Jean-Philippe Mendy

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Jean-Philippe Mendy
Personal information
Full name Jean-Philippe Mendy
Date of birth (1987-03-04) March 4, 1987 (age 37)
Place of birth Élancourt, France
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Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Maribor
Number 14
Youth career
1993–1999 OSC Elancourt
1999–2001 FC Versailles
2001–2006 Football Croix-de-Savoie 74
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2009 Dinamo Bucureşti 10 (0)
2007–2008 → Petrolul Ploieşti (loan) 3 (0)
2008–2009 → Dinamo II Bucureşti 19 (8)
2011–2012 SPAL 23 (1)
2013 Koper 13 (3)
2013– Maribor 88 (37)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 25 May 2016

Jean Philippe Mendy (born 4 March 1987) is a French footballer of Senegalese descent who plays for Maribor in the Slovenian PrvaLiga. Initially a midfielder, he was later in his career moved forward.[1]

Career

Mendy started playing football, aged 6, at OSC Elancourt, before moving, aged 12, to FC Versailles, and at some point after, to Football Croix-de-Savoie 74, now known as Evian Thonon Gaillard F.C. Aged 14, he spent some time at Clairefontaine.[1]

In the summer of 2006, he played a single friendly match for the Swiss third-tier side CS Chênois, a 5–0 loss against the Romanian giants Dinamo Bucureşti. Despite the loss, he was noticed by Dinamo's coach Mircea Rednic, and brought to the Romanian club. Despite never officially being a CS Chênois player, he was erroneously presented as such by the Romanian media.[2]

He made his debut for the Bucharest club on 11 November 2006, coming in the 83rd minute for Claudiu Niculescu, in a 3–0 home win against FC Oțelul Galați.[citation needed] His UEFA Cup debut was on 14 December 2006, after he came in for Ionel Dănciulescu in the 77th minute of the 3–1 away loss vs. Tottenham Hotspur F.C and scored, in the 91st minute, what would prove to be his first and only goal for Dinamo's senior team.[citation needed]

After the 2006–07 season, he spent time on loan at second-tier side Petrolul Ploieşti, and Dinamo's B side, also playing at that level, but the rest of his time in Romania was marred by a knee injury and operation, suffered after another player fell on it. Because of that, he would only feature in one more match for Dinamo, in July 2009. After his recovery, he signed in the beginning of 2011 for the Italian Lega Pro Prima Divisione team SPAL 1907. However, his convalescence was not yet over, leaving him unable to sprint properly, so he required another operation, losing another year of football.[1]

He was brought to Slovenia by Koper's coach Rodolfo Vanoli, who saw him play at SPAL.[1] In the summer of 2013, he moved to the Slovenian champions Maribor, where he went on to score 8 goals in the 15 matches of the first half of the season.

Personal life

Mendy, a child of Senegalese parents born in France, is multilingual, speaking six languages: English, Italian, Romanian, French, Wolof and Slovene.[1] In April 2014 he got married in Maribor to Lisette Mendy and became a father to a son in May.

Honours

Dinamo Bucureşti
Maribor

References

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  2. ↑ Contemporary Croix-de-savoie forum board discussion at Croixdesavoiefans.net

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