Gilbert Meriel
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| Full name | Gilbert Meriel[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 11 November 1986 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Tahiti | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | A.S. Vénus | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1995–2000 | A.S. Vénus | ||||||||||||||||
| 2000–2003 | Angers | ||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2006 | Carquefou | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2006–2008 | Carquefou | ||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | A.S. Tefana | ||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2014 | AS Central Sport | ||||||||||||||||
| 2014– | A.S. Vénus | ||||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2011– | Tahiti | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals as of 20:16, 23 June 2013 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Gilbert Meriel (born 11 November 1986) is a soccer player from Tahiti who plays for A.S. Vénus and for the Tahiti national team. He was part of the Tahitian squad at the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup in Brazil.[citation needed]
Meriel started playing soccer at the age of nine on Tahitian club A.S. Vénus. Five years later, he went to France to join the youth academy at Angers, where he stayed for three years. While in France, Meriel also played for US Jeanne d'Arc Carquefou competing in the lower leagues, before returning home at 18. Upon his return home Meriel, like many of his national team colleagues, was forced to get another job and become a semi-professional athlete. Metiel earned a bachelor in economy and administration, becoming an auditor for consulting group KPMG.[2]
On the Confederations Cup, Meriel had his first cap as the starting goalkeeper for Tahiti's in the squad's final game against Uruguay in Recife. While Tahiti lost 8-0, Meriel was applauded once he saved a penalty kick from the eventually sent-off Andres Scotti.[3][4]
Honours
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- Pacific Games: third place 2011[5]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Gilbert Meriel – FIFA competition record (archived)Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Gilbert Meriel at National-Football-Teams.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Gilbert Meriel at SoccerwayLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Facebook Account Gilbert Meriel
- 1986 births
- Living people
- 21st-century French sportsmen
- French Polynesian men's footballers
- Men's association football goalkeepers
- Tahiti men's international footballers
- 2012 OFC Nations Cup players
- 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup players
- OFC Nations Cup–winning players
- French Polynesian football biography stubs