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Fabien Barthez

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Born
1971 (52 years old)

Birth Place
Lavelanet, France

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Goalkeeper

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Fabien Alain Barthez (born 28 June 1971) is a French racing driver and former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. At club level, he played football in both France and England with Toulouse, Marseille, AS Monaco, Manchester United, and Nantes. At international level, he represented the France national team, with whom he won the 1998 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 2000, and the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup, representing his nation at a total of three editions of both the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship; he also reached the final of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, after which he retired from international football.
Nicknamed Le Divin Chauve ("The Divine Bald One"), due to his trademark shaved head, Barthez was France's most capped player in the FIFA World Cup, with 17 appearances at the finals and shares the record for the most World Cup finals clean sheets with Peter Shilton, with ten. In club football, he won the UEFA Champions League with Olympique Marseille in 1993 as well as several Ligue 1 and Premier League titles. After retiring from football in 2007, Barthez began a career in motorsport in 2008.
Barthez was born in Lavelanet, Ariège.
On 2 July 2010, after Laurent Blanc's appointment as the new manager of the France national team, Barthez was named among the team's technical staff as a goalkeeping coach.
Through his career, Barthez was known for his active romantic life, and dated Canadian model Linda Evangelista. She became pregnant but miscarried, six months into the pregnancy. The couple broke up in 2000, reunited in 2001, and then officially ended their relationship in 2002. Barthez is a smoker. Known for his eccentric and superstitious personality, Barthez often wore red briefs underneath his goalkeeping shorts, and usually cut off the sleeves of his goalkeeping jersey. Although most starting goalkeepers are usually assigned the number 1 shirt, he instead chose to wear the number 16 shirt.


Career Honours

FIFA Confederations Cup
2003

France

Premier League
2002-2003

Manchester United

Premier League
2000-2001

Manchester United

UEFA European Championship
2000

France

Ligue 1
1999-2000

Monaco

FIFA World Cup Golden Glove
1998

France

FIFA World Cup
1998

France

Trophée des Champions
1997

Monaco

Ligue 1
1996-1997

Monaco

UEFA Champions League
1992-1993

Marseille

Ligue 1
1992-1993

Marseille


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Former Youth Teams

1986-1990


Former Senior Teams

1990-1992

1992-1995

1994-2006

1995-2000

2000-2004

2003-2004 (Loan)

2004-2006

2006-2007


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Manchester UnitedAppearancesEnglish Premier League2000-200130



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