Mickaël Madar

Mickaël Madar (born 8 May 1968) is a French former professional footballer who played as a striker. Madar played for the France national football team. Madar works as a football pundit on French TV channel Canal+.

Mickaël Madar
Personal information
Full name Mickaël Madar[1]
Date of birth (1968-05-08) 8 May 1968
Place of birth Paris, France
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
Paris FC
Sochaux
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1987–1989 Sochaux 30 (8)
1989–1990 Laval 29 (9)
1990–1992 Sochaux 40 (3)
1992–1994 Cannes 54 (26)
1994–1996 Monaco 52 (14)
1996–1997 Deportivo 17 (3)
1997–1998 Everton 19 (6)
1998–2001 Paris Saint-Germain 35 (12)
2001–2002 Créteil 11 (2)
Total 287 (83)
National team
1995–1996 France 3 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Playing career

Mader was born in Paris, France, and is Jewish.[2][3][4]

He began his professional career with Sochaux. Madar then spent one season with Laval before returning to Sochaux.

In 1992, Madar moved to Cannes before moving to Monaco in 1994. In 1996, he moved to Spain and signed for Deportivo de La Coruña,[5] He was out for a year with a broken leg.[6] After a season he had a confrontation with the new coach Carlos Alberto Silva (who came in summer 1997 to replace John Benjamin Toshack), and Deportivo decided to let him go.

After recovering from his injury, Madar left Spain for England where he was signed by then-Everton manager Howard Kendall.[7][6] In two seasons, he played 19 league games for the club, scoring six goals, including one on his debut against Crystal Palace.[8][5]

In December 1998 Madar moved to Paris Saint-Germain. Then in 2001 he transferred to Créteil. Madar retired at the end of the season in 2002.[5]

Madar was picked three times for France national football team, and was in the French squad for Euro 96.[9][10]

Post-football career

After playing football, Madar has worked as a football pundit on French TV channel Canal+.[5] He also owns a women's clothes shop.[5]

See also

References
  1. "Entreprise Michael Madar" [Company Michael Madar]. Figaro Entreprises (in French). 4 December 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
    "Mickaël Madar". BFM Business (in French). NextInteractive. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  2. Shennan, Paddy (30 October 2015). "Howard Kendall funeral: Paddy Shennan reflects on a moving & magnificent service". Liverpool Echo.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 December 2010. Retrieved 14 October 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Vinocur, John; Tribune, International Herald (7 January 2000). "Paris Soccer Team Struggles to De-Nazify a Cheering Section" – via NYTimes.com.
  5. Jones, Adam (11 April 2019). "Madar on smoking with Kendall and his Everton 'bad dream'". Liverpool Echo.
  6. Prentice, David (28 April 2019). "Arguments, fights & smoking with the manager - 367 days of Mick Madar". Liverpool Echo.
  7. ToffeeWeb's Everton Player Fact File: Mickael Madar. ToffeeWeb. Retrieved on 28 October 2006.
  8. "Football: Brolin bows to Madar". Independent. 11 January 1998. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  9. Tomasz Malolepszy (2013). European Soccer Championship Results; Since 1958
  10. Jonathan Wilson, Philippe Auclair, Rob Smyth, Iain Macintosh, Scott Murray, Amy Lawrence, Dominic Bliss, Harry Pearson, George Caulkin, Luke Alfred (2014). The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Fifteen
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