Chimbonda playing for Tottenham Hotspur in 2007
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Pascal Chimbonda | ||
Date of birth | 21 February 1979 | ||
Place of birth | Les Abymes, Guadeloupe | ||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||
Playing position | Defender | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1998–2000 | Le Havre B | 24 | (1) |
1999–2003 | Le Havre | 85 | (5) |
2003–2005 | Bastia | 67 | (4) |
2005–2006 | Wigan Athletic | 38 | (2) |
2006–2008 | Tottenham Hotspur | 65 | (3) |
2008–2009 | Sunderland | 13 | (0) |
2009 | Tottenham Hotspur | 3 | (0) |
2009–2011 | Blackburn Rovers | 30 | (1) |
2011 | Queens Park Rangers | 3 | (0) |
2011–2012 | Doncaster Rovers | 16 | (0) |
2013 | Market Drayton Town | 0 | (0) |
2013–2014 | Carlisle United | 26 | (0) |
2014–2015 | AC Arles-Avignon | 6 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
2003–2012 | Guadeloupe | 6 | (0) |
2006 | France | 1 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17:46, 5 July 2015 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20 January 2011 |
Pascal Chimbonda (born 21 February 1979) is a French professional footballer who played as a defender for French side AC Arles-Avignon before he was released in February 2015. He is currently a free agent.
Born in Guadeloupe and raised in metropolitan France, Chimbonda began his professional career in 1998 with Le Havre, where he featured over 100 times combined for the club's first team and B team before moving to Bastia in 2003. In 2005 he moved to Premier League club Wigan Athletic for their first ever season in the top flight. At Wigan, his tremendous season earned him a place in the Premier League Team of the Year. But on the last day of the 2005-2006 season, he handed in a transfer request. He was subsequently signed by Tottenham Hotspur that summer. After two seasons with Spurs he later moved on to fellow top flight club Sunderland before briefly returning to Spurs in 2009. In the summer of 2009 he signed for Blackburn Rovers which is where he remained until 2011 when he joined Football Championship club Queens Park Rangers. During the 2011–12 season he was one of a number of ex Premier League players who turned out for Doncaster Rovers but he went on to be released at the end of the season. Having remained clubless for the following year, Chimbonda dropped six leagues down to sign non-contract terms with Market Drayton Town, remaining at them briefly before joining Carlisle.
Despite initially playing his international football for Guadeloupe, Chimbonda went on to be selected for the France squad for the 2006 World Cup, but he was an unused substitute in each of France's matches including the final, in which they lost on a penalty shootout to Italy. His only French cap came in a World Cup warm-up match against Denmark.