Emerse Faé

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Emerse Faé
Personal information
Date of birth 24 January 1984 (1984-01-24) (age 24)
Place of birth    Nantes, France
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Playing position Central midfielder
Club information
Current club Reading
Number 20
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
2003–2007
2007–		 Nantes
Reading		 102 (6)
008 (0)   
National team2
2005– Côte d'Ivoire 017 (1)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 2 May 2008.
2 National team caps and goals correct
as of 08:00, 30 January 2008 (UTC).
* Appearances (Goals)

Emerse Faé (born 24 January 1984 in Nantes, France) is a French-born Ivorian professional football midfielder who plays for Premier League club Reading, and Côte d'Ivoire.

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[edit] Club career

[edit] Nantes

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Faé started his career with his home town club, Nantes, in 2003 who were then in Ligue 1. He went on to play over 100 league games for them.

[edit] Reading

During the summer 2007 transfer window, Faé was strongly linked with a move to Premier League club Reading, and eventually completed a £2.5m move on 2 August 2007,[1] signing a three-year contract, with the option of a fourth. He was given the number 20 shirt.[2] He made his Premier League debut for Reading against Bolton Wanderers on 25 August 2007.

Faé was diagnosed as having contracted malaria following blood tests on 1 March 2008. He fell ill in the build up to Reading's match away to Middlesbrough the previous day, and flew back south for medical treatment which revealed the disease.[3]

After failing to break into the Reading first team, Fae refused to play for the reserve team against Spurs reserves along with Fellow reading player Ibrahima Sonko. Both were fined two weeks wages and suspended for two weeks and therefore will not be able to see out the rest of the season, missing the crucial crunch matches for Reading's Premier League survival.

Fae's career at Reading now seems to be over as the Ivorian international has flown back to France with both Steve Coppell and Fae himself saying that he will never play for Reading again. [4]

[edit] International career

As a teenager, Faé played football for the French U17 and U21 teams, winning the 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship in Trinidad and Tobago in 2001. However, in 2005, following a FIFA rule change concerning national team eligibility, Faé switched allegiances from France to Côte d'Ivoire, the country from which his parents had come.[5] Following this, he was called up to the Côte d'Ivoire national team, and played for the country during the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Faé was called up to the Côte d'Ivoire 23-man squad for the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations,[6] and made his first appearance at the tournament in the Elephants' 3-0 victory over Mali on 29 January 2008.[7]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Fae joins for club record fee", readingfc.co.uk, 2007-08-02. Retrieved on 2007-08-02. 
  2. ^ "Fae squad number confirmed", readingfc.co.uk, 2007-08-02. Retrieved on 2007-08-02. 
  3. ^ "Reading's Fae is out with malaria", BBC Sport, 2008-03-04. Retrieved on 2008-03-05. 
  4. ^ "No way back for Fae", getreading, 2008-15-04. Retrieved on 2008-15-05. 
  5. ^ "Fae chooses Ivory Coast", BBC Sport, 2005-01-24. Retrieved on 2007-12-11. 
  6. ^ "Drogba named in Ivory Coast squad", BBC Sport, 2008-01-04. Retrieved on 2008-01-21. 
  7. ^ "Ivory Coast 3-0 Mali", BBC Sport, 2008-01-29. Retrieved on 2008-01-30. 

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Reading F.C. – current squad

1 Hahnemann • 2 Murty • 3 Shorey • 4 Cissé • 5 Sonko • 6 Gunnarsson • 7 Little • 8 Lita • 9 Doyle • 10 Hunt • 12 Kitson • 15 Harper • 16 Ingimarsson • 17 Convey • 18 Sodje • 19 Rosenior • 20 Faé • 22 Bikey • 24 Long • 25 Bennett • 26 Osano • 28 Matějovský • 29 Duberry • 30 Kébé • 32 Federici • 33 Golbourne • 34 Henry • 35 Pearce • 36 Andersen • 39 Church • 40 Karacan • 41 Hamer • 42 Bozanic • 43 Illugason • 44 Davies • Manager: Coppell
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Côte d'Ivoire squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup
1 Tizié • 2 Akalé • 3 Boka • 4 K. Touré • 5 Zokora • 6 Kouassi • 7 Faé • 8 Kalou • 9 A. Koné • 10 Yapi Yapo • 11 Drogba • 12 Méïté • 13 Zoro • 14 B. Koné • 15 Dindane • 16 Gnanhouan • 17 Domoraud • 18 Keïta • 19 Y. Touré • 20 Demel • 21 Eboué • 22 Romaric • 23 Barry • Coach: Michel
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Persondata
NAME Faé, Emerse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Footballer
DATE OF BIRTH 24 January 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Nantes, France
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH


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