Olivier Lacoste-Lebuis

Olivier Lacoste-Lebuis (born September 28, 1990) is a retired Canadian soccer defender.

Olivier Lacoste-Lebuis
Lacoste-Lebuis against USA
Personal information
Date of birth (1990-08-28) August 28, 1990
Place of birth Mount Royal, Quebec, Canada
Height 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)[1]
Playing position(s) Defensive Midfielder
Youth career
2001 Mont-Royal Outremont
2002 Strasbourg
2002–2006 Lakers du Lac Saint-Louis
2006–2008 Strasbourg
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009 UMCP
2012 McGill
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2008 Strasbourg[2] 1 (0)
Total 1 (0)
National team‡
2005 Canada U15 8 (0)
2006–2007 Canada U17 10 (1)
2007 Canada U20[3] 7 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of September 19, 2017
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of September 19, 2017

Career

Lacoste-Lebuis was born in Mount Royal, Quebec.[4] and Les Griffons.[5] Before his first went to France in 2002 to play in the Danone Cup international soccer tournament as an 11-year-old, he didn't know he would eventually return to train at the academy of a professional French team.[6]

But the seeds for that destiny were first sown at that tournament more than five years ago, when Lacoste-Lebuis captained the Canadian team to a top-12 finish out of 24 countries.

"That experience sparked something in me," Lacoste-Lebuis, 17, said in a telephone interview from Strasbourg, where he trains under the watch of first-division club Racing Team.[7] "That really made me want to reach another level of soccer.".[8] He was than named as Canadian U-17 Player of the Year 2007.[9]

Lacoste-Lebuis has reached that level and then some. Lacoste-Lebuis shot his way up the Canadian soccer ranks before signing a two-year contract with RC Strasbourg in 2006.[10] He played his one and only professional game for Strasbourg on 29 September 2008 against Clermont Foot in Ligue 2, he played ninety minutes.[11] In January 2009, he joined the Maryland Terrapins of the NCAA.[12]

Attributes

He is a fast player with good anticipation, powerful fighting capacity and great solo runs.[13]

International career

Lacoste-Lebuis represented Canada at the 2007 CONCACAF Under-17 Qualification Tournament in Kingston, Jamaica, Canada finished fourth in Group B. He was member for Canada at the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Canada.[14]

He was the youngest member of the Canadian team that competed at the U-20 World Cup last summer, and in December he was named Canada's U-17 men's player of the year, two clear indications he represents one of the country's brightest hopes in the sport.[15]

In 2004, he became the youngest player to be selected for a spot at the Canadian Soccer Association's National Training Centre, and he made his national team debut with the U-15 side a year later.

In 2006, he captained the U-17 Canadian team and was named the top player at the Ballymena Tournament in Ireland, which led him to Strasbourg.

Personal life

The Montreal-native speaks French and English.[16]

Honours
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References
  1. act-sportsgroup.de : Lebuis
  2. http://www.footballdatabase.eu/football.joueurs.olivier.lacoste-lebuis.21057.en.html
  3. Olivier Lacoste-Lebuis - FÉDÉRATION DE SOCCER DU QUÉBEC
  4. Keep track of all these names
  5. Notre Club
  6. Une Saison de Soccer Exceptionnelle pour Olivier Lacoste-Lebuis
  7. Un Québécois à Strasbourg!
  8. Europe beckons Quebecer
  9. Sinclair voted top female
  10. http://www.expressoutremont.com/article-57699-Une-saison-de-soccer-exceptionnelle-pour-Olivier-LacosteLebuis.html
  11. Match Ligue 2 2008/2009 Clermont - Strasbourg on www.footballdatabase.eu
  12. National Champion Men's Soccer Announces Signing Class of 2009
  13. ACT Sportsgroup Profile
  14. Lacoste-Lebuis: génie du ballon rond
  15. Une saison de soccer exceptionnelle pour Olivier Lacoste-Lebuis
  16. Team Canada - CBCSports.ca
  17. http://www.sirc.ca/news_view.cfm?id=19166&search=&show=&month=1&year=2008&search_where=
  18. RHIAN WILKINSON WINS QUEBEC SOCCER AWARD
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