Jordan Amavi

Jordan Kévin Amavi (born 9 March 1994) is a French professional footballer who plays as a left back for Ligue 1 club Marseille. He has previously played professionally for Aston Villa and Nice. He has played regularly for France as a youth player and was called into the senior squad in late 2017 but is yet to make his debut.

Jordan Amavi
Amavi playing for Marseille in 2018
Personal information
Full name Jordan Kévin Amavi[1]
Date of birth (1994-03-09) 9 March 1994[2]
Place of birth Toulon, France
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[2]
Position(s) Left back
Club information
Current team
 Marseille
Number 18
Youth career
2001–2010 Toulon
2010–2013 Nice
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2011–2013 Nice B 20 (3)
2013–2015 Nice 55 (4)
2015–2017 Aston Villa 44 (0)
2017– Marseille 90 (2)
National team‡
2012 France U18 2 (0)
2013–2014 France U20 6 (0)
2014–2016 France U21 10 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16 December 2020
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 11 October 2016

Club career

Nice

Born in Toulon, Amavi made his Ligue 1 debut with Nice in the opening game of the 2013–14 season on 10 August 2013 against Lyon.[3]

Aston Villa

On 18 July 2015 he signed for Premier League side Aston Villa on a five-year contract for an undisclosed fee, reported to be in the region of £9 million.[4][5][6] He made his debut on 8 August, playing the full 90 minutes of a 1–0 win over Bournemouth at Dean Court.[7] On 15 November, Amavi suffered an ACL tear in his right knee while on duty with the France U21 team, ending his first season at Aston Villa.[8]

Without Amavi, Villa were relegated to the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football, which lead to speculation on the future of Amavi as well as other Villa players.[9] However, Amavi decided to continue playing for Villa for the 2016–17 season, as he had high hopes on Villa being promoted immediately back up to the Premier League.[9] On 27 December 2016, Aston Villa turned down an £25 million bid from an undisclosed club from China for Amavi; reports in France also claimed that Marseille had also bid for the player.[10] That season, he made 34 appearances in the Championship for Villa, but they finished in a bottom-half thirteenth-place league finish.[11]

Marseille

On 10 August 2017, it was agreed that Amavi would join Ligue 1 side Olympique de Marseille on loan for the entirety of the 2017–18 season, with Marseille also considering interest in signing the player in a permanent transfer in the following season.[12]

Marseille decided to make Amavi's move permanent in October 2017, meeting an agreed clause in the loan contract.[13]

On 3 May 2018, he played in the Europa League semi-finals away to FC Red Bull Salzburg as Marseilles played out a 1–2 away loss but a 3–2 aggregate win to secure a place in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final[14] which will be played at the Parc Olympique Lyonnais in Décines-Charpieu, Lyon, France on 16 May 2018,[15] versus Atlético Madrid.

International career

Amavi is of Togolese descent and was part of the France under-20 team which finished as runners-up to Brazil at the 2014 Toulon Tournament.[16]

He was called up to the senior France squad for a World Cup qualifier against Belarus in October 2017.[17]

Career statistics
As of match played 16 December 2020[18]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup League Cup Europe Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Nice B 2012–13 CFA 2 183————183
2013–14 CFA 20————20
Total 20300000000203
Nice 2013–14 Ligue 1 19020101[lower-alpha 1]0—230
2014–15 Ligue 1 3641000——374
Total 55430101000604
Aston Villa 2015–16 Premier League 1000020——120
2016–17 Championship 3401010——360
Total 44010300000480
Marseille 2017–18 Ligue 1 270311012[lower-alpha 1]0—431
2018–19 Ligue 1 28010103[lower-alpha 1]0—330
2019–20 Ligue 1 2612010——291
2020–21 Ligue 1 9100005[lower-alpha 2]000141
Total 9026130200001193
Career total 2099101702100025710
  1. Appearance(s) in the UEFA Europa League
  2. Appearance(s) in the UEFA Champions League

Honours

Marseille

References
  1. "Entreprise JKA Sports" [Company JKA Sports] (in French). Manageo. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
    "Jordan Amavi". BFM Business (in French). Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  2. "Premier League Player Profile Jordan Amavi". Barclays Premier League. 2016. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  3. "J. Amavi". Soccerway. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  4. "Villa complete signing of Jordan Amavi". Aston Villa Football Club. 18 July 2015. Archived from the original on 22 October 2015.
  5. "Aston Villa 'complete transfer deal for defender Jordan Amavi from Nice'". Metro. 18 July 2015.
  6. "Aston Villa sign France full-back Jordan Amavi from Nice". BBC Sport. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  7. Prentki, Tom (8 August 2015). "Bournemouth 0 Aston Villa 1, match report: Eddie Howe's wasteful side punished by debut Gestede goal". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  8. "Update on Jordan Amavi". Aston Villa Football Club. 15 November 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  9. Trafford, Paul Wilson at Old (2016-04-16). "Aston Villa relegated from Premier League after defeat by Manchester United". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
  10. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/dec/27/aston-villa-tony-xia-25m-offer-rejects-jordan-amavi
  11. Squad Stats
  12. "Transfer news: Jordan Amavi: Marseille sign Aston Villa left-back on loan". BBC Sport. 10 August 2017. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  13. "MARSEILLE MAKE AMAVI DEAL PERMANENT". Ligue 1. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  14. "FC Red Bull Salzburg 2–1 Marseille". BBC Sport. 3 May 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  15. "Lyon to host 2018 UEFA Europa League Final". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 9 December 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  16. "Final: Brazil – France (KO: 1 June 2014 17:00)". Toulon Tournament. Archived from the original on 1 August 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  17. "France replace injured Kurzawa with uncapped Amavi". goal.com. 9 October 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  18. http://www.skysports.com/football/player/122821/jordan-amavi
  19. https://www.bbc.com/sport/live/football/44052050
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