Xavier Gravelaine

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Xavier Gravelaine
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Gravelaine in 2014
Personal information
Date of birth (1968-10-05) 5 October 1968 (age 56)
Place of birth Tours, France
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Attacking midfielder, forward
Youth career
1983–1986 Nantes
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1986–1988 Nantes 0 (0)
1988–1989 Pau FC 29 (22)
1989–1990 AS Saint-Seurin  [ fr ] 30 (10)
1990–1991 Laval 32 (12)
1991–1993 Caen 69 (26)
1993–1994 Paris Saint-Germain 21 (2)
1994–1995 Strasbourg 33 (9)
1995 Paris Saint-Germain 5 (1)
1995–1996 Guingamp 17 (7)
1996–1998 Marseille 62 (25)
1998 Paris Saint-Germain 7 (0)
1998–1999 Montpellier 18 (3)
1999 Paris Saint-Germain 0 (0)
1999–2000 Watford 7 (2)
2000 Le Havre 11 (1)
2000–2001 Monaco 8 (0)
2001–2002 Caen 32 (15)
2002 Ajaccio 0 (0)
2003–2004 Istres 44 (9)
2004 Sion 9 (3)
Total405(125)
International career
1992–1993 France 4 (0)
Managerial career
2005 Istres
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Xavier Gravelaine (born 5 October 1968) is a French football manager and former football player, who played for many clubs in France and Europe and for the France national team.

He was sometimes seen as a mercenary because of the impressive number of teams he played for but often appreciated by supporters. In his spell in England, for Watford, he is remembered by the fans for scoring a brace in a 3–2 win over Southampton in December 1999. [1]

After his retirement, he became a coach at FC Istres, but did not manage to save the team from relegation. He was a consultant on France Télévisions from 2004 to 2012, on Eurosport in 2013–2014. In 2014, he was appointed Deputy Director of Stade Malherbe Caen.

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References

  1. "Watford 3 Southampton 2". Sporting Life. 28 December 1999. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2010.