Adil Rami is a French footballer of Moroccan descent who plays in the Spanish Seville. In December, he turned 31, so that his career is gradually moving towards completion. Adil Rami plays the position of the central defender - only there he acts as efficiently as possible.
Carier start
Adil Rami was born on December 27, 1985 in France with Moroccan parents who immigrated to a European country in their youth. At the age of 9, he joined the youth academy of the small Freyu Club, based in his hometown. It was there that he spent his whole childhood.
In 2003, when Adil was 18 years old, the club signed a professional contract with him. In his first season, Adil Rami appeared on the field only 4 times. However, starting from the next, it began to appear at the base much more often. In just three years, he spent 58 matches for the main team, during which he attracted the attention of larger French clubs, including Lille, where he moved in 2006 when his contract with Frey expired.
Transition to Lille
Adil Rami, whose photos at that time began to appear in local sports publications, did not immediately become a base player. In general, he spent the first season in a double, having left the field team only two times. However, the young guy worked tirelessly on himself. And already in the next season he began to appear on the field much more often. Since 2008, Rami has won a permanent place in the starting lineup, which he retained for the next three years.
How many total fights did Adil Rami play for Lille? The footballer played as many as 163 matches, scoring nine goals. But in 2011, he received a favorable offer from abroad - the Spanish “Valencia” wanted to get a French defender. Six million euros were paid for this transfer, and the 26-year-old player went to the bat camp.
The game for Valencia
In the new club, Rami immediately got a place at the base and in the first season he played 53 matches, scoring 4 goals. In the second season, he began to enter the field much less often. He played 36 matches and scored two goals. And in 2013, it became clear that he had no future in Valencia, so the club began to look for options to get rid of the player. For six months, he entered the field only four times. Therefore, in winter, all questions disappeared - Rami leaves the club. The Italian Milan agreed to rent a defender for six months for 400 thousand euros with the possibility of redeeming his transfer in the summer.
Relocation to Italy
In “Milan”, Rami immediately appeared in the starting lineup and played 22 matches in six months, scoring three goals in them. He turned out to be a very important player for the team, so Milan made big concessions, agreeing to pay about four million euros to acquire the Frenchman. However, in the end, the transfer was far from the most successful. For the whole year in “Milan” Rami spent as many matches as in the previous six months. And in the summer of 2015, he was sold to Seville, which paid three and a half million euros for it.
Return to Spain
At that time, Rami had only a victory in the French Championship and the French Cup, together with Lille in 2011. With Sevilla, he managed to add another trophy to his collection - the club won the Europa League in the first season of the Frenchman’s stay there.
Adil immediately became a base player and played 46 matches in which he scored three goals. This season, he appears on the field a little less often, in just 18 matches. The reason for this is injury. The player’s contract with the club is valid until 2019. And after its expiration, most likely, Rami will end his career in Seville.
Team appearances
In the French national team, Rami made his debut in 2010 in a match against the Norwegian national team. In 2012, he already went to the European Championship as a base player. However, the recession in “Valencia” led to the fact that after the tournament, the Frenchman was practically not called up to the team. He missed the 2014 World Cup and received a re-call only in May 2016. As a result, he went to the European Championship in 2016 and spent 4 matches there, until he was disqualified for busting yellow cards. In total, Adil spent 33 matches for the national team.