- Gregory Arnolin
Football player infobox
playername = Grégory Arnolin
height = height|ft=6|in=2
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1980|11|10
cityofbirth =Livry-Gargan ,Paris
countryofbirth =France
currentclub =Vitória Guimarães
clubnumber = 17
position = Defender
youthyears = 1997-2001
youthclubs = Paris Saint-Germain
years = 2001-2002 2002-2004 2004-2006 2006-2008 2008-
clubs =Villemomble Sports Pedras Rubras Gil VicenteCS Marítimo Vitória Guimarães
caps(goals) = 0 (0) 44 (8) 53 (11) 44 (3)
pcupdate =August 1 ,2008 Grégory Arnolin (born
November 10 ,1980 inLivry-Gargan ,Paris ) is a French football defender, currently playing forVitória Sport Clube in the Portuguese first division.At the age of 16, Arnolin signed a
semi-professional contract withParis Saint-Germain FC . During his 4-year spell at the club, he would never play for the first team, being loaned out on three separate occasions to differentParis based semi-professional teams (U.S. Torcy, F.C. Lilas and F.C. Livry). In the summer of 2001, Arnolin's contract with PSG ran out and he became afree agent . He was quickly snapped up by semi-professional outfitVillemomble Sports (also in Paris, competing in the fourth division). However, he never appeared in a league match for the team, and in the summer of 2002 was released.Arnolin then moved to
Portugal to play forF.C. Pedras Rubras , in thePortuguese Third Division . After solid performances, he attracted attention from bigger Portuguese clubs, and eventually signed his first professional contract with "Liga de Honra " sideGil Vicente F.C. in 2004-05. In 2005-06, he netted an impressive 9 league goals for theBarcelos side, catching the eye ofMadeira -basedC.S. Marítimo , and in that summer signed a 2-year contract for the club. After only missing one league game in his first season, Arnolin played second-fiddle in the second (15 appearances).On
June 12 ,2007 , British sports channelSky Sports reported that Arnolin was preparing to sign forWest Bromwich Albion of theEnglish Championship after managerTony Mowbray made it clear that the player was one of his summer transfer targets. The player's agent, former footballerRudi Vata , said to theBirmingham Mail :"There is a good possibility that Grégory will join West Bromwich but there are still issues to be resolved. We should know more at the end of this month when people are back from holiday and all focus switches towards pre-season. I think there is a big chance he will be a West Bromwich player next season. He is well aware of how close they were to playing in the Premiership and the club's ambitions match his own. What we don't know yet is whether it would be a transfer for about £400,000 or a loan move - that is one of the issues we have to discuss". [ [http://home.skysports.com/transferarticle.aspx?hlid=471499 Sky Sports - Home] ]
However, nothing came of it and Arnolin remained in Marítimo. On
June 7 ,2008 , he signed for another Portuguese team,Vitória de Guimarães , as he was also applying for Portuguese citzenship.References
External links
* [http://www.zerozero.eu/uk/jogador.php?id=7746 Stats and profile at zerozero.pt]
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