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2008–09 AS Monaco FC Season
The 2008–09 season was AS Monaco FC's 52nd season in Ligue 1. They finished eleventh in Ligue 1, and were knocked out of the Coupe de la Ligue by RC Lens, in the Round of 32, and the Coupe de France by Marseille in the Round of 32. Squad Out on loan Transfers Summer In: Out: Winter In: Out: Competitions Ligue 1 League table Results summary Results by round Results Coupe de la Ligue Coupe de France Statistics Appearances and goals , - , colspan="14", ''Players away from the club on loan:'' , - , colspan="14", ''Players who appeared for Monaco no longer at the club:'' Goal scorers Disciplinary record References {{DEFAULTSORT:2008-09 AS Monaco FC season Monaco AS Monaco FC seasons AS Monaco AS Monaco Association Sportive de Monaco Football Club, commonly referred to as A ...
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AS Monaco FC
Association Sportive de Monaco Football Club, commonly referred to as AS Monaco (), is a professional association football, football club based in Fontvieille, Monaco, Fontvieille, Monaco. Although not in France, they are a member of the French Football Federation (FFF) and currently compete in Ligue 1, the top tier of Football in France, French football. Founded in 1918, the team play their home matches at the Stade Louis II. Their training center is situated in neighboring France, in la Turbie. Despite not being a French club, Monaco are one of the most List of French football champions, successful clubs in French football, having won eight league titles, five Coupe de France trophies and one Coupe de la Ligue. The club also played in European football a number of times, and were runners-up in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1992 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, 1992 and the UEFA Champions League in 2004 UEFA Champions League Final, 2004. The club's traditional colours are red ...
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Nicolas Nkoulou
Nicolas Julio Nkoulou Ndoubena (born 27 March 1990), known as Nicolas Nkoulou, is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Sakaryaspor on loan from Turkish TFF 1. Lig club Amedspor and the Cameroon national team. Nkoulou began his career in the French league with Monaco, where he spent three years before signing for Marseille in 2011. With Marseille, he won his first senior trophy, the Coupe de la Ligue in the 2011–12 season. In 2016, he left Marseille for Lyon, but after a disappointing year he left to join Italian club Torino, initially on loan but later on a permanent basis. Though initially impressing, he fell out of favour, and left the club in 2021, before signing for English club Watford Internationally, Nkoulou played 75 times for Cameroon between 2008 and 2017, and decided to retire shortly after winning the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations, scoring the equalising goal in the final. He represented Cameroon in three World Cups and three Afric ...
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Thomas Mangani
Thomas Mathieu Romain Mangani (born 29 April 1987) is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Ajaccio. Career In summer 2014, Mangani left France to play for Chievo, signing a two-year contract with the Serie A club on 6 July 2014. However, after a disappointing season in Italy, where he only played 45 minutes for Chievo, Mangani returned to France with Angers, with whom he signed a three-year deal on 4 July 2015. On 13 June 2022, Mangani signed a two-year contract with newly-promoted Ligue 1 side Ajaccio Ajaccio (, , ; French language, French: ; or ; , locally: ; ) is the capital and largest city of Corsica, France. It forms a communes of France, French commune, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Corse-du-Sud, and head o ..., returning to the club after fourteen years. Personal life Mangani holds both French and Italian nationalities. References External links * * 1987 births Living people Sportspeople from ...
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Dario Šimić
Dario Šimić (; born 12 November 1975) is a Croatian former footballer. Šimić was a versatile defender who played as full-back, sweeper or centre back; a physical and hard-tackling defender, he was known in particular for his strength and ability in the air. A product of Dinamo Zagreb Academy, he later played for Serie A sides Inter Milan and AC Milan and Ligue 1 side Monaco, before returning to Dinamo Zagreb in 2010, where he retired from the game during the same year. Šimić played for Croatia national football team between 1996 and 2008. He retired from international football shortly after becoming the first Croatian player to win 100 international caps. He is currently the team's eighth most capped player. He was a member of Croatia's squad for each of the six major tournaments for which the team qualified during the 1990s and 2000s, which includes three FIFA World Cups (11 appearances in 1998, 2002 and 2006) and three UEFA European Championships (5 appearances in 1 ...
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Vincent Muratori
Vincent Muratori (born 3 August 1987) is a retired French professional footballer who played as a defender. He began his football career at Monaco Monaco, officially the Principality of Monaco, is a Sovereign state, sovereign city-state and European microstates, microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Regions of Italy, Italian region of Liguria, in Western Europe, .... External links * * 1987 births Living people People from Orange, Vaucluse Footballers from Vaucluse Men's association football defenders French men's footballers France men's under-21 international footballers AS Monaco FC players AS Nancy Lorraine players RC Grasse players Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players Championnat National 2 players Championnat National 3 players French sportspeople of Italian descent 21st-century French sportsmen {{france-footy-defender-1980s-stub ...
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Adriano Pereira Da Silva
Adriano Pereira da Silva, known as Adriano (born 3 April 1982 in Salvador, Bahia), is a Brazilian football defender. He most recently played for Monaco. Career Club He was signed by Palermo from Grêmio in summer 2004, but just played one league match. 50% of Adriano's registration rights was sold to Atalanta in summer 2005 after a successful 6 months loan. Along with Igor Budan they costed Atalanta €1.5 million as part of Stephen Makinwa's deal. Adriano was valued €500,000 at that time.US Città di Palermo Report and Accounts on 30 June 2006 Atalanta bought all the rights on 1 June 2007, but sold him to AS Monaco FC Association Sportive de Monaco Football Club, commonly referred to as AS Monaco (), is a professional association football, football club based in Fontvieille, Monaco, Fontvieille, Monaco. Although not in France, they are a member of the Frenc ... on last day of the transfer window. On 12 July 2013, Monaco announced that Adriano had left the club afte ...
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Loan (football)
In sports, a loan involves a particular player being able to temporarily play for a club other than the one to which they are currently contracted. Loan deals may last from a few weeks to a full season, sometimes persisting for multiple seasons at a time. A loan fee can be arranged by the parent club as well as them asking to pay a percentage of their wages. Association football Players may be loaned out to other clubs for several reasons. Most commonly, young prospects will be loaned to a club in a lower league in order to gain invaluable first team experience. In this instance, the parent club may continue to pay the player's wages in full or in part. Some clubs put a formal arrangement in place with a feeder club for this purpose, such as Manchester United and Royal Antwerp, Arsenal and Beveren, or Chelsea and Vitesse. In other leagues such as Italy's Serie A, some smaller clubs have a reputation as a "farm club" and regularly take players, especially younger players, on ...
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Freddy Adu
Fredua Koranteng "Freddy" Adu (born June 2, 1989) is an American former professional soccer player who played as an attacking midfielder. From before the time of his signing with D.C. United at the age of 14, Adu was spoken of as "the next Pelé Edson Arantes do Nascimento (; 23 October 1940 – 29 December 2022), better known by his nickname Pelé (), was a Brazilian professional Association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football), forward. Widely reg ...". After leaving D.C. United in 2006, he became a Journeyman (sports), journeyman, playing for fifteen teams in nine countries: the United States, Portugal, Monaco, Greece, Turkey, Brazil, Serbia, Finland, and Sweden. The last club he played for was Ettan Fotboll club Österlen FF in 2021. At D.C. United, Adu broke several records. First, he became the youngest athlete ever to sign a professional contract in the United States at 14 years old, after he was selected by the team in the 2004 M ...
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Yannick Sagbo
Yannick Anister Sagbo Latte (born 12 April 1988), known as Yannick Sagbo, is a professional footballer who plays as a striker. Born in France, he played for the Ivory Coast at international level. Club career Early career Sagbo began his football career playing for his local side in SC Air Bel, in Marseille, before joining Monaco during the winter of 2004. He was a part of Monaco's 07–08 CFA squad that won the reserve's professional title (a championship that is reserve for the professional clubs reserves playing in the CFA) scoring 13 goals in 25 matches. Following the season on 13 May 2008, he signed his first professional contract, agreeing to a three-year deal keeping him at the club until 2011. He officially joined the first-team squad for pre-season in July 2008, where he was handed the number 9 kit. Sagbo made three appearances during the pre-season, starting them all including their opening friendly match against fellow Ligue 1 side Toulouse FC, Croatian side NK Zagr ...
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Patrick Müller (footballer)
Patrick Müller (born 17 December 1976) is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a defender. In his fifteen-year professional career, Müller played for football clubs in Switzerland, France, and Spain, including two spells with Lyon. Club career Meyrin, Servette Born in Geneva, to German father and Swiss mother from Lausanne Lausanne ( , ; ; ) is the capital and largest List of towns in Switzerland, city of the Swiss French-speaking Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Vaud, in Switzerland. It is a hilly city situated on the shores of Lake Geneva, about halfway bet ... Müller began his children's football with local club FC Meyrin before he moved to the youth department of Servette FC, Servette in 1994. One year later he advanced to their first team and immediately became regular starter. In 1998 he received his first international call up. In the 1998–99 Nationalliga A season he won the Swiss championship with Servette. Juventus While Müller was playin ...
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Nikola Pokrivač
Nikola Pokrivač (26 November 1985 – 18 April 2025) was a Croatian professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Club career NK Varteks Pokrivač started to play football with amateur side Bratstvo Jurovec, near his hometown. He went on to continue his youth career with Čakovec and NK Varteks, eventually advancing to the first team at Varteks in the summer of 2004. Making his senior domestic league debut for Varteks against Zadar on 7 August 2004, Pokrivač went on to establish himself as a regular at the club in 2005. He also appeared in some European matches for the club, playing in the UEFA Intertoto Cup in the summer of 2005 and the UEFA Cup qualifying a year later. In 2006, he also played for Varteks in the two-legged final of the Croatian Cup, where they lost to HNK Rijeka on away goals after a 5–5 draw on aggregate. Dinamo Zagreb His good performances at Varteks eventually secured him a move to Croatia's top club Dinamo Zagreb in the winter break of the 200 ...
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