 ] The club besides signed Zinedine Zidane, who became another important element of the team, [ 6 ] which went on to achieve two 4th- and a 7th-place finish over the following three seasons, Lizarazu contributing 101 appearances and 15 goals. [ citation needed ] In summer 1995, Bordeaux won the UEFA Intertoto Cup [ 7 ] to qualify for the 1995–96 UEFA Cup. They would go all the way to the final under coach Rohr, beating real Betis, A.C. Milan [ 7 ] and Slavia Prague before losing to Bayern Munich 5–1 on aggregate. [ 5 ] [ 7 ] however their league shape suffered, dropping to 16th. [ 6 ] Following UEFA Euro 1996, in which Dugarry, Zidane and Lizarazu were depart of the French team which reached the semi-finals, [ 7 ] the three moved afield seeking a new challenge : Zidane joining Juventus, Dugarry going to Milan [ 6 ] and Lizarazu staying local but changing nations by moving to Athletic Bilbao, based the same distance from his home in the french Basque Country as Bordeaux. [ 8 ] He appeared 299 times for his formative club, scoring 28 goals. [ citation needed ]

acrobatic Bilbao [edit ]

Lizarazu spent merely one season with the La Liga golf club after becoming the first Frenchman to play for Athletic, [ 5 ] [ 9 ] which has a policy of selecting only players of Basque give birth or heritage. [ 10 ] Suffering from a haunting breakwater injury, [ 6 ] he was ineffective to displace the experienced Aitor Larrazábal at left back, received two bolshevik cards among the 16 league appearances he did make, and had disagreements with the head passenger car, compatriot Luis Fernández. [ 5 ] In the 1997 close season, he transferred to Bayern Munich. [ 6 ]

Bayern Munich [edit ]

Before flush playing a Bundesliga match, Lizarazu lifted a trophy with his raw club, winning the inaugural edition of the preseason DFL-Ligapokal. [ 5 ] It was the startle of a highly successful spell in Bavaria, [ 11 ] despite the interruption of some serious injuries, [ 5 ] as he went on to win six Bundesliga championships ( including three in a course between 1999 and 2001 ), american samoa well as five DFB-Pokals, the Champions League in 2001 [ 5 ] ( scoring his penalty in the gunfight ), [ 12 ] and the Intercontinental Cup. [ 11 ] [ 5 ] On winning the Intercontinental Cup in 2001, he became the first player to be a current european and World champion in both clubhouse and international football. [ citation needed ] Lizarazu said that he would leave Bayern in the summer of 2004 and finally signed with Olympique Marseille. [ 5 ] however, after merely six months spinal column in France, he returned to Bayern Munich in January 2005. [ 5 ] During his second spell with Bayern, ending in 2006 when he gave manner to the emerging Philipp Lahm, [ 5 ] Lizarazu wore the shirt number 69 ; clarifying that it was not a lewd gesture, he said this was because he was born in 1969, his acme is 1.69 meter and he weighed 69 kilogram. [ 13 ] He made 268 appearances in all competitions for Bayern between 1997 and 2006, scoring eight goals. [ 14 ] 183 of these games were in the german top-flight. [ 15 ]

International career [edit ]

Lizarazu was capped 97 times for France ( for the inaugural time on 14 November 1992 against Finland ), [ 16 ] scoring two goals, and helped them win the 1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000, starting in the final of both tournaments. [ 11 ] He retired from international football after France were surprisingly eliminated by eventual winners Greece at Euro 2004. [ 5 ]

style of maneuver [edit ]

Regarded by pundits as one of the best left-backs of his genesis, Lizarazu was an attack full-back or wing-back, who was known for his elapse, proficiency, pace, stamen, and his ability to get up the flank and provide accurate crosses from the touch-line. In addition to his offensive art, he was besides known for his defensive abilities, despite his bantam stature, which, along with his rush, allowed him to track back. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] [ 24 ]

personal liveliness [edit ]

After retirement, Lizarazu got involved in brazilian jiu-jitsu. He competed in a jiu-jitsu contest in Europe in 2009, where he became european supporter in the Blue Belt Senior 1 Light Division. [ 25 ] He is besides a keen surfer [ 6 ] and works as a football initiate for french television and radio. [ 26 ] In 2013, Lizarazu was described as a “ roll ” by his successor as France ‘s left back, Patrice Evra, after he and other pundits criticised Evra for giving an ad-lib team talk during half-time of a 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Belarus. [ 27 ]

Lizarazu was once engaged to singer Elsa Lunghini from 1999 to 2006. [ 28 ] Lizarazu is a native speaker of Basque and French. In addition, he besides speaks spanish, german, and English. [ citation needed ]

career statistics [edit ]

clubhouse [edit ]

International [edit ]

Appearances and goals by national team and year[34]!!Goals
National team Year Apps Goals
France 1992 1 0
1993 6 0
1994 5 0
1995 5 1
1996 9 0
1997 4 0
1998 13 1
1999 6 0
2000 12 0
2001 10 0
2002 7 0
2003 12 0
2004 7 0
Total 97 2
Scores and results list France’s goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Lizarazu goal.

Honours [edit ]

Bordeaux [ 11 ]
Bayern Munich [ 11 ]
France
Individual
Orders

References [edit ]