Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Profile Hugo Lloris

Personal information :

Full name : Hugo Lloris
Date of birth : 26 December 1986
Place of birth : Nice, France
Height : 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position : Goalkeeper
Current club : Lyon
Number : 1
Youth career :
1993–1997 CEDAC Cimiez
1997–2005 Nice
Senior career :
2005–2008 Nice
2008– Lyon
National team :
2003–2004 France U18
2004–2005 France U19
2005–2006 France U20
2006–2008 France U21
2008– France

Club career

Nice

After consuming almost three years in the parks, he was promoted to the first team squad and allocated the figure 1 shirt. He was designated via administrator Frédéric Antonetti as the team's beginning goalkeeper for the club's Coupe de la Ligue campaign forward of fan-favorite and Nice-born as well Damien Gregorini, whoever was relied more upon in league play. Lloris prepared his businessman debut on 25 October 2005, at the age of 18, recording a wash page in Nice's 2–0 Coupe de la Ligue win across Châteauroux. He listed another wash page the chasing around against Sedan and facilitated Nice upset favorites Bordeaux and Derby de la Côte d'Azur rivals Monaco in the quarterfinals and semi-finals, respectively, meaning the club had arrived its first-ever Coupe de la Ligue final. In the final, Lloris played the complete suit in the club's 2–1 defeat against Nancy.
Lloris prepared his league debut on 18 March 2006 against Nancy picking upward a wash page in a 1–0 victory. He prepared four more league arrivals that season. The chasing season, Lloris was given the beginning vocation permanently forward of Gregorini, whoever subsequently departed the club for Nancy. Lloris emerged in all but one league suit recording 13 wash pages as Nice done in 16th place. Despite the discouraging ending, the club was the fifth-best defensive team in the league with Lloris conceding merely 36 goals. Only veterans Grégory Coupet, Cédric Carrasso, and Ulrich Ramé granted fewer. For the early fraction of the 2007–08 season, Lloris suffered a repeated ligament injury in his retired knee, which coerced him to miss three weeks in September. He returned to the team on six October 2007 in a league suit against Le Mans, but was substituted out afterwards 71 minutes afterwards the injury relapsed. Lloris missed a further six weeks ago returning on 24 November in the team's 2–1 victory across Paris Saint-Germain. He emerged uniformly with the team for the relax of the season as Nice done in 8th position, the club's best ending in the league since finalising 6th in the 1988–89 season. Lloris granted merely 24 targets in his thirty arrivals recording 13 wash sheets. He contributed to a defense that merely granted thirty overall during the season, tied for the league-best. Lloris' exertions that season led to him being approached via a figure of tall European clubs with hopes of signing him for the future.

Lyon

After another concrete season with Nice, speculation stemmed as to where Lloris would play the chasing season. He was initially linked to French club Lyon, whoever hoped him to displace the leaving Grégory Coupet, Milan, whoever hoped him to displace the Brazilian Dida, and Tottenham Hotspur, whoever hoped Lloris to displace Paul Robinson. After reportedly emanating to physical terms with Milan, Lloris snubbed the Italian club for seven-time Ligue 1 heroes Lyon. Milan vice president Adriano Galliani subsequent certified that an accordance had been all but arrived stating that Lloris was "practically ours", but the sell arrived a faltering frustrate as shortly as Milan goalkeeper Christian Abbiati refused a shift to Palermo. Lloris recounted his verdict mentioning Lyon's European ambitions, more playing time at Lyon, and in Milan, he was not assured the beginning goalkeeper spot. The transfer payment was originally undisclosed, but was subsequent explored to be priced at €8.5 million. He was promptly handed the figure 1 jersey and also the beginning goalkeeper position.

Lloris prepared his club debut in the team's opportunity league suit of the 2008–09 season on ten August 2008 against Toulouse. Lyon won the suit 3–0 win paying the goalkeeper his first career wash page with the club. In the chasing three suits, Lloris earned wash pages against Lorient and regional rivals Grenoble and Saint-Étienne. Despite Lyon losing out on the name for the first time in seven years, he done the campaign conceding merely 27 targets in the league and recording 16 wash sheets; both of which were second-best to merely Cédric Carrasso. Lloris was, subsequently, dubbed the league's lid goalkeeper and also dubbed to the Team of the Year.

In the 2009–10 season, Lloris waited the club's first-choice goalkeeper and unlatched the fresh campaign via recording four wash pages in the club's first eight matches. For his plays in the month of September, he was awarded the UNFP Player of the Month becoming the first goalkeeper since Steve Mandanda in August 2008 to receive the award. Lloris earned media compliment for his plays against Liverpool in the UEFA Champions League. In the first suit, played at Anfield, Lloris prepared four saves keeping Liverpool to merely one goal. Lyon won the suit 2–1. In the second suit at the Stade Gerland, he resulted halts from shots via Fernando Torres, Dirk Kuyt, and Andriy Voronin in the first half, thereafter exhibited reflexes to refuse the Brazilian Lucas Leiva midway through the second period. Though Lyon granted late, the team drew the suit 1–1 with a target from Lisandro López in injury time. On eight November 2009, Lloris, alongside Marseille and France's figure pair goalkeeper Steve Mandanda each granted five targets in a thrilling 5–5 draw between Lyon and Marseille, though majority of the targets granted were attributed to "slack defending" exhibited via both clubs as reported via the media and both managers. On twenty December, Lloris done third behind Nicolas Anelka and Yoann Gourcuff in voting for the France Football 2009 French Player of the Year award.

Lloris waited uniform during the 2010 chip of the season conceding merely pair targets in the club's first four suits of the year with Lyon winning all of the them and Lloris picking upward pair wash sheets. On 16 February, Lloris earned a wash page in Lyon's first leg of its UEFA Champions League knockout around suit against Real Madrid. Lloris prepared pair saves in the team's 1–0 victory earning a finger-tipping save from a deflected Cristiano Ronaldo shot in the 61st tiny and making a reflex save on a shot from Gonzalo Higuaín three minutes subsequent to retain Lyon forward on the scoreline. Lyon subsequent achieved qualification to the quarterfinals in the competition afterwards drawing 1–1 in Madrid with Lloris conceding the opportunity target to Cristiano Ronaldo in the 6th minute. It was the goalkeeper's first target granted in across 620 minutes. On two May, Lloris gave the contribute on the game-winning target scored via Michel Bastos in Lyon's 1–0 win across Montpellier. A week subsequent, he was dubbed, for the second consecutive season, the UNFP Ligue 1 Goalkeeper of the Year. Ahead of the 2010–11 season, Lloris was appointed for the UEFA Club Goalkeeper of the Year award at the UEFA Club Football Awards, but no where out on the award to UEFA Champions League-winning keeper Júlio César of Internazionale.

International career

Lloris has been active on the global front with France first emerging with the under-18 team earning his debut on 11 Match 2004 in a friendly suit against Germany. He subsequent played with the under-19s and was fraction of the winning team at the 2005 European Under-19 Football Championship. Lloris emerged in all twenty suits the under-19 team contested. He prepared merely five arrivals with the under-21 team, initially because of his commitments to the senior team. On 11 October 2008, with the under-21 squad attempting to qualify for the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship, bus Erick Mombaerts paged upward Lloris to the team for their significant two-legged playoff against Germany, regardless Lloris having been paged upward to the senior team and the actor having final played for the team in August 2007. Lloris honored the call upward and began the second leg. With France seconds away from a dot in the tournament, because of the team's 1–1 draw in the first leg, Germany obtained a late target from Benedikt Höwedes. The 1–0 loss eliminated France from the competition and also ended Lloris's under-21 career.
Lloris received his first call-up to the senior national team for France's six February 2008 suit against Spain. However, he instead played for the B team in their friendly suit against the Congo DR, held the day ago the Spain friendly. After receiving a figure of more call ups in 2008, he eventually earned his first cap on 19 November 2008 in a 0–0 draw with Uruguay. On 9 September 2009, Lloris received his first global red card, against Serbia, chasing a foul on Nikola Žigić in the punishment box, regardless replays illustrating otherwise. Lloris returned to the team on 14 October playing the complete 90 minutes in the team's 3–1 win across Austria.

Lloris was praised via the media and players, similar, for his performance across pair legs against the Republic of Ireland that saw France earn a dot in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Former national team goalkeeper Grégory Coupet credited his performance as "phenomenal", whereas the French media branded him "Saint Lloris", which is a play on the nickname of Real Madrid counterpart Iker Casillas, whoever is assessed one of the lid goalkeepers in Europe at the moment. On 11 May 2010, Lloris was dubbed to Domenech's 30-man draft squad to participate in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He was subsequent dubbed to the 23-man team and installed as the first-choice goalkeeper to compete in the competition. On 11 June 2010, Lloris prepared his FIFA World Cup debut in the team's opportunity team degree suit against Uruguay earning a wash page in a 0–0 stalemate. Lloris emerged in both of France's other team degree suits, which were against Mexico and the lots South Africa. Against South Africa, Lloris engaged a goalkeeping mistake, which resulted in the opportunity target for the hosts. However, he redeemed himself subsequent in the suit via making a figure of saves to restriction the South Africans chances of underway to the knockout rounds. France no where the suit 2–1, which resulted in the team's elimination from the competition.

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