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Benjamin Nivet

b. 1977

French footballer

Association football player Color commentator
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Born 1977. Benjamin Nivet is a French association football player and color commentator.

Benjamin Nivet (born 2 January 1977) is a French former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.

He began his career in 1997 with Auxerre, and is best known for his association with Troyes, whom he represented over 12 years in two separate spells, from 2002 to 2007 and later from 2012 until his retirement in 2019. Nivet holds the records at Troyes for most appearances and most goals for the club.

Career Born in Chartres, Nivet started his career as a youth with Auxerre. He made his first league appearances in the 1997–98 season. However, by the end of the following season, he had made only twelve further appearances and was sent on loan to Ligue 2 club ChΓ’teauroux for the 1999–2000 season, before making the move permanent for the next season. After four years with Troyes, he could not avoid relegation at the end of the 2015–16 season after a disastrous campaign which saw the club win only three matches and concede some heavy defeats, most notably a resounding 9–0 home loss to PSG, the club's biggest ever victory. On 28 May 2017, the 40-year-old Nivet scored a late winner in the second leg of the promotion play-off against Lorient, which turned out to be the decisive goal that saw Troyes promoted to Ligue 1.

In the top division, Nivet was only able to reach a rich vein of form towards the end of the 2017–18 season, when he registered one goal contribution for three matches in a row, including a goal against Olympique de Marseille on 15 April 2018, becoming, at the age of 41 years and 103 days, the oldest player to ever score in Ligue 1, thus breaking the previous record set by Vitorino Hilton on 7 February 2017, at the age of 39. He then extended this record when he scored again just two weeks later, on 28 April, in a 3–1 win over Stade Malherbe Caen. Nivet perhaps deserved to play in a more upscale club, but his loyalty to Troyes and his innate modesty prevent that. In fact, he even reportedly declined an offer from the City of Troyes to build a statue in his honour.

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1999–2000

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2001–02

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2007–08

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2009–10 Ligue 2

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2012–13 Ligue 1

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2015–16 Ligue 1

2016–17 Ligue 2

2017–18 Ligue 1

2018–19 Ligue 2

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Who is Benjamin Nivet?

French footballer

When was Benjamin Nivet born?

Benjamin Nivet was born on 2 January 1977 in Chartres.

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Benjamin Nivet is an association football player and color commentator.

What nationality is Benjamin Nivet?

Benjamin Nivet is French.

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