Marc Pfertzel
Marc Pfertzel (born 21 May 1981 in Mulhouse) is a retired French football defender/midfielder and current manager of French club FU Narbonne. He has also been known to have played as left and right sweeper and on the right midfield.
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Marc Pfertzel | ||
| Date of birth | 21 May 1981 | ||
| Place of birth | Mulhouse, France | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position(s) | Right Winger, Right Wingback | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | FU Narbonne (Manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1995–1999 | Mulhouse | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1999–2001 | FC Basel | ||
| 2001 | Sochaux[1] | ||
| 2001–2002 | Troyes[2] | ||
| 2002–2003 | Sète | 36 | (4) |
| 2003–2007 | Livorno | 106 | (4) |
| 2007–2010 | VfL Bochum | 76 | (2) |
| 2009–2010 | → VfL Bochum II | 2 | (0) |
| 2011 | Kavala | 11 | (1) |
| 2011–2014 | Union Berlin | 87 | (2) |
| 2014–2015 | SV Sandhausen | 8 | (0) |
| 2016–2017 | Sète | 10 | (1) |
| 2017–2018 | Stade Balarucois | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 2018–2019 | Sète (reserves) | ||
| 2019– | FU Narbonne | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||
Career
France
Pfertzel started his career in the youth team of his local club FC Mulhouse in Alsace.
In 2001–02, Pfertzel moved to Ligue 1 club ES Troyes AC, but played onlyfor the reserve team. So he decided to leave the club after only one season and moved Championnat National club FC Sète 34. In the 2002–03 season, he played 36 matches for the club from Southern France.
Livorno
Again he stayed only for one season at a club. In July 2003, Pfertzel moved to Italian Serie B club AS Livorno. The club was promoted in his first season into the Serie A and Pfertzel played 84 matches in that league. The highlight of his AS Livorno period was the qualification to the UEFA Cup in the 2006–07 season. Since Juventus F.C., S.S. Lazio and ACF Fiorentina were punished because of the 2006 Serie A scandal, Livorno climbed from the ninth to the sixth spot and was allowed to play in the 2006–07 UEFA Cup. Livorno did quite well and was eliminated in the round of the last 32 by later finalist Espanyol Barcelona.
VfL Bochum
In the summer of 2007, Pfertzel moved to German Bundesliga club VfL Bochum. He signed a four-year contract which was valid in the first and second Bundesliga. To make this transfer happening, Pfertzel even accepted a lower salary so that this money could be invested in the transfer fee.
Union Berlin
On 25 May 2011, it was announced that Pfertzel had secured a free transfer to German 2. Bundesliga side 1. FC Union Berlin on a two-year deal.
SV Sandhausen
In July 2014, Pfertzel left Union Berlin and joined fellow 2. Bundesliga club SV Sandhausen. However, he only earned caps in the first leg of the campaign, being told to be redundant by head coach Alois Schwartz in the winter break. At the end of the 2014–15 season, Pfertzel retired from professional football.[3]
Coaching career
After retiring at the end of the 2017-18 season, Pfertzel became the manager of the reserve of his former club FC Sète 34.[4][5] In the summer 2019, he was appointed manager of FU Narbonne.[5]
Career statistics
| Club performance | League | Cup | League Cup | Continental | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Switzerland | League | Schweizer Cup | League Cup | Europe | Total | |||||||
| 1999–00 | FC Basel | Nationalliga A | – | |||||||||
| 2000–01 | – | |||||||||||
| France | League | Coupe de France | Coupe de la Ligue | Europe | Total | |||||||
| 2000–01 | FC Sochaux | Division 2 | – | |||||||||
| 2001–02 | Troyes AC | Division 1 | ||||||||||
| 2002–03 | FC Sète 34 | Division 3 | 36 | 4 | – | |||||||
| Italy | League | Coppa Italia | League Cup | Europe | Total | |||||||
| 2003–04 | AS Livorno | Serie B | 20 | 0 | – | – | ||||||
| 2004–05 | Serie A | 26 | 0 | – | – | |||||||
| 2005–06 | 29 | 2 | – | – | ||||||||
| 2006–07 | 30 | 2 | – | 7 | 0 | |||||||
| Germany | League | DFB-Pokal | Other | Europe | Total | |||||||
| 2007–08 | VfL Bochum | Bundesliga | 28 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 29 | 0 | ||
| 2008–09 | 27 | 2 | 2 | 1 | – | – | 29 | 3 | ||||
| 2009–10 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 20 | 0 | ||||
| 2009–10 | VfL Bochum II | Regionalliga West | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | |||
| 2010–11 | VfL Bochum | 2. Bundesliga | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 4 | 0 | ||
| Greece | League | Greek Cup | League Cup | Europe | Total | |||||||
| 2010–11 | Kavala F.C. | Superleague | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | ||
| Germany | League | DFB-Pokal | Other | Europe | Total | |||||||
| 2011–12 | 1. FC Union Berlin | 2. Bundesliga | 29 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 30 | 1 | ||
| 2012–13 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 26 | 1 | ||||
| Total | Switzerland | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| France | ||||||||||||
| Italy | 105 | 4 | 7 | 0 | ||||||||
| Germany | 131 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 140 | 5 | ||
| Greece | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Career total | ||||||||||||
Personal life
Upon his retirement from professional football in 2015, he moved back to his native France, settling in Paris. There he works for an insurance company, specializing in serving athletes.[3]
References
- "SAISON 2001-2002" (in French). Troyes AC. Archived from the original on 20 November 2008. Retrieved 3 February 2009.
- "Pfertzel, Marc" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
- "Marc Pfertzel : "Ich vermisse die Eisernen"" [Marc Pfertzel : "I Miss the Iron Ones"] (in German). berliner-kurier.de. 5 April 2015. Archived from the original on 10 April 2015.
- Marc Pfertzel : « Je tiens à être très clair, c’est mon choix de partir », footballclub34.fr, 7 June 2019
- Profile at Footballdatabase, footballdatabase.eu
External links
- Marc Pfertzel at Soccerway
- Marc Pfertzel – French league stats at LFP (also available in French)