Mattéo Desgouillons

Mattéo Desgouillons
Personal information
Born (2000-01-21) 21 January 2000 (age 24)
Height 184 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 84 kg (185 lb)
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current club Lille
Youth career
Lille
Girondins de Bordeaux
Senior career
Years Team
0000–2018 Girondins de Bordeaux
2018–2021 Montrouge
2021–2023 Gantoise
2023–present Lille
National team
Years Team Caps Goals
2019–2021 France U21 11 (2)
2021–present France 38 (0)
Medal record
Men's field hockey
Representing  France
Junior World Cup
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Bhubaneswar

Mattéo Desgouillons (born 21 January 2000)[1] is a French field hockey player who plays as a defender for Lille MHC and the Franch national team.[2]

Club career

Desgouillons started playing hockey at Lille and then played for Girondins de Bordeaux and Montrouge.[2] He moved to La Gantoise in the Men's Belgian Hockey League in the summer of 2021.[3] In the 2022–23 season, he won the Belgian title after they defeated the Waterloo Ducks in the final.[4] After the championship he returned to the club where he started playing hockey: Lille.[5]

International career

Junior national team

Mattéo Desgouillons made his debut for the French U–21 team in 2019 at the EuroHockey Junior Championship in Valencia.[6]

In 2021 he won a bronze medal with the team at the FIH Junior World Cup in Bhubaneswar.[7]

Les Bleus

Desgouillons made his debut for Les Bleus in 2021 during a test match against Belgium in Antwerp.[6] He went on to compete at the EuroHockey Championships in Amsterdam later that year.[8] He was also named in the French squad for the season three of the FIH Pro League.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Team Details – France". tms.fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Mattéo DESGOUILLONS". ffhockey.org (in French). Fédération Française de Hockey. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  3. ^ "Transfert : encore un Français qui arrive". okey.lalibre.be (in French). 4 June 2021. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  4. ^ "Gantoise slaat na succes bij vrouwen dubbelslag: Gentse mannen pakken na 102 jaar titel in hockey". Het Nieuwsblad (in Dutch). 21 May 2023. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  5. ^ "Lille se renforce". okey.lalibre.be (in French). 30 June 2023.
  6. ^ a b c "DESGOUILLONS Mattéo". tms.fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  7. ^ "FIH Hockey Men's Junior World Cup: France denies India the bronze medal". olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  8. ^ "France". rabo-eurohockeychampionships2021.com. Rabo EuroHockey Championships. Retrieved 10 February 2022.


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