Date of birth 16 August 1975 Years Team Position Defender 1989–1993 RC Vichy Role Footballer | Playing position Name Vincent Gouttebarge Place of birth Vichy 1993–1994 AJ Auxerre | |
 | ||
Vincent Gouttebarge (born 16 August 1975) is a former French professional footballer who now works as a medical scientist.
Contents
Football career
Born in Vichy, Gouttebarge played football in France between 1993 and 1997 for AJ Auxerre and FC Cournon-d'Auvergne before moving to the Netherlands. There he played for FC Volendam and FC Omniworld ( now Almere City FC ). Due to severe injuries, Gouttebarge played only 232 games as a professional footballer between 1993 and 2007. The Frenchman, also the holder of a Dutch passport, announced early in the 2006/2007 season that he would stop playing professional football at the end of the season in order to concentrate on his academic career. His last game was in 2007 in the away match against AGOVV.
Professional career
During his professional career, Gouttebarge studied Sports Science at the University Blaise Pascal in Clermont - Ferrand, and graduated in 2000 with a degree in Exercise Physiology. From 2002, Gouttebarge studied next to his football career at the Academic Medical Center / Faculty of Medicine at the University of Amsterdam. Gouttebarge wrote a PhD thesis on clinimetrics and earned his PhD degree in late 2008. Gouttebarge now works as assistant professor at the Academic Medical Center of Amsterdam, and is also Chief Medical Officer at the World Players' Union FIFPro.