He has won many championships in his football career, the most dazzling of which is to help the national team win the World Cup and the European Cup, his national team career is undoubtedly successful, but in the club he is not as lucky as in the national team, he occasionally has many mistakes in the club's matches, resulting in the media ruthlessly giving the title of "butter hand". That being said, that doesn't change the fact that he was still one of the top goalkeepers in football at the time, he was from France on the continent of Europa, his name was Fabian Butters.
Born on 28 June 1971 in Lavarane, France, Fabian Butters has shown extraordinary goalkeeper talent from an early age, and although he is not tall in the position of goalkeeper, it can even be said to be a little short (182cm), but he makes up for his height difference with his judgment, standing position and extremely sharp reflexes. Butters' solo career began in Toulouse, and in his first season (91/92), Butters made 26 appearances to help the team reach 11th place in the league, and his performance attracted the attention of Marseille, the veteran powerhouse of Ligue 1. In the summer of '92, the 21-year-old Butters joined Marseille, and at that time he must not have thought of winning the championship when he first came to the new club, but the strange thing is that the championship is taken back...
In the 92/93 season, the 21-year-old Butters joined Marseille and represented the team in Ligue 1, in which Butters made 30 appearances to help the team win the Ligue 1 title, not only that, they also defeated the AC Milan team with the legendary star Van Basten in the Champions League final of that year, and the big ear cup was also the first Champions League title won by the French club and the only Champions League title in Butters' career.
Butters was supposed to win the double (Ligue 1, Champions League) that season, but later due to the discovery of "bribery incidents", the French Football Association stripped Marseille of the Ligue 1 title in the 92/93 season, and Butters lost his first league title. It wasn't until the '96/97 season that Butters had already joined Monaco, where he made 36 appearances to help his team win the league title, and he finally achieved his dream of winning the league.
A year later, in the summer of 1998, Butters made his first appearance on the Stage of the World Cup, and he swept everything with France, winning all three games in the group stage and conceding only one goal to advance to the quarter-finals. France then defeated paraguay and Italy, two strong teams, to advance to the semi-finals of 1998.
In the semi-finals, facing Croatia with the Golden Boot of the 98th World Cup - Davao Souk, the French team was under great pressure, especially after Suque broke through the gate guarded by Butters, the French team began to tense, but the Gaul Rooster with Butters and the four-man defender line plus three midfielders together, so that the French team never conceded a goal in the later matches, and finally Thuram scored two valuable goals 2-1 to help France eliminate Croatia to reach the 98 World Cup final.
In the 1998 Fifa World Cup final in France, France faced a soulless and dysfunctional Brazilian team, the Gallic Rooster easily defeated the Samba Army 3-0, Butters and France stood on the top of the world together, and the Hercules Cup was the only World Cup title in Butters' career. We were witnessing the French team canonization, but also witnessing the timeless scene of Blank kissing Butters' bald head before the game started...
Two years later, at Euro 2000 in The Netherlands and Belgium, Thuram + Desailly + Blank + Lizarazu formed a steely and watertight defensive combination, coupled with butters guarding the goal, and the legendary star Zidane in midfield, which allowed France to sweep the European Championship. In the Euro 000 Euro 200 Gallic Rooster vs. The Blues, Butters created Viltoed's stoppage-time equaliser to pull france back from the cliff. In the end, with Trezeguet scoring a golden ball killer match, the Gallic Rooster won the second European Championship in the team's history, when Butters and France won two shining championships in three years and dominated world football for a while.
In the summer of 2000, Butters joined Ferguson's Manchester United with two titles (World Cup and European Cup), and although the Frenchman was one of the top goalkeepers in football at the time, he did not make a good impression on the British. Due to the occasional "butter hand" in the game, Butters was awarded the title of "butter hand". In addition to this, sometimes Butters will also play a little clever, he will use the abandonment of defense and the extension of the offside in the game to induce the opponent's striker to give up the shot...
Although Butters can be a little absent-minded from time to time, he helped the Red Devils win two Premier League titles during his three years at Manchester United, and Butters also won four of the top European league titles in his career.
In 2003, the 32-year-old Butters returned to Marseille, expecting him to return to his old club and return to his national team, but the result was still bad. Butters was suspended for six months after spitting on a Moroccan referee in a friendly match between Marseille and Morocco's Casablanca Love, and Marseille never renewed his contract.
In the 2006 World Cup, the then head coach of the French team, Domenek, still chose to let Butters serve as the starting goalkeeper of the 2006 World Cup, which caused some controversy in France at that time, after all, Butters' poor performance in the club was obvious to everyone. However, Butters ended the controversy with a brilliant performance, and the 35-year-old played seven games, including four clean sheets, all the way to lead the Gaul Rooster to the final. Unfortunately, in the final final, France lost to Italy in the penalty shootout, and all 5 penalty shooters of the Blue Army were freed, and Butters regrettably lost the second Hercules Cup that he should have won in his life.
In 2006, the 35-year-old Butters announced his retirement, and a generation of legendary French goalkeepers came to an end, although Butters made many low-level mistakes at the club and was ridiculed by fans and the media, but this did not erase his contribution to the club. On the national team, Butters won everything for France, a World Cup and a European Cup are enough to make him a football legend, and his professional achievements should be remembered by the world.
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