Fabien Barthez

Fabien Barthez is the brightest character in the entire history of football. The goalkeeper's bald head was kissed by the captain of the French national team Laurent Blanc for good luck. The goalkeeper's behavior on the field, far from sporting, was remembered no less than the dizzying saves in which he took the ball out of a seemingly hopeless position.

Fabien was born into a rugby player family, so sport and adrenaline were in his blood. The boy started with rugby, then he made a choice in favor of football.

Barthez's first position on the pitch is as a striker, but when he started studying at the Toulouse academy, he was retrained as a goalkeeper. It took the talented guy only 5 years to grow to the main team. In 1991, Fabien made his professional football debut.

A distinctive feature of Barthez is his short height for a goalkeeper - 183 cm (weight during his playing career - 78 kg). However, this did not prevent the young Frenchman from attracting the attention of the giants in one season. The most substantive interest in Fabienne was shown by the then-strongest French team, Olympique Marseille. At the age of 21, Barthez became the first number of the club, which was considered a noticeable force not only in the national championship, but also in Europe.

In the 1992/1993 season, the team came as a surprise by reaching the Champions League final, where they faced the formidable Milan. The Rossoneri, led by Marco van Basten, were the favorites, but it was the French who scored. And Barthez kept his own goal "dry". So Fabien became the youngest goalkeeper to win the European club gold. A few years later, he was replaced by Iker Casillas from Real Madrid.

The next season, when Olimpik began to have financial problems, coupled with scandals over match fixing, the goalkeeper showed the best human qualities. He did not leave the club, like most of the players, but stayed and helped the Provençals return to the elite. And only after that he accepted the offer from Monaco.

As part of the Monegasques, Barthez won two league titles in 5 years and, in addition, firmly took the first position in the French national team. At the 1998 World Cup, the AS Monaco goalkeeper participated in all 7 matches and conceded only 2 goals, as a result he was recognized as the best goalkeeper of the championship. At the victorious European Championship 2000, Fabien, of course, stood at the goal of the national team. Such resounding successes have elevated the French goalkeeper to the status of the best "ball catchers" in the world.

However, in the presence of a lot of positive qualities, Barthez sometimes simply freaked out on the field. As a footballer, he loved to play with his feet, went far out of the goal, undertook to circle the attackers, which did not add calmness to his team.

At the age of 28, Fabien received an invitation from Alex Ferguson to join Manchester United. The great Scotsman had been looking for a replacement for Peter Schmeichel for a long time and saw a worthy successor in the person of the Frenchman. The amount of the transfer was $ 11 million. The first season in England showed that Sir Alex hit the mark - the “red devils” with Barthez at the gate won the third consecutive championship.

In Foggy Albion, Fabien did not leave his "theatrical performances" on the field. Ferguson alone knows what it cost to survive the attempts of an extravagant player to stop the match for reasons known to him alone, demonstratively ignoring the penalty kick, playing the striker in the center of the field and giving instructions to the defenders. But the head coach was silent and still trusted Bartez, because he knew his highest level.

However, the 2003 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals overwhelmed the mentor. Ronaldo scored a hat-trick, Fabien's weak play nullified Marseille's efforts, and Real Madrid moved further in the tournament bracket.

In fact, this season has become a turning point in the sports biography of the Frenchman. The bet was already placed on Tim Howard, and Barthez decided to return to Marseille. Alas, for two years with the “southerners” the goalkeeper has not won a single title. But the final chord in his career turned out to be a major one.

The goalkeeper was already 35 years old, and yet at the 2006 World Cup he unexpectedly turned out to be the first number of the national team. France reached the final, in which, after the removal of Zinedine Zidane, lost only to the Italians in a penalty shootout.

Soon, speaking on television, Barthez announced his retirement. The reason for leaving, according to him, was the reluctance of the only club of interest to him, Toulouse, to accept the goalkeeper into his team. In December 2006, Fabienne signed a contract with Nantes, played 14 matches, but after 4 months he finally hung up his boots.

The Bald Buddha, as the fans called Fabien Barthez, had an army of millions of fans. In 1998, the footballer won the heart of one of them, and not just anyone, but "supermodel for all time" Linda Evangelista. The beauty threw the Hollywood celebrity Kyle McLachlan, whom she had taken away from Lara Flynn Boyle at one time, it was from Barthez that she wanted to have children, at least six, without worrying about how this would affect the figure.

To the horror of the paparazzi, Linda did not hesitate to show herself without makeup and in a home stretched T-shirt, at the request of her husband, she stopped using the phone so that nothing would interfere with enjoying happiness.

The idyll did not last long - at the 6th month of pregnancy, the goalkeeper's wife had a miscarriage. According to the Evangelists, it was Fabien's support that helped restore the zest for life. In 2000, the couple broke up, then again tried to improve relations, and in 2002 it became clear that the past could not be returned.

Barthez, according to rumors, communicated very closely with the royal special - Princess Stephanie of Monaco. From the relationship with the singer and actress Ophelia Winter, the footballer has a son, Daniel.

In 2004 he married Aurelie Dupont and has two children - Aldo and Lenny.

At his leisure, Fabienne listens to Charles Aznavour and Phil Collins. Living in England, my teammates remembered that he ate only organic products, moreover, brought from France.

Having tied up with football, Barthez became seriously interested in car racing. He has participated in 24 Heures du Mans endurance test races, individual races in the German Porsche Cup, the FIA ​​GT Championship and the Caterham Sigma Cup France. In the 2012 season, the ex-goalkeeper won his first race in the FFSA series at the Circuito de Navarra and finished seventh in the championship.

In 2013, Fabien became the French Grand Tourist Champion with Morgan Mullin-Trafford at the wheel of a Ferrari. At the same time, Laurent Blanc, who headed the Paris Saint-Germain club, invited his teammate to become a goalkeeper coach.

In addition, the former player worked as a football analyst on the MYTF1 channel and commented on rugby competitions. Before the 2012 European Championships, he became the face of a fast food chain.

A wax copy of Fabien Barthez is installed in the Musée Grevin in Paris.

Barthez has no accounts on Facebook and Instagram, and his Twitter page has long been abandoned.

In 2017, Fabienne with his teammates who won the 1998 and Euro 2000 Worlds, Didier Deschamps, Zinedine Zidane and Bixante Lizarazu took part in a charity match. The opponent was the Toulouse rugby team. They played football in the first half, and rugby in the second.

In the same year, Barthez's record for the number of matches played for the French national team fell - 87. The retired goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, who won the 2018 World Cup with the national team, bypassed the goalkeeper.

Fabien continues to test prototype sports cars in the Panis-Barthez Compétition's dedicated stable. The team is represented by racer Tim Bure, who took 15th place in the 24 Hours of Le Mans -2018.

Chevalier of the Order of the Legion of Honor Two-time champion of France Two-time champion of England Winner of the UEFA Champions League Winner of the Intertoto Cup Winner of the French Super Cup World Champion Winner of the Lev Yashin prize for the best goalkeeper of the World Championship

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