Profile Marouane Chamakh

Personal information

Full name : Marouane Chamakh
Date of birth : 10 January 1984
Place of birth : Tonneins, France
Height : 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position : Striker
Current club : Arsenal
Number : 29
Youth career :
1988–1994 Nérac
1994–2000 Marmandais
2000–2003 Bordeaux
Senior career
2003–2010 Bordeaux
2010– Arsenal
National team :
2003 France U19
2003– Morocco

Career

Early career

Chamakh originated his football career at the age of four playing for regional club Nérac FC in the nearby commune of Nérac. While at Nérac, he was evenly able on the field and off and earned good levels in school. Youth coaches at the club nicknamed him "Mr. George" afterwards the prior FIFA World Player of the Year George Weah because Chamakh "used to score four or five targets in every game". After six years at Nérac, Chamakh stringed FC Marmandais. While in Marmande, he devised his physical proficiencies and mannerisms, growing as tall as six ft 0 in (1.84 m) and also earning his first regional selection to play for the Aquitaine regional team in the Coupe Nationale.

Bordeaux

In 2000, Chamakh was courted via a figure of businessman clubs that hoped to receive his services. He drew hobby from Lens, Toulouse, Lorient, and Bordeaux. Chamakh finally decided to clue with Bordeaux due to the club's infrastructure and training facilities and also because of the plug proximity to his family. Upon his arrival, Chamakh was inserted into the club's youth academy. For the 2001–02 season, he was promoted to the club's Championnat de France amateur two team in the fifth division. Chamakh was interested thickly in the campaign of the team, coached via Jean-Louis Garcia. He emerged in 17 suits and scored six targets as the team done first in their team, therefore earning advertisement to the Championnat de France amateur.
Following the season, Chamakh turned businessman and gestured a three-year contract with Bordeaux. He consumed the descent chip of the 2002–03 campaign playing in the fourth division, but chasing the winter breach, was paged upward to the senior team via administrator Elie Baup. Chamakh prepared his businessman debut on 19 January 2003 in the team's Coupe de la Ligue suit against Metz. He emerged as a substitute and played 15 minutes in a 1–0 defeat. Chamakh prepared his league debut three weeks subsequent in a 2–0 home defeat to Bastia again emerging as a substitute. On twenty May, he scored his first businessman target against Nice, netting the equalizing target just a tiny ago injury time in a 1–1 draw. Chamakh emerged in 14 sport, invariably as a substitute, during the campaign. In the 2003–04 season, he was promoted to the senior team permanently via fresh administrator Michel Pavon and prepared his first businessman league begin on 1 November 2003 in a 1–0 win across Marseille. In the team's chasing suit, Chamakh scored the opportunity target in a 1–1 draw with Strasbourg just ago halftime. However, mid-way through the second half, he received his first career red card afterwards incurring a second yellow. Upon returning from his one-game suspension, Chamakh devised into a regular starter for the club, scoring targets in consecutive suits against Metz and Montpellier. He done the league campaign with six targets in 25 matches. In the club's UEFA Cup campaign, Chamakh netted four times in eight appearances.

In the 2004–05 season, Pavon decided to shift Chamakh into the lead striker location and install Argentine playmaker Juan Pablo Francia as a advocate striker. The shift was a success with Chamakh scoring ten league goals. He unlatched the campaign via scoring his first businessman cap trap in a 5–1 victory across Nice. In September 2004, Chamakh scored targets in back-to-back weeks against Bastia and Derby de la Garonne rivals Toulouse. He done the campaign via scoring the opportunity target in a 1–1 draw with Monaco. Despite the positive person season from Chamakh, Bordeaux done the campaign in 15th place; its harshest ending since ending the league campaign in 16th across a decade ago. Pavon, due to heart troubles, stepped down from his location and was displaced via Ricardo Gomes. Under Gomes, Chamakh strained to encounter the success of his earlier season scoring merely 12 league targets in 58 suits across the course of pair seasons. Two of his notable plays during Gomes' reign included scoring a double in league suits against Metz and Nancy. In the suit against the prior club, Chamakh scored both of his targets within a tiny of each other. He was subsequent ejected from the suit afterwards committing a red card offense. Chamakh ended the 2006–07 Ligue 1 campaign via hoisting the Coupe de la Ligue trophy afterwards featuring in the team's 1–0 victory across Lyon in the final match. It was Chamakh's first main club honour.

Following the withdrawal of Gomes, Bordeaux hired rookie administrator Laurent Blanc forward of the 2007–08 season. Chamakh has stated on a figure of occasions that Blanc was an significant figure in his growth as a footballer. However, as shortly as Blanc first arrived to the club, Chamakh strained to earn meaningful minutes because Blanc favourite David Bellion, a fresh recruit. His playing time upward front was further hampered via the arrival of striker Fernando Cavenaghi, whoever had a prolific season scoring 15 targets in merely 23 appearances. Due to Cavenaghi's emergence, Chamakh was accustomed as a objective man and scored a career-low four targets, since becoming a businessman in the league. In the 2008–09 season, Chamakh was relegated to emerging as a substitute for the first-half of the campaign. However, on 21 December 2008, Chamakh persuaded Blanc to adjustment his mind. With Bordeaux trailing 3–0 against Monaco, Chamakh emerged as a substitute and, within minutes on the field, scored a goal. Following a target from Alou Diarra to produce the suit 3–2, Chamakh equalized three minutes from time and, pair minutes subsequent, Cavenaghi netted the game-winner to give Bordeaux a 4–3 victory. Following the winter breach, Blanc decided to exert both Chamakh and Cavenaghi in the assail with influential playmaker Yoann Gourcuff acting in support. It was the prior whoever devised a uniform partnership with Gourcuff, and Chamakh answered via scoring eight league targets in the second half of the season. On thirty May 2009, Bordeaux potted their first league name since the 1998–99 season afterwards defeating Caen 1–0 at the Stade Chaban Delmas.Chamakh played the complete match. The club also won the Coupe de la Ligue, concluding the league and league cup double.

During the club's victory procession, with merely one year retired on his contract Chamakh certified that he would be staying at Bordeaux for the 2009–10 season, regardless intense hobby from Premier League club Arsenal. Despite the pronouncement, rumors of a shift to Arsenal lasted to surface with negotiations reportedly having been ongoing during the summer. On three August 2009, president Jean-Louis Triaud certified that Arsenal had sent a bid of €7 million for Chamakh and that he had discarded it, challenging that Arsenal renew its offer. The chasing day, Arsenal administrator Arsène Wenger broadcast that he would not be offering a superior sell and certified the possible transfer dead. The announcement subsequently led Chamakh to make sure his intent to remain at Bordeaux for the 2009–10 season. On 29 August, Chamakh reportedly snubbed a shift to West Ham. The club presented Bordeaux £18 million for the actor and presented Chamakh a four-year contract value £3 million a year. However, Chamakh waited strict on his stance, reiterating his engagement to Bordeaux.

In his final season with Bordeaux, Chamakh was evenly able in both the league and the UEFA Champions League. He originated the season asserting his fifth trophy on 25 July 2009 as Bordeaux won the 2009 Trophée des Champions in a 2–0 victory across Guingamp. Chamakh scored ten targets in league play and netted five in the Champions League, which included targets against Italian club Juventus and German club Bayern Munich in the team stage. Bordeaux were merely one of pair clubs to ending the group-stage chip undefeated. In the knockout circles, Chamakh scored a target in Bordeaux's 2–1 victory across Greek club Olympiacos in the second leg of the team's UEFA Champions League opportunity knockout around match. Bordeaux won the tie with a 3–1 compound scoreline to improve to the quarter-finals, where they faced league rivals Lyon. In the first leg, which Lyon won 3–1, Chamakh scored a crucial away goal. In the second leg, Chamakh translated another target to obtain the scoreline 3–2 on aggregate. However, in the second half, Bordeaux were unable to score another as Lyon approached to the semi-finals on the compound scoreline. In Ligue 1, Chamakh emerged in all 38 suits for the first time in his career. Despite beginning the campaign intense, Bordeaux plummeted out of the running for the league name in the spring and finally done the season in sixth position, failing to qualify for European competition following season.

Arsenal

On 21 May 2010, Chamakh ended his shift to Arsenal on a adrift transfer. The transfer took impression on 1 July 2010. He prepared his debut in a pre-season friendly against Barnet on 17 July, emerging as a substitute. On 27 July, he scored his first pre-season target for the club, translating a punishment in a 4–0 victory across Austrian club SC Neusiedl. In the 2010 edition of the Emirates Cup, Chamakh scored on his home debut against Italian club Milan. He prepared his Premier League debut on 15 August in the team's 1–1 draw with Liverpool. Chamakh contributed to the team's equalizing target via heading a traverse off the target post, which thereafter diverted off goalkeeper Pepe Reina and in to the rear of the net, resulting in an possess goal. On 21 August 2010, Chamakh scored his first Premier League target with a header against Blackpool. In the same suit, he won a punishment as shortly as he was fouled via Ian Evatt, which Andrei Arshavin subsequently translated in a 6–0 win for Arsenal. In his third begin in four sport, Chamakh scored the team's second target against Bolton in a 4–1 victory. On 15 September, in his first UEFA Champions League suit for the club, he scored the third target in a 6–0 win against Portuguese club SC Braga. Two weeks subsequent, Chamakh scored his second Champions League target for Arsenal against Serbian outfit FK Partizan. The target was his seventh target in his final eight Champions League matches. Following the global breach, Chamakh lasted his concrete model, scoring the winning target in a 2–1 victory across Birmingham City. Three days subsequent, he scored his eighth target in nine Champions League suits against Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk in a 5–1 rout. On ten November, Chamakh scored both targets in a midweek victory across Wolverhampton Wanderers. He scored the opportunity target 37 seconds into play, which is the fastest league target scored in the club's history. The earlier record was held via Thierry Henry, whoever scored a target afterwards 58 seconds for Arsenal against Reading on 22 October 2006. On twenty November, Chamakh scored a target in a 3–2 defeat against Tottenham Hotspur in the North London derby. A week subsequent, he translated another target, this time in a 4–2 win across Aston Villa.

International career

Chamakh is a Moroccan global at senior level. Prior to on behalf of Morocco, he played for the under-19 team of France and prepared his debut on 12 February 2003 in a friendly suit against the Czech Republic. That was his merely arrival with the team. Chamakh was paged upward to the team for the 2003 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship, but decreased the offer afterwards being paged upward for Morocco national team duty via bus Badou Zaki for the team's 2004 African Cup of Nations qualification suits against Sierra Leone and Gabon.[60] On seven June 2003, he prepared his debut with the team in the suit against Sierra Leone. On ten September 2003, Chamakh scored both targets, which included his first global target, in a 2–0 victory across Trinidad and Tobago. He participated in the relax of the qualification suits and was subsequent dubbed to participate in the tournament. Chamakh scored pair targets in the competition; one against Benin in the team degree and another in the quarter-finals against Algeria. Morocco defeat Mali in the semi-finals to arrive the final where they faced Tunisia. In the suit, Chamakh played the complete contest as Morocco were defeated 2–1 at the Stade seven Novembre in Tunis.

In qualification for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Chamakh scored three goals. One of his targets during qualification happened on eight October 2010 against Tunisia. With Morocco lacking a win to qualify for the World Cup, Chamakh unlatched the scoring in the third minute. However, the suit done 2–2 meaning Morocco merely had the satisfaction of qualifying for the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations. In the tournament, Morocco were eliminated in the team degree and departed the tournament without scoring a goal. In 2008, Chamakh was chosen to participate in his third consecutive Africa Cup of Nations and was held scoreless in the competition as Morocco were again eliminated in the team stage. In 2009–2010, Chamakh emerged in merely four suits and scored no targets as Morocco malfunctioned to qualify for both the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations and the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
On 11 August 2010, Chamakh captained the national team for the first time in a 2–1 win across the Equatorial Guinea.