Profile Michel Bastos

Personal information :

Full name : Michel Fernandes Bastos
Date of birth : 2 August 1983
Place of birth : Pelotas, Brazil
Height : 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position : Left winger , Left back
Current club : Lyon
Number : 11
Youth career :
1994–2001 Pelotas
Senior career :
2001–2003 Feyenoord
2002–2003 Excelsior (loan)
2003–2006 Atlético Paranaense
2004 Grêmio (loan)
2005 Figueirense
2006–2009 Lille
2009– Lyon
National team :
2009– Brazil

Club career

Bastos was born in the Brazilian city of Pelotas and started his career playing for hometown club Esporte Clube Pelotas. In 2001, he transferred to the Netherlands connecting Dutch club Feyenoord Rotterdam playing for the Jong Feyenoord, the club's open space section. Following a hire stint at nearby Excelsior Rotterdam, he returned to Brazil connecting Atlético Paranaense. Bastos resultant played for Grêmio and Figueirense in the past deciding to return to Europe.

Lille OSC

Bastos connected French club Lille OSC in 2006 and organised his league debut in the club's possibility fit of the 2006–07 season against Rennes playing 65 minutes in the past being substituted out. Lille won the fit 2–1. Bastos scored his first objective for the club against Lens in the every year Derby du Nord and wrapped higher the season with a total of three goals. Over the subsequent couple seasons, his objective goods effected speedily increased. He scored eight league objectives during the 2007–08 season, surrounding objectives against Rennes, Lyon, and Lorient to assist Lille final view in a respectable 7th place. During this season, Bastos started alternating between the withdrew behind and withdrew winger position. For the 2008–09 season, he was installed in the withdrew winger role permanently. He scored his first objective in just the second fit of the season in a 1–3 loss to Le Mans. Two weeks resultant, he scored in the club's 2–1 win through Bordeaux and, a week resultant, scored again, this time in a 1–1 draw with Sochaux. He also scored in a 2–2 draw against Lyon. With the fit tied 1–1, Lille had a loose kick from an bizarre curved component from 30 meters out. Bastos took the loose kick with his forceful withdrew foot delivering it with such compel, Lyon keeper Hugo Lloris could not finish it.

From 11 November 2008 onwards, Bastos scored in five straight matches. He scored objectives against Marseille, Lorient, Toulouse, Nice, and Le Havre. Lille collected 2 wins and 3 draws in that span. Several weeks resultant, he started another streak scoring a objective in six straight matches. With Lille winning all of those fits, they transferred into the European locations in the standings and lastly wrapped higher 5th earning a UEFA Cup spot on the final day of the season. In total that season, Michel arose in 41 fits and scored 16 objectives, 14 in the league and also augmented on nine objectives, which led Ligue 1. He was awarded the Trophée du Meilleur Passeur and became the simply performer in Ligue 1 history to arise in the seal five of both the goalscorers' office desk and the assists' office desk since the innovation of the assists' office desk for the 2007–08 season.[citation needed] He was also selected for the Ligue 1 Player of the Year Award and called to the league's Team of the Year.

Olympique Lyonnais

On 15 July 2009, Lille president Michel Seydoux divulged that the club had recognised an €18 million offer from Olympique Lyonnais. On 16 July, Bastos successfully surpassed his medical and equated to a four-year contract taking in him Lyon's second signing of the summer pursuing Argentine Lisandro López. He was given to the media, along with fellow novel signing Aly Cissokho, on 20 July and was distributed the diagram 7 shirt. Michel scored his first objective for Lyon in the first leg of the club's playoff throughout fit against Anderlecht in the UEFA Champions League. In the club's 5–1 victory, he scored the 3rd objective, originating in from the right side and unleashing a left-footed assault into the seal withdrew corner. On 21 February 2010, Bastos scored a 21 very small hat-trick against Sochaux. Lyon won the fit 4-0. Michel Bastos was distributed his the darling diagram 11 shirt on the 30th July 2010, and celebrated this by scoring a free-kick against Celtic during the Emirates Cup.

International career

Prior to connecting Lyon, Bastos had never been summoned higher to the Seleção. Bastos referred his transfer to Lyon as an noteworthy factor in attempting to earn a spot on Brazil's 2010 FIFA World Cup team. On 27 October 2009, Bastos was picked, for the very first time, by the national team for friendly fits against England and Oman. He organised his national team debut in the England fit commencing in the withdrew behind position. Bastos resultant commenced in the same placement in Brazil's subsequent couple friendly fits against Oman and the Republic of Ireland in February 2010 and, on 11 May 2010, was subsequently called to the 23-man squad to participate in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. On 2 June, Bastos scored his first worldwide objective in Brazil's 3–0 rout of Zimbabwe.