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William Eric Gallas is a French former association football player and coach. Born on August 17, 1977, in Asnières-sur-Seine, he played as a defender, specifically a centre-back, during a career that spanned from 1995 to 2014. He competed in the Premier League and represented France in the 2006 and 2010 FIFA World Cups, as well as UEFA Euro 2004 and UEFA Euro 2008.
During his playing career, Gallas was a member of Chelsea F.C., Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Stade Malherbe Caen, and Olympique de Marseille. He is a relative of Mathieu Bastareaud. Beyond football, Gallas has authored the work *La parole est a la defense*.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- La parole est a la defense (French Edition)
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 63,006x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 44,848x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,579x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,950x
- Preparation of Graphitic Oxide
· 1958 · cited 28,686x
via Crossref · CC0
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- _Retired Soccer
- Position
- Centre-Back
- Nationality
- France
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Eric
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Asnières-sur-Seine
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Participant in
- UEFA Euro 2008
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- France national under-21 association football team
- Position played
- defender
- League
- Premier League
- Country for sport
- France
- Mass
- 72
- Official website
- www.williamgallas.net/en
- Image
- William Gallas 2018 (2).jpg
- Height
- 181
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- Commons category
- William Gallas
- date of birth
- 1977-08-17
- name in native language
- William Gallas
- birth name
- William Eric Gallas
- start of work period
- 1995-00-00
- end of work period
- 2014-00-00
- relative
- Mathieu Bastareaud
Sources (7)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals
William Eric Gallas ( French pronunciation: [wiljam ɡalas]; born 17 August 1977) is a French football coach and former professional footballer who played as a defender. He played most of his footballing career in France and England before finishing his career in Australia with A-League club Perth Glory. Gallas is currently a youth team coach at Hungarian club Zalaegerszegi TE.
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