Coupe de France Final 2007 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Coupe de France Final 2007 was a football match held at Stade de France

Stade de France

The Stade de France is the national stadium of France, situated just north of Paris in the commune of Saint-Denis. It has an all-seater capacity of 80,000, making it the fifth largest stadium in Europe, and is used by both the France national football team and French rugby union team for...

, Saint-Denis

Saint-Denis

Saint-Denis is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Saint-Denis is a sous-préfecture of the Seine-Saint-Denis département, being the seat of the Arrondissement of Saint-Denis....

on May 12, 2007, that saw FC Sochaux-Montbéliard

FC Sochaux-Montbéliard

Football Club Sochaux-Montbéliard is a French association football club based in the city of Montbéliard. The club was founded in 1928 and currently plays in Ligue 1, the top tier of French football. Sochaux plays its home matches at the Stade Auguste Bonal located within the city...

defeat Olympique de Marseille

Olympique de Marseille

Olympique de Marseille is a French association football club based in Marseille. Founded in 1899, the club plays in Ligue 1 and have spent most of its history in the top tier of French football. Marseille have been French champions nine times and have won the Coupe de France a record ten times. In...

in a penalty shoot out. After normal time and extra-time could not separate the two sides, the match was to be decided on penalty kicks

Penalty shootout (football)

A penalty shoot-out, referred to as kicks from the penalty mark in the Laws of the Game, is the FIFA official term for a method used in association football to decide which team progresses to the next stage of a tournament following a tied game...

. Toifilou Maoulida

Toifilou Maoulida

Toifilou Maoulida is a French football player who plays for SC Bastia.-Career:He was born in Mayotte, a small island in the Indian Ocean, close to the Comoro Islands and Reunion Island, and raised in Marseille....

and Ronald Zubar

Ronald Zubar

Ronald Zubar is a French footballer of Guadeloupean descent who plays as a defender for Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers....

' miss for Olympique de Marseille

Olympique de Marseille

, whereas only FC Sochaux-Montbéliard

FC Sochaux-Montbéliard

's captain, Jérémie Bréchet

Jérémie Bréchet

Jérémie Bréchet is a professional French footballer who currently plays for Ligue 1 club FC Sochaux. He is usually a left back but can play as a centre back...

missed for the winning team.

Match details

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Taiwo

Maoulida

Toifilou Maoulida

Cana

Lorik Cana

Lorik Cana is an Albanian footballer, who plays for Lazio as a defensive midfielder and the Albania national football team. He is the captain for Albania at international level...

Cissé

Djibril Cissé

Djibril Aruun Cissé is a French international footballer who currently plays for Serie A club Lazio as a striker. He is noted particularly for his speed and acceleration. Since 2005, he has held the title of Lord of the Manor of Frodsham....

Nasri

Samir Nasri

Samir Nasri is a French international footballer who plays for English club Manchester City in the Premier League and the France national team. He primarily plays as an attacking midfielder and a winger, although he has also been deployed in central midfield. Nasri is known for his technical...

Zubar

Ronald Zubar

Ronald Zubar is a French footballer of Guadeloupean descent who plays as a defender for Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers....

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Ziani

Karim Ziani

Karim Koceila Yanis Ziani is an Algerian professional footballer. He currently plays as a creative midfielder for the Qatari club Al-Jaish on loan from German Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg, and for the Algerian national team...

Birsa

Valter Birsa

Valter Birsa is an Slovenian footballer who currently plays for Italian Serie A side Genoa and the Slovenian national team.-Club career:...

Le Tallec

Anthony Le Tallec

Anthony Le Tallec is a French footballer who plays for AJ Auxerre in Ligue 1, as a forward or attacking midfielder.-Liverpool:...

Leroy

Jérôme Leroy (footballer)

Jérôme Leroy is a French footballer currently playing for Évian Thonon Gaillard F.C. as an attacking midfielder....

Bréchet

Jérémie Bréchet

Jérémie Bréchet is a professional French footballer who currently plays for Ligue 1 club FC Sochaux. He is usually a left back but can play as a centre back...

Brunel

Philippe Brunel

Philippe Brunel is a French football midfielder, currently playing for SCO Angers. He is side midfielder or playmaker with a wide range of passing.-External links:...

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Cédric Carrasso

Cédric Carrasso is a French footballer, who currently plays as a goalkeeper for Bordeaux, and the French national team.-Marseille:Carrasso joined the Marseille youth system at the age of thirteen and, despite leaving for Avignon for one year in 1998, it was there that he signed his first...

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Habib Beye

Habib Beye is a French born Senegalese footballer who plays for Doncaster Rovers on loan from Aston Villa and for the Senegal national team...

Julien Rodríguez

Julien Rodriguez

Julien Rodriguez is a French professional footballer. He currently plays for the Ligue 1 club Marseille....

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Ronald Zubar

Ronald Zubar is a French footballer of Guadeloupean descent who plays as a defender for Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers....

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Taye Taiwo
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Lorik Cana

Lorik Cana is an Albanian footballer, who plays for Lazio as a defensive midfielder and the Albania national football team. He is the captain for Albania at international level...

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Samir Nasri

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Modeste M'bami

Modeste M'Bami

Modeste M'bami is a Cameroonian football player .-Club career:M'Bami started his career in his home country by playing for Dynamo Douala but was quickly spotted by foreign clubs. He joined CS Sedan Ardennes during the summer of 2000...

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Franck Ribéry

Franck Ribéry is a French international footballer who currently plays for German club Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga. He primarily plays as a winger, preferably on the left side, and is known for "pace, energy, skill and precise passing." Ribéry is described as a player who is "fast, tricky and...

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Djibril Cissé

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|FW ||11||

Mamadou Niang

Mamadou Niang is a Senegalese footballer who plays as a forward for Qatar club Al Sadd in the Qatar National First Division. He has represented Senegal at international level, participating in the 2004, 2006, and 2008 African Cup of Nations. He wears the number 7 jersey...

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Sébastien Hamel

Sébastien Hamel is a French footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Toulouse.-AS Monaco:Hamel started his career at AS Monaco as a trainee in 1991 before turning professional in 1993...

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Renato Civelli

Renato Civelli is an Argentine football defender who currently plays for OGC Nice.-Career:Civelli started his career at Banfield in the Primera Division Argentina. After 2 years with the club he was signed by Marseille in January 2006, during the European winter transfer window...

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Wilson Oruma

Wilson Oruma is a former football midfielder from Nigeria.He became the tournament top goalscorer when Nigeria won the 1993 FIFA U-17 World Championships...

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|FW ||15 ||

Mickaël Pagis

Mickaël Pagis is a retired French football striker.Pagis is 1.81 m tall and weighs 81 kg. His nickname is "Pagistral", based on his name, the French word "Magistral" , and also the name of a famous wind and writer in Marseille "Mistral"...

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Toifilou Maoulida

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Albert Emon

Albert Emon is French football manager.-Career:As a player he won the Ligue 1 with Olympique Marseille in 1972 and the Coupe de France in 1980 with AS Monaco. Emon also played for Stade de Reims and Olympique Lyonnais....

Assistant Referees:

Fourth Official:

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Teddy Richert

Teddy Richert Teddy Richert Teddy Richert (born 21 September 1974 in Avignon is a French football goalkeeper, currently playing for Sochaux-Montbéliard. Richert is considered to be one of the most consistent goalkeepers in Ligue 1, and has performed well over the past decade...

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Jérémie Bréchet

Jérémie Bréchet is a professional French footballer who currently plays for Ligue 1 club FC Sochaux. He is usually a left back but can play as a centre back...

Stéphane Pichot

Stéphane Pichot is a French football player who plays as a defender for RC Strasbourg.- Career :He also played for PSG and on 2 July 2009 RC Strasbourg have signed the former Sochaux right-back on a free transfer and until June 2011.-External links:*...

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Guirane N'Daw

Guirane N'Daw is a Senegalese football midfielder who plays for English Championship club Birmingham City on loan from Saint-Étienne of the French Ligue 1.- Career :...

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|DF ||4 || Duško Tošić

Duško Tošic

Duško Tošić is a Serbian footballer who plays as a defender for Real Betis, on loan from Red Star Belgrade.-Early career:...

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Rabiu Afolabi

Rabiu Afolabi is a Nigerian soccer player, who plays for Ligue 2 side, Monaco.-Career:Afolabi left his home country for Belgian outfit Standard Liège after impressing at the 1997 edition of the UEFA-CAF Meridian Cup...

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|MF ||10 ||

Jérôme Leroy

Jérôme Leroy (footballer)

Jérôme Leroy is a French footballer currently playing for Évian Thonon Gaillard F.C. as an attacking midfielder....

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Romain Pitau

Romain Pitau is a French football midfielder, currently playing for Montpellier HSC.-External links:...

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Karim Ziani

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|FW ||8||

Sébastien Grax

Sébastien Grax is a French footballer who currently plays for Troyes AC. He started life at Monaco in 2001 where he played 4 games in 3 years. He was then loaned out to ES Troyes AC in 2004 where he scored 16 goals in 35 games...

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|MF ||9||

Moumouni Dagano

Beli Moumouni Dagano is a Burkinabé footballer. He currently plays for Al-Khor in Qatar.-Career:Dagano began his career at Ivorian side Stella Club d'Adjamé, based in Abidjan. In 1999 he moved back to his homeland, with Etoile Filante, before making his move to Europe a year later, with Belgian...

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Jérémy Gavanon

Jérémy Gavanon is a French footballer who last played as a goalkeeper for AS Cannes.-Career:He signed a professional contract with Olympique Marseille in the summer of 2003, and made his first start for the club in a UEFA Champions League group match against FK Partizan, which resulted in a 1-1...

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|DF ||12 ||

Lionel Potillon

Lionel Potillon is a retired French football defender.-External links:*...

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|MF ||13||

Philippe Brunel

Philippe Brunel is a French football midfielder, currently playing for SCO Angers. He is side midfielder or playmaker with a wide range of passing.-External links:...

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|FW ||14||

Anthony Le Tallec

Anthony Le Tallec is a French footballer who plays for AJ Auxerre in Ligue 1, as a forward or attacking midfielder.-Liverpool:...

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Valter Birsa

Valter Birsa is an Slovenian footballer who currently plays for Italian Serie A side Genoa and the Slovenian national team.-Club career:...

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Alain Perrin
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Gallery

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Trivia

Notice that 6 of the 14 players from Sochaux-Montbéliard who have played and won this final, were in transferred in other clubs the next season.
Both Djibril Cissé
Djibril Cissé
Djibril Aruun Cissé is a French international footballer who currently plays for Serie A club Lazio as a striker. He is noted particularly for his speed and acceleration. Since 2005, he has held the title of Lord of the Manor of Frodsham....

, scorer of Marseille's two goals and Anthony Le Tallec
Anthony Le Tallec
Anthony Le Tallec is a French footballer who plays for AJ Auxerre in Ligue 1, as a forward or attacking midfielder.-Liverpool:...

, scorer of Sochaux' second were on loan to the clubs from Liverpool FC.

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