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Marcel Desailly
SOCCER PLAYER
1968 - Today
Marcel Desailly
Marcel Desailly (French pronunciation: [maʁsɛl dəzaji]; born Odenke Abbey; 7 September 1968) is a French former professional footballer, who played as a centre-back or defensive midfielder. During a successful career at club level, lasting from 1986 to 2006, Desailly won several titles, including UEFA Champions League medals with both Marseille and AC Milan, and also played for Nantes and Chelsea, among other teams. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcel Desailly has received more than 2,304,232 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Marcel Desailly is the 230th most popular soccer player (up from 289th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Ghana (up from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Ghanaian Soccer Player.
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Born in Accra, Ghana as Odenke Abbey, Marcel moved to Olympique de Marseille in 1992 and won the UEFA Champions League the following year. In 1994, while a member of A.C. Milan, he again won the Cup (scoring in the final himself), being the first player to win the Cup in consecutive seasons with different clubs. During his time in Milan he won two Italian league titles, in 1994 and 1996. He moved to Chelsea for a reported 4.6 million pounds prior to the 1998 World Cup. After Euro 2004, he retired from international football as the all-time leader in appearances for France (116). He was snapped up by Qatari outfit Al-Gharafa in 2004 as the club captain and they won the Qatar League in 2005.
Marcel Desailly is considered one of the most accomplished players of the game and one of the best players of the past two decades, having won virtually every major team award. Found predominantly giving his opinion from the touchline at both half time and full time as opposed to residing in the studio, he is a knowledgeable and highly respected commentator on the modern game.
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Marcel Desailly
Marcel Desailly (born Odenke Abbey; 7 September 1968) is a French former professional footballer.
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[change | change source]National team Year Apps Goals France 1993 4 0 1994 7 0 1995 7 1 1996 12 0 1997 7 0 1998 13 1 1999 11 0 2000 16 0 2001 12 1 2002 13 0 2003 9 0 2004 5 0 Total 116 3 - Scores and results list France's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Desailly goal.[10]
Honours
[change | change source]Marseille[11]
AC Milan[11][12]
Chelsea[13]
Al-Gharafa[14]
France[13]
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