Layvin Kurzawa

Layvin Kurzawa

File:PSG tren 15 (1).jpg Kurzawa playing for Paris Saint-Germain in 2015
Personal information
Date of birth	(1992-09-04) 4 September 1992
Place of birth	Fréjus, France
Height
Position(s)	Left back
Team information
Current team	Paris Saint-Germain
Number	20
Youth career
1996–2005	Stade Raphaëlois
2005–2007	Aix-en-Provence
2007–2010	Monaco
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2010–2013	Monaco B	30	(5)
2010–2015	Monaco	75	(6)
2015–	Paris Saint-Germain	13	(3)
International career‡
2010–2011	France U19	8	(0)
2013	France U20	2	(0)
2013–2015	France U21	5	(3)
2014–	France	2	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 9 April 2016 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14 November 2014

Layvin Kurzawa (born 4 September 1992) is a French professional footballer who plays for the French club Paris Saint-Germain and the France national football team as a left back.

He began his career at Monaco in 2010, and played 96 official games for the team, scoring 8 goals. In 2015 he transferred to Paris Saint-Germain for €23 million, winning Ligue 1 in his first season.

Kurzawa made his senior international debut for France in 2014.

Club career

AS Monaco

Born in Fréjus, Var, Kurzawa made his professional debut on 22 September 2010 in a Coupe de la Ligue third round match against Lens at the Stade Louis II. He started the match and played 65 minutes before being substituted in a 1–0 victory. Three days later he made his Ligue 1 debut, starting in a 1–2 defeat at Lorient. Kurzawa played four more league matches, all of them starts, as the season ended with relegation to Ligue 2; he was sent off on 1 May 2011 in a 1–1 draw at Saint-Étienne. He made four appearances as they returned to the top flight at the first attempt as champions.

Kurzawa established himself in the first team for the 2013–14 season, with 28 league appearances as Monaco finished runner-up to Paris Saint-Germain. He also scored 5 goals, the first of his professional career confirming a 2–0 win at Guingamp on 14 December 2013.

He scored in each leg of Monaco's 7–1 aggregate win over BSC Young Boys in the third qualifying round of the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League.

Paris Saint Germain

On 27 August 2015, Kurzawa joined champions Paris Saint-Germain for €23 million on a five-year contract. He made his debut on 11 September, coming on for Maxwell in the 67th minute of an eventual 2–2 draw with Bordeaux at the Parc des Princes. He scored his first goal for the team from the capital on 25 October, opening a 4–1 home win over Saint-Étienne when set up by Marco Verratti.

International career

Kurzawa was born to a mother of Polish descent, and was approached to play for the Poland national team.

He is a French youth international and has earned caps with the under-19 team. On 14 October 2014 during the final leg of the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification play-offs against Sweden, Kurzawa celebrated a France goal by mocking the Swedish players, before Sweden won the game 4–1, thus eliminating France from reaching the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. Sweden then went on and won the tournament and the whole team celebrated by using Kurzawa's way of mocking.

On 14 November 2014, he made his full international debut, replacing Lucas Digne for the last 20 minutes of a 1–1 friendly draw with Albania in Rennes. Four days later he made his first start, in a 1–0 friendly win over Sweden in Marseille, being substituted later on for Digne.

Honours

Monaco

• Ligue 2: 2011–12

Paris Saint-Germain

• Ligue 1: 2015–16

External links

• Layvin Kurzawa club profile
• Layvin Kurzawa – French League Stats at LFP.fr (French)
• France profile at FFF