- Cédric Anselin
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Cédric Anselin Personal information Date of birth 24 July 1977 Place of birth Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France Playing position Midfield Club information Current club [Norwich United] Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† Girondins de Bordeaux Lille Norwich City Ross County Oriente Petrolero Cambridge United King's Lynn Dereham Town * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). Cédric Anselin (born 24 July 1977 in Lens, Pas-de-Calais) is a former professional footballer, now playing non-league football for Lowestoft Town in Suffolk, England. He is a midfield player and was a French under-21 international.
Anselin began his career in his native France with Bordeaux and Lille. While with Bordeaux, he played in the 1996 UEFA Cup Final alongside, among others, Zinedine Zidane and Bixente Lizarazu.
Anselin joined English club Norwich City on loan towards the end of the 1998-99 season and signed permanently for a fee of £250,000 in the summer of 1999. He found it difficult to settle at Carrow Road due in part to the language barrier, and the club agreed to release him in the summer of 2001. He scored one goal during his spell at Norwich, his strike coming in a 4-2 win over Oxford United.[1]
He spent the majority of the 2001-02 season with Scottish club Ross County before his career took him to Bolivian team Oriente Petrolero. He returned to England and had a short spell with Cambridge United before moving into non-league football. A brief spell at King's Lynn was followed by a move further down the league pyramid to Dereham Town late in 2007. He has recently signed a contract with Lowestoft Town F.C.
On 25 August 2009, he joined reserve team management team of Norwich United.[2] He also made a brief 45 minute appearance against a Norwich City 11 in a July 2010 preseason friendly.
References
- ^ "Oxford 2 Norwich 4". Sporting Life. 24 April 1999. http://www.sportinglife.com/football/premiership/norwich/reports/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/99/04/24/SOCCER_Oxford_Nightlead.html&TEAMHD=norwich&DIV=prem&TEAM=NORWICH--CITY&RH=Norwich--City&PREV_SEASON=1997. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
- ^ Norwich United: Anselin joins management team, 16th September 2009
- Canary Citizens by Mark Davage, John Eastwood, Kevin Platt, published by Jarrold Publishing, (2001), ISBN 0-7117-2020-7
External links
- Career information at ex-canaries.co.uk
- Cedric Anselin career statistics at Soccerbase
- Article about Cedric Anselin from When Saturday Comes
- Cédric Anselin French league stats at LFP.fr (French)
Categories:- 1977 births
- Living people
- People from Lens, Pas-de-Calais
- French footballers
- FC Girondins de Bordeaux players
- Lille OSC players
- Ligue 1 players
- Norwich City F.C. players
- Cambridge United F.C. players
- French football midfielder, 1970s birth stubs
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