Julian Marc Jeanvier (born 31 March 1992) is a professional

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who plays as a

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for club Auxerre and the Guinea national team. He rose to prominence in his native France with

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, before joining English club

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in 2018. He returned to France to join Auxerre in 2022.

Club career

Early years and Nancy

, Jeanvier began his career in 2000 with hometown club US Clichy-sur-Seine. He moved to L'Entente SSG in 2006 and trained concurrently at Clairefontaine, before joining the academy at Nancy in 2008. Jeanvier progressed into the

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and made 54 appearances and scored two goals in the

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between 2009 and 2013. The appointment of former head of youth

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as first team manager midway through the

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season saw Jeanvier promoted into the first team squad and he made 10 appearances between January and April 2013. He refused the offer of a new two-year contract extension and departed the Stade Marcel Picot at the end of the 2012–13 season.

Lille

Jeanvier joined Ligue 1 club

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on a four-year contract during the 2013 off-season. Behind

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and

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in the central defensive pecking order, he was completely out of favour with manager

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, who had replaced Rudi Garcia soon after Jeanvier's arrival at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy. He instead played for the reserve team and spent the 2014–15 and 2015–16 seasons on

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at Mouscron-Péruwelz and

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respectively. He failed to make a first team appearance and left the club in August 2016.

Reims

In August 2016, Jeanvier dropped into

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to join

. He established himself in the starting lineup and was voted into the UNFP Ligue 2 Team of the Year at the end of the 2016–17 and 2017–18 seasons. Jeanvier had a successful 2017–18 season, vice- captaining the team and helping the club to the Ligue 2 championship and promotion to Ligue 1. He departed the

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in July 2018, after making 67 appearances and scoring five goals for the club.

Brentford

2018–19

On 30 July 2018, Jeanvier moved to

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to join Championship club Brentford on a four-year contract, with the option of a further year, for an undisclosed fee, speculated to be £1.8 million. He scored a goal in each of his first two appearances for the club, which came in the early rounds of the

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, but a foot injury suffered in October 2018 ruled him out for two months. The unavailability of

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and new head coach

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's deployment of three centre backs saw Jeanvier win a starting place on his return to fitness in December 2018 and he remained a near-ever present starter until the end of the 2018–19 season.

2019–2021

Despite being behind Pontus Jansson and

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in the pecking order when either was available, Jeanvier made 27 appearances and scored one goal during the 2019–20 season, but he did not feature during the Bees' unsuccessful playoff campaign. After the signing of

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during the 2020 off-season saw Jeanvier demoted further down the pecking order, he joined

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club Kasımpaşa on loan for the duration of the

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season. In late October 2020, after making four appearances, he suffered a season-ending ruptured

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. Though he would have not been eligible to play if fit, Brentford won promotion to the

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after victory in the 2021 Championship playoff Final.

2021–22

Jeanvier was included in Brentford's 25-man Premier League squad for the 2021–22 season and by mid-November 2021, he had returned to non-contact training. He made his return to non-competitive match play with Brentford B in late March 2022. On 10 April 2022, illness suffered by Pontus Jansson saw Jeanvier named in a matchday squad for the first time since the 2020 Championship play-off Final and he remained an unused substitute during a 2–0 Premier League victory over West Ham United. He was an unused substitute during a five further matches before the end of the Premier League season and was released when his contract expired. During four seasons with Brentford, Jeanvier made 58 appearances and scored six goals.

Auxerre

In July 2022, Jeanvier joined Championship club

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on trial and took part in the club's St George's Park training camp, but was not offered a contract. On 18 July 2022, he joined Ligue 1 club Auxerre on a two-week trial and signed a one-year contract, with a one-year option, on 2 August 2022.

International career

Jeanvier was a member of the France U18 team which finished runners-up at the 2010 Copa del Atlántico, but he failed to win a cap. He made his debut for

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in a 1–0

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defeat to

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on 7 June 2019 and made one appearance at the

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. Following years out of international contention, Jeanvier was recalled to the squad for two 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers in June 2022. He remained an unused substitute during the first match, before departing the squad due to personal reasons.

Personal life

Jeanvier was born in France and is of Guinean and Guadeloupean descent. His father was also a footballer and played for Red Star. He is married to a Guinean woman and has a Guinean passport.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Reims *

: 2017–18 Individual * UNFP Ligue 2 Team of the Year: 2016–17, 2017–18

References

External links

* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jeanvier, Julian 1992 births Living people Sportspeople from Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine French footballers Citizens of Guinea through descent Guinean footballers Guinea international footballers Association football defenders INF Clairefontaine players AS Nancy Lorraine players Lille OSC players Royal Excel Mouscron players Red Star F.C. players Stade de Reims players Brentford F.C. players Championnat National 2 players Ligue 1 players Belgian Pro League players Championnat National 3 players Ligue 2 players English Football League players 2019 Africa Cup of Nations players French expatriate footballers Guinean expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Belgium Expatriate footballers in England French expatriate sportspeople in Belgium French expatriate sportspeople in England French sportspeople of Guinean descent French people of Guadeloupean descent Kasımpaşa S.K. footballers French expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Expatriate footballers in Turkey Süper Lig players Footballers from Hauts-de-Seine Black French sportspeople AJ Auxerre players