Mathieu Debuchy ( hold 28 July 1985 ) is a french professional football player who plays as a right-back for Ligue 2 club Valenciennes. Debuchy started his elder career at Lille, where he won a Ligue 1 and Coupe de France double in 2010–11. He played in Ligue 1 for 10 seasons for Lille. He joined Newcastle United in January 2013 and stayed there for 18 months. He played for Arsenal from July 2014 until January 2018.
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Debuchy made his debut for the France home team in October 2011. He earned 27 caps, playing in the final tournaments of UEFA Euro 2012 and the 2014 FIFA World Cup .
Club career [edit ]
Lille [edit ]
Debuchy ( left ) playing for Lille in 2011 Debuchy was born in Fretin, Nord. [ 5 ] He began his career play for his hometown club Union Sportive Fretin before joining Lille at the senesce of eight. After spending a ten in Lille ‘s youth system, he was promoted to the senior team following the winter break of the 2003–04 season. Debuchy was given the issue 33 shirt and simultaneously made his professional debut and beginning starting signal on 31 January 2004 in a league match against Metz. [ 6 ] He played the entire match as Lille recorded a 1–0 gain. Debuchy made five more appearances that season, which included two starts and three substitute appearances. [ citation needed ] The stick to temper, Debuchy switched to the numeral 2 and his playing meter increased importantly. He appeared in 19 matches and scored three goals. His first professional goal came against Bordeaux. Debuchy scored the goal in the first gear infinitesimal of the couple. Lille ‘s upstanding form that season resulted in the baseball club finishing moment in the league and, as a result, qualifying for the UEFA Champions League. Debuchy was besides instrumental in Lille ‘s run to the Round of 16 in 2004–05 UEFA Cup where the club was eliminated by rival french club Auxerre. [ 7 ] Debuchy became a fastness in the starting football team during the 2005–06 temper. On 26 March 2006, he damaged knee ligaments in a league match against Strasbourg. The injury required surgery ruling him out for six months. [ 8 ] As a result of the injury, Debuchy missed the 2006 UEFA european Under-21 Championship. A week after suffering the injury, on 4 April, Lille officials awarded Debuchy a narrow extension until 2010. [ 9 ] Debuchy signed a narrow extension on 28 February 2011, tying him down to the club until 2015. [ 10 ] That season he was instrumental in the team ‘s advancement to the final of the Coupe de France appearing in all five matches the team contested. In the final, Debuchy played the entire match as Lille defeated Paris Saint-Germain 1–0 at the Stade de France. Lille were awarded a late penalty soon after going 1-0 up ; Debuchy took the penalty but it was saved by Grégory Coupet, however Lille still held on to win 1-0. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] A workweek belated, Lille clinched the Ligue 1 backing by drawing 2–2 away to Paris Saint-Germain, Debuchy providing the traverse from which Moussa Sow netted Lille ‘s second finish. [ 14 ] The resultant role meant that the players had achieved the club ‘s first league championship since the 1953–54 season and the club ‘s first base double since the 1945–46 season. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The domestic cup and league title were the first two domestic honours of Debuchy ‘s career. [ citation needed ] The take after temper started off with a 1–1 draw against Nancy on 6 August 2011, with Debuchy opening the score in the 47th minute. [ 17 ] Debuchy was depart of the Lille team that dramatically fell 5–4 to Bordeaux on 12 February 2012, scoring Lille ‘s third goal of the game as erstwhile teammate, Ludovic Obraniak netted the achiever in the 90th infinitesimal. [ 18 ] The following weekend, Lille got back on track with a 1–0 defeat of Lorient, as Debuchy scored the only goal of the game. [ 19 ] Debuchy started and played the full 90 minutes in all six group games of the Champions League that season, as Lille finished bottom of their tight group and crashed out of Europe because of a 0–0 draw with Trabzonspor on the final matchday. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] The campaign was enormously successful for Debuchy on a personal level as he made his breakthrough in the french squad a well as being named in the UNFP Team of the Year. [ 22 ] Following the season, Lille coach Rudi Garcia described Debuchy as a defender who “ plays high and attacks but defensively is besides very rigorous and he exudes confidence. ” [ 23 ] Garcia besides revealed that the clubhouse had rejected a £4 million command from Newcastle United. [ 23 ]
newcastle United [edit ]
Seven months after their fail bid, English club Newcastle United signed Debuchy on a five-and-a-half-year contract on 4 January 2013, for an undisclosed tip reportedly in the region of £5.5 million. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] He made his debut for Newcastle on 12 January 2013 against Norwich City. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] He scored his first and only Newcastle United competitive goal of his career in the Premier League Tyne–Wear bowler hat against Sunderland at the Stadium of Light on 27 October 2013, levelling the score after half fourth dimension before Newcastle ultimately lost the match 2–1. [ 28 ] On 1 January 2014, Debuchy was sent off for the first gear prison term in his Newcastle career after a foolhardy challenge on Claudio Yacob in an eventual 1–0 frustration away to West Bromwich Albion. [ 29 ]
arsenal [edit ]
Debuchy moved to fellow Premier League club Arsenal on 17 July 2014, signing a long-run cover for an undisclosed fee ( believed to be around £12 million [ 30 ] ) and was given the number 2 shirt from fellow Frenchman Abou Diaby, who took the vacant phone number 24. [ 31 ] He said “ Playing again in the Champions League is a bad agitation for me and I will do my best to help Arsenal compete for trophies ”. [ 32 ] He made his competitive debut for Arsenal in their 3–0 victory over defending league champions Manchester City in the 2014 FA Community Shield at Wembley Stadium on 10 August 2014. [ 33 ] Six days by and by he featured in the Premier League for the inaugural meter as an Arsenal player, his injury-time scene was saved and then converted by Aaron Ramsey for a 2–1 acquire at home against Crystal Palace. [ 34 ] Debuchy was sent off for two bookings on 27 August in Arsenal ‘s win over Beşiktaş in the Champions League play-offs. [ 35 ] On 13 September 2014, Debuchy damaged his ankle ligaments near the end of a 2–2 absorb against Manchester City. He was administered oxygen and taken off the flip on a stretcher. [ 36 ] Following operating room on his ankle, he was ruled out for about three months. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] He returned to the first gear team against Galatasaray in a Champions League match on 9 December. Twelve days after that, he scored his first goal for the club, the inaugural equalizer in a 2–2 withdraw against Liverpool at Anfield. [ 39 ] Debuchy went off injured against Stoke City on 11 January 2015. He was then given an operation on his dislocate shoulder, and ruled out for a further three months. [ 40 ] Debuchy made his reappearance from injury on 18 April 2015, playing the wide 120 minutes as Arsenal defeated Reading 2–1 in the FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley. [ 41 ] He made no promote appearances that season, with Héctor Bellerín alternatively playing at right-back in Arsenal ‘s 4–0 gain over Aston Villa in the Cup Final ; Debuchy did not make the substitutes bench for that match. [ 42 ] Arsenal retained the Community Shield on 2 August, with Bellerín again starting ahead of Debuchy. [ 43 ] Debuchy played only two 2015–16 Premier League matches, starting in Arsenal ‘s first Premier League match of the 2015–16 season against West Ham United on 9 August and besides starting in the Premier League match against Tottenham Hotspur on 8 November. [ 44 ] On 22 July 2016, after finishing his half-season lend enchantment at Ligue 1 club Bordeaux, Debuchy returned to Arsenal during the pre-season, playing the first half of Arsenal ‘s 1–1 friendly aside tie against French Ligue 2 side RC Lens. On 27 November 2016, he made his first Premier League begin against AFC Bournemouth at the Emirates Stadium, but went off with a hamstring injury after barely 16 minutes as the Gunners won 3–1, ruling him out until January 2017. He made no far appearances for the first team that season. [ 44 ] On 19 October 2017, Debuchy made his first base start for Arsenal for about a class against FK Crvena Zvezda in a 1–0 victory in the UEFA Europa League. [ 45 ] On 24 October 2017, he played his first League Cup game of the season against Norwich City, which Arsenal won 2–1 after excess meter. [ 46 ]
Bordeaux ( loanword )
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On 1 February 2016, Debuchy joined Ligue 1 club Bordeaux on loanword until the end of the 2015–16 season. [ 47 ]
On 31 January 2018, six months before the death of his contract with Arsenal, Debuchy joined Ligue 1 club AS Saint-Étienne on a complimentary transfer ; his compress with Saint-Étienne would run until the end of the 2017–18 season. [ 48 ] [ 49 ] [ 50 ] On 2 February 2018, Debuchy started in his competitive debut for Saint-Étienne in the Ligue 1 2–0 aside win over Amiens ; he was at the affection of most of Saint-Étienne ‘s dangerous attacks, scored a goal in the 62nd hour and was voted the Man of the Match. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] On 25 February, Debuchy scored Saint-Étienne ‘s equalizer in the 90th moment of the Derby du Rhône against Lyon, an away Ligue 1 equal which ended in a 1–1 hook. [ 53 ] On 6 April, Debuchy provided a 17th-minute aid ( his cross enabled Rémy Cabella to tap home from finale range ) and scored an own goal in the 92nd minute in the Ligue 1 1–1 home draw against Paris Saint-Germain. [ 54 ] On 14 April, Debuchy scored in the 82nd minute from Saint-Étienne ‘s only shoot on target of the match, a Ligue 1 1–0 away win over Strasbourg. [ 55 ] On 25 June 2018, Debuchy signed a new three-year contract with Saint-Étienne. [ 56 ] On 14 April 2019, Debuchy scored the beginning brace of his career in Ligue 1, in the 3–0 dwelling win over Bordeaux. [ 57 ]
Valenciennes [edit ]
On August 2021, Debuchy signed with Valenciennes [ 58 ]
International career [edit ]
Debuchy has been capped with the under-21 team. On 5 August 2010, Debuchy was called up to the senior team for the first time by modern coach Laurent Blanc for the team ‘s friendly against Norway on 11 August 2010 but did not play that match. He finally earned his first cap on 7 October 2011, playing every moment of the Euro 2012 qualifying 3–0 home win over Albania. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] Debuchy scored his first base goal for France in a friendly against Iceland in Valenciennes on 27 May 2012. [ 61 ] Blanc selected Debuchy in his final 23-man team for the european Championships in Poland and Ukraine on 29 May 2012. [ 62 ] He started the match and played every infinitesimal as a right-back in Les Bleus ‘ opening group match against England, helping his side to a 1–1 draw, in which his operation was hailed as “ terrific ”. [ 63 ] He played the full 90 minutes of France ‘s second group meet, a 2–0 gain over co-hosts Ukraine on 15 June. [ 64 ] Debuchy besides played the full 90 minutes of France ‘s last group peer against Sweden, which France lost 2–0. He started in the quarterfinal match against Spain ( the French lost the match 2–0 ), but was replaced by Jérémy Ménez in the 64th minute. [ citation needed ] Debuchy was named in Didier Deschamps ‘ french team for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. [ 65 ] Debuchy played every hour of four of France ‘s five matches as they reached the quarterfinals. He did not play France ‘s concluding group match against Ecuador, remaining on the substitutes ‘ terrace throughout the equal, with Bacary Sagna play in his place. [ 66 ] On 17 May 2018, he was named on the standby tilt for the 23-man french police squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. [ 67 ] On 10 November 2018, Debuchy announced his retirement from external football. [ 68 ]
career statistics [edit ]
club [edit ]
- As of match played 14 February 2021[69][44]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club
Season
League
National Cup
League Cup
Europe
Other
Total
Division
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Lille
2003–04
Ligue 1
6
0
0
0
0
0
—
—
6
0
2004–05
Ligue 1
19
3
0
0
2
0
6[a]
1
—
27
4
2005–06
Ligue 1
27
4
0
0
1
0
6[b]
0
—
34
4
2006–07
Ligue 1
22
1
0
0
1
0
5[c]
0
—
28
1
2007–08
Ligue 1
16
0
1
0
1
0
—
—
18
0
2008–09
Ligue 1
30
0
3
1
1
0
—
—
34
1
2009–10
Ligue 1
31
1
1
0
1
0
5[d]
0
—
38
1
2010–11
Ligue 1
35
2
6
0
2
0
6[d]
0
—
49
2
2011–12
Ligue 1
32
5
3
0
1
0
6[c]
0
1[e]
0
43
5
2012–13
Ligue 1
15
0
0
0
2
0
3[c]
0
—
20
0
Total
233
16
14
1
12
0
37
1
1
0
297
18
Newcastle United
2012–13
Premier League
14
0
0
0
—
0
0
—
14
0
2013–14
Premier League
29
1
0
0
3
0
—
—
32
1
Total
43
1
0
0
3
0
0
0
—
46
1
Arsenal
2014–15
Premier League
10
1
1
0
0
0
3[c]
0
1[f]
0
15
1
2015–16
Premier League
2
0
0
0
2
0
3[c]
0
0
0
7
0
2016–17
Premier League
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
—
1
0
2017–18
Premier League
0
0
1
0
2
0
4[d]
1
0
0
7
1
Total
13
1
2
0
4
0
10
1
1
0
30
2
Bordeaux (loan)
2015–16
Ligue 1
9
0
0
0
0
0
—
—
9
0
Saint-Étienne
2017–18
Ligue 1
15
4
0
0
0
0
—
—
15
4
2018–19
Ligue 1
24
4
0
0
0
0
—
—
24
4
2019–20
Ligue 1
21
1
1
0
1
0
4[d]
0
—
27
1
2020–21
Ligue 1
15
1
0
0
—
—
—
15
1
Total
75
10
1
0
1
0
4
0
0
0
81
10
Career total
372
27
17
1
20
0
51
2
2
0
462
30
International [edit ]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team
Year
Apps
Goals
France
2011
2
0
2012
11
1
2013
5
1
2014
8
0
2015
1
0
Total
27
2
- France score listed first, score column indicates score after each Debuchy goal[ citation needed]
List of international goals scored by Mathieu Debuchy
No.
Date
Venue
Opponent
Score
Result
Competition
1
27 May 2012
Stade du Hainaut, Valenciennes, France
Iceland
1–2
3–2
Friendly
2
11 October 2013
Parc des Princes, Paris, France
Australia
5–0
6–0
Friendly
Honours [edit ]
Lille
Arsenal
Individual