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Nicolas Sébastien Anelka ((:ni.kɔ.la a.nɛl.ka); born 14 March 1979) is a French footballer who is player-manager of Mumbai City FC. Prior to his retirement from international football, Anelka was also a regular member of France national team. Former Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti has described him as a quick player with good aerial ability, technique, shooting, and movement off the ball.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Ancelotti: Anelka has it all )〕 Anelka began his career at Paris Saint-Germain, but soon moved to Arsenal. He became a first team regular and won the PFA Young Player of the Year Award the following season. Real Madrid signed him for £22.3 million in 1999, but he did not settle in well and returned to Paris Saint-Germain in a £20 million deal. Despite regular first team football in Paris, Anelka set his eyes upon the Premier League once more; he went on loan to Liverpool in January 2002 but joined Manchester City for £13 million at the start of the 2002–03 season. After three seasons in Manchester, he moved to Fenerbahçe for two seasons before returning to England to join Bolton Wanderers – in deals worth £7 million and £8 million, respectively. He transferred to Chelsea from Bolton for a reported £15 million in January 2008. During his transfers over the years, he has built an aggregate transfer cost of just under £90 million. On 12 December 2011, Shanghai Shenhua announced that they had reached an agreement with Anelka to join the team in the winter transfer window. After one season there, Anelka joined Italian side Juventus on a six-month loan deal in 2013, after which he was released from Shanghai and signed for West Bromwich Albion on a free transfer. Following his dismissal by West Bromwich Albion, he signed for Mumbai City FC as a Marquee Player and was named player-manager in 2015. Anelka played 69 times at international level and won his first international honours with France at Euro 2000, and won the Confederations Cup the following year. His failure to settle at club level limited his international appearances, but he returned to the national team for the Euro 2008 competition. On 19 June 2010, Anelka was excluded by the French Football Federation from the 2010 World Cup in South Africa for "comments directed against the national coach, Raymond Domenech, unacceptable to the FFF, French football, and the principles they uphold." Two months later, having failed to turn up to his disciplinary hearing, he was banned for France's next eighteen games by the FFF, effectively ending his international career. ==Personal life== Anelka was born in 1979 in Le Chesnay, Yvelines, to parents who had migrated from Martinique in 1974. Thereafter they settled in Trappes, near Paris. His mother is a secretary in the local high school.〔("Nicolas Anelka haunts old coach as Bolton beats Arsenal" ). The New York Times. 26 November 2006.〕〔("One-on-One with Nicolas Anelka" ). FourFourTwo Retrieved 8 January 2012.〕〔("Nicolas Anelka: de Trappes à Wembley" ) (in French). Le Point. 20 February 1999.〕 Anelka is married to Barbara Tausia, a Belgian choreographer. Together, they have two sons, Kais born in 2008 and Kahil born in 2010.〔(Chelsea: The players ) ''The Guardian'', 20 May 2008; Retrieved 10 February 2009〕 He acted in the 2002 film ''Le Boulet'' as a footballer named Nicolas. He has stated that, when he retires from football, he would like to work in the film industry because he has a friend in the business. He said: "I have a friend who's a producer, who makes lots of films. He recently did ''Astérix''. So it's already agreed that I'm going to do other films. It helps to know actors and producers. It's different to football and it's something I enjoy very much because there's no ball. I like pretending to be somebody else, it's fun." Anelka has two brothers, Claude and Didier.〔(The £85m man lights Blue touchpaper ) ''The Observer'', 30 November 2008〕 After discussing religion with some childhood friends, Anelka converted to Islam in 2004 in the United Arab Emirates, taking the Muslim name of ''Abdul-Salam Bilal''.〔Taylor, Louise (How Big Sam and Allah made Le Sulk smile ) ''The Guardian'', 14 February 2007; Retrieved 10 February 2009〕〔Moxley, Neil (I pray five times a day, the boys call me beardo...I'll live with it ) ''Daily Mail'', 28 October 2007; Retrieved 10 February 2009〕 Anelka has said that he initially fasted during daylight hours as is required for the Muslim month of Ramadan, but "I realised I often got injured just after the period of Ramadan, so I don't observe it strictly any more." Initially, Anelka considered leaving European football to play in the UAE: "I am ready to stay here and to play for a club in the Emirates. I am not keen to go back to England or France." However, this did not come to pass and he briefly moved to Turkey instead, as well as three more English clubs.〔Stammers, Steve (Muslim Anelka to quit England ). ''This is London'', 10 June 2004; Retrieved 24 May 2014〕 Anelka is also known for his controversial relationship with French comedian Dieudonné M'bala M'bala and notably attracted widespread condemnation after performing a hand gesture called the "quenelle", created by the latter and regarded by some as anti-Semitic, on the pitch when playing for West Bromwich Albion in 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25537686 )〕 Anelka has responded that the gesture is anti-establishment, not anti-Semitic.〔 An FA disciplinary hearing banned Anelka for five games, but found that he was not anti-Semitic, and had not intended the gesture to express or promote anti-Semitism. After West Bromwich Albion suspended him pending their own investigation, Anelka was given notice of termination of his contract by the club due to the club and player being unable to come to terms over the conditions required for the suspension by the club to be lifted, and comments made by the player on Twitter. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nicolas Anelka」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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