Full name Gabard Fenelon 2002–2003 Racing Gonaives Weight 80 kg Years Team Height 1.88 m | Playing position Role Football player Place of birth Tortuga, Haiti Name Gabard Fenelon Career start 2002 | |
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Date of birth (1981-06-03) June 3, 1981 (age 34) Current teams RC Haitien (Goalkeeper), Haiti national football team (Goalkeeper) | ||
Gabard Fénélon (born 3 June 1981) is a Haitian football player, who currently plays as a goalkeeper for Lakeshore SC in Première Ligue de soccer du Québec.
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Early years
Fénelon was born in Tortuga (Île de la Tortue), a small Haitian island in the northwest of the country. At the age of fourteen, his football talents led him to Port-de-Paix, a major city adjacent to Tortuga, inland of Haiti across the coast to develop his skills. Having been significantly better than his peers his own age, he was played against players who were older. Arriving as a striker, his position was changed to goalkeeper at age sixteen at the regional level.
Club career
Fénelon played for Haitian League sides Racing Gonaïves and Racing Club Haïtien before moving to Miami FC at the start of the 2007 season. He returned to Haiti in 2008, Racing Club Haïtien. In 2011, Fenelon played with Panellinios in the Quebec Elite Soccer League and joined Saint-Léonard FC of the new Première Ligue de Soccer du Québec in 2012 with notably ex-Serie A player Sandro Grande.
International career
Fénélon made his debut for Haiti in a March 2003 Gold Cup qualifying match against Jamaica. He was a squad member at the 2007 Gold Cup Finals Fénélon played for the Canada national futsal team at QCSL World Cup 2010.