| Philippe Mexès | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Philippe Mexès | |
| Date of birth | March 30, 1982 | |
| Place of birth | Toulouse, France | |
| Height | 1. Events 240 BC - 1st recorded Perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) Toulouse ( pronounced in standard French, and in the local accent ( Occitan: Tolosa, pronounced) is a city in southwest This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. 87 m (6 ft 11⁄2 in) | |
| Playing position | Centre-back | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | A.S. Roma | |
| Number | 5 | |
| Youth clubs | ||
1997-1999 | Toulouse FC AJ Auxerre | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1999-2004 2004- | AJ Auxerre A.S. Roma | 133 (7) 95 (7) |
| National team2 | ||
| 2002- | France | 8 (0) |
1 Senior club appearances and goals | ||
Philippe Mexès (pronounced [filip megˈzɛs]) (born March 30, 1982 in Toulouse, France) is a French professional football (soccer) player, who currently plays as a centreback for Italian club A.S. Roma. Events 240 BC - 1st recorded Perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) Toulouse ( pronounced in standard French, and in the local accent ( Occitan: Tolosa, pronounced) is a city in southwest This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered In Association football (soccer a defender is a player who tries to prevent the other team from scoring Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Associazione Sportiva Roma, ( commonly referred to as simply Roma, is an Italian professional football club from Rome, and are currently amongst
Philippe Mexès began his career with local club Toulouse FC, with his older sister regularly taking him to the training sessions. Toulouse Football Club is a French football team playing in the city of Toulouse, Haute-Garonne. However, he left for AJ Auxerre's youth team when he was sixteen years old. Association de la Jeunesse Auxerroise, or AJ Auxerre, is a French football team founded in 1905 playing in the town of Auxerre in He successfully participated in the Under-18 and Under-21 French national football teams, eventually winning a spot in the senior squad in August 2002. The French national football team represents the nation of France in international football. Since 2002 he has only been called up a few times, after he failed to make the French squad for the 2004 European Football Championship. The 2004 UEFA European Football Championship (or just Euro 2004) was the twelfth edition of the UEFA European Football Championship, a quadrennial football He was recently called up for France's friendly match against Bosnia-Herzegovina in August 2006. An exhibition game (also known as an exhibition match or simply exhibition, or a demonstration or demo event is a sporting event The Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team is the national football team of Bosnia and Herzegovina and is controlled by the Football Association of Bosnia
Mexès is currently one of the backbones of the A. S. Roma after completing the vastly hyped transfer which cost Roma €7 million in 2004. After a difficult first season with the capitoline club, Mexès began the 2005-06 campaign on the bench, leaving the central defender spot to Sammy Kuffour. The Capitoline Hill, between the Forum and the Campus Martius, is one of the seven hills of Rome. Scudetto winner and match-fixing scandal The 29th scudetto originally won by Juventus F Samuel Osei Kuffour (born September 3, 1976 in Kumasi) is a former Ghanaian football defender. However, as Kuffour was on national team duty for Ghana, Mexès slowly gained playing time. The Ghana national football team, popularly known as the Black Stars, is the national Association football team of Ghana and is controlled by the
As of the 2007-08 campaign, Mexes has established himself as an integral first team player for A.S. Roma and is now widely considered one of the best defenders in the world. Events Plusvalenze investigation Inquiries are being conducted by the CO Associazione Sportiva Roma, ( commonly referred to as simply Roma, is an Italian professional football club from Rome, and are currently amongst
On 24 May 2008, Mexes opened the scoring in spectacular fashion in the Supercoppa Italia final against Inter Milan, the match Roma later went on to win 2-1.