Jean-Philippe Javary

Jean-Philippe Javary (born 10 January 1978) is a retired French professional footballer. He played in his homeland, where he started at hometown team Montpellier, as well as numerous clubs in England and Scotland. He was a midfielder.

Jean-Philippe Javary
Personal information
Full name Jean-Philippe Javary[1]
Date of birth (1978-01-10) 10 January 1978
Place of birth Montpellier, France
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
Montpellier
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995–1998 Montpellier 9 (0)
1998–2000 Espanyol
1999–2000 → Valence (loan) 4 (0)
2000 Raith Rovers 12 (0)
2000–2001 Brentford 6 (0)
2001 Plymouth Argyle 4 (0)
2001 Partick Thistle 1 (0)
2001–2002 Raith Rovers 7 (0)
2002–2003 Sheffield United 13 (1)
2003 → Walsall (loan) 0 (0)
Excelsior
2005 Hamilton Academical 13 (1)
Excelsior
Avirons
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Club career

Born in Montpellier, France,[2] Javary started his career with his hometown club Montpellier HSC as a junior, where he played nine Ligue 1 games during the 1995–96 and 1996–97 seasons.[3] He was offered a five-year contract at Spanish La Liga side FC Barcelona, although the offer was later withdrawn,[4][5] and instead joined another Spanish Barcelona-based club RCD Espanyol in June 1998.[5] He returned to France for a period on loan with Ligue 2 club ASOA Valence in the 1999–2000 season, where he played four games.[3]

In January 2000, he joined Scottish Division One side Raith Rovers. He played 11 games with Raith during the latter half of the 2000–01 season.[2] After one more game at the start of the following season,[2] he was signed in August by English Division Two side Brentford for £150,000 by manager–chairman Ron Noades.[4] He played only six games with Brentford, and another four with Plymouth Argyle in English Division Three at the end of the same season.[2]

Javary moved back to Scotland and played a game on trial with Division One side Partick Thistle in October 2001,[6] before he returned to Raith Rovers the following month. He played another seven games with Raith,[2] before he moved back to England, with Sheffield United in Division One on non-contract terms in March 2002, and was given a two-year contract by manager Neil Warnock the following month.[7] He was given a one-month loan spell at Walsall in January 2003, but was suffering from tonsilitis and never played a game.[2][8] In July 2003, Javary was one of four senior players to be told he could leave the club by Neil Warnock,[9] before he was released from his contract in September 2003; Javary decided to return to France.[10] He played 14 games with Sheffield United, all but one in the league, and scored one goal against Watford.[2][11]

After a spell with AS Excelsior in the French Réunion Islands, he returned to Scotland in January 2005 with Hamilton Academical again in Division One.[12][13] He was released by Hamilton during the 2005 summer,[14] after he had played 13 league matches, during which time he scored one goal against Falkirk.[2][15] After his release he moved back to Réunion, again with Excelsior,[12] and later moved on to FC Avirons.

In 2008, Javary moved to Australia to find an A-League team to continue his career.[16]

International career

Javary has also played for the French national sides from under 16 to under 19 level. He captained his country's European Youth Championship side in 1995.[4][5]

References
  1. "Jean-Philippe Javary". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  2. "Jean-Phillipe Javary". Soccerbase. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
  3. "Jean-Phillipe Javary". French Football League. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
  4. "Bees add French flair". BBC Sport. 18 August 2000. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
  5. "El Espanyol se refuerza con el francés Javary" (in Spanish). El Mundo. 27 June 1998. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
  6. "McCulloch joins Jags". BBC Sport. 2 November 2001. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
  7. "Blades sign Javary". BBC Sport. 15 April 2002. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
  8. Nursery, James (18 January 2003). "Walsall intend to stay ahead". Birmingham Post. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
  9. "Rankine joins Blades". BBC Sport. 15 July 2003. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
  10. "Javary returns to France". BBC Sport. 2 September 2003. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
  11. "Watford 0–3 Sheff Utd". BBC. 6 April 2002. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
  12. "Jean-Philippe Javary". Neil Brown. Retrieved 12 December 2008.
  13. "Hamilton sign midfielder Javary". BBC Sport. 14 January 2005. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
  14. "Hamilton Accies' summer signings". BBC Sport. 4 August 2005. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
  15. "Falkirk 1–1 Hamilton Accies". BBC. 12 February 2005. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
  16. "Perth Glory secure Eugene Dadi, Jimmy Downey signatures". Perth Now. 22 March 2008. Archived from the original on 29 May 2008. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
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