Vikash Dhorasoo

Vikash Dhorasoo , born the October 10th 1973 with Harfleur (Seine-Maritime), is a Football international or French evolving/moving at the station of medium ground.

Biography

Beginnings in Le Havre

Of origin indo - Mauritian, Vikash Dhorasoo starts its professional path with the Havre Athletic Club, where its performances quickly make speak about him. Offensive medium ground, capable of accelerations ball to the foot but also equipped with a play with very precise master key, it continues then like one of the great hopes of French football. It gains besides the Star France Football courronant the best player of the championship of France in 1997 - 1998.

Transfer to Lyon

After five years spent to the HAC, it is transferred in 1998 - 1999 to the Olympique Lyonese. Its first three seasons in its new club are very conclusive. The small (1,68 m) medium ground, very fast and technical, is essential like a major piece of Lyons manpower. Its good services also bring it in team of France, and he knows his first selection vis-a-vis the Ukraine, the March 27th 1999.

Passage in Bordeaux

In 2001, it gains the cut of the League with Lyon but leaves the club little time afterwards. In delicacy with its trainer Jacques Santini but also with certain frameworks of the team (in particular the guard Grégory Coupet), Dhorasoo is lent to the Girondins of Bordeaux for the season 2001 - 2002. With its new club, it gains the cut of the League again.

Return to Lyon

In 2002, Dhorasoo goes back to Lyon, where it carries out two full seasons, playing more than 30 matches per season, with two titles of Champion of France to the key. These two seasons are also the occasion for Dhorasoo to show itself in a different register since it evolves/moves most of the time at the station of defensive medium.

Departure in Italy and first selections

In dissension with the trainer Paul Le Guen, Vikash Dhorasoo leaves OL at the end of the season 2003 - 2004 to join the championship of Italy and the prestigious Milan AC, after having gained for the second time the star France Football crowning the best player of the championship of France. But within a plethoric manpower, Vikash is only seldom aligned on the ground and must be satisfied to follow the final of the Ligue of the Champions 2004-2005 starting from the bench of key.

Paradoxically, this almost white season in Italy is also the season of its return in team of France. Been sulky by the various national sport selectors (except Roger Lemerre which had punctually called it in 1999) in spite of its high level services in the championship of France, it seems on the contrary to find thanks to the eyes of Raymond Domenech. Used in various stations of the medium ground (driving of play, left medium, right medium, relay runner medium), Dhorasoo thus took part in the qualification of the Bleus for the world cup 2006.

Return in France

To the intersaison 2005, Dhorasoo is transferred to the Paris Saint-Germain. It gains there in particular the cut of France 2005-2006 vis-a-vis the Olympique of Marseilles by marking the goal of the victory over a striking of 25 meters (moment most extremely of its career, according to its dires). In the sporting daily newspaper the Team dated April 26th, 2006, international French entrusts that it intends to remain with the PSG to honor the second year with his contract with the Parisian club. “All was not easy, but if one sets out again the next year with the will to gain something, that is appropriate to me”, it declared.

It is selected by Raymond Domenech for the World cup of 2006 in Germany, where it takes part in two matches in hen phase. Relegated to the rank of substitute during the tournament, he filmed the life of the team of France of the interior with a Caméra amateur and drew some a film, Substitute , which left in room at the beginning of 2007. The Indian press underlines nevertheless that it is “about the first player having Indian roots to take part in a final stage of world cup”.

August 7th, 2006, he criticizes Raymond Domenech with covered words then declares: “For me the team of France, it is finished. After the World cup… That does not interest me any more. I will not refuse a selection but it is not that the problem. I do not want any more very. I do not announce my international retreat because everyone of fout. ”

Its character and atypical style of play made of him a hero of the last collection of sporting news of Philippe Delerm, which describes it as “footballer of the melancholy”.

Dismissal

Left on the key by the trainer of Paris Saint-Germain Guy Lacombe at the beginning of the season 2006-2007, Vikash gives from September 23rd to 25th a series of interviews during which he criticizes this one openly. Wounded with ankle, the player is then put at foot by the PSG the September 26th. The October 2nd, it is convened with a preliminary discussion with the president of Paris SG Alain Cayzac, with the seat of the club. The October 11th, it is laid off club, extremely rare fact in the history of the championship of France. Vikash Dhorasoo announces thereafter its intention to call upon this decision as a council of Prud'hommes, but the dissension is finally regulated by amicable agreement with the PSG.

He is contacted by FC Sochaux at the conclusion of the season 2006-2007 but the club, after a meeting with the player, does not give following the file and Stephan Dalmat prefers to him. At the end of June 2007, it engages with the Italian club of Leghorn. Having taken part in no official match since its dismissal of the PSG, it is threatened to see its contract terminated to have refused to take part in a match with the team holds of Leghorn.

Political commitment and associative

Dhorasoo created, in partnership with Le Havre Athletic Club and the football club of Gonfreville-l' Orcher (recognized in 2004, the most sporting city of France by the daily newspaper the Team), a training course of football for the 8-14 years and it will completely transfer its profit-sharings with an association coming to assistance with the children in social difficulty.

Married and father of two girls, Dhorasoo is godfather of the Paris Foot Gay, a football club created to fight against the Homophobie in the stages.

May 1st, 2007, it attends the concert-meeting at the stage Charléty, in support for Ségolène Royal, after having evoked its fears with regard to Nicolas Sarkozy in the press.

Career

Prize list

  • Champion of France 2003 and 2004 with Victorious Lyon

  • of the Coupe de France 2006 with Paris SG (1 goal)
  • Victorious of the Cut of the League 2001 with Lyon and 2002 with Bordeaux
  • Vainqueur of the Trophée of the Champions in 2003 with Lyon
  • Finaliste of the World cup 2006 with the team of France has
  • World champion military in 1995 with the military team of France

Personal distinctions

Statistics

  • 18 selections with the team of France has

  • 1 goal in team of France has
  • 30 matches in Ligue of the champions
  • 20 matches in UEFA Cup
  • 1 goal in UEFA Cup
  • 351 matches in Ligue 1
  • 16 goals in Ligue 1

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