Tony Vairelles

Tony Vairelles is a Football or French born the April 10th 1973 with Nancy, in Lorraine, which evolves/moves at the station of Attaquant. Formed with Nancy, where it registers the trifle of 39 goals in 127 matches, all confused competitions, in 4 years. It gains the nickname of " besides there; Maradona blond" for its technical ease. The father of Michel Platini would have entrusted one day this to Arsène Wenger, then trainer of Arsenal, before a match opposing Lens to Gunners in 1998: " He is fast and powerful and likes much to make run defenses while infiltrating in the intervals. What impresses me more, it is its speed and its refusal to leave intimider". Aldo Platini has the hollow nose!

It is transferred to RC Lens in 1995, where it gains its more beautiful title: the championship of France 1998, in front of Metz, following a formidable season (9 goals in 32 matches). The following season, he discovers the Ligue of the Champions. He marks, with the 92è minute of a resumption with bearing end not leaving any chance to mythical the David Seaman, the tying goal against Arsenal with Lens (1-1). A goal which will be worth to him an unjust expulsion at the time of the return match to London (victory 0-1, goal of Debève), following a simulation of the defender Lee Dixon, who had of it certainly enough to be made " to break the reins" by the swaying dribbles of the Attacker French. But " Tonygol" (as it is called with the Stade Felix Bollaert, for its capacity to be marked all the time) makes fun about it like its first caster: the collective passes above all, since the " Blood and Or" became the first French team to triumph at the mythical stage over Wembley.

This same year it also gains the Coupe of the League, again at the expense of Metz, over the score from 1 to 0, goal of Daniel Moreira, with which it formed the famous " tandem of or". After 4 rich seasons of goals (35 in 136 meetings), trophés and emotions, it joined the rising club of D1, the Olympique Lyonese.

After a first extremely honourable season with Lyon, (6 goals in 33 matches of L1), during which it registers in particular the goal of the Lyons victory to the Hampden Park vis-a-vis the Celtic Glasgow with the 2nd tower of the UEFA Cup, in a very closed angle: 0-1, its troubles start and it is taken in influenza by part of the public. Successively lent to the Football Club of Of Gironde of Bordeaux, with the Sporting Club of Bastia (for one very successful season of its share), then with RC Lens, it joined finally the Stade of Rennes where it does not manage to find its level of antan. It thus leaves to discover a new championship, the Belgian championship, but it joined a club, the Lierse SK (club of the town of Lierre) which sees its season wasted by the business of the faked matches. Left free at the end of the season, Tony signs, during the season 2006-2007 with Tours in L2 with the firm intention to save the club of relegation.

In spite of one catastrophic season for the Turns FC, Vairelles will remain like a player in the middle enormous, making pass the financial aspect good after the interest of the sporting challenge. Besides it registers 4 goals in 17 matches, without preventing the club from going down in National.

Its departure of the Lierse SK, club stagnating in the meanders of the Jupiler League, for the Turns FC, team promoted in L2 at the conclusion of the season 2005-2006 having for objective the maintenance in the anteroom of the the first division, testifies some, and its heating before returning on the lawn is the illustration: Tony will always do the utmost not to leave low head the green rectangle and without having " wet the maillot" like one says in the jargon footballistic.

Moreover, the haircut which it raised in particular with the RC Lens passed to the posterity grace a report diffused in the famous Sunday emission of TF1, Téléfoot. What is worth to him since the gratifiants nicknames of " Tony Rockeur" , " Tony the gitan" or the " Elvis of the balloon rond". These are certainly the various attributes which allowed the " ch' ti" to enter 8 selections at the Blue ones for a goal.

Its first selection goes back to August 19th, 1998 against Austria with a tie 2-2.

His/her cousin, David Vairelles, is also professional footballer.

Prize list

Champion of France in 1998 (Lens), 2003 (Lyon).
Victorious of the cut of the league (Lens) 1999
Finalist of the cut of France (Bastia) 2001
8 selections in Team of France, 1 goal

Quotation

" To aim at the attic window, it is like aiming at the lune." (Oct. 22, 2003 against Rosenborg where it registers 2 goals out of the 5 of its team)

Autes

it site offciel of " Tonygol":

http://www.chez.com/vairelles/

them cards technqiues of the double confrontation against Arsenal at the time of the League of the Champions 1998-1999:

http://www.arseweb.com/98-99/reports/160998.html
http://www.arseweb.com/98-99/reports/251198.html

- A superb goal of Vairelles with the Turns FC in 2006-2007:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x18d43_but-tony-vairelles-gueugnon_events

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