Olivier Monterrubio’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Footballer
Is Athlete 
Football player 
Association football player 
From France 
Type Sports 
Gender male
Birth 8 August 1976, Gaillac
Age: 44 years
Star sign Leo

Olivier Monterrubio (born 8 August 1976) is a French footballer who played as a midfielder. He previously played for FC Nantes, Stade Rennais, RC Lens, FC Sion in Switzerland and FC Lorient.

Club career

Nantes

Monterrubio started his professional career at Nantes in 1996. Product of the famed Centre of Formation of Nantes, he was in the same crop of players such as Mickaël Landreau, now of Lille Olympique Sporting Club. He was an essential part of the squad in the 1998–99 season, and his winning penalty handed Nantes the Coupe de France title in 1999. He also played as Nantes won the 2000 Coupe de France Final and in 2001 Monterrubio became a Ligue 1 winner with Les Canaries.

Stade Rennais

In the summer of 2001, Monterrubio signed for fierce rivals Stade Rennais. Despite having a quiet start to his spell at the club, he became one of their key players, establishing a deadly partnership with Swiss striker Alexander Frei, now of FC Basel 1893. In the 2004–2005 season, he led Ligue 1 in assists while Frei was the top scorer. Such was his influence, that he has inherited the captain’s armband from Cyril Jeunechamp.

RC Lens

In the last few hours of the January 2007 transfer window, Monterrubio signed for RC Lens as a replacement for Olivier Thomert, who moved in the opposite direction. On February 3, 2007 he played his first Ligue 1 match for Lens against Valenciennes. During this period, he had to fight for his first team place with the Ivorian midfielder Kanga Akalé. He struck up a strong partnership with Nadir Belhadj upon the Algerian left-back’s arrival at the club in January 2008, but the team were relegated to Ligue 2 at the end of the season despite Monterrubio’s fine form.

FC Sion

Monterrubio signed a two-year contract with Swiss side FC Sion during the summer of 2008.

FC Lorient

On 28 June 2009 he signed a contract between 30 June 2011 with FC Lorient and left after just one year for FC Sion.

Attributes

He was an accomplished left winger, but had also been featured as a striker and attacking midfielder in the early of his career. He specialized in set-pieces, especially at penalty-taking. He led ligue 1 in assists in 2004-05 2005-06 and runner up in 2006-07.

International career

France

In his prime, Monterrubio was among the finest players of his unique kind. Although he did not win a single national team cap, he did receive three call-ups to the France B team, scoring in all 3 of his appearances.

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