Vincent Gouttebarge

Vincent Gouttebarge

Personal information
Date of birth	16 August 1975
Place of birth	Vichy
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
1989–1993	RC Vichy
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1993–1994	AJ Auxerre	28	(0)
1994–1997	FC Cournon-d'Auvergne	76	(0)
1997–2001	FC Volendam	25	(0)
2002–2007	FC Omniworld	103	(2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Vincent Gouttebarge (born 16 August 1975 in Vichy, France) is a former French professional footballer who now works as a medical scientist.

Football career

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.