Adrien Rabiot

Adrien Rabiot is a French professional footballer

Adrien Rabiot (born 3 April 1995) is a French professional footballer who plays for Paris Saint-Germain and the France national team as a central midfielder.

He spent most of his career with Paris Saint-Germain, making his debut with the first team in 2012 and winning 16 major honours, including four Ligue 1 titles and a treble in 2015–16.

Rabiot earned 53 caps for France at youth level, making his full debut in 2016.

Rabiot scored his first goal in European competition on 25 November 2015 to open a 5–0 Champions League group win at Malmö, and repeated the feat the following 9 March in a 2–1 victory over Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, putting PSG into the quarter-finals 4–2 on aggregate. Four days later, he scored in a 9–0 routing at bottom team Troyes that sealed the league title with eight games remaining.

On 23 April 2016, Rabiot was sent off in the final of the Coupe de la Ligue, a 2–1 win over Lille.

On 13 August 2013, aged just 18, Rabiot made his first appearance for the French under-21 team, starting in a 0–0 friendly draw with Germany in Freiburg.[19] He was on stand by for the full side's UEFA Euro 2016 squad,[20] but did not make the final cut.

Rabiot made his debut on 15 November 2016 against Ivory Coast, starting and being replaced by Thomas Lemar after 78 minutes of the 0–0 friendly home draw, due to a hamstring injury. On 17 May 2018, he was put on the reserve list by manager Didier Deschamps for the 2018 FIFA World Cup squad. However, he controversially refused to be put on the standby list, emailing the coach and saying he would not "be able to follow the training programme". Noël Le Graët, president of the French Football Federation, commented: "He made a bad decision. He penalises himself and sanctions himself alone.