.jpg) Grandel with FC Utrecht in 2007 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1978-03-17) 17 March 1978 (age 46) | ||
| Place of birth | Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe | ||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1996–1998 | Club Colonial | ||
| 1998–1999 | Mulhouse | 0 | (0) |
| 1999–2001 | Racing Besançon | 15 | (0) |
| 2001–2003 | Libourne | 64 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | Skoda Xanthi | 16 | (0) |
| 2004–2005 | Troyes | 22 | (0) |
| 2005–2008 | Utrecht | 27 | (0) |
| 2009–2011 | Dijon | 8 | (0) |
| 2011–2013 | USL Dunkerque | 47 | (0) |
| 2013–2015 | Troyes B | 17 | (0) |
| 2013–2017 | Troyes | 2 | (0) |
| 2017 | → Boulogne (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| International career | |||
| 2007–2012 | Guadeloupe | 22 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Franck Grandel (born 17 March 1978) is a Guadeloupean former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Club career
Born in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, Grandel started his career with Club Colonial on Martinique. He made his professional debut for Racing Besançon in the Championnat National during the 1999–2000 season.
After two seasons in the club from Franche-Comté, he joined FC Libourne, competing for the championship of the fourth-tier Championnat National 2. He played there for two seasons before moving to Greek club Skoda Xanthi ahead of the 2003–04 season. During the 2004–05 season, he returned to France where he signed for Ligue 2 club Troyes AC. At the end of the season, the club finished in third place in the league and found themselves promoted to the Ligue 1. After this feat was reached, he signed a three-year contract with Dutch Eredivisie club FC Utrecht in 2005, where he was seen as the successor to René Ponk who had left for Sparta Rotterdam. Under the leadership of head coach Foeke Booy, he made his debut in the Eredivisie on 14 August 2005, when FC Utrecht drew 0–0 against NEC Nijmegen. In the course of his first season, Grandel alternated between great saves and several blunders, which mockingly became known as Grandelletjes ("Grandels"). He was released from his contract with Utrecht in November 2007.
He signed a two-year contract with French Ligue 2 side Dijon FCO just before the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup. Lacking playing time, he left the club after two seasons.
In 2011, he joined USL Dunkerque in the fourth division with whom he won the Championnat de France Amateur in 2013 and promoted to Championnat National.
In 2013, he returned to Troyes AC, who had just been relegated to Ligue 2, to be the backup. In 2015, the club won the Ligue 2 title, but he failed to make any league appearances that season, or the following season in Ligue 1.
International career
During the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup, when Guadeloupe team surprisingly advanced to the tournament semifinals, Grandel was given top goalkeeper award and was also named to the tournament All-star team. He had to leave the 2009 Gold Cup squad because of injury.
Honours
USL Dunkerque
Guadeloupe
- CONCACAF Gold Cup Top Goalkeeper: 2007
- CONCACAF Gold Cup All-Tournament team: 2007
References
- Doodeman, Michel (28 April 2017). "Briljante reddingen en Grandelletjes: de vreemde carrière van Franck Grandel". VICE (in Dutch). Retrieved 31 December 2020.
- "'Grandelletje' blijft niet uit in Eindhoven". NRC Handelsblad (in Dutch). 24 December 2007. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
- "FC Utrecht Actueel Nieuws". Archived from the original on 18 December 2007. Retrieved 24 July 2009.
- Arrivent au DFCO : - Dijon FCO
- Presti, François Lo (5 July 2013). "Najib Farssane et l'USL Dunkerque Champions de CFA". GF38 Historique - Site Non Officiel du Grenoble Foot 38 (in French).
- "Guadeloupe - F. Grandel - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway". int.soccerway.com. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
- Grandel, three others out of Guadeloupe with injuries Archived 7 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine - Gold Cup 2009
External links
- Weltfussball
- Franck Grandel – French league stats at LFP – also available in French (archived)
- Franck Grandel at L'Équipe Football (in French)
- Career stats - Voetbal International
- Franck Grandel at Soccerway
| Guadeloupe squad – 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup semi-finalists | ||
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| Guadeloupe squad – 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup | ||
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| 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup Team of the Tournament | |
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| Goalkeeper | |
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| Midfielders | |
| Forwards | |
| CONCACAF Gold Cup awards | |
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| Golden Ball | |
| Golden Boot |
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| Best Young Player | |
| Golden Glove | |
- 1978 births
- Living people
- French men's footballers
- Guadeloupean men's footballers
- Men's association football goalkeepers
- Guadeloupe men's international footballers
- Ligue 2 players
- Championnat National players
- Championnat National 2 players
- Super League Greece players
- Eredivisie players
- FC Mulhouse players
- Racing Besançon players
- FC Libourne players
- Xanthi F.C. players
- ES Troyes AC players
- FC Utrecht players
- Dijon FCO players
- USL Dunkerque players
- 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
- 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
- US Boulogne non-playing staff
- French expatriate men's footballers
- French expatriate sportspeople in Greece
- Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
- French expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
- Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands