David Ginola

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David Ginola
Ginola in 2014
Personal information
Full name David Ginola-Ceze[1]
Date of birth (1967-01-25) 25 January 1967 (age 57)[2]
Place of birth Gassin, France
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[3]
Position(s)
Winger
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1985–1988
Toulon
 82 (4)
1988–1990
RC Paris
 61 (8)
1990–1992 Brest 50 (14)
1992–1995 Paris Saint-Germain 115 (33)
1995–1997 Newcastle United 58 (6)
1997–2000 Tottenham Hotspur 100 (13)
2000–2002 Aston Villa 32 (3)
2002 Everton 5 (0)
Total 503 (81)
International career
1990–1995 France 17 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

David Ginola-Ceze (born 25 January 1967) is a French former professional footballer who has also worked as an actor, model and football pundit.

A

RC Paris, Brest and Paris Saint-Germain before moving to Newcastle United in the English Premier League in July 1995. He subsequently played for Tottenham Hotspur, Aston Villa and Everton before retiring in 2002. At international level, he made 17 appearances, scoring three goals, for the France national team
between 1990 and 1995.

Since his retirement from football, he has become involved in football punditry and acting. Ginola is a regular contributor to

BT Sport and CNN. He has hosted Match of ze Day, a program which broadcasts live Premier League matches on Canal+. In January 2015, Ginola attempted to run for the FIFA presidency but withdrew after failing to receive the required backing of at least five national football associations.[4][5][6][7][8]

Early life

David Ginola was born in Gassin, Var.[9]

Club career

Ginola made his first senior appearance for

RC Paris, where he remained until signing for Brest in 1990. There, he began to impress with his flamboyant style of play. In 1991, he played a crucial role in a landmark victory (3–2) against the side who would go on to sign him, Paris Saint-Germain
.

Paris Saint-Germain

Ginola joined Paris Saint-Germain in January 1992, at a time when it was pushing for major honours with the financial backing of TV channel

UEFA Cup. At the end of 1993, he was also won the French Footballer of the Year award from the France Football
magazine.

In his second full season in 1993–94, PSG won the second league title of its history, losing only three times. Alongside Paul Le Guen, Bernard Lama and Antoine Kombouaré and coached by Artur Jorge, Ginola provided 13 goals in 38 games, which made him the top club goalscorer.

The following season, under new manager Luis Fernandez, proved to be less successful in the league, with Nantes being crowned champions. Ginola scored 11 times in 28 league appearances. Paris Saint-Germain did shine in the cup competitions though, winning another Coupe de France as well as the first edition of the new Coupe de la Ligue. In the UEFA Champions League, the Parisian club caused a major shock after knocking out 1994's finalists Barcelona in the quarter-finals, with Ginola playing particularly well. The club was eliminated at the next hurdle by defending champions AC Milan.

In the summer of 1995, Ginola decided to leave France. Known to be a Spanish football enthusiast, he was expected to be snapped up by Barcelona. Furthermore, between 1992 and 1995, his stellar displays in European competitions against the Spanish giants

Real Madrid
and Barcelona had attracted media attention in Spain, with local media dubbing him "El Magnifico".

Newcastle United

In 1995, Ginola joined

Sheffield Wednesday in a 2–0 away win, and went on to score five league goals in his first season. In the 1995–96, Newcastle finished second, four points behind Manchester United. This was their strongest league performance in decades, and Ginola was an integral part of the team. However, it was a major disappointment that Newcastle had finished second in the Premier League
as they had led by up to 12 points as late as January.

In 1996, Barcelona's English manager Bobby Robson attempted personally to sign Ginola, but Newcastle refused to allow the transfer.[13] To add to their line-up, Newcastle paid £15m, breaking the transfer record, to sign Alan Shearer. Despite this, they finished second again behind Manchester United. Halfway through the season, Kevin Keegan suddenly resigned as manager to be succeeded by Kenny Dalglish. Ginola fell out of favour and sought a transfer elsewhere.[14]

Tottenham Hotspur

League Cup with a 1–0 victory over Leicester City at Wembley Stadium (in an earlier round he had scored from long range goal in a 3–1 win against Manchester United). Ginola is fondly remembered by Tottenham fans for his extravagant forward play and personality off the pitch. He was inducted into the club's Hall of Fame on 11 December 2008.[16][17]

Aston Villa

In July 2000, Ginola joined

Manchester City by taking off his jersey to unveil his toned physique.[20]

In January 2002, he was banned for two matches and fined £22,000 for stamping on an opponent and disputing his dismissal with the fourth official.[21]

Everton

In February 2002, Ginola signed for Everton,[22] playing five games for the club before retiring in May 2002, just after David Moyes took over as manager: Ginola was deemed surplus to requirements by Moyes, and made only one substitute appearance from March onwards. His contract was not renewed and, without a club, decided to retire.[23] He announced his intention to move into either acting or football coaching.

International career

Although Ginola was a very prominent French player, he did not see much action with the

Toulon Tournament. He was named the tournament's best player after France beat England 4–3 in the final.[24]

Ginola is infamous in France for his mistake in a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Bulgaria. France needed only a draw in their final group qualifying match on 17 November 1993 to qualify for the finals of the 1994 FIFA World Cup and Ginola had come on as a late substitute for Jean-Pierre Papin. With the score level at 1–1 in the last minute of the match, Ginola overhit a cross intended for Eric Cantona. The ball was collected by Emil Kremenliev, who launched a quick Bulgarian counterattack which resulted in Emil Kostadinov scoring the winning goal. Bulgaria thus won the match 2–1 and qualified for the 1994 World Cup finals at the expense of France.[25]

In a television interview aired on 18 November 1993,

Newcastle United.[27] Houllier's successor Aimé Jacquet regularly selected Ginola for international matches in the UEFA Euro 1996 qualifyings, but he wouldn`t be selected for the finals. He was used often only as a substitute. Ginola played his last match for the national team in 1995. In April 2012, a French court dismissed Ginola's lawsuit against Gérard Houllier for alleged defamation. In the book Secrets de coachs (Coaches' Secrets), Houllier was alleged to have made disparaging remarks about Ginola and to have referred to Ginola in offensive terms, blaming him for misplacing the cross that allowed Bulgaria to launch the decisive counterattack and secure the win over France during the final minute of the 1994 World Cup qualifier.[28][29]

Style of play

As a

winger, Ginola was renowned for his "magical" touch on the ball and his ability to get past players from any type of position and then manage to score a goal. His ability to do that was shown in games for Tottenham and Newcastle, with his most memorable goal in Newcastle's 5–0 win over Premier League giants Manchester United on 20 October 1996, becoming a flamboyant part of the memorable "Entertainers" Newcastle side of his era, which also featured other highly acclaimed players including Alan Shearer, Les Ferdinand, Faustino Asprilla, Peter Beardsley and Keith Gillespie
.

In 1999, Dutch legend Johan Cruyff remarked that it was his belief that Ginola was currently the best player in the world.[30] He was also notorious for his difficult character and lack of discipline both on and off the pitch, which led him to be involved in confrontations with other players as well as some of his managers. As such, his compatriot Eric Cantona criticised him for his poor mentality, despite his technical ability.[31][32] In 2015, The Daily Telegraph placed Ginola at number 15 in their list of "The top 20 overrated football players of all time," describing him as "one of the world's best on his day, but unfortunately his day was very infrequent. Ginola's carefree attitude infuriated most of the managers he worked with, which is partly why he never lasted more than three years at any club. Too often Ginola was a luxury player who struggled for consistency."[33]

Other pursuits

Ginola worked as a football pundit with the BBC, BT Sport, Canal Plus, CNN, Sky Sports and Talksport.[34]

On 16 January 2015, Ginola announced that he would be running for the presidency of FIFA for which he was paid a £250,000 fee by the Irish bookmaker Paddy Power. He would attempt to raise £2.3 million to fund the campaign for the FIFA presidency through contributions via a crowdfunding program. He started his campaign on the same day by denouncing the credibility of Sepp Blatter’s FIFA before admitting he knew little about the governing body's processes or institutions. The elections to select the next FIFA president would be due on 29 May 2015. Ginola withdrew his candidacy on 29 January, the deadline for candidates to formally submit their nominations, after failing to secure the support of at least five national football associations.[35][36]

In 2008, Ginola received a silver medal at the International Wine Challenge for a rosé wine produced at his vineyard in Provence.[37]

Ginola was one of the contestants in the first season of

twenty-first series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in the United Kingdom. He ultimately ended in 4th.[38]

Acting

Ginola took his first steps towards a career in acting by attending classes at RADA.

Ginola made his debut as 'Didier the Butcher', the leading part in the Anglo-French short film Rosbeef. Rosbeef, a tale of love, lust and a kilo of sausages, premiered during the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. The same year Rosbeef won a prize, the 'Prix Coup de Coeur Canal+' at the Festival International de Cinéma et Gastronomie in Dijon. Next he played the title role, Mr Firecul the devil in the British short film Mr Firecul.

For his first feature film, The Last Drop, Ginola was cast as 'Corporal Dieter Max', a renegade German sniper alongside the likes of Agathe de la Boulaye, Michael Madsen, Nick Moran, Karel Roden and Billy Zane. This World War II heist movie premiered in Cannes in 2005 and was released as Operation Matchbox.

In 2000, Ginola made a cameo appearance in the first episode of the ITV drama series At Home with the Braithwaites. In 2003, Ginola played himself, announcing the results for the first Euro Lottery. In 2004, he played the leading role in The Centre, a BBC television documentary and in 2006 he appeared in the second series of Channel 4's Coach Trip during episode 22, in which he acted as a tour guide of Sainte-Maxime. Later that year Ginola appeared, again as himself, in the ITV series City Lights. In 2008, Ginola appeared in an episode of Chop Shop on Discovery Turbo where he had a one-off car designed for his son's birthday and in the same year he appeared as Alexandre, a fashion photographer, in the special edition of the CBS series The Young and the Restless, shot in Paris to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the show's broadcast in France where it is known as Les Feux de l'amour.

Endorsements

Before moving to England, Ginola had already transcended the world of football by featuring in advertising campaigns for the Morgan clothing company and appearing on the catwalk for Cerruti.

In England, he fronted commercials for a.o. Braun shavers, Carte Noire coffee, Kingston Technologies memory sticks, Ladbrokes sports betting, L'Oréal hair products and Renault cars.[39]

Ginola featured in the EA Sports' FIFA video game series; he was on the cover for the International edition of FIFA 97, and was introduced in FIFA 23 as a FUT Hero player.[40][41] Ginola was an ambassador for the Paris 2012 Olympic bid and was also an ambassador for the French Golf Federation in their successful bid to stage the Ryder Cup 2018 in France. Ginola campaigned worldwide for the English FA bid to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup.[42]

He is a campaigner for the Red Cross Anti-Landmine campaign and UNESCO and was respectively patron and president of the UK based Vision and Sparks charities.[43][44][45][46]

Personal life

Ginola married fashion model Coraline in 1991. The couple have a son and a daughter, Andrea and Carla; they lived near Saint-Tropez. They split and Ginola entered a relationship with model Maeva Denat,[47][48] with whom he has a child.[49]

In May 2010 David Ginola faced a court summons for "abandoning his family" after Joëlle Pinquier, 41, claimed he was the father of daughter Joy, 17, and had not handed over support payments. Miss Pinquier, claimed Ginola had failed to abide by a 2006 court ruling ordering him to pay child maintenance of £400 a month. The French court ordered him to pay the sum after he refused to take a DNA test to ascertain whether he was the father. Criminal proceedings were dropped after he paid the full £30,000 arrears. [50]

On the afternoon of 19 May 2016, Ginola was playing a charity football match at the home of Jean-Stéphane Camerini (the organiser of the Mapauto Golf Cup) in

defibrillator on him; it took five shocks from the machine to restore normal heart rhythm within 10 minutes. Ginola was airlifted minutes later by a helicopter to the Cardiothoracic Center of Monaco 40 km northeast of Mandelieu, where he underwent an immediate, six-hour, operation. Professor Gilles Dreyfus, who operated on Ginola, said that were it not for Mendy who administered CPR on him he would be dead, or have suffered permanent brain damage. Dreyfus said that Ginola had "very complicated coronary lesions " which required the quadruple heart bypass operation to be performed. The morning after being admitted to the hospital, Ginola woke up "perfectly normally" with no neurological damage and was "recovering well."[51][52][53] Prof Dreyfus said Ginola was "very lucky to be alive". On 30 May 2016, Ginola was discharged from hospital and returned home, thanking people on Twitter for their "incredible messages of love and affection".[54]

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] League cup[b] Europe Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Toulon
 1985–86 Division 1 14 0 0 0 – – – 14 0
1986–87 Division 1 35 0 1 0 – – – 36 0
1987–88 Division 1 33 4 3 1 – – – 36 5
Total 82 4 4 1 – – – 86 5
RC Paris 1988–89 Division 1 29 7 2 1 – – – 31 8
1989–90 Division 1 32 1 6 1 – – – 38 2
Total 61 8 8 2 – – – 69 10
Brest 1990–91 Division 1 33 6 3 1 – – – 36 7
1991–92 Division 2 17 8 0 0 – – – 17 8
Total 50 14 3 1 – – – 53 15
Paris Saint-Germain 1991–92 Division 1 15 3 2 1 – – – 17 4
1992–93 Division 1 34 6 6 2 – 9[c] 2 – 49 10
1993–94 Division 1 38 13 3 3 – 8[d] 2 – 49 18
1994–95 Division 1 28 11 2 0 3 0 10[e] 1 – 43 12
Total 115 33 13 6 3 0 27 5 – 158 44
Newcastle United 1995–96 Premier League 34 5 2 0 4 0 – – 40 5
1996–97 Premier League 24 1 2 0 2 0 7[c] 1 1[f] 0 36 2
Total 58 6 4 0 6 0 7 1 1 0 75 7
Tottenham Hotspur 1997–98 Premier League 34 6 3 1 3 2 – – 40 9
1998–99 Premier League 30 3 6 3 5 1 – – 41 7
1999–2000 Premier League 36 4 2 1 2 1 3[c] 0 – 43 6
Total 100 13 11 5 10 4 3 0 – 124 22
Aston Villa 2000–01 Premier League 27 3 1 0 0 0 – – 28 3
2001–02 Premier League 5 0 0 0 2 0 6[c] 2 – 13 2
Total 32 3 1 0 2 0 6 2 – 41 5
Everton 2001–02 Premier League 5 0 2 0 0 0 – – 7 0
Career total 503 81 46 15 21 4 43 8 1 0 614 108
  1. ^ Includes Coupe de France, FA Cup
  2. Football League Cup
  3. ^
    UEFA Cup
  4. European Cup Winners' Cup
  5. ^ Appearances in UEFA Champions League
  6. FA Charity Shield

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year[55]
National team Year Apps Goals
France 1990 1 0
1991 0 0
1992 2 0
1993 4 1
1994 6 1
1995 4 1
Total 17 3

Honours

RC Paris

Paris Saint-Germain

Tottenham Hotspur

Aston Villa

France U21

  • Toulon Tournament
    : 1987

Individual

See also

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