Giant passers-by, game demons, fringe internationals, those players you forgot, live stream remember. This issue of football brings you French midfielder Mathieu Flamini.
Player profiles
Name: Mathieu flamini
Age: 35 (born 7 March 1984)
Nationality : French
Place of birth: Marseille, France
Youth team: Marseille Club
Position: Lower back
Height: 178cm
Weight: 76kg
Dominant foot: Right foot
Mainly played for: Arsenal, ac Milan
Technical characteristics: tough style, active running, large defensive coverage, defensive awareness and skills are superior, but the foot technology is relatively rough.
The debut of the Marseille youth
Flamini was born on 7 March 1984 in marseille, the southern French city of Marseille, the capital of provence, the ultimate city with a mediterranean flair and a romantic French temperament. But for Flamini, the only memory of his youth is football, and aspiring to become a football player, he began scientific and systematic training at the Marseille Football Club as a child, and gradually became the best among his peers.
In the summer of 2003, at the age of 19, Flamini finally entered the first team of Marseille and made his professional debut in a Ligue 1 match on 20 December of that year. Debuting in professional football, Flamini has made a deep impression, although he is not physically strong enough, but he is very active in running, has excellent defensive awareness, and can also share some organizational tasks for the team's midfield. That season, Flamini played a total of 14 matches in Ligue 1, and also reached the final of the UEFA Cup in the 03/04 season, in which the performance of "golden oil" quickly attracted the attention of many giants.
In the summer of 2004, Professor Wenger, who has always been known for developing young players, took the young French midfielder and brought Flamini from France to North London for free on a free transfer. On 15 August 2004, the 20-year-old Frenchman made his first appearance in an official match for Arsenal in the Premier League against Everton. However, due to the abundant talent of Arsenal's midfield at that time, Flamini has not been able to get a stable chance to play, and even had to play as a full-back at one point. Throughout the 04/05 season, Flamini played 21 league games and scored 1 goal, and more of the time he had to practice hard in the reserve team or league cup. From this point of view, Gondozi, who has been given so many exercise opportunities in official Premier League matches now, is really much happier.
Despite this, Flanimi was not discouraged, at the Kearney training base, the Frenchman always maintained a strong fighting spirit and excellent professional attitude, thanks to his own efforts and the words and deeds of the big brothers such as Vieira, Gilberto Silva, etc., after a season, Flamini improved rapidly in defense, and also practiced good assist ability and long-range shooting, which also laid a solid foundation for the development of his future career.
A brief pinnacle of a career
I'm afraid even Flamini himself could not have imagined that his peak at Arsenal could come so quickly.
In the 05/06 season, although wenger was still often placed in the position of full-back he did not like, or still often played as a substitute, Flamini had no regrets and gave everything for Arsenal in a limited time. That season, Vranimi made 31 Appearances in the Premier League, which also set a record for a single season of his career.
In the Champions League, Real Madrid defended the team on the left side
More importantly, although Arsenal has always stumbled in the Premier League, it has cut Juve, passed Real Madrid, won the submarine in the Champions League, and reached the final, among which Flamini's performance is also remarkable. In February 2006, in arsenal's quarter-final against Real Madrid, Flamini, who played as a left-back, showed a rare composure on the field, with solid defense, aggressive substitutions and clean steals to help the team keep a clean sheet. After the game, Professor Wenger was overjoyed and said, "Flamini is active, full of hard work, and balanced offensive and defensive ability, he is a very important member of the team." ”
Flamini's wonderful shovel
In the 06/07 season, the more mature Flamini was finally able to appear more in his favorite defensive midfield position. By the summer of 2007, when Gilberto Silva returned to the Emirates Stadium in London with the Copa America title, his main back position had been taken away by Flamini. Wenger's explanation for this is that "Flamini is more dynamic than Gilberto". In fact, Flamini did not live up to the expectations of the professor, and in the 07/08 season, his midfield combination with Hleb, Fabregas and Rosicky set off an unstoppable youth storm in the Premier League.
Like Gattuso of ac Milan, Flaminigan, who has no genius, does dirty work, and he provides excellent protection for his midfield companions, occasionally stepping forward to pick up a world wave, and more importantly, Flamini's full fighting spirit is an invaluable asset to the slightly bloodless Arsenal. That season, the young Gunners led the way in the standings, but suddenly collapsed in the final stages of the season, losing a good game. At the end of the season, Vranimi, who was "mourning more than heartbroken", announced a free transfer to sign ac Milan after failing to deliver on a salary increase. Along with Flanimi, he also left with the peak of his short career and the endless memories in the hearts of Arsenal fans.
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From North London to St Siro, Flanimi's days have plummeted.
Wonderful shoveling of the Milan period
Since joining, he has been regarded as Gattuso's successor by ac Milan fans, and at first he mostly appeared as a substitute, but he has never been able to reach the heights of the Arsenal era. Subsequently, subject to various reasons such as positioning and mentality, Flamini's career turned around and gradually became mediocre. The Frenchman in Milan city not only failed to realize the potential of "new Gattuso", but even failed to occupy the main position of a team during Gattuso's injury.
Goals from the Milan period
The deal, once considered ac Milan's most successful deal, was at the top of the "ac Milan most disappointed signing list" by The Whole Market a few years later. In the 10/11 season, after following the team to win the only top league title of his career, Flamini's space in the ac Milan squad has become smaller and smaller, and even in the 11/12 season that followed, he played only two pitiful games in the league.
Flamini's wonderful defense
Brilliant goal in the late Arsenal period
In the summer of 2013, Flamini, who had spent five years in Italy, returned to his old club Arsenal on a free transfer, but in the three years of Arsenal, Flamini was still able to participate in the defense in a decent manner, but he never made much of an impression. In 2016, flamini, after the expiration of his contract, once again joined Crystal Palace as a free agent, and then moved to Getafe in La Liga, and has gradually disappeared from the mainstream media.
Throughout Flamini's career, although he has repeatedly switched to different teams, he has not incurred a transfer fee, and all his professional contracts are freely signed. However, it is such a "zero-value" gentleman who showed excellent business acumen and amazing business potential when his football career was on the decline.
In the depressed Flamini at ac Milan he met his partner Pascal Granat, who was well-versed in chemistry and planned to make a big splash in the field of new energy, which aroused Flamini's great investment interest. The two hit it off, and with the huge investment of flamini, they set up a biochemical company called "gf biochemicals", the core technology of which is to extract acetofen from plants, which was previously only extracted from petroleum , an important organic synthesis intermediate that can be used to produce drugs, coatings, plant hormones and so on. A few years later, the company made an important technological breakthrough and became the only company in the world that can mass-produce aceprofen as a substitute for oils and fats. Some studies have pointed out that products in this direction have a market space of 30 billion US dollars.
In December 2015, Flamini and his company were even awarded the Best Biotechnology Innovation Award 2015 at the European Industrial Biotechnology Forum (EFIB) for their contribution to the development of new sources of energy and to the global climate. The shrewd Flamini continued to increase its weight in 2016, buying part of the stake in SEGETIS, a U.S. producer of clean chemical containers, to complete the industrial layout. This investment has made gf more powerful and the valuation has soared. In the summer of 2018, the French economic magazine released the "List of France's Top 500 Richest People", and Flamini ranked 395th, with a net worth of 200 million euros! This summer, the "domineering president" of football also came to China to attend the Summer Davos Forum in Dalian.
No wonder in recent years the fan circle began to appear about flamini, after all, as strong as Mbappe, a year's salary is only 10.6 million euros (before tax), and even some fans joke that Flamini really plays football just for fitness. In the face of his own business success, Flamini once said in an interview with the world-renowned financial media "Financial Times" that today's achievements are inseparable from Wenger's influence on him. In that article, "From the Player to the Conference Room," he said, "Wenger is my mentor, he's the kind of guy who can stay calm all the time, and I learned from him that you can never make decisions when your head is hot." ”
"You can never make a decision when your head is hot", I don't know if this is a little insight flamini has received during his ups and downs football career. But what is certain is that for Flamini, who did not finally reach the expected heights on the football field, his life seems to have just begun to reach the peak. Best wishes!
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