Adrien Rabiot-Provost ( french pronunciation : [ adʁijɛ̃ ʁabjo pʁɔvo ] ; born 3 April 1995 ) is a french professional football player who plays as a central midfielder for Serie A club Juventus and the France national team.
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Rabiot spent most of his career with Paris Saint-Germain, making his debut with the first team in 2012 and winning eighteen major honours, including five Ligue 1 titles and a domestic soprano in 2015–16 and 2017–18. In 2019, Rabiot signed for Juventus on a barren transfer, winning the Serie A title during his first temper with the cabaret. Rabiot was capped 53 times for France at youth horizontal surface, and made his debut for the senior team in 2016, late taking contribution at UEFA Euro 2020 .
Club career
Paris Saint-Germain
Rabiot was born in Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne. [ 6 ] He played youth football for several teams, including two spells at Créteil-Lusitanos and a few months at Manchester City. [ 7 ] On 2 July 2012, after excelling at the Camp des Loges, he signed his first master abridge agreeing to a three-year share with Paris Saint-Germain. [ 8 ] Rabiot was promoted to the senior team by director Carlo Ancelotti ahead of the 2012–13 season. [ 9 ] In the club ‘s pre-season he started in the penalty gunfight frustration to Barcelona, [ 10 ] and, on 26 August, played his beginning game in Ligue 1, a 0–0 home draw against Bordeaux. [ 11 ] Rabiot made his UEFA Champions League debut on 6 November 2012, playing during injury time in a 4–0 group stagecoach home winnings over Dinamo Zagreb. [ 12 ] In January of the follow year he was loaned to fellow league side Toulouse, [ 13 ] scoring his first gear professional goal on 9 March 2013 which was the game ‘s only finish at Brest, from 25 yards. [ 14 ] Returning to PSG, Rabiot contributed with 46 matches and six goals [ 15 ] [ 16 ] combined as the team won back-to-back domestic leagues from 2013 to 2015, but seemed to be on the verge of leaving the club as his mother Véronique acted as his chief adviser during negotiations for a better contract. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] He started the 2015–16 campaign by getting sent off for two yellow cards after lone 29 minutes, in the opening repair against Lille ( eventual away 1–0 win ). [ 19 ] Rabiot scored his first goal in european competition on 25 November 2015 to open a 5–0 Champions League group winnings at Malmö, [ 20 ] and repeated the feat the following 9 March in a 2–1 victory over Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, putting PSG into the quarter-finals 4–2 on aggregate. [ 21 ] Four days late, he scored in a 9–0 rout at bed team Troyes that sealed the league title with eight matches remaining. [ 22 ] On 23 April 2016, Rabiot was sent off in the final of the Coupe de la Ligue, a 2–1 winnings over Lille. [ 23 ] The follow two seasons combined, he scored four times from 60 appearances and conquered the national backing in 2017–18. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] In late October 2018, both Rabiot and Kylian Mbappé were dropped from the starting eleven by newly appointed director Thomas Tuchel after they arrived belated to a pre-match meeting. [ 26 ] The follow January, after refusing to renew his contract and failing to appear for the first gear team since the previous month, the former midfielder was forced to train with the reserves. [ 27 ] On 14 March 2019, Rabiot was suspended by PSG until the end of the month for going to a cabaret after a 3–1 loss to Manchester United in the Champions League round of 16 which knocked them out of the competition, and for liking an Instagram station by Patrice Evra celebrating United ‘s gain. [ 28 ]
Juventus
On 1 July 2019, Rabiot signed for italian Serie A champions Juventus on a barren transfer. [ 29 ] He made his debut for the club on 24 August, in the team ‘s opening pit of the 2019–20 Serie A season, coming on as a second-half utility for Sami Khedira in a 1–0 away win over Parma. [ 30 ] He scored his first goal for the club on 7 July 2020 – the open goal in a 4–2 aside loss to Milan in Serie A – with a “ outstanding finish from the edge of the box – after running with the ball from his own half. ” [ 31 ] [ 32 ] On 9 March 2021, he scored his first Champions League finish with Juventus in a 3–2 gain after extra-time against FC Porto in the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League round of 16 ; however, Juventus were eliminated on away goals. [ 33 ]
International career
Rabiot was a member of the France U19 side that reached the concluding of the 2013 UEFA european Under-19 Championship in Lithuania, losing out to Serbia. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
On 13 August 2013, aged merely 18, Rabiot made his first appearance for the french under-21 team, starting in a 0–0 friendly pull back with Germany in Freiburg. [ 34 ] He was on stand by for the full slope ‘s UEFA Euro 2016 squad, [ 35 ] but did not make the final cut. Rabiot made his senior debut for France on 15 November 2016 against Ivory Coast, starting and being replaced by Thomas Lemar after 78 minutes of the 0–0 friendly home draw, due to a hamstring injury. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] On 17 May 2018, he was put on the allow list by director Didier Deschamps for the 2018 FIFA World Cup police squad. [ 38 ] however, he controversially refused to be put on the standby number, emailing the coach and saying he would not “ be able to follow the educate program ”. Noël Le Graët, president of the french Football Federation, commented : “ He made a bad decision. He penalises himself and sanctions himself alone. ” [ 39 ] On 18 May 2021, Rabiot was included in France ‘s 26-man police squad for UEFA Euro 2020. [ 40 ] He came on as an emergency left back in the final group game against Portugal due to injuries to Lucas Hernandez and Lucas Digne, and retained a start role as a leave wing back in an unseasoned 3–5–2 formation against Switzerland in the last 16 ; [ 41 ] his side lost in a punishment gunfight after a 3–3 attract. [ 42 ] On 13 November, Rabiot scored his beginning international goal in an 8–0 base winnings over Kazakhstan, which allowed France to qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. [ 43 ]
style of play
A grandiloquent, impregnable, and elegant left-footed midfielder, who combines good technique with impressive physical qualities, Rabiot was regarded as a promise player in his young person. He is known for being mobile, hard-working, promptly in possession, and for his ability to make late assail runs off the ball into the penalty box, courtesy of his intelligent drift ; he is besides a composed passer, who possesses dear link-up play and dribbling skills in close spaces, which enables him to create chances for teammates. A modern, all-around, and versatile player, with good defensive skills, he is besides known for being capable of playing in several different midfield positions, including in a abstruse, creative holding function as a number 6 in front of the defensive structure ( which is not his favor function, however ), on the right flank, and even as an advanced midfield playmaker, although he normally plays as a left–sided offensive-minded cardinal midfielder, known as the mezzala character in italian football jargon, which is his choose place. His Juventus director Massimiliano Allegri has besides deployed him as a left field winger on affair. Despite his talent and ability, however, he has come under criticism in the media over his behavior off the pitch, and has besides been accused in the media of lacking professionalism, arsenic well as having a poor attitude and a difficult character, which has led him to have conflicts with respective of his managers. [ 29 ] [ 44 ] [ 45 ] [ 46 ] [ 47 ] [ 48 ] [ 49 ] [ 50 ] [ 51 ] [ 52 ]
personal life sentence
On 9 October 2021, Rabiot tested positive for COVID-19, amid its pandemic in Italy ; [ 53 ] he fully recovered on 22 October. [ 54 ]
career statistics
club
- As of match played 23 November 2021[55]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club
Season
League
National Cup[a]
League Cup[b]
Europe[c]
Other[d]
Total
Division
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Paris Saint-Germain
2012–13
Ligue 1
6
0
1
0
1
0
1
0
—
9
0
2013–14
Ligue 1
25
2
1
0
2
1
6
0
0
0
34
3
2014–15
Ligue 1
21
4
5
0
3
0
4
0
0
0
33
4
2015–16
Ligue 1
24
1
6
1
4
1
7
3
1
0
42
6
2016–17
Ligue 1
27
3
4
1
3
0
5
0
0
0
39
4
2017–18
Ligue 1
33
1
5
1
3
1
8
1
1
1
50
5
2018–19
Ligue 1
14
2
0
0
0
0
5
0
1
0
20
2
Total
150
13
22
3
16
3
36
4
3
1
227
24
Toulouse (loan)
2012–13
Ligue 1
13
1
0
0
0
0
—
—
13
1
Juventus
2019–20
Serie A
28
1
4
0
—
5
0
0
0
37
1
2020–21
Serie A
34
4
5
0
—
7
1
1
0
47
5
2021–22
Serie A
9
0
0
0
—
4
0
0
0
13
0
Total
71
5
9
0
—
16
1
1
0
97
6
Career total
234
19
31
3
16
3
52
5
4
1
337
31
International
- As of match played 16 November 2021[56]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team
Year
Apps
Goals
France
2016
1
0
2017
4
0
2018
1
0
2020
5
0
2021
13
1
Total
24
1
- As of match played 13 November 2021. France score listed first, score column indicates score after each Rabiot goal.[57]
List of international goals scored by Adrien Rabiot
No.
Date
Venue
Cap
Opponent
Score
Result
Competition
1
13 November 2021
Parc des Princes, Paris, Portugal
23
Kazakhstan
6–0
8–0
2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
Honours
Paris Saint-Germain
Juventus
France U19
France
Individual
- UEFA European Under-19 Championship Team of the Tournament: 2013[64]
References
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