Patrice Evra

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Patrice Evra
Personal information
Date of birth	May 15, 1981 (age 25)
Place of birth	Dakar, Senegal
Height	5'9" / 1.75 m
Nickname	Supatrice, Paddy, Senegalese Superman
Playing position	Left back
Club information
Current club	Manchester United
Number	3
Youth clubs
?-1998	Paris Saint-Germain
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1998-1999 1999-2000 2000-2002 2002-2006 2006-present	Marsala Monza OGC Nice AS Monaco Manchester United	024 (3) 003 (0) 040 (1) 120 (1) 032 (1)
National team2
2004-present	France	005 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 4 March 2007. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 10 November 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Patrice Evra (born May 15, 1981 in Dakar, Senegal) is a French-Senegalese international footballer, who plays for English Premiership side Manchester United. He plays in the left back position although he can also play on the left wing.

Son of a diplomat, he soon arrived in Europe through Brussels where his father was sent when he was very young. He was raised in Les Ulis, Essonne, France where he lived with his family from 1984 to 1998 before seizing his first opportunity leading him to Marsala, Italy. That's where he started football in 1986 and fell in love with the game. He evolved notably with Thierry Henry in those early years. They consider themselves as childhood friends. Patrice had a total of 23 siblings [1].

[edit] Career

Quite normally for a teenager of Les Ulis, he started his career with the Paris St-Germain youth team, before moving in 1998 to Italian Serie C1 team S.C. Marsala 1912, and then to A.C. Monza Brianza 1912 of Serie B for the following season. He transferred to OGC Nice in 2000, and then to AS Monaco in 2002. Evra has represented France at international level on five occasions.

At AS Monaco, Evra was also part of the team that won the French League Cup and reached the Champions League Final in 2004.

Evra signed a 3.5 year contract for United on 10 January 2006, for around £5.5 million, from AS Monaco. Signing at Manchester just days after the capture of Nemanja Vidić, Evra's arrival signalled Sir Alex Ferguson's intention to shore up a United defence that had suffered since the sidelining of Gabriel Heinze. Upon signing for United, Evra revealed that he had snubbed both Arsenal and Liverpool for the chance to walk out at the Theatre of Dreams.

"Liverpool and Arsenal are great clubs but United is a completely different story. Inter were also trying to get me in the transfer window but there was only one club for me".

He made his debut for Manchester United on 14th January in a 3-1 defeat to Manchester City in the English Premier League. He played his home debut against Liverpool on 22nd January in a 1-0 win. Evra initially had some problems adapting to the English game, but by midway through the 2006-07 season his form had greatly improved and he established himself as a regular first-teamer. On 29 November 2006, he scored his first goal for the club in a Premiership match against Everton at Old Trafford.

In February Evra won every tackle he attempted, 4, according to Inside United.

Evra wears the number three shirt vacated by Phil Neville in the previous summer.

His wife's name is Patricia. They have one son, Lenny, born in September, 2005.

[edit] Honours

• 2003 - Coupe de la Ligue with Monaco

• 2003 - Ligue 1 with Monaco - Runner Up

• 2004 - UEFA Champions League with Monaco - Runner Up

• 2006 - Carling Cup with Manchester United

[edit] External link

• Official profile at manutd.com

Manchester United F.C. - Current Squad
1 van der Sar | 2 Neville | 3 Evra | 4 Heinze | 5 Ferdinand | 6 Brown | 7 Ronaldo | 8 Rooney | 9 Saha | 11 Giggs | 13 Park | 14 Smith | 15 Vidić | 16 Carrick | 18 Scholes | 20 Solskjær | 21 Dong | 22 O'Shea | 23 Richardson | 24 Fletcher | 27 Silvestre | 29 Kuszczak | 32 Cathcart | 33 Eagles | 38 Heaton | Manager: Ferguson

Persondata
NAME	Patrice Evra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	La Grenouille (‘The Frog’) and Le Crapaud (‘The Toad’)
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Professional footballer
DATE OF BIRTH	15 May 1981 (age 24)
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dakar, Senegal
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH