Nicolas Janvier

Nicolas Janvier
Nicolas Janvier with Rennes in 2016
Personal information
Date of birth (1998-08-11) 11 August 1998 (age 26)
Place of birth Saint-Malo, France
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Alanyaspor
Number 17
Youth career
2004–2006 Jeanne d'Arc Saint Malo
2006–2015 Rennes
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2019 Rennes II 58 (8)
2015–2019 Rennes 11 (0)
2019–2020 Vitória SC B 23 (8)
2020–2023 Vitória SC 69 (3)
2023– Alanyaspor 41 (5)
International career
2013–2014 France U16 12 (4)
2014–2015 France U17 13 (3)
2015–2016 France U18 9 (5)
2016–2017 France U19 16 (4)
2017–2018 France U20 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 28 September 2024

Nicolas Janvier (born 11 August 1998) is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Alanyaspor.[1]

Club career

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Born in Saint-Malo, Brittany, Janvier moved from hometown club Jeanne d'Arc to Stade Rennais F.C. at the age of 8, a year after starting to play football.[2] He made his Ligue 1 debut on 11 December 2015 against SM Caen, as an 84th-minute substitute for Juan Fernando Quintero in a 1–1 home draw.[3]

Janvier signed his first professional contract in August 2015, a three-year deal that made him only the third 17-year-old to turn professional at Rennes, after Yoann Gourcuff and Damien Le Tallec.[4] He made only 15 appearances in all competitions (four starts), being used mainly in the reserve team in the Championnat National 3 and 2. He left in August 2019 on a three-year deal to Vitória SC in Portugal's Primeira Liga.[5]

Janvier was again a reserve in his first year in Portugal, scoring 8 goals in 23 games including braces in wins over CDC Montalegre and Berço SC. He made his Primeira Liga debut on 18 September 2020, playing the full 90 minutes of a 1–0 home loss to B-SAD, the first game managed by Tiago Mendes.[6]

On 4 July 2023, Janvier signed a three-year contract for Turkish club Alanyaspor, for an undisclosed fee.[7]

International career

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Janvier earned 53 caps for France at youth level, scoring 16 goals. He made his debut on 17 September 2013 with the under-16 team in a 1–0 friendly win over Wales in La Sauvetat-du-Dropt, and scored in a 6–0 win against the same country two days later.[8] He was part of the under-17 team that won the 2015 UEFA European Championship in Bulgaria, though he missed in the semi-final penalty shootout against Belgium.[9]

Honours

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France

References

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  1. ^ Nicolas Janvier at Soccerway. Retrieved 2023-06-13. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "Football. Un Malouin en équipe de France" [Football. A Saint-Malo native in the France national team]. Le Télégramme (in French). 5 January 2015. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  3. ^ "Rennes vs. Caen – 11 December 2015". Soccerway. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  4. ^ "Contrats : premier contrat pro pour Nicolas Janvier" [Contracts: first pro contract for Nicolas Janvier] (in French). Stade Rennais Online. 10 August 2015. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  5. ^ "Saint-Malo. Le Malouin Nicolas Janvier signe au Portugal" [Saint-Malo. Local Nicolas Janvier signs in Portugal]. Ouest-France (in French). 21 August 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  6. ^ "Traição de Cafú Phete dita derrota do Vitória no arranque da I Liga" [Cafú Phete's betrayal leads to Vitória's defeat on opening day of I Liga] (in Portuguese). Guimarães Digital. 18 September 2020. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  7. ^ "Nicolas Janvier Corendon Alanyaspor'umuzda". Alanyaspor Resmi İnternet Sitesi (in Turkish). 4 July 2023. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
  8. ^ "Bilan des U16 Tricolores" [Data on U16 Tricolours] (in French). Formation Girondin. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  9. ^ a b "Belle participation au tournoi de football des jeunes" [Great participation at the youth football tournament]. Ouest-France (in French). 19 June 2015. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
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