Damien Le Tallec

Damien Le Tallec

With Mordovia Saransk in October 2015
Personal information
Full name Damien Le Tallec
Date of birth (1990-04-19) 19 April 1990
Place of birth Poissy, France
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Defensive Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Red Star Belgrade
Number 4
Youth career
1995–2005 Le Havre
2005–2009 Rennes
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2008–2009 Rennes 0 (0)
2009–2011 Borussia Dortmund 4 (0)
2009–2011 → Borussia Dortmund II 43 (14)
2012 Nantes 8 (0)
2012–2014 Hoverla 41 (7)
2014–2015 Mordovia 44 (1)
2016– Red Star Belgrade 32 (4)
National team‡
2004–2005 France U15 3 (2)
2005–2006 France U16 2 (2)
2006–2007 France U17 18 (14)
2007–2008 France U18 5 (3)
2008–2009 France U19 15 (6)
2011 France U20 4 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 4 December 2016.

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 14 April 2016

Damien Le Tallec (born 19 April 1990 in Poissy) is a French football player who plays for Red Star Belgrade. He is the younger brother of striker Anthony Le Tallec, and cousin of Florent Sinama Pongolle. Like his older brother, Le Tallec is a France youth international, first appearing with the under-15 team and has appeared in several tournaments around the world for his nation. He primarily plays as a striker and is capable of playing on both wings.

Football career

Early career

Like his older brother, Damien began his career at Le Havre joining the club at only five years of age. He spent a full decade at the club and began drawing interests from several clubs in Ligue 1. He eventually joined Stade Rennais F.C., who were known for the promising youth academy.

Rennes

Le Tallec quickly established himself at the club joining fellow prospects Yann M'Vila, Yohann Lasimant, Abdoul Camara, and Yacine Brahimi as the club's most promising players. The foursome were particularly instrumental in the club's successes on the youth level helping their age groups win the 2006 edition of the under-16 Tournoi Carisport, as well as capturing the under-18 championship for the 2006–07 season, and also winning the Coupe Gambardella in 2008 scoring an impressive eight goals in seven matches. In the Coupe Gamberdella final against Bordeaux, he scored the final goal in the team's convincing 3–0 victory. Following the 2006–07 season, on 11 August, Le Tallec, alongside teammates M'Vila and Camara, signed his first professional contract agreeing to a three-year deal.[1] He spent the entire season in the reserves, before being officially promoted to the senior squad and assigned the number 22 shirt for the 2008–09 season.

Though on the first-team, Le Tallec began the season with the club's Championnat de France amateur team. He appeared in 22 matches scoring four goals helping the side finish 1st among professional clubs in their group, thus qualifying for the playoffs, where they lost to Lyon in the semi-finals.[2]

Borussia Dortmund

Following the season, news came that Le Tallec had become unsettled at Rennes, primarily due to his limited first-team opportunities at the club. Eager to begin his professional career,[3] he was primarily linked to La Liga club Valencia and was reportedly in the process of joining the club, but due to a shake up in the club's front office, the move was put on hold and eventually called off.[4] He was later linked with moves to German clubs Hertha BSC and VfB Stuttgart. Two months later, on 8 August 2009, another German club, Borussia Dortmund, announced that they had signed the player to a three-year contract and that he will be gradually introduced to the first team.[5][6]

Nantes

On January 31, 2012, Le Tallec returned to France signing with Nantes in Ligue 2.[7]

Hoverla

The following two seasons Le Tallec played with FC Hoverla Uzhhorod in the Ukrainian Premier League.[8] The club had just won the second tier last season and were searching for reinforcements, among them, Le Tallec. Despite the fact that during the two seasons Le Tallec spent in Uzhhorod Hoverla Hoverla performed rather mid-down table, Le Tallec was regular and his performances caught the attention of numerous clubs.

Mordovia

In summer 2014 he moved to Russia and signed with Premier League side FC Mordovia Saransk.[8] Mordovia had just won the second tier and got promoted to the Premier League. Same as in Hoverla, at Mordovia Le Tallec also performed regularly. By the winter-break of the 2015–16 season, coach Miodrag Božović, a good cognosceaur of Russian football as he had just spent 8 years coaching in Russian Premier League, was in held of Serbian side Red Star Belgrade who were forming a strong team in order to take the title from their main rivals FK Partizan who had become chronic winners in the last decade, and in that built-up of the team, Božović marked as prioritarian the signing of Mordovian duo, Le Tallec and Mitchell Donald, and both ended up moving to Belgrade.

Red Star Belgrade

On January 29, 2016, Le Tallec signed a 2.5-year contract with Red Star Belgrade.[9] In his league debut with Red Star less than a month later, he scored a goal against FK Mladost Lučani.[10] At the end of his first season at Red Star, they won the Serbian championship and qualified for a berth in the Champions League qualifying rounds.

Having played most of the former season as central midfielder, along Mitchell Donald, since start of the 2016–17 season, Le Tallec was often addapted as central defender by Red Star coach Miodrag Božović.[11]

International career

Le Tallec has featured for all of France's national youth teams beginning with the under-15 team earning his first selection in March 2006. He was a member of the under-17 team that reached the semi-finals at the 2007 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship before losing to England. He scored two goals in the tournament, both of them in the same game against Germany.[12] He later played with the same under-17 team at the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup held in South Korea.[13] Le Tallec appeared in all five matches scoring four goals, one against Haiti,[14] a brace against Tunisia in the Round of 16,[15] and one against Spain whom defeated France on penalties in the quarterfinals. In total with the under-17s, Le Tallec scored 14 goals in 18 appearances.[16]

With the under-19 team, Le Tallec appeared in 15 matches scoring 6 goals. He scored three of those goals during the qualification process for the UEFA U-19 Championship against the Republic of Ireland,[17] Liechtenstein,[18] and Romania.[19] The victory over Romania assured qualification to the tournament.[20] At the tournament, held in the Ukraine, Le Tallec appeared in all four matches helping France reach the semi-finals before suffering defeat to England.[21]

Career statistics

Club

As of 4 December 2016[8]
Club Season League Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Rennes 2008–09 Ligue 1 0000000000
Borussia Dortmund 2009–10 Bundesliga 4010––––50
2010–11 001020––30
2011–12 0000000020
Total 4020200080
Borussia Dortmund II (loan) 2009–10 3. Liga 82––––––82
2010–11 Regionalliga West 2411––––––2411
2011–12 111––––––111
Total 4314––––––4314
Nantes 2011–12 Ligue 2 80––––––80
Hoverla 2012–13 Premier League 20520––––225
2013–14 21210––––222
Total 41730––––447
Mordovia 2014–15 Premier League 29120––––311
2015–16 15100––––151
Total 44220––––462
Red Star Belgrade 2015–16 SuperLiga 142––––––142
2016–17 1822060––262
Total 3242060––404
Career total 1722790800018927

Honours

Club

Rennes
Borussia Dortmund
Red Star

References

  1. ↑ "Premier contrat pro pour Le Tallec, M'Vila et Camara". Stade Rennais F.C. 11 August 2007. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  2. ↑ "Réserves, demi-finale : Lyon élimine Rennes aux tirs au but". Stade Rennais F.C. (in French). 2 June 2009. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  3. ↑ "rennes / damien le tallec". Mercato365 (in French). 13 June 2009. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  4. ↑ "FC Valence: D.Le Tallec tout proche". Mercato365 (in French). 5 June 2009. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  5. ↑ "Damien Le Tallec signs for Borussia Dortmund". Borussia Dortmund. 9 August 2009. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  6. ↑ "D. Le Tallec, 3 ans à Dortmund". L'Equipe (in French). 9 August 2009. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  7. ↑ "Nantes sign Damien Le Tallec from Borussia Dortmund". goal.com. 31 January 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 Damien Le Tallec at Soccerway
  9. ↑ Mondo: Le Talek i zvanično!. (Serbian) January 29, 2016. Retrieved February 24, 2016
  10. ↑ N. Todorović. Blic Sport: DVADESETA POBEDA U NIZU Prvenac Le Taleka i gol Vijeire za nastavak Zvezdine serije! (Serbian) February 20, 2016. Retrieved February 24, 2016
  11. ↑ Le Talek: Štoper kad Božović naredi ("Le Tallec: Central defender when Božović demands so") at Večernje novosti, 11-8-2016, retrieved 18-11-2016 (Serbian)
  12. ↑ "France 2 – 1 Germany". UEFA. 4 May 2007. Archived from the original on 21 April 2009. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  13. ↑ "France Korea 2007". FIFA.com. 1 August 2007. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  14. ↑ "Haiti – France". FIFA.com. 22 August 2007. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  15. ↑ "Tunisia – France". 29 August 2007. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  16. ↑ "France – Spain". FIFA.com. 1 September 2007. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  17. ↑ "France 2 – 0 Republic of Ireland". UEFA. 26 November 2008. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  18. ↑ "France 4 – 0 Liechtenstein". UEFA. 21 November 2008. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  19. ↑ "Romania 0 – 3 France". UEFA. 23 May 2009. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  20. ↑ "France come from afar to claim finals berth". UEFA. 23 May 2009. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  21. ↑ "Outnumbered France succumb to England". UEFA. 30 July 2009. Archived from the original on 21 August 2009. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
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