Franck Julienne

Franck Julienne (born 7 March 1991) is a French footballer who plays as a forward or winger for Bourg-en-Bresse.

For the businessman, see Franck Julien.

Franck Julienne
Personal information
Date of birth (1991-03-07) 7 March 1991[1]
Place of birth Gonesse, France
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Position(s) Forward
Club information
Current team
 Bourg-en-Bresse
Number 17
Youth career
1997–2004 FCM Garges-les-Gonesse
2004 AAS Sarcelles
2004–2007 Troyes
2007–2008 Rennes
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2008–2011 Rennes II 59 (12)
2010–2013 Rennes 1 (0)
2011–2012 → Le Havre (loan) 13 (0)
2011–2012 → Le Havre II 13 (2)
2012–2013 → Vannes (loan) 19 (1)
2013–2014 Lyon-Duchère 9 (1)
2017 Endoume 11 (6)
2017–2018 Martigues 7 (1)
2018–2019 Lyon-Duchère 28 (5)
2019–2020 Le Mans 10 (0)
2019–2020 Le Mans II 5 (4)
2020 Al-Ahli Manama
2020– Bourg-en-Bresse 4 (0)
National team
2009 France U18 2 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14:35, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Julienne made his professional debut for Rennes in Ligue 1 in 2011 and played in Ligue 2 for Le Havre before dropping into the amateur leagues and spending more than two years without a club. He returned to the professional ranks with the newly promoted Le Mans in 2019.

In international football, he played twice for the French under-18 team.

Life and career

Early life and youth career

Julienne was born in 1991 in Gonesse, in the outer suburbs of Paris. He played for a local boys' team, FCM Garges-les-Gonesse, until mid-2004 when he joined AAS Sarcelles.[2] He was not there for long. The French Football Federation amended their rules to restrict movements of children to clubs within a 50-kilometre (31 mi) radius of their current club, the change to come into force on 31 December 2004. A few days prior, Julienne and two other 13-year-olds left Sarcelles to join the centre de formation at ESTAC Troyes, some 180 kilometres (110 mi) distant.[3] He moved on from Troyes to Rennes as a 16-year-old in April 2007.[2]

He was top scorer for Rennes' under-16 team in 2007–08, and made a brief appearance for their under-19 Coupe Gambardella-winning squad.[4] He received several call-ups for the French under-18 team in 2008–09,[5] but did not make his debut until a mini-tournament in August 2009, in which he played twice, against Mexico and hosts Japan.[2]

Professional football with Rennes

Julienne made a few appearances for Rennes' reserve team in the Championnat de France Amateur (CFA) in 2008–09 and was a regular in the following two seasons.[4] Head coach Frédéric Antonetti included him among the substitutes for the first time in October 2010, for the Ligue 1 visit to Lens,[6] and he signed his first professional contract, of two-and-a-half years, in December.[7] On 15 January 2015, Julienne made his Ligue 1 debut, albeit for just a couple of minutes with his side 4–0 up against Arles-Avignon. He was the seventh product of Rennes' youth system to be given a debut that season.[8] He trained regularly with the first team, and was an unused substitute eleven times.[9][10]

Loan spells

In June 2011, he signed on loan for the coming season for Ligue 2 club Le Havre.[11] He arrived with a positive attitude towards the loan, expecting an increase in playing time and with that increased maturity, having come to a club he believed to allow young players to progress.[12] The spell proved dispiriting. Although frequently in the first-team squad in the first couple of months of the season, he started only once in the league. In the second half of the campaign, he made nine starts for the reserve team in the CFA, but had little involvement with the first team.[9][10]

Advised by former team-mate Abdoul Camara that it was a good place to come, Julienne signed on loan to Rennes' new partner club, Vannes of the third-tier Championnat National, where he expected to bounce back.[13] Coach Stéphane Le Mignan pointed out that the club had several similar players already, but was delighted at his arrival and saw no reason why he shouldn't play.[14] Julienne made only nineteen league appearances, of which just seven were in the starting eleven;[10] he said later that when he arrived, the team was already settled and he was competing for one position with the in-form Mohamed Youssouf. In March 2013, he made three consecutive starts for the first time in two years.[9][15]

Lyon-Duchère: decline and rise

Julienne left Rennes at the end of his contract. In July 2013, he was selected by the UNFP, the French players' union, for their team in the annual FIFPro Tournament, which showcases out-of-contract players. He scored twice in the group matches to help his team reach the final, which they lost to the Spanish representatives.[16] In August, he signed for Lyon-Duchère, on a one-year contract with provision for a second year if the club were promoted from the fourth-tier Championnat de France Amateur (CFA) to the Championnat National.[17] Injuries became an issue, and his appearances were few and far between; the tenth and last was on 11 January 2014.[9][10]

He remained outside football for approaching two-and-a-half years. After playing in Ligue 1 as a 19-year-old, he was disappointed with the lack of regular football in his first loan spell and with the low level of his next, where he had arrived after the start of the season with the team already settled. Finding it increasingly difficult to adjust to the decline in his prospects, he became disenchanted with the game. Interviewed in 2019, he said he had nevertheless kept fit and told himself that he would return to football, just "needing to find the right moment".[9] Julienne was contacted in 2017 by Grégory Poirier, manager of Marseille-based fifth-tier club Endoume, who helped him accept what happened in his past career and start preparing both mentally and physically for a future in the game.[9]

Julienne signed for Endoume, and scored six goals from eleven appearances in the 2017–18 National 3 season.[10] In December 2017, he moved up a level to join Martigues,[18] where seven appearances and a goal in National 2 were enough to earn him a contract for the 2018–19 season.[19] They were also enough to earn him a further step back up the ladder with a return to Lyon-Duchère of the Championnat National.[20]

He was a regular in the team that finished fifth in the division, and played in all seven of their matches in the 2018–19 Coupe de France. Entering the competition in the fifth round, Lyon-Duchère progressed to the ninth (round of 64), in which Julienne assisted the first goal and scored the second as they beat Ligue 1 club Nîmes 3–0,[21] and from there to the last 16, in which they went 2–0 up against the fourth-tier Vitré but lost to a goal in stoppage time.[22] After a season in which he scored ten goals and made eight assists in all competitions,[23] Lyon-Duchère were keen to retain Julienne's services, but the lure of playing at a higher level was too strong.[24]

Return to professional football with Le Mans

Having attracted interest from several Ligue 2 clubs,[23] Julienne signed for newly promoted Le Mans. The contract length was reported as one year with the option of a second.[25] He went straight into the starting eleven for Le Mans' opening fixture, a 2–1 defeat at home to Lens,[10] but never established himslf as a regular in the side: he played in ten league matches, mainly as a substitute and without scoring, and twice in the Coupe de France. At the turn of the year, the club's president made Julienne available for transfer, and said that any mutually satisfactory options would be considered.[26] On 25 January 2020, Le Mans confirmed that his contract had been terminated by mutual consent; the club thanked him for his professionalism and wished him all the best for the future.[27]

Football in Bahrain

A few days later, Julienne signed for Bahraini Premier League club Al-Ahli Club.[28] He returned to France when the tournament was halted due to COVID-19.[29]

Bourg-Péronnas

Having trained with the club since the summer of 2020, Julienne signed with Bourg-Péronnas in November.[29]

Career statistics
As of match played 26 January 2021
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Coupe de France Coupe de la Ligue Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Rennes B 2008–09[30][31] CFA51——1[lower-alpha 1]061
2009–10[30] CFA296——00296
2010–11[30] CFA255——00255
Total 5912——106012
Rennes 2010–11[10] Ligue 11000000010
Le Havre (loan) 2011–12[10] Ligue 2130102100161
Le Havre B (loan) 2011–12[10] CFA133———133
Vannes (loan) 2012–13[10] National191210000212
Lyon-Duchère 2013–14[10] CFA911000—101
Endoume 2017–18[10] National 311610——126
Martigues 2017–18[10] National 271———71
Lyon-Duchère 2018–19[10][32] National2857500—3510
Le Mans 2019–20[10] Ligue 21002100—121
Le Mans B 2019–20[10] National 3540000—54
Bourg-Péronnas 2020–21 National 400000—40
Career total 17933147211019641
  1. Appearance in playoffs

References
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