Nicolas Anelka | ||
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| Biography | ||
|---|---|---|
| Last name | Nicolas Sébastien Anelka | |
| Nationality | French | |
| Birth | ||
| Location | Le Chesnay ( France ) | |
| Cut | 1.85 m (6 ′ 1 ″ ) | |
| Pro period. | 1996 - 2015 | |
| Post | Attacker | |
| Junior course | ||
| Years | Club | |
| 1986 - 1993 | FC Trappes-St Quentin | |
| 1992 - 1995 | INF Clairefontaine | |
| 1993 - 1996 | Paris Saint Germain | |
| Professional path | ||
| Years | Club | M. ( B. ) |
| 1996 - 1997 | Paris Saint Germain | 12 (1) |
| 1997 - 1999 | Arsenal | 89 (28) |
| 1999 - 2000 | real Madrid | 32 (7) |
| 2000 - 2002 | Paris Saint Germain | 57 (18) |
| 2002 | Liverpool | 22 (5) |
| 2002 - 2005 | Manchester city | 103 (45) |
| 2005 - 2006 | Fenerbahçe | 57 (16) |
| 2006 - 2008 | Bolton Wanderers | 61 (23) |
| 2008 - 2012 | Chelsea | 184 (59) |
| 2012 - 2013 | Shanghai Shenhua | 24 (3) |
| 2013 | Juventus | 3 (0) |
| 2013 - 2014 | West Bromwich | 12 (2) |
| 2015 | Mumbai City | 13 (2) |
| Total | 669 (209) | |
| National team selections | ||
| Years | Team | M. ( B. ) |
| 1994 - 1995 | France -16 years | 8 (3) |
| 1995 - 1997 | France -18 years old | 21 (12) |
| 1997 - 1998 | France under 20 | 10 (4) |
| 1998 - 2010 | France | 69 (14) |
| Teams trained | ||
| Years | Team | Stats |
| 2012 | Shanghai Shenhua | |
| 2015 | Mumbai City | |
| 2018 - | LOSC Lille (young people) | |
Nicolas Anelka
Nicolas Anelka, born on au Chesnay, is a French international footballer who
has evolved as a striker.
A great hope of French football in its early
days, Anelka has had a mixed career, punctuated by numerous clashes with her
various clubs and in the national team. He plays in several of the biggest
European teams: PSG, Arsenal, Real Madrid with whom he won
the 2000 Champions League, Liverpool, Manchester City, Chelsea, and Juventus.
With the France team, he accumulated 69
caps winning the European Championship in 2000 and the Confederations
Cup in 2001, but it is not retained in the national team by different
breeders for World Cups in 1998, 2002, and 2006 and
does not know the consecration to which he seemed promised, finding himself in particular at
the center of the controversy which permanently damages the image of the
national team, during the 2010 World Cup.
In 2012, while playing in China, he was,
for a short time, appointed player-coach of Shanghai Shenhua. After a
whirlwind stint with the Bianconeri and a season at West Bromwich,
Anelka joined the Mumbai City club in September 2014. Nine months
later, he was appointed assistant coach of the first team by the Indian club. There
will only be one season left with this double role.
In 2018, he was responsible for advising the
attackers of the training center of the northern club LOSC Lille.
Biography
of Nicolas Anelka:
Childhood and Parisian
training
Nicolas Anelka was born at André Mignot
hospital in Le Chesnay on March 14, 1979. His
parents, Margaret and Jean-Philippe, originating in Martinique, arrive in the metropolis in
1974. They settled in Trappes in the Yvelines and worked for the National Education. He has two older brothers, over ten years
old, Claude and Didier, born in 1968 and 1969 respectively.
Nicolas grew up in the Van Gogh city of Trappes
and tried his hand at several sports such as tennis, athletics, and football
which he practiced at the Place de la Nuit-Étoilée, in the rue du Moulin
de la Galette or that of the Wheatfield. He took his first sports
license at FC Trappes-St Quentin in 1986 when he was only seven years old
and played there until he was fourteen. He starts off as a chick and
moves to the center forward position, where he shows off his qualities, in
particular his speed, or his B 1 relaxation. Later, he becomes
with Jamel Debbouzehonorary president of his former club of Trappes,
sponsored by Canal +.
Spotted in his club in Trappes, he was accepted
at the INF Clairefontaine after being noticed at the age of thirteen. Trained
at the INF, Anelka is part of the 1995 class with notably Louis Saha and Philippe
Christanval. While a fan of the Brazilian Ronaldo, he apprenticed in
professional football under the direction of André Merelle for three
years, from thirteen to sixteen. This one declares in 2010: “I saw him
arrive at the INF Clairefontaine at 13 years old. He was technically very
fine and already so lively and fast. It was a pleasure to see him play and
he was above everyone even though he was quite withdrawn, which made contact
very difficult. But once with a ball, that's where he was happiest. The
field is his world ”.
Professional start at Paris
SG
Nicolas Anelka signs for Paris Saint-Germain during
his training at Clairefontaine. Despite his presence during the week at
the INF training center, Nicolas Anelka plays on weekends with the reserve
team of PSG. He played his first professional match on
February 7, 1996, at AS Monaco when he was only sixteen. At the
end of the 1995-1996 season, Anelka took part in two matches under Luis
Fernandez. However, he witnessed from afar the victory of the pros in the European
Cup a few months later.
However, Fernandez leaves PSG, and Ricardo, a former defender of the Parisian club takes his place on the bench. Anelka
scored her first goal and made her first assist in Ligue 1 on
September 20, 1996, at 17, against RC Lens at the Parc des
Princes (4-0). Following this match, Anelka claimed more playing time
in a club than made up of offensive stars such as RaÃ, Dely Valdés, Loko, or
even Mboma. Back from Christmas vacation, Anelka is not training at Camp
des Loges but in London negotiating with London club Arsenal. The
regulations concerning young footballers are still unclear, and after a month
PSG finds itself forced to sell its player to Arsenal for the sum of five
million francs if he does not want to see him leave for free a few
weeks later.
Quickstart for Arsenal
Coveted by Arsène Wenger at Arsenal and
not having a professional contract, Nicolas Anelka can thus join the
English club which pays only five million francs. For the second half
of the 1996-1997 season, Nicolas was helmed by Dennis Bergkamp and Ian
Wright and only played four Premier League.
The following year, the former Trappist won
little by little and took advantage of Wright's long injury to string together
meetings and win. He played nearly thirty games, scored six goals, and
fully participated in the Cup - Championship double of
his team. Anelka, however, has a harder time managing the resulting
notoriety. A survey conducted at the end of the 1997-1998 season among
supporters, pits Ian Wright against the young French striker. To
everyone's surprise and despite the departure of the English veteran in the
summer of 1998, supporters prefer him to Anelka. The Frenchman decides to
use this "plague" as a leitmotif for the following season to leave the supporters hungry.
Anelka is revealed during the 1998-1999 season. His
speed and composure in his duels against the goalkeepers make him noticed. He
scored 17 goals in 35 league games and won the Premier League's best
youngster trophy.
At the end of the season, Nicolas is looking to
be transferred. Announced at the Juventus of Ancelotti and Lazio who
make each a considerable offer, refusing all costs to return to London,
Anelka joined Real Madrid for 220 million francs (€ 34 M).
Real Madrid
Nicolas Anelka becomes only the fifth Frenchman
to wear the Real Madrid jersey after Louis Hon, Raymond
Kopa, Lucien Muller, and Christian Karembeu.
In January, at the World Club Championship,
he opened his counter by scoring three goals - including a double against the Corinthians,
making him the co-top scorer of the competition. After a six-week injury,
he scored his first league goal for his return on February 28,
2000, during the Classico against FC Barcelona.
In March 2000, wishing for explanations for her
low playing time, Anelka asked to meet with the leaders, but the latter
refused. They send the player back to training before having any
discussion about his situation. But Nicolas leaves the training center on
March 10. Summoned the next day by the vice-president, the latter forces
him to return to training the next day. After a big fine and a layoff, the
club gives him a break to escape the media pressure. He took the
opportunity to return to Trappes.
On his return to Madrid, Nicolas issues a public
apology in Spanish and plays again with Real. It becomes an important part
of the club by scoring in the semifinals of the Champions League against Bayern Munich in the first leg (2-0), then the return match (1-2
defeat). He started in the final won against FC Valence (3-0).
Back to Paris then ready for Liverpool
During the summer of 2000, Paris
Saint-Germain seeks to strengthen itself to compete in the Champions League. Recruiting
the Real striker thus becomes obvious for Pierre Lescure, the president of
the club. Lorenzo Sanz, the president of Madrid, says it cannot be
transferred but Juventus offers 300 million francs. For a little
less than 220 MF (34 M €), the operation is concluded with the PSG. Anelka
arrives in Paris at the end of July, in her favorite club. If the amount
of the transaction is a lot of talks, Anelka is greeted in Messiah.
It is by replacing Ali Benarbia in Rennes,
for the second day of the championship, that the new Parisian number 9 is
back in France. He quickly chained goals in the league as in the
Champions League. Anelka's in-depth playing style adapts well to the Parisian
game. But, in November, Paris went through a crisis of results; Philippe
Bergeron is replaced by Luis Fernandez at the head of the team. The
latter, detecting in him an interesting technical and collective potential, is
the first to ask him not to limit himself to in-depth calls. At the
beginning of January, for the reception of RC Lens, he thus positions his
player playmaker, which turns out to be a success. However, the
experience is repeated sparingly. If Anelka hardly scores anymore - only
one goal in the league -, he nevertheless shows himself to the height during a
C1 meeting at AC Milan, where he scores his team's equalizing goal. But
Paris does not pass the second round. Luis Fernandez even gave him the
armband captain upon receipt of Toulouse FC. PSG's season
finale is average and the Parisian club finished in 9th place
with eight goals in 27 matches for Anelka.
From the start of the 2001-2002 season,
tensions with Luis Fernandez continued. Nicolas Anelka is criticized for a
lack of communication and a feeling (shared with the management) that he would
have suggested that he owed everything to the coach. Les Guignols de linfocaricatured
the relationship between the two men with the famous parody “Nico and Luis”. After
a season and a half with Paris Saint-Germain and only two goals against Lens
and Lorient in his second season, he was loaned six months to English club Liverpool in
January 2002.
After a difficult return to the French championship,
Nicolas Anelka returns to an English championship where he excelled
in his debut with Arsenal. Anelka is expected to compensate for the
injury of Emile Heskey.
In Liverpool, the French striker finds an
imposing French colony and in particular his former coach at the juniors Gérard
Houllier. He won very quickly with a goal in his first match on January 5,
2002.
Rebound in Manchester City
Knowing that PSG also wants to separate
from Anelka, the player must find a club at the start of the 2002-2003 season. So
he joined the English club Manchester City in July 2002, just
promoted to the Premier League, for the sum of twenty million euros in
addition to the exchange of Alioune Touré and a monthly salary of
250,000 euros.
At Manchester City, Nicolas Anelka plays under
the orders of Kevin Keegan. The current is going well with the old
double Golden Ball.
On Premier League pitches, Anelka is making a
good start.
In the league, the 9th place
Manchester City is quite convincing for a promotion and Anelka ended his season
with five goals.
Nicolas Anelka's second season in
the Citizens jersey is even better on a personal level, scoring
seventeen goals in thirty-two league games, but also four goals in five UEFA
Cup games. Anelka also flourishes in contact with his coach and progresses
in football where he becomes a complete player but also on a more personal
level, where he appears much more mature far from the media coverage. However,
collectively, Manchester City is having an average season despite the
reinforcements of David Seaman and Steve McManaman.
He is starting the third season under the colors
of Manchester City (seven goals in mid-season), but he already knows that his
future depends on a transfer to a European club of standing. The City club
is indeed experiencing serious financial difficulties and the departure of
Nicolas Anelka from a major club is announced. It is in Turkey that
he engages with the Fenerbahçe club.
Exile in Fenerbahçe
Nicolas Anelka arrived in January 2005 as the
leader of the championship. He does not play in a point, Márcio Nobre being
the holder, but in a right-winger role. Anelka scores four goals in
fourteen games in the return matches and plays a major role in the title of
national champion for her club Fenerbahce.
Nicolas Anelka, therefore, plays the Champions League during
the 2005-2006 season. However, despite performing well, he does not score
in this competition.
In the league, Anelka scored ten goals in
twenty-five matches.
Back to the fore with Bolton
During the summer of 2006, Nicolas Anelka was
announced again in many clubs but it was in Bolton that he signed for
an amount of 12 million euros and a four-year contract. Coach Sam
Allardyce is very happy with the signing of his new center-forward and he
said in August “ Nicolas was born to score goals and his talent will bring us a
lot ”.
After a difficult start to the season under the
colors of the Wanderers where it operates alone upfront, Anelka
begins to find their feet and scored his first goal on the 14thday
against Arsenal. He then made a good streak and scored 11 goals in 32
appearances for Bolton. He forms one of the best duos in England with
Senegalese striker El-Hadji Diouf.
Higher-level with Chelsea
In January 2008, he signed for Chelsea to
compensate for the absence of many players participating in the African
Cup of Nations. His first six months in the Blues jersey are
quite difficult because of the competition that exists during the London
attack. He still participates in the final of the Champions League against Manchester
United, but he is the author of the unfortunate penalty shootout that offers
the cup to Mancunians.
On August 3, 2008, Anelka offered a quadruple in
a preparation match against AC Milan, allowing her team to win (5-0). He
won at the forefront of the Blue's attack, taking advantage of
repeated injuries to Didier Drogba. Returning to the competition, the
Ivorian must logically be content with a place on the bench, Luiz Felipe
Scolari favoring a system of play with a single axial attacker.
On December 14, he equalized in the 51st minute
of the derby London face West Ham (1-1) and reached the
symbolic hundred goals in two hundred and fifty to eight matches Premier
League. Anelka manages to win in the Chelsea squad and performs well on
the pitch, especially against Watford FC on February 14, 2009 in
the fifth round of the FA Cup, he scored a hat-trick allowing his team to
qualify for the quarter-finals (final score 1-3). At the end of the 2008-2009
season, he finished top scorer in the English Championship with 19 goals.
At the start of the 2010-2011 season,
Nicolas Anelka evolves as a holder as a right-winger along with Didier
Drogba and Florent Malouda. After the arrival of Fernando
Torres, Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti opts for a 4-4-2 with Anelka
and Torres forming the attacking duo, which relegates Drogba to the sidelines. Nicolas
stands out especially during the European Blues campaign, scoring
seven goals in nine matches. Anelka ends the season with six goals in
thirty-two league games.
Set aside by André Villas-Boas, it was only
used about fifteen times during the first half of the 2011-2012 season. The
media then announced in early December a possible departure of the French
striker during the winter transfer market of January 2012. Having
participated in 4 group matches in the Champions League he will be
crowned despite his departure in the winter transfer window.
Rods to finish
On December 8, 2011, Chinese club Shanghai
Shenhua, who had been following Anelka for months, confirmed their interest in
the player and held discussions Forced to train with the reserve team of Blues,
Anelka officially sign a two-year contract with the club Shanghai on
12 December. Anelka is officially integrated into the workforce of the Chinese club when
the European transfer market opens in early January 2012.
On February 21, he scored his first goal in the
first preparation match against Hunan Xiangtao (D2) after only 40 seconds of
play Absent during the opening match Chinese championship because
of an injury to an ankle, Anelka scored his first goal in a competitive
match at the 2nd day face Beijing Guoan six days later. After
the dismissals of several assistants in mid-April following poor results,
Nicolas Anelka is appointed assistant coach alongside Jean Tigana while
keeping his status as a player. At the end of the month, Shanghai Shenhua
officially sacked Tigana, and Anelka was confirmed as assistant coach to new coach Florent
Ibenge.
On May 30, Sergio Batista was
appointed coach and Anelka regained his status as a simple player.
Eager to regain a higher level of competition,
he joined Camp des Loges, a PSG training center, to meet during
the Chinese championship break and ended up terminating his contract which
bound him with Shanghai Shenhua to engage with Juventus FC.
In January 2013, he joined the Turin club for 6 months, renewable for 5 months, for a salary of 1.2 million euros. He
plays his first match with the Bianconeri at Celtic Glasgow for the
knockout stages of the Champions League(3-0 victory). Despite only 3
matches played in 6 months with the Italian club, Nicolas Anelka gleaned a new
title that he did not have until then, that of Italian champion.
In July 2013, at the end of his contract with
Juventus, he signed up with the English club West Bromwich Albion and
marked his return to the Premier League. After his first match and
following the death of a loved one, Nicolas Anelka announces his retirement
from sports, immediately denied by his club and by his trainer Steve Clarke who
announced that they would give him time to reflect on his decision.
On December 28, during the match on the 19th
day of Premier League against West Ham United, he scored twice and celebrated his
first goal of the season with his new club by making a quenelle referring
to the gesture popularized by comedian and anti-Semitic activist Dieudonné. He
is congratulated by the latter but condemned by the Minister of Sports Valérie
Fourneyron. The English press speaks for the first time of this affair by
designating the gesture as a “Nazi Salute” 31, or “Nazi Gesture”. Anelka
says on Twitter that its meaning is "anti-system." I
don't know what the word religion has to do with this story. [...] Of
course, I am neither anti-Semitic nor racist and I fully assume my gesture”. According
to the daily Le Monde, the excitement caused by this gesture is to be
compared to the controversy surrounding the war cry "Yids" (" kicks
") of Tottenham Hotspur supporters.
Another reason for the emotion aroused by the
gesture of Anelka converting to Islam in 2004, is that West Brom played
West Ham, one of the owners is Jewish 35. Main sponsor Zoopla, a real
estate website co-managed by Jewish businessman Alex Chesterman, announces on
January 20, 2014, that he will not renew his contract the following June,
without waiting for possible sanctions taken by the club, which itself is
awaiting the end of the investigations carried out by the English Football
Association and the club itself. He then announces via his Facebook
account: "Following discussions between the club and me, proposals were
made to me ( sic) so that I return to the group under certain conditions
that I cannot accept.
Wishing to keep my integrity, I, therefore, made
the decision to free myself and terminate the contract binding me with West
Bromwich Albion until 2014, and this from now on ”. Returning to this case
in April 2014, he specifies that Dieudonné remains for him “the best of
France”.
In September 2014, Nicolas Anelka announced on
his Twitter account his transfer to Indian club Mumbai City FC. He
scores two goals in seven games in the 2014 Indian Super League.
In January 2015, the Algiers club of NA
Hussein Dey wanted to recruit Anelka for eighteen months. But the
Algerian club must give up, because of the regulations of the Algerian
Federation which prevent recruiting a foreign player over the age of 27. Finally,
he signed to the NAHD as sports director and special advisor to the president
until the end of the 2014-2015 season. He comes to blows with coach Meziane
Ighil who resigns during the season.
In June 2015, Indian club Mumbai City FC announced
that Nicolas Anelka would return to play a second season in the Indian
Championship as a player coach.
Nicolas
Anelka in the France team
In youth teams (1994-1998)
During the 1994-1995 season, Nicolas Anelka was
selected for the French Under-16 team with whom he played eight games
in which he managed to score three goals.
Anelka then played for two seasons with the
French under-eighteen team for twelve goals in twenty-one games. This
was then directed by Gérard Houllier. The occasion of a first quarrel
between the two men, following a penalty shootout during which Anelka missed
hers.
In 1997-1998, Nicolas took part in ten meetings
and scored four goals with the French under-twenty team.
Early-onset
After a satisfactory first full season at
Arsenal, Aimé Jacquet tried it for France A team on April 22, 1998, against Sweden just
before the World Cup. Despite his presence in the expanded list of
28, he is still considered a little too young, he is not selected for the
competition like five other players, but he is already considered, like Henry and Trezeguet,
as a great hope of French attacking football.
During the 1998-1999 season, he was convincing
with the France team, especially in Russia where he scored a
decisive goal for qualifying for Euro 2000, and in February 1999 when
he scored a double at Wembley against ' England.
His good end to the 1999-2000 season at Real
Madrid, including success in the Champions League, allowed him to regain his
starting place with the Blues. Anelka has not played in the blue jersey
since September 1999 in Ukraine (0-0) 47. He therefore played and won
the Euro 2000, without however scoring a single goal.
Despite a mixed return to PSG in 2000-2001,
during the summer of 2001, Nicolas Anelka once again found the French team with
whom he won the 2001 Confederations Cup but disappointed the supporters
with his performance.
Roger Lemerre gave him the last chance to win the 2002 World Cup, by establishing him at the forefront of the attack
against Russia in the spring of 2002. He scored a goal, refused by the referee
for our -Game.
Sidelined under Santini
He was not called up for selection for the 2002
World Cup in South Korea and Japan.
Shortly after, in November 2002, he made a name
for himself by summoning the press to a hotel in Roissy-CDG: he refused his
selection for the France team, believing that the new coach, Jacques
Santini, did not trust him and used it as a filler, following the injury of
three players. This is in addition to the fact that Santini visited him
during the Mancunian derby and claimed that he did not count on him too much,
feeling that he did not "know the player enough".
This refusal to join the selection was not
accepted by the press, which openly criticized him for it.
In February 2003, Anelka told the Daily
Mirror that he would never play for the France team again and that missing
two World Cups did not kill him. Anelka declared to Paris
Match in August 2003 that he considered a return to the Blues
only on the condition that Jacques Santini “kneels” in front of him.
After an interview in January 2004 for Téléfoot
to smooth things over, he publicly apologizes to Jacques Santini in
March 2004 on his website and talks about his desire to come back, but things
do not change. Anelka misses Euro 2004 in Portugal.
Return with Domenech
The year 2005 is that of his great
return to the French team. Indeed, Raymond Domenech calls
him for the friendly matches against Costa Rica and Germany in
November. The first match takes place on her parents' land in Martinique and
Anelka is illustrated by scoring a goal on her return.
He was announced as a possible starter for the 2006
World Cup, but he was not selected despite the withdrawal of Djibril Cissé who
was replaced by Sidney Govou. He is selected for Euro 2008 and
takes part in all three matches of the group stage but scores no goals and like
the rest of the squad, he is considered very disappointing in this competition.
End of the 2010 World Cup
Since the end of 2008, Nicolas Anelka has had
more difficulties as an attacker but regularly takes place in the starting
attack of the France team. He takes part in the qualifying campaign of the
Blues for the 2010 World Cup and turns out to be, in the list of
twenty-three players selected by Raymond Domenech on May 24, 2010,
one of the "old" of this selection (with William Gallas, Thierry
Henry or Sidney Govou ). However, his start to the World
Cup is difficult since he does not frame any strike over the three preparation
matches.
On June 17, 2010, during the half-time of the
France- Mexico match, the coach criticized him for his placement on
the pitch as a top striker, because Anelka has persisted since the start of the
World Cup in the takedown and playing like a middle, remonstrances which annoy him
and push him to make abusive remarks towards Raymond Domenech (remarks however
contested by the concerned person who says not to have made them as transcribed
by the newspaper L'Équipe ).
Following this event, Nicolas Anelka was
replaced at half-time and then excluded from the France team for the rest of
the World. This eviction causes on June 20 a strike of the training
of the players of the France team who intend to protest; this strike
remains one of the greatest disasters to have affected French football.
,
following offensive remarks against Raymond Domenech, the disciplinary
commission of the FFF inflicts a suspension of eighteen matches on him. The
next day, he declares to be “laughing out loud” and qualifies the
leaders of the French Football Federation as “clowns” and
declares that his international career has ended on, the date of his ouster from Knysna.
In 2018, Raymond Domenech, coach of the France
team at the time, revealed what the striker really said in the
documentary Selectors, broadcast on Canal + on Sunday: “At
half-time, I tell him:“ Nico, what I want is for you to go deep. There are
10 of us on the bench, we all saw that you weren't going. ” “Yes but it's
still me.” "Yes, you are the one playing there." There he
has his shoes in his hand. Turning around and throwing off his shoes, he
says, “just do it, your shitty team.” I told him: "you're right,
you're going out., I tell Gignac to warm up. "
Reconversion
In the offseason, 2015-2016, the name of Nicolas
Anelka is cited in connection with the redemption of the Belgian club 4th
Division Royal Géants Athos. During the preparatory phase, the
former International is present, on one or the other occasion, during friendly
meetings of this club whose sustainability cannot be guaranteed. After two
moves to the municipalities of Fleurus, then Ronse, the circle ceased
its activities in the fall of 2015.
In February 2017, he served as an adviser and
consultant in the Roda FC team, barely in the Dutch league.
In November 2018, Lille coach Christophe
Galtier announced that Nicolas Anelka will join the club with young people
in training.
In parallel, the former striker creates
academies dedicated to forwards. Nicolas Anelka only stayed a few
months in Lille and at Domaine de Luchin.
The gameplay style of Nicolas Anelka
Nicolas Anelka is a relatively complete striker.
In 2009, his coach at Chelsea, Carlo
Ancelotti says that "it has it all: he has a good relaxation, it
is technical, strikes the ball well, moves very well on the ground, and mmarksenormously".
Nicolas Anelka: Awards
Selection winners
- He is the 5th youngest player selected to France A team at 19 years and 1-month-old.
- Winner of the European Under-19 Championship in 1996
- Winner of the Hassan II Tournament in 2000
- Winner of the European Championship in 2000
- Winner of the Confederations Cup in 2001
Club achievements
- Champions League ( 2 ):
- Winner: 1999-2000 with Real Madrid.
- Winner: 2011-2012 with Chelsea.
- Intertoto Cup ( 1 ):
- Winner: 2001 with Paris Saint-Germain.
- English Championship ( 2 ):
- Champion: 1997-1998 with Arsenal and 2009-2010 with Chelsea.
- Turkish Championship ( 1 ):
- Champion: 2004-2005 with Fenerbahçe .
- Italian Championship ( 1 ):
- Champion: 2012-2013 with Juventus.
- England Cup ( 3 ):
- Winner: 1997-1998 with Arsenal, 2008-2009, and 2009-2010 with Chelsea.
- Charity / Community Shield ( 2 ):
- Winner: 1998 with Arsenal and 2009 with Chelsea.
Personal distinctions
- Best striker
- Top scorer in the English Championship in 2009 (19 goals)
- Top scorer in the FIFA World Club Championship in 2000 (3 goals)
- Top scorer in the FA Cup in 2009 (4 goals)
- Other
- Elected revelation of the year by France Football in 1998
- Best Young Premier League Player in 1999
- Named to the Premier League type squad in 1999 and 2009
- Premier League Player of the Month in February 1999 and November 2008
- Second Frenchman to cross the 100-goal mark in the English Championship, after Thierry Henry
- Second Frenchman with the most appearances in the English Championship, after Sylvain Distin
The private life of Nicolas Anelka
Nicolas Anelka: Filmography and games
- 2002 Le Boulet by Alain Berberian: Himself
- He appears in the Foot 2 rue series in episode 19 Cruise with Nico then 20 Bienvenue à Tunis in season 3.
- He is also in the console game Foot 2 Rue: Nicolas Anelka on Wii and Nintendo DS released in November 2009.
- In 2020, Netflix is broadcasting the biographical documentary Anelka the Incomprehended.
