Amaury Bischoff

Football player infobox
playername = Amaury Bischoff


fullname = Amaury Bischoff
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1987|3|31
cityofbirth = Colmar
countryofbirth = France
height = height|m=1.76
position = Midfielder, Winger
currentclub = Arsenal
clubnumber = 28
youthclubs = SR Colmar
RC Strasbourg
youthyears =
2005
clubs = Werder Bremen II
Werder Bremen
Arsenal
years = 2005–2008
2006–2008
2008–
caps(goals) = 62 (6)
00 (0)
00 (0)
nationalyears = 2007–
nationalteam = Portugal U-21
nationalcaps(goals) =
pcupdate = 30 July 2008
ntupdate = 29 June 2008

Amaury Bischoff (born on March 31 1987 in Colmar) is a French-Portuguese footballer who plays for Arsenal as a midfielder. He has a Portuguese mother and a father from Alsace, France.

Club Career

Werder Bremen

The midfielder began his football career at SR Colmar. From RC Strasbourg, he moved to Werder Bremen's second team in 2005. Due to his good performances in the second team, Bischoff trained with Bremen's first team several times.

His debut game came in the UEFA Cup against Celta de Vigo, when he replaced the Brazilian Diego in the 74th minute. He decided to leave Werder Bremen on July 1, 2008 after rejecting a contract extension to look for a new challenge. After announcing this he made a statement in which he said that his transfer to Arsenal was imminent. [cite news |title=Amaury transfer to Arsenal 'imminent' |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/07/01/ufnbisch101.xml |publisher=telegraph.co.uk |date=2008-07-01 |accessdate=2008-07-01 ] [cite news |title=Bischoff set for Gunners |url=http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11095_3761361,00.html |publisher=skysports.com |date=2008-07-01 |accessdate=2008-07-01 ]

Arsenal

It was confirmed on July 30, 2008 by Arsenal F.C. that Amaury had signed for the club and would wear squad No 28. Wenger said he knew the signing was a "gamble on talent" due to the midfielder's injury record. [cite news |title=Portuguese midfielder Amaury Bischoff joins Arsenal |url=http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/portuguese-midfielder-bischoff-joins-arsenal |publisher=arsenal.com |date=2008-07-30 |accessdate=2008-09-21] Bischoff made his debut in an Arsenal shirt on October 6, 2008 in a reserve match against Stoke City. [http://www.arsenal.com/match-menu/3020278/reserves/arsenal-res-v-stoke-city?tab=report]

National team

Amaury Bischoff has played for France's U-18 team. On May 14 2007 he elected to train with Portugal's U-20 team, and has since appeared for the Portugal national under-21 football team.

References

External Links

* [http://www.fussballdaten.de/spieler/bischoffamaury/ Career Stats at Fussballdaten.de] de icon
* [http://www.arsenal.com/first-team/players/amaury-bischoff Profile] at Arsenal.com