Benoît Trémoulinas

Benoît Trémoulinas (French pronunciation: ​[bənwa tʁemulinas]; born 28 December 1985) is a French former professional footballer who played as a left back.

Benoît Trémoulinas
Trémoulinas in 2013
Personal information
Full name Benoît Trémoulinas[1]
Date of birth (1985-12-28) 28 December 1985
Place of birth Lormont, France
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Left back
Youth career
1993–1994 US Lormont
1994–2007 Bordeaux
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2013 Bordeaux 164 (5)
2013–2014 Dynamo Kyiv 10 (0)
2014 → Saint-Étienne (loan) 12 (0)
2014–2017 Sevilla 44 (0)
Total 230 (5)
National team
2012–2015 France 5 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

He began his career at Bordeaux, making 200 appearances across all competitions and winning five pieces of silverware from all four domestic honours. He also played abroad with Dynamo Kyiv and Sevilla, winning the UEFA Europa League with the latter. He was forced to retire through injury in 2019.

Club career

Bordeaux
Trémoulinas with Bordeaux in 2009

Trémoulinas was born in the commune of Lormont, a suburb located on the outskirts of Bordeaux, and began his career playing for hometown club US Lormont. In 1994, he signed a youth contract with FC Girondins de Bordeaux, spending approximately seven years in the club's youth system and one year in the Championnat de France amateur before earning a call up to the senior team in preparation for the 2007–08 season following the signing of his professional contract.

Trémoulinas received the number 28 shirt and served as backup to the younger Florian Marange and elder Franck Jurietti. He made his professional debut on 15 August 2007 in a league match against Le Mans,[2] and was limited to only nine league appearances, but was a regular in the club's 2007–08 UEFA Cup campaign appearing in seven matches and also scoring his first European goal in a 3–2 victory over Greek club Panionios.[3]

Trémoulinas was slowly integrated into the squad for the 2008–09 season by manager Laurent Blanc, overtaking both Marange and Jurietti (though the latter was still relied more upon in important matches, such as when he started for Trémoulinas in matches against Paris Saint-Germain, Lyon, and the 2009 Coupe de la Ligue Final).[4][5] He did appear in the final as a substitute in the 17th minute for the injured Brazilian Wendel, but had to substitute out at halftime, also due to injury. Bordeaux won the match 4–0 giving Trech, as he is called by the Bordeaux faithful, his first career club honour.

Following the final, Trémoulinas started the final five matches of the season, helping Bordeaux win their first league title since 1999. In total with the team, he appeared in 31 matches scoring his only goal of the season against Guingamp in a 4–2 victory in the Coupe de la Ligue.[6] On 29 May 2009, he signed a contract extension until June 2013.[7]

Trémoulinas appeared regularly during the 2009–10 campaign, and attracted interest from Italian clubs A.C. Milan, Juventus and Fiorentina, and Spanish club Real Madrid, quickly denying all rumours.[8][9][10] He was among the top assists providers in the league, primarily due to his crosses and ability to get forward.[11]

Abroad
Trémoulinas playing for Sevilla in April 2015

On 12 July 2013, Trémoulinas signed a four-year contract with the Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv. He made his debut for the club sixteen days later in a 2–0 win against FC Sevastopol, spending 70 minutes on the pitch and also setting up one of the goals.

On 31 January 2014, Trémoulinas was loaned out to Saint-Étienne until the end of the season, after falling down the pecking order while at Dynamo.[12] On 8 July 2014 he returned to his parent club, after appearing in 12 matches.

On 24 August 2014, Trémoulinas signed a three-year deal with La Liga's Sevilla FC, initially as a replacement to Liverpool-bound Alberto Moreno.[13] He made ten appearances as they won the UEFA Europa League in his first season, including the 3–2 win over FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in the final in Warsaw.[14] In May 2017, Trémoulinas announced he would leave the club upon the expiry of his contract.[15]

On 14 February 2019, Trémoulinas announced his retirement as a professional player after struggling with knee injuries.[16]

International career

Trémoulinas was born in France and is of Reunnionais and Malagasy descent.[17] On 5 August 2010, Trémoulinas was called up to the senior team for the first time by new manager Laurent Blanc for the team's friendly match against Norway on 11 August 2010. However, he did not play that game but he was called up again more than two years after by Didier Deschamps for a friendly game against Italy scheduled on 15 November 2012 in which he replaced Moussa Sissoko at the 89th minute of the game achieving his first international selection.

Career statistics

Club
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition[18][19][20]
Club Season League Cup[lower-alpha 1] Europe[lower-alpha 2] Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Bordeaux 2007–08 904071201
2008–09 2604110311
2009–10 3425090482
2010–11 3103000340
2011–12 3624000402
2012–13 2816160341
Total 16452622312138
Dynamo Kyiv 2013–14 701060140
2014–15 30000030
Total 1001060170
Saint-Étienne (loan) 2013–14 1200000120
Sevilla 2014–15 20000100300
2015–16 24030101371
2016–17 00000000
Total 44030201671
Career total 23053024923099
  1. Includes Coupe de France, Coupe de la Ligue, Trophée des Champions
  2. Includes UEFA Supercup

International
Appearances and goals by national team and year[21]
National teamYearAppsGoals
France 201210
201310
201530
Total50

Honours

Club

Bordeaux

Dynamo Kyiv

Sevilla

Individual

Notes

    References
    1. "Acta del Partido celebrado el 27 de septiembre de 2014, en Madrid" [Minutes of the Match held on 27 September 2014, in Madrid] (in Spanish). Royal Spanish Football Federation. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
    2. Bordeaux v. Le Mans Match Report Archived 30 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine
    3. UEFA.com. "UEFA Europa League". UEFA.com.
    4. Lyon v. Bordeaux Match Report Archived 30 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine
    5. PSG v. Bordeaux Match Report Archived 25 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine
    6. Bordeaux v. Guingamp Match Report Archived 18 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
    7. Benoît Trémoulinas poursuit l’aventure Archived 6 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine
    8. Real Madrid tracking Bordeaux fullback Benoit Tremoulinas Archived 16 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine
    9. "Tremoulinas if Vargas leaves".
    10. "ITALY/ MILAN, Tracking Tremoulinas".
    11. "5 of the Best: Champions League 2010 Breakthrough Stars - Just Football". 9 April 2010.
    12. "Mercato ASSE : Faouzi Ghoulam part, Benoît Trémoulinas et Josuha Guilavogui arrivent". mercato.eurosport.fr/ (in French). Eurosport. 31 January 2014. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
    13. El francés Tremoulinas firma tres temporadas con el Sevilla (French Tremoulinas signs for three seasons with Sevilla); Marca, 24 August 2014 (in Spanish)
    14. Rose, Gary (27 May 2015). "Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 2–3 Sevilla". BBC Sport. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
    15. "Benoît Trémoulinas quitte le Séville FC". L'Équipe (in French). 22 May 2017. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
    16. "Benoît Trémoulinas met un terme à sa carrière". L'Équipe (in French). 14 February 2019. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
    17. "Mercato des joueurs africains : ça s'active enfin - adiac-congo.com : toute l'actualité du Bassin du Congo". www.adiac-congo.com.
    18. "Benoît Trémoulinas » Club matches". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
    19. "Benoît TRéMOULINAS - Football : la fiche de Benoît TRéMOULINAS". L'Équipe (in French). Retrieved 12 July 2018.
    20. "B. Trémoulinas". Soccerway. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
    21. "Benoît Trémoulinas". National Football Teams. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
    22. "Awards for absent UPL and Ukrainian Cup winners". 10 June 2015. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
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