Andy Delort

Andy Delort
Personal information
Full name Andy Delort
Date of birth (1991-10-09) 9 October 1991
Place of birth Sète, France
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Playing position Striker
Club information
Current team
 Tigres UANL
Number 9
Youth career
1997–1999 FC Sète 34
1999–2000 Pointe Courte AC Sète
2000–2002 FC Sète 34
2002–2003 Pointe Courte AC Sète
2003–2008 FC Sète 34
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2008–2009 Ajaccio 0 (0)
2009–2010 Nîmes 3 (0)
2010–2013 Ajaccio 47 (5)
2012 → Metz (loan) 13 (1)
2013–2014 Tours 38 (24)
2014–2015 Wigan Athletic 11 (0)
2015 → Tours (loan) 14 (2)
2015–2016 Caen 36 (12)
2016– Tigres UANL 10 (3)
National team
2009 France (beach) 1 (5)
2011 France U20 1 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 09:28, 27 November 2016 (UTC).


Andy Delort (9 October 1991) is a French professional footballer who currently plays for Liga MX club Tigres UANL.

He is a former France Under 20's international and has also represented the France Beach Soccer team. For the 2013–14 Ligue 2 season, Delort was named in the Team of the Year and nominated for Player of the Year.

Career

Early career

Born in Sète, Delort started his career at FC Sète 34. He joined AC Ajaccio in 2008, having finished top scorer at France U19 league level with 30 goals.[1] After coming through Ajaccio's youth ranks, he attracted interest from Bordeaux and Borussia Dortmund. After enjoying a trial at Borussia Dortmund, playing in the reserve team with Mario Götze and Shinji Kagawa, Dortmund offered him a contract. However, he chose to join Nîmes Olympique because of manager Jean-Michel Cavalli, claiming "a player who leapfrogs, burns his wings".[2] Delort also turned down a contract offer from Bordeaux.

Delort played his first game of Ligue 2 for Nîmes on 30 August 2009, coming on as a 53rd-minute substitute against FC Metz. During the season he was rarely used in the first team making only three substitute appearances.[1]

Ajaccio and loan to Metz

Delort re-joined his original club AC Ajaccio on June 2010. He scored his first two goals at professional level on 15 September 2010 against Le Havre in the French League Cup before achieving his first goals in the French Cup on 12 November 2010. His first Ligue 2 goals contributed to victories against SCO Angers on 17 December 2010 and against FC Istres. He signed his first professional contract for three and a half years with AC Ajaccio on 28 January 2011. On 11 March 2011 he was one of the players involved in a mass brawl when he was replaced in the match against FC Nantes. As as result of the incident several players were given suspensions; both Delort and his teammate Carl Medjani received four-match bans.[2][3][4] He earned promotion to Ligue 1 with AC Ajaccio during the 2010–11 season after finishing 2nd in the league.

On 31 January 2012, Delort signed a six-month loan deal with Ligue 2 club Metz[5] where he scored 1 goal in 13 appearances.

He returned to AC Ajaccio for the 2012–13 season and scored his first goal in Ligue 1 on 27 April 2013 in a 2–1 win over Montpellier HSC. In that season he made 16 appearances in Ligue 1. In the same season, he scored 12 goals in 16 appearances for the club's reserve team.[1]

FC Tours

In the summer of 2013, Delort joined Ligue 2 side Tours. He finished the 2013–14 season as joint top scorer in Ligue 2 scoring 24 goals in 36 matches and was named in the Ligue 2 Team of the Year as well as receiving a nomination for the Ligue 2 Player of the Year, eventually finishing runner-up to FC Metz’s Diafra Sakho for the award.[6]

Wigan Athletic

On deadline day of the summer 2014 transfer window, Delort signed for Championship side Wigan Athletic for a fee reported to be under £3 million. He was given the Number 49 shirt.[7] Delort struggled at Wigan and amassed only 11 league appearances for the club, failing to score in any of them. In an interview with Hat Trick, he admitted that he had struggled to settle at Wigan following his sudden upheaval from France.[8]

Return to Tours on loan

Having not been able to settle well in England, Delort re-joined Tours on loan until the end of the season on transfer deadline day in summer 2015.[9] In doing so, he opted to take a 50% pay cut in order to obtain regular playing time again.[8]

SM Caen

Delort completed a transfer to Stade Malherbe Caen on 2 July 2015.[10] In his debut with Caen, Delort scored his first goal in a 1–0 defeat of Marseille on 8 August 2015.[11]

Tigres UANL

On 2 September 2016, Delort's transfer to Liga MX club Tigres UANL was officially announced becoming the second French player to join the team. He signed a four-year contract while the transfer fee paid to Caen was reported as €8 million.[12] On 22 October 2016, he scored his first goal in Liga MX with Tigres, against Pumas UNAM at the Estadio Olimpico Universitario in a 3-1 victory.

International career

Andy Delort played in the France Beach Soccer team managed by Eric Cantona in 2009. He was spotted by Laurent Castro during an amateur tournament in Sète who asked him to play in the qualification for the 2009 World Cup.[2] He scored five goals in the qualifiers.

In 2011, he was selected by France Under 20's team by Francis Smerecki to play against the United States on 17 May 2011.[1] He was then called to participate in the 2011 Toulon Tournament in June with the France team, but had to pull out of the squad having suffered an injury in a league game.

Honours

Individual

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "In profile: Andy Delort". Wigan Athletic. 1 September 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 Lopes, Jonathan (4 April 2012). "Andy Delort : " J'ai refusé un contrat du Borussia Dortmund " (1/2)". Sharkfoot (in French). Retrieved 4 April 2012.
  3. ↑ "Medjani suspendu 4 matches". Le Figaro (in French). 17 March 2011. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  4. ↑ Lainé, Guillaume (6 August 2015). "Andy Delort, buteur à coeur ardent". Ouest-France (in French). Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  5. ↑ "Delort prêté à Metz". Maxifoot (in French). 31 January 2012. Retrieved 31 January 2012.
  6. 1 2 3 "Sakho, maître de la L2" [Sakho, mater of the L2]. L'Equipe (in French). 11 May 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  7. ↑ "Transfer news: Andy Delort deal to Wigan confirmed by Tours". Sky Sports. 1 September 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  8. 1 2 McFarlane, Brendan (5 August 2015). "Forget Wigan: what Andy Delort Did Next". French Football Weekly. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  9. ↑ "Sky Bet Championship: Wigan have allowed striker Andy Delort to returns to Tours on loan". Sky Sports. 2 February 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  10. ↑ "Delort completes transfer to SM Caen". sportsmole.co.uk. 2 July 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  11. ↑ O'Keefe, Chris (8 August 2015). "Result: Andy Delort inspires Caen win in Marseille". sportsmole.co.uk. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  12. ↑ "Transfert : Andy Delort avec Gignac aux Tigres (Officiel)". L'Equipe. 2 September 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2016.

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