Garry Bocaly
Personal information
Full name	Garry Bocaly
Date of birth	April 19, 1988 (1988-04-19) (age 21)
Place of birth	Schœlcher, Martinique, France
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Playing position	Right back
Club information
Current club	Marseille
Number	2
Youth career
2004–2005	Marseille
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2005– 2007–2008 2008–2009	Marseille → Libourne (loan) → Montpellier (loan)	04 (0) 29 (1) 34 (4)
National team2
2008–	France U21	9 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22 May 2009. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 10 June 2009. * Appearances (Goals)

Garry Bocaly (born April 19, 1988 in Schœlcher, Martinique) is a French footballer currently playing for Ligue 1 club Olympique de Marseille.

Contents 1 Career 1.1 Loan moves 2 International career 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Career

A native of Martinique, Garry arrived at Marseille in 2004. The following season, on March 5, 2006, he made his debut for Marseille against rivals Paris Saint-Germain in the annual Le Classique under bizarre circumstances. In order to protest against security flaws at the Parc des Princes, Marseille president, Pape Diouf, decided to send a team made of players from the club's youth academy and their CFA2 reserve team. Bocaly started the match and played well, despite going against the likes of Pauleta, Jérôme Rothen, and Bonaventure Kalou. The match ended in a 0–0 draw with Garry playing the full 90 minutes.^[1]A month later, on April 14, 2006, he agreed to his first professional contract, signing for three years.

The next season, he was promoted to the senior squad and given the number 6 shirt. Despite the promotion, he was listed as the third-choice right back behind Habib Beye and the Argentine Renato Civelli. Garry was finally given a chance to make an impression when Beye was forced to move to the centre back position due to injuries and Civelli went down due to injury. He appeared in three staright matches starting them all, unfortunately, Marseille lost all three and Garry was relegated back to the bench.

[edit] Loan moves

Due to a surplus of more experienced full backs, including new signing Laurent Bonnart, Marseille loaned Garry out for the 2007–08 season to Ligue 2 side Libourne-Saint-Seurin. Bocaly appeared in 29 matches with the club and scored his first ever goal on September 24, 2007 against Nantes. Despite his improved performances, which led to Marseille extending his contract until 2012^[2], Libourne finished 19^th and, thus, were relegated to the third-tier Championnat National. Following this, Bocaly returned to Marseille.

Garry's return to Marseille would be short, as he would again be sent on loan, this time to Montpellier HSC. Instead of going on loan by himself like previously, Marseille teammates Thomas Deruda and Jean-Philippe Sabo joined him.

[edit] International career

Garry has appeared with all of France's youth teams beginning with the under-16s all the way to the under-21s. He was a member of the under-19 squad that reached the semi-finals at the 2007 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship. He earned his first cap with the under-21 squad on March 26, 2008, in a match against the Czech Republic.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Garry Bocaly French league stats at lfp.fr (French)
• lequipe.fr players stats

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