Frank Leboeuf

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Frank Leboeuf
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Leboeuf in 2011
Personal information
Full name Franck Alain James Leboeuf [1]
Date of birth (1968-01-22) 22 January 1968 (age 56) [2]
Place of birth Marseille, France
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) [3]
Position(s) Centre-back [4]
Youth career
1984–1986 Toulon
1986–1987 Hyères
1987–1988 Meaux
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1988–1991 Laval 69 (11)
1991–1996 Strasbourg 189 (48)
1996–2001 Chelsea 144 (17)
2001–2003 Marseille 51 (5)
2003–2004 Al-Sadd 17 (6)
2004–2005 Al Wakrah 10 (2)
2006–2007 Hollywood United
Total480(89)
International career
1995–2002 France 50 (4)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing Flag of France.svg  France
FIFA World Cup
Winner 1998
UEFA European Championship
Winner 2000
FIFA Confederations Cup
Winner 2001
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Franck Alain James Leboeuf (born 22 January 1968), commonly known as Frank Leboeuf, [n 1] is a French actor, sports commentator and former footballer who played as a centre-back. With the France national team, Leboeuf won the 1998 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2000 as well as a number of domestic trophies, most famously during his five years at Chelsea. Since the conclusion of his playing career, Leboeuf has transitioned to acting, appearing in stage, film productions and is a regular contributor at ESPN FC.

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Club career

Leboeuf was born in Marseille [8] and raised in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer. [9] He was introduced to football by his father, a former Rennes coach, [10] who trained children in the sport. [11] After starting his career in 1986 in the lower divisions of the French leagues, Leboeuf moved to Laval in 1988. In 1991, he moved to Strasbourg and played there until 1996, when he made a switch to English club Chelsea for £2.5m.[ citation needed ]

He played over 200 games for the club and scored 24 goals, mainly from penalties and set pieces. [12] With Chelsea, he won two FA Cups, one League Cup, one Cup Winners' Cup and one UEFA Super Cup. [12] He left in 2001 for club Marseille, before finishing out his career in Qatar. [12] Despite his numerous accolades, Leboeuf never won a first-division title in Europe or the UEFA Champions League. [13]

International career

Leboeuf was capped 50 times for France, scoring four goals. His first two came on 6 September 1995 in a Euro 96 qualifier at home to Azerbaijan, contributing to a 10–0 win, [14] a then-record for France. Although he was mainly a substitute in the 1998 World Cup (started 2 and played in 3 matches out of 7), [15] he stepped in for red carded Laurent Blanc to play in the final, [16] a 3–0 win against Brazil, a match in which he man-marked the highly rated striker Ronaldo. [17]

In a Euro 2000 qualifier on 9 June 1999, Leboeuf scored the only goal from the penalty spot with five minutes to go as world champions France struggled away to amateurs Andorra. [18] [19] He received a winner's medal at the finals in Belgium and the Netherlands, though Blanc and Marcel Desailly were the preferred defensive partnership, including in the final. [20] [21]

He scored a late winner against co-hosts South Korea on 26 May ahead of the 2002 FIFA World Cup (3–2). [22] Holders France were eliminated in the group stage in a shock, and he retired from the team. [23]

International goals

Scores and results list France's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Leboeuf goal.
List of international goals scored by Frank Leboeuf
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
16 September 1995 Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps, Auxerre, FranceFlag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan 5–0 10–0 UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying
28–0
39 June 1999 Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc, Barcelona, SpainFlag of Andorra.svg  Andorra 1–01–0 UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying
426 May 2002 Suwon World Cup Stadium, Suwon, South KoreaFlag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 3–23–2 Friendly

Style of play

A cultured centre-back, Leboeuf was noted for his intelligence, composure, and long range passing ability. He also had a powerful long range shot, and was a consistent penalty-taker throughout his career. [24] [25] He took 15 penalties in competitive games for Chelsea, missing just 2 times, and missing only 1 out of his 11 attempts from the spot in the Premier League. [26] [27]

Acting

Leboeuf in 2011 Frank Leboeuf.jpg
Leboeuf in 2011

In 2001, whilst still playing football for Chelsea, Leboeuf had made his first acting appearance in the film Taking Sides . [24] [28]

Following his retirement from competitive football, Leboeuf spent two years living in Los Angeles. During this time he played for amateur team Hollywood United, alongside celebrity team-mates such as Vinnie Jones, Steve Jones and Anthony LaPaglia. [29] Leboeuf studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute in West Hollywood, keeping a low profile, and won his first acting work as a TV commentator, for a pay cheque totalling $100, which he keeps as a memento. [11]

Leboeuf acted in several theatre plays in France, [24] including starring alongside Jean-Francois Garreaud in L'intrus in 2010 [30] and a role in the play Avec Ma Belle Mère et Moi. [11] In 2014, Leboeuf played a French Resistance fighter in the World War II film Allies [16] [24] and a doctor in the Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything . [31]

Other media

Leboeuf works as a sports commentator and analyst for RMC and ESPN in the United States and he writes a column for Chelsea News in the UK. [32] [10] [11] In 2010, he was a contestant on the reality television show Koh-Lanta in the Koh-Lanta, le choc des héros special series. [33] He was forced to depart the show after two episodes due to a back injury he had suffered in a car accident shortly before the series commenced. [30] In 2014, Leboeuf made an appearance in the television comedy series Nos Chers Voisins [11] [34] and began writing a column for Téléfoot . [28]

In 2019, Leboeuf competed on the first season of Mask Singer, the French version of the global franchise Masked Singer , disguised as a peacock. [35]

Personal life

Leboeuf is married to actress Chrislaure Nollet [24] [36] and has two children, Jade and Hugo, from his first marriage to Beatrice. [9] His amateur sporting hobbies include tennis, swimming and boxing. [11]

Franck Leboeuf is the cousin of the hotelier Philippe Leboeuf. [37]

Following the 1998 World Cup, he was appointed a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1998. [1]

Honours

Strasbourg

Chelsea

Al-Sadd

Al-Wakrah

France

Orders

Notes

  1. ↑ While the traditional French spellings of the first name and the surname are respectively Franck and Lebœuf, and some publications about the person observe either or both of those spellings, [1] [5] it is Frank Leboeuf that is most common even in French and that the person himself uses in his social media profiles. [6] [7]

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