Ludovic Vincent Giuly (born 10 July 1976) is a French former professional
footballer
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who played as a
winger.
Giuly represented
France
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at international level, gaining 17
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over a five-year period and was a member of their
2003 FIFA Confederations Cup-winning squad. One of his greatest moments was being part of
Barcelona
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's squad, as he helped the team win the
UEFA Champions League
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in
2005–06. Since June 2022, he’s been the assistant manager of
Lyon
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.
Club career
Early life
Giuly was immersed in the world of football from an early age since his father, Dominique Giuly, born in the village of
Zalana
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, in
Corsica, was a former goalkeeper, who played briefly in professional football for
Bastia
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before continuing an amateur career until the age of 32 with several clubs in the suburbs of
Lyon
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. Ludovic Giuly made his debut in the club in which his father was then active: the ASCMO, now known as
Monts d'Or Azergues Foot, in the city of
Chasselay, located about twenty kilometers from Lyon. He then entered the training center of
Olympique Lyonnais. In 1994, he won the
Coupe Gambardella
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The cup is regarded as an opportunity for young hopefuls to showcase their s ...
with their U18 team.
Lyon
Giuly began his career with Lyon in 1994 at age 18, and made his debut for the club in a
Division 1 match on 21 January 1995 against
Cannes
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; a 3–1 win. The following season, Giuly earned a nicknamed "the magic elf", referring to his low height (1.64 metres) and his vivacious character. In the 1996–97 season, Giuly finished the season with 16 goals in 37 matches. During the 1997–98 season, he played 19 matches with Lyon and scored one goal. He made his last appearance for Lyon on 10 January 1998 in a 1–0 loss against
Marseille
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, where he played 90 minutes.
AS Monaco
Giuly was signed by
Monaco
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in the winter break in January 1998. The transfer fee was €7.5 million (£6.6 million), although the fee was then assessed at 42 million
francs
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, which was a considerable sum at that time.
Just ten days after playing for Lyon against Marseille, Giuly made his Monaco debut against them in a 1–1 draw on 20 January 1998. Giuly scored his first goal for Monaco in a 5–2 win over
Bordeaux
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in May 1998, on the final day of Ligue 1. In his first half-season with Monaco, he made a total of 12 appearances, scoring once.
In the 1999–2000 season, Giuly proved to be a key member in the Monaco squad on its right side, as he led his team to the Ligue 1 title for the first time since 1997. The next season turned out to be a troublesome campaign, after Monaco finished in 11th place in the league. Giuly scored 7 goals in 30 appearances. In the 2001–02 season, Giuly started strongly with two goals against
Paris Saint-Germain
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and
Lens
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respectively, before he suffered ruptured ligaments in his right knee which kept him sidelined for almost the entire season and spoiled his chances of playing in the
2002 FIFA World Cup
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.
The 2002–03 season was decisive for Giuly. He made his return from injury in a match against
Troyes in a 4–0 win on 3 August 2003. In the
2003 Coupe de la Ligue Final between Monaco and
Sochaux
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Sochaux lies east of Montbéliard, and southeast of Paris.
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Inhabitants are known as ''Sochaliens''.
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S ...
, Giuly captained the side and scored a brace in a 4–1 win to win the Coupe de la Ligue for the first time in the club's history. His good performance at Monaco led him being selected in the FIFA Confederations Cup which France won.
At the start of the 2003–04 season – Giuly's last with Monaco – he scored a superb overhead kick during a league match against Lens with an assist from
Jérôme Rothen
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Rothen won 13 caps for the France national football team. He represented his country at the 2004 European Football Champions ...
, having suffered an injury that kept him out for a week prior to the game. While the club floundered in the race for the Ligue 1 title, they had a fantastic run in the
UEFA Champions League
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progressing through the
group stage
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(where Giuly scored goals at home to
AEK Athens
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and
Deportivo de La Coruña
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) and making it through to the knockout stage. Here, Monaco eliminated
Lokomotiv Moscow
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,
Real Madrid (in which he scored a brace in the second leg) and
Chelsea
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. Giuly captained Monaco in the
final
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, where they lost 3–0 to
José Mourinho's
Porto
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. This was a particularly galling defeat for Giuly because he suffered a groin injury early in the match, forcing him to leave the field in the 23rd minute, being replaced by
Dado Pršo
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Pršo played for seven different teams and made over 300 league appearances as a professional. He was included in the Monaco team ...
. Without Giuly, the club's task of winning the final was even more compromised. Even manager
Didier Deschamps
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admitted that losing Giuly was a "big blow" and said, "Giuly's injury was not good news for us – he is a very important player for us on the offensive side." This was Giuly's last appearance for Monaco.
Barcelona
Barcelona
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paid about €7 million to Monaco in order to sign Giuly on 28 June 2004, with Giuly signing a three-year contract. On 29 August 2004, Giuly scored on his Barcelona debut against
Racing de Santander
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in a 2–0 win and played 90 minutes. On his move, Giuly was happy after enjoying a successful start to life in Spain.
Giuly helped Barcelona to win
La Liga
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in the
2004–05 season, ending a six-year championship drought. He was the second top scorer for the club with 11 goals. Although his season was disrupted by several muscle injuries, Giuly was able to fulfil his promise to reach double digits in goals in his first year at his new club.
In
2005–06, he helped win the
Spanish title again, as well as capture the second
UEFA Champions League
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trophy for the Catalan club. Giuly propelled Barça into the
Champions League final
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by scoring the only goal in their semi-final against
Milan
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. After the match, Giuly said he had called on his teammates to keep calm and finish the job: "Ronnie passed me the perfect ball. I attempted a shot from the left, the ball went in, so much the better! Now we've got one foot in the final, we have to remain cool and work hard to try and go all the way."
Giuly played the full 90 minutes in
Paris
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as Barcelona came from a goal behind to defeat
Arsenal 2–1 at the
Stade de France. Giuly subsequently scored, but the goal was ruled out due to the foul resulting
Jens Lehmann
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sending off (making him the first player and only goalkeeper to ever be sent off in a Champions League/European Cup final).
FIFA president
Sepp Blatter later said he believed Giuly's goal should have stood.
In the
2006–07 season, Giuly, although still a key member of the ''Barça'' squad, eventually lost his starting spot in the team, when
Lionel Messi
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was promoted from the club's youth ranks. This resulted in Giuly saying his farewell to Barcelona.
Roma
On 17 July 2007, Giuly signed for
Roma on a three-year deal after the club paid a £2.2 million transfer fee to ''Barça''. A month later, Giuly won his first trophy with his new club, winning the
Supercoppa Italiana against
Internazionale
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(0–1). On 26 August 2007, he made his
Serie A
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debut for Roma in a 2–0 win over
Palermo. The next match, on 2 September, Giuly scored his first goal in a 3–0 win over
Siena
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. In the
UEFA Champions League group stage, Giuly scored and provided assist for
Mirko Vučinić
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Having caught the attention of Pantaleo Corvino, the sporting director of the Italian club Lecce, he transferred there in the s ...
in a 4–1 win over Ukrainian side
Dynamo Kyiv
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on 27 November. In the second leg of the round of 16 in the
Coppa Italia
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, he also scored and provided two assists for
Mancini and Roma fan favourite
Francesco Totti
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in a 4–0 win over
Torino
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on 16 January 2008.
However, Giuly's only season at Roma had him scoring more than many starting players which made him in the top five scorers at the club for the season he spent at
Stadio Olimpico.
Paris Saint-Germain
Desiring to return to France for more playing time, Giuly was coveted by Monaco, Marseille and Lyon, but on 18 July 2008, he signed with Paris Saint-Germain on a three-year contract, with PSG paying a reported €2.5 million transfer fee to Roma. On 9 August 2008, he made his PSG debut against former club Monaco in a 1–0 loss. After an early season goal drought, marked by injury, he scored his first goal for PSG during their 1–0 win over
Lille
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on 10 November. He scored his second goal against
Le Havre
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and lead the team to a victory against Lyon, scoring a header against his first club. He scored his first brace of the season on 7 February 2009 against
Nantes. In his first season at the club, PSG had moderate success in
Ligue 1, finishing in sixth place and narrowly missing out on European play due to inferior goal difference.
In his second season (
2009–10), PSG's league form was much worse and they finished in 13th place. He scored the first goal for the Parisian team against
Montpellier (1–1) on the first day of the championship and scored again in their second fixture against
Le Mans, as well as in their fifth fixture, against Lyon. That season, PSG won the
Coupe de France
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, defeating his former team Monaco in
the final.
In his third and final season (
2010–11
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), Giuly began by scoring in play-off round of the
UEFA Europa League
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, away at
Maccabi Tel Aviv
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. In
Ligue 1, PSG pushed up in the league table, especially after the arrival of winger
Nenê
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, who had transferred in the summer of 2010. On 27 October 2010, Giuly scored against Lyon in
Coupe de la Ligue, allowing PSG to win the match 2–1. Giuly scored four goals in the league that season, against Montpellier,
Brest
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,
Sochaux
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Geography
Sochaux lies east of Montbéliard, and southeast of Paris.
Population
Inhabitants are known as ''Sochaliens''.
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S ...
and
Nice
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, and also made eight assists. On 29 June 2011, Giuly's contract with PSG was not renewed upon expiry.
Return to Monaco
Giuly spent the summer of 2011 training with his former club Monaco.
On 9 August 2011, he signed a two-year contract with the club, then playing in
Ligue 2.
His move back to Monaco was a surprise to the Monegasque supporters, though the club's goal was to return to Ligue 1 within the year. He got back the number 8 shirt he wore during his first spell at the club. A negotiated reconversion within the club was included in the contract. In his first match, the club lost 1–2 against
Stade de Reims. On 29 August 2011, Guily scored his first goal in over seven years at Monaco in a 2–2 draw against Lens. On 14 January 2012, Giuly scored his second goal in a 1–0 win over
Istres
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. On 13 April, he scored his third goal in a 2–0 win over
Metz
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. Upon his return, he established himself in the starting eleven throughout the season.
Ahead of the
2012–13 season, Giuly found himself being frozen out of the first team by newly appointed manager
Claudio Ranieri
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Ranieri began his managerial career in the lower leagues in ...
and lost the captaincy to
Andreas Wolf. On 27 July 2012, Giuly left Monaco by mutual consent after just one year. In a friendly match against
Tours
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, the club hosted a ceremony in his honour. Giuly said, "Monaco has allowed me to express the best years my life as a footballer. I want to thank the leaders for the conditions in which I ended my adventure with the ASMFC."
Lorient
On 31 July 2012, Giuly signed for
Lorient
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on a one-year contract on a free transfer. Giuly made his debut, coming on as a substitute for
Yann Jouffre
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, in a 2–1 win over Montpellier and two weeks later, on 1 September 2012, Giuly scored his first goal for the club, in a 3–0 win over
Nancy. Then, four months later, in the second round of
Coupe de France
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, Giuly scored his last career goal, in a 1–0 win over
Sedan.
Towards the end of the season, on 11 May 2013, Giuly announced his retirement. Giuly ended his professional career on 26 May 2013 in a home match against his former club Paris Saint-Germain, in the final round of the season. Giuly left the pitch in the 72nd minute to standing ovations, and was even awarded a shirt with his old number by the visitors. His last appearance was also his 401st appearance in Ligue 1.
Monts d'Or Azergues Foot
Following his retirement, Giuly returned to
Monts d'Or Azergues Foot, the team where he began his career. On 4 January 2014, he inspired his team to a penalty shootout win over Ligue 2 side
Istres
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Location
...
in the
Coupe de France
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.
International career
Giuly has been capped for
France
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, but was removed from his country's
UEFA Euro 2004
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squad due to a leg injury he sustained in the
2004 Champions League final.
Giuly was not selected for the French
2006 FIFA World Cup
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squad, as young Marseille playmaker
Franck Ribéry
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was selected over him. However, with
Djibril Cissé
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He started his career at AC Arles in 1989, at the age of eight. After seven years at the club, he had a six-month spell at Nîmes Oly ...
having broken his leg in a World Cup warm-up match against
China, Giuly could have been called up, but he asserted after the initial France squad was announced that he would go on holiday to
Dubai
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and
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instead of waiting idly in the stand-by squad, and
Sidney Govou
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was called up instead. Despite this, France head coach
Raymond Domenech
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opened a door for Giuly whether he want to play for the national team.
Giuly also qualified for the non-FIFA affiliated team of
Corsica, having been called up for their 31 May 2011 friendly with
Bulgaria
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.
Personal life
On 15 May 2007, Giuly's autobiography "Giuly by Giuly" was published by Hugo & Co. In the autobiography, Giuly settles accounts with former France coach Raymond Domenech, including revelations about his alleged affair with Domenech's partner
Estelle Denis.
From September 2006 to March 2007, Giuly worked as a columnist each Thursday in Luis Attaque on
Radio Monte Carlo
Radio Monte Carlo (RMC) is the name of radio stations owned and managed by several different entities:
* RMC (France) is a French-speaking station, broadcasting in France and Monaco owned by NextRadioTV.
**RMC Sport, a French bouquet of paid T ...
(RMC). In 2010, he incorporated Ultimate Player, a service company for professional footballers. The company employs 40 people.
Giuly tested positive for the
H1N1 (Swine flu) virus in October 2009 along with two PSG teammates,
Jérémy Clément and
Mamadou Sakho.
This led to the league postponing Marseille's match with Paris St Germain.
In January 2013, Monts d'Or Azergues Foot named their home stadium after Giuly as the Stade Ludovic Giuly.
Career statistics
Club
:Source:
International
:Source:
Appearances and goals by national team and year
International goals
:Source:
Honours
Lyon
*
UEFA Intertoto Cup:
1997
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Monaco
*
Division 1:
1999–2000
*
Coupe de la Ligue:
2002–03
*
Trophée des Champions
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His ...
:
2000
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*
UEFA Champions League
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runner-up:
2003–04
Barcelona
*
La Liga
The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known simply as Primera División in Spain, and as La Liga in English-speaking countries and officially as LaLiga Santander for sponsorship reasons, stylized as LaLiga, is the men' ...
:
2004–05,
2005–06
*
Supercopa de España:
2005,
2006
*UEFA Champions League:
2005–06
Roma
*
Coppa Italia
The ("Italy Cup") is an annual knockout cup competition in Italian football organized by the FIGC until the 2009–10 season and the Lega Serie A ever since.
History
The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of ...
:
2007–08
*
Supercoppa Italiana:
2007
Paris Saint-Germain
*
Coupe de France
The Coupe de France, formerly known as the Coupe Charles Simon, is the premier knockout cup competition in French football organized by the French Football Federation (FFF). It was first held in 1917 and is open to all amateur and profession ...
:
2009–10
France
*
FIFA Confederations Cup:
2003
Individual
*Etoile d'Or: 2002–03
*
UNFP Ligue 1 Team of the Year Team of the Year may refer to:
* BBC Sports Personality of the Year Team Award
* Canadian Press Team of the Year Award
*GPA Gaelic Team of the Year
* IRB International Sevens Team of the Year
* IRB International Team of the Year
* J.League Team of ...
:
2002–03,
2003–04
*
UNFP Ligue 1
Player of the Month: September 2003, November 2003
*
ESM Team of the Year
The European Sports Media (ESM), formerly European Sports Magazines, is an association of football-related publications in Europe.
Members
European Sports Media was established in 1989 as an international body for football journalism. Its nine fo ...
:
2003–04
References
External links
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Ludovic Giulyat
Ligue de Football Professionnel
The Ligue de Football Professionnel (, ''Professional Football League''), commonly known as the LFP, is a French governing body that runs the major professional football leagues in France. It was founded in 1944 and serves under the authority o ...
*
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1976 births
Living people
Footballers from Lyon
Association football wingers
French footballers
French expatriate sportspeople in Spain
French expatriate sportspeople in Monaco
France international footballers
Olympique Lyonnais players
AS Monaco FC players
La Liga players
FC Barcelona players
A.S. Roma players
Paris Saint-Germain F.C. players
FC Lorient players
GOAL FC players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
Serie A players
French expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Spain
Expatriate footballers in Italy
Expatriate footballers in Monaco
2003 FIFA Confederations Cup players
FIFA Confederations Cup-winning players
French people of Corsican descent
Corsica international footballers
UEFA Champions League winning players