Jérémy Taravel

Jérémy Taravel

Personal information
Full name	Jérémy Taravel
Date of birth	(1987-04-17) 17 April 1987
Place of birth	Vincennes, France
Height
Position(s)	Centre back
Team information
Current team	Dinamo Zagreb
Number	87
Youth career
1993–1997	Club Olympique Vincennois
1999–2001	INF Clairefontaine
2001–2005	Créteil
2005–2007	Lille
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2007–2009	Lille B	10	(0)
2008	→ Troyes (loan)	0	(0)
2009	→ Zulte Waregem (loan)	15	(1)
2009–2010	Zulte Waregem	27	(2)
2010–2013	Lokeren	110	(11)
2013–	Dinamo Zagreb	26	(2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 4 November 2015

Jérémy Taravel (born 17 April 1987 in Vincennes) is a French footballer currently playing for Croatian club Dinamo Zagreb.

Career

Jérémy Taravel began his career as a professional footballer at the second team of Lille after working his way up from the youth academy. A loan spell at Troyes AC in 2008 was unsuccessful as he did not manage a single appearance but the next year, on 2 January 2009, he was loaned to S.V. Zulte Waregem. For a period while on loan the defender was consistently a starter in the first team, and the Belgians exercised their buy option included in the loan deal and signed him on a permanent basis from Lille.

On 24 June 2010, K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen signed the French central defender from S.V. Zulte Waregem on a three year contract. Over the next three and a half years at Lokeren, the central defender amassed 125 appearances and scored 25 goals and became one of the highest regarded defenders in the league.

His consistent good performances over an extended period of time at Lokeren persuaded Croatian giants Dinamo Zagreb to splash £1.5m for his transfer in January 2014. The defender made just one appearance for Dinamo Zagreb that season, in a 2-1 home win over RNK Split as he injured ligaments in his knee in training and was required to sit the rest of the season out.