Mickaël Madar

Mickaël Madar

Personal information
Full name	Mickaël Madar[1]
Date of birth	(1968-05-08) 8 May 1968 (age 56)
Place of birth	Paris, France
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
	Paris FC
	Sochaux
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1987–1989	Sochaux	30	(8)
1989–1990	Laval	29	(9)
1990–1992	Sochaux	40	(3)
1992–1994	Cannes	54	(26)
1994–1996	Monaco	52	(14)
1996–1997	Deportivo La Coruña	17	(3)
1997–1998	Everton	19	(6)
1998–2001	Paris Saint-Germain	35	(12)
2001–2002	Créteil	11	(2)
Total		287	(83)
International career
1995–1996	France	3	(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mickaël Madar (born 8 May 1968) is a French former professional footballer who played as a striker. Madar played for the France national football team. Madar works as a football pundit on French TV channel Canal+.

Playing career

Mader was born in Paris, France, and is Jewish.^[2][3][4]

He began his professional career with Sochaux. Madar then spent one season with Laval before returning to Sochaux.^{[citation needed]}

In 1992, Madar moved to Cannes before moving to Monaco in 1994. In 1996, he moved to Spain and signed for Deportivo de La Coruña,^[5] He was out for a year with a broken leg.^[6] After a season he had a confrontation with the new coach Carlos Alberto Silva (who came in summer 1997 to replace John Toshack), and Deportivo decided to let him go. ^{[citation needed]}

After recovering from his injury, Madar left Spain for England where he was signed by then-Everton manager Howard Kendall in January 1998.^[7][6] Over the next 12 months, and two partial seasons, he played 19 league games for the club, scoring six goals, including one on his debut against Crystal Palace,^[8][5] as well as missing an open goal in the Merseyside derby when Everton were leading 1-0

In December 1998 Madar moved to Paris Saint-Germain. Then in 2001 he transferred to Créteil. Madar retired at the end of the season in 2002.^[5]

Madar was picked three times for France national football team, and was in the French squad for Euro 96.^[9][10]

Post-football career

After playing football, Madar has worked as a football pundit on French TV channel Canal+.^[5] He also owns a women's clothes shop.^[5]

See also

• List of select Jewish football (association; soccer) players

References

1. "Entreprise Michael Madar" [Company Michael Madar]. Figaro Entreprises (in French). 4 December 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
   "Mickaël Madar". BFM Business (in French). NextInteractive. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
2. Shennan, Paddy (30 October 2015). "Howard Kendall funeral: Paddy Shennan reflects on a moving & magnificent service". Liverpool Echo.
3. "Спорт - Центральный Еврейский Ресурс. Сайт русскоязычных евреев всего мира. Еврейские новости. Еврейские фамилии". Archived from the original on 18 December 2010. Retrieved 14 October 2009.
4. Vinocur, John; Tribune, International Herald (7 January 2000). "Paris Soccer Team Struggles to De-Nazify a Cheering Section". The New York Times.
5. Jones, Adam (11 April 2019). "Madar on smoking with Kendall and his Everton 'bad dream'". Liverpool Echo.
6. Prentice, David (28 April 2019). "Arguments, fights & smoking with the manager - 367 days of Mick Madar". Liverpool Echo.
7. ToffeeWeb's Everton Player Fact File: Mickael Madar. ToffeeWeb. Retrieved on 28 October 2006.
8. "Football: Brolin bows to Madar". Independent. 11 January 1998. Archived from the original on 14 May 2022. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
9. Tomasz Malolepszy (2013). European Soccer Championship Results; Since 1958
10. Jonathan Wilson, Philippe Auclair, Rob Smyth, Iain Macintosh, Scott Murray, Amy Lawrence, Dominic Bliss, Harry Pearson, George Caulkin, Luke Alfred (2014). The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Fifteen