Andy Delort
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Full name | Andy Delort[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 9 October 1991 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Sète, France | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Montpellier | ||||||||||||||||
Number | 9 | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
1997–1999 | FC Sète 34 | ||||||||||||||||
1999–2000 | Pointe Courte AC Sète | ||||||||||||||||
2000–2002 | FC Sète 34 | ||||||||||||||||
2002–2003 | Pointe Courte AC Sète | ||||||||||||||||
2003–2008 | FC Sète 34 | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
2008–2009 | Ajaccio | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2009–2010 | Nîmes | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2010–2013 | Ajaccio | 47 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
2012 | → Metz (loan) | 13 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
2013–2014 | Tours | 36 | (24) | ||||||||||||||
2014–2015 | Wigan Athletic | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2015 | → Tours (loan) | 14 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
2015–2016 | Caen | 36 | (12) | ||||||||||||||
2016–2017 | Tigres UANL | 14 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
2017–2019 | Toulouse | 47 | (10) | ||||||||||||||
2018–2019 | → Montpellier (loan) | 36 | (14) | ||||||||||||||
2019– | Montpellier | 36 | (15) | ||||||||||||||
International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
2009 | France (beach) | 1 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
2011 | France U20 | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2019– | Algeria | 10 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22 November 2020 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16 November 2020 |
Andy Delort (Template:Lang-ar; born 9 of October 1991) is an Algerian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Ligue 1 club Montpellier HSC and the Algeria national team.
He is a former France U20s international, and has also represented the France beach soccer team. For the 2013–14 Ligue 2 season, Delort was named in the Team of the Year and nominated for Player of the Year.
Career
Early career
Delort was born in Sète, France, to a French father, Éric, and a French-Algerian mother.[2][3] He started his career at FC Sète 34. He joined AC Ajaccio in 2008, having finished top scorer at France U19 league level with 30 goals.[4] After coming through Ajaccio's youth ranks, he attracted interest from Bordeaux and Borussia Dortmund. After enjoying a trial at Borussia Dortmund, playing in the reserve team with Mario Götze and Shinji Kagawa, Dortmund offered him a contract. However, he chose to join Nîmes Olympique because of manager Jean-Michel Cavalli, claiming "a player who leapfrogs, burns his wings".[5] Delort also turned down a contract offer from Bordeaux.[citation needed]
Delort played his first game of Ligue 2 for Nîmes on 30 August 2009, coming on as a 53rd-minute substitute against FC Metz. During the season, he was rarely used in the first team making only three substitute appearances.[4]
Ajaccio and loan to Metz
Delort re-joined his original club, AC Ajaccio, on June 2010. He scored his first two goals at professional level on 15 September 2010 against Le Havre in the French League Cup, before achieving his first goals in the French Cup on 12 November 2010. His first Ligue 2 goals contributed to victories against SCO Angers on 17 December 2010 and against FC Istres. He signed his first professional contract for three and a half years with AC Ajaccio on 28 January 2011. On 11 March 2011, he was one of the players involved in a mass brawl when he was replaced in the match against FC Nantes. As a result of the incident, several players were given suspensions; both Delort and his teammate Carl Medjani received four-match bans.[5][6][7] He earned promotion to Ligue 1 with AC Ajaccio during the 2010–11 season, after finishing 2nd in the league.
On 31 January 2012, Delort signed a six-month loan deal with Ligue 2 club FC Metz,[8] where he scored 1 goal in 13 appearances.
He returned to AC Ajaccio for the 2012–13 season, and scored his first goal in Ligue 1 on 27 April 2013 in a 2–1 win over Montpellier HSC. In that season, he made 16 appearances in Ligue 1. In the same season, he scored 12 goals in 16 appearances for the club's reserve team.[4]
Tours
In the summer of 2013, Delort joined Ligue 2 side Tours FC. He finished the 2013–14 season as joint top scorer in Ligue 2, scoring 24 goals in 36 matches and was named in the Ligue 2 Team of the Year, as well as receiving a nomination for the Ligue 2 Player of the Year, eventually finishing runner-up to FC Metz’s Diafra Sakho for the award.[9]
Wigan Athletic
On deadline day of the summer 2014 transfer window, Delort signed for Championship side Wigan Athletic for a fee reported to be under £3 million. He was given the number 49 shirt.[10] Delort struggled at Wigan and amassed only 11 league appearances for the club, failing to score in any of them. In an interview with Hat Trick, he admitted that he had struggled to settle at Wigan following his sudden upheaval from France.[11]
Return to Tours on loan
Having not been able to settle well in England, Delort re-joined Tours on loan until the end of the season on transfer deadline day in the summer of 2015.[12] In doing so, he opted to take a 50% pay cut in order to obtain regular playing time again.[11]
SM Caen
Delort completed a transfer to Stade Malherbe Caen on 2 July 2015.[13] In his debut with Caen, he scored his first goal in a 1–0 defeat of Marseille on 8 August 2015.[14] At the start of the following season, Delort refused to attend training during a protracted transfer saga with Liga MX side Tigres UANL.[15]
Tigres UANL
On 2 September 2016, Delort's transfer to Tigres was officially announced becoming the second French player to join the team after André-Pierre Gignac. He signed a four-year contract while the transfer fee paid to Caen was reported as €8 million.[16] On 22 October 2016, he scored his first goal in Liga MX with Tigres, against Pumas UNAM at the Estadio Olímpico Universitario in a 3–1 victory. He spent less than six months at the club, however, scoring 3 goals in 14 appearances, before returning to France to join Toulouse.
Toulouse
On 26 January 2017, Delort returned to France, joining Toulouse on a reported four-year contract and for a reported transfer fee of €6 million.[17] He scored on his debut for the club on 2 February, netting the opening goal in a 4–0 win over Angers, and repeated the feat in his next two appearances against FC Lorient and SC Bastia.[18][19]
Montpellier
On 24 July 2018, Delort was loaned to Montpellier HSC until the end of the 2018–19 season with an option to buy.[20] On 12 June 2019, Delort signed permanently with Montpellier.[21]
International career
Delort played in the beach soccer team managed by Eric Cantona in 2009. During an amateur tournament in Sète, he was spotted by Laurent Castro, who asked him to play in the qualification for the 2009 World Cup.[5] He scored five goals in the qualifiers.
In 2011, he was selected by France Under 20s team by Francis Smerecki to play against the United States on 17 May 2011.[4] He was then called to participate in the 2011 Toulon Tournament in June with the France team, but had to pull out of the squad having suffered an injury in a league game.[citation needed]
Of Algerian descent through his mother, Delort expressed an interest in representing the Algeria national football team in April 2019.[22][23]
On 13 June 2019, Algeria national football team announced Delort's inclusion in the final squad for 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. Delort replaced Haris Belkebla whom a few days prior was suspended from the team for a mooning incident that happened live on fellow teammate Alexandre Oukidja's Fortnite Video stream.
He made his debut on 16 June 2019 in a friendly against Mali. He came on as a substitute for Yacine Brahimi in the 75th minute and scored the winning goal 5 minutes later in a 3–2 victory.[24]
Career statistics
Club
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International
- As of match played 16 November 2020[25]
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Algeria | 2019 | 7 | 1 |
2020 | 3 | 1 | |
Total | 10 | 2 |
International goals
- Scores and results list Algeria's goal tally first.[25]
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 16 June 2019 | Jassim bin Hamad Stadium, Doha, Qatar | Mali | 3–2 | 3–2 | Friendly |
2. | 16 November 2020 | National Sports Stadium, Harare, Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
Honours
Club
Tigres UANL
International
Algeria
Individual
- Ligue 2 top goal scorer: 2013–14; 24 goals[9]
- UNFP Ligue 2 Team of the Year: 2013–2014[9]
- Player of the Month of Ligue 2: March 2014[4]
References
- ^ "Algeria" (PDF). Confederation of African Football. 15 June 2019. p. 1. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
- ^ Billebault, Alexis (30 April 2019). "Andy Delort, le footballeur français qui rêve d'être sélectionné en Algérie". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 23 July 2019.
- ^ Okeleji, Oluwashina (29 April 2019). "Andy Delort: France-born Montpellier striker opts for Algeria". BBC Sport. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
- ^ a b c d e "In profile: Andy Delort". Wigan Athletic. 1 September 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
- ^ a b c Lopes, Jonathan (4 April 2012). "Andy Delort : " J'ai refusé un contrat du Borussia Dortmund " (1/2)". Sharkfoot (in French). Archived from the original on 6 April 2012. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
- ^ "Medjani suspendu 4 matches". Le Figaro (in French). 17 March 2011. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
- ^ Lainé, Guillaume (6 August 2015). "Andy Delort, buteur à coeur ardent". Ouest-France (in French). Retrieved 1 December 2015.
- ^ "Delort prêté à Metz". Maxifoot (in French). 31 January 2012. Retrieved 31 January 2012.
- ^ a b c "Sakho, maître de la L2" [Sakho, mater of the L2]. L'Equipe (in French). 11 May 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
- ^ "Transfer news: Andy Delort deal to Wigan confirmed by Tours". Sky Sports. 1 September 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
- ^ a b McFarlane, Brendan (5 August 2015). "Forget Wigan: what Andy Delort Did Next". French Football Weekly. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Sky Bet Championship: Wigan have allowed striker Andy Delort to returns to Tours on loan". Sky Sports. 2 February 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
- ^ "Delort completes transfer to SM Caen". sportsmole.co.uk. 2 July 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
- ^ O'Keefe, Chris (8 August 2015). "Result: Andy Delort inspires Caen win in Marseille". sportsmole.co.uk. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
- ^ "Rennes open talks with Andy Delort". Get Football News France. 30 December 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
- ^ "Transfert : Andy Delort avec Gignac aux Tigres (Officiel)". Foot01. 2 September 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
- ^ "Ligue 1 : Andy Delort transféré à Toulouse". Sud-Ouest (in French). 27 January 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
- ^ "Ligue 1 : Andy Delort libère Toulouse contre Angers". Le Monde. 5 February 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2017.(in French)
- ^ "Andy Delort :Quand tu marques, tu entres dans un état second…". La Depeche. 8 April 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2017.(in French)
- ^ "Andy Delort prêté à Montpellier". L'Équipe (in French). 24 July 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ^ "Ligue 1 : Andy Delort (Toulouse) définitivement à Montpellier". L'Équipe (in French). 12 June 2019. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
- ^ "Montpellier : Andy Delort aimerait jouer pour l'Algérie". L'ÉQUIPE.
- ^ "Andy Delort: France-born Montpellier striker opts for Algeria". BBC Sport. 29 April 2019.
- ^ "Algeria v Mali game report". Eurosport. 16 June 2019.
- ^ a b "Andy Delort". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ "Algeria hold on against Senegal to win Afcon". BBC Sport. 19 July 2019.
External links
- Andy Delort at the French Football Federation (archived) (in French)
- Andy Delort at Soccerway
- Andy Delort at National-Football-Teams.com
- 1991 births
- Living people
- People from Sète
- Sportspeople from Hérault
- Association football forwards
- Algerian footballers
- Algeria international footballers
- French footballers
- France youth international footballers
- Algerian people of French descent
- French people of Algerian descent
- French expatriate footballers
- 2019 Africa Cup of Nations players
- Ligue 1 players
- Ligue 2 players
- English Football League players
- Liga MX players
- Nîmes Olympique players
- AC Ajaccio players
- FC Metz players
- Tours FC players
- Wigan Athletic F.C. players
- Stade Malherbe Caen players
- Tigres UANL footballers
- Toulouse FC players
- Montpellier HSC players
- French expatriate sportspeople in Mexico
- Expatriate footballers in England
- Expatriate footballers in Mexico
- French beach soccer players