A career in football is often filled with ups and downs. In the case of Rayan Philippe, the stockings arrived fairly quickly. Trained on the side of Dijon where he arrived in 2015 at 14, the attacker capable of playing on the two wings and in the tip had difficulty making his hole in Burgundy with 5 Ligue 1 matches. Loaned in Toulon from February to June 2020, he will play 5 matches of National 1 for 1 small goal. Then he will be loaned the following season to AS Nancy-Lorraine where the results will be just as poor in Ligue 2 (16 games, 0 goal). It was therefore after this missed passage in Meurthe-et-Moselle that the Dijon adventure ended for Rayan Philippe with a termination of his contract. “”Correctly, we agreed to terminate the contract. They no longer counted on me. I did not intend to stay to play with the reserve team. I knew that in Dijon, we did not count on me, which I can understand. I preferred to go to Luxembourg to find playing time, find pleasure, and use it as a springboard to hope to go back to the high level, if possible“, Also said the player in an interview with France Bleu.
Without a club, the player found himself faced with a fairly difficult situation since he did not really have a future in France and he decided to make the big jump in Luxembourg in the Swift Hesperange club: “When I left Dijon, I had no offer in Ligue 2 and almost nothing in National. Nothing that made me want to leave anyway. I preferred to go to Luxembourg because I felt it more than the few clubs interested in National.The beginning of a hell of a rebound for him. Author of 7 goals and 3 assists in 16 games for his first season during the 2021/2022 exercise, he already showed an interesting level compared to the local championship. The following year, he drastically increased the cursor. At least even to be the most decisive player in Europe. With the Swift Hesperange, he will knock out the Luxembourg championship with 32 goals and 26 assists in 30 games. Champion of Luxembourg and became too big for the championship, he then signed in German D2 at the Eintracht Braunschweig in the summer of 2023. A first culmination in the recovery of his career.
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“”Inevitably, try to go up and go as high as possible. Not necessarily in France, but find the high level. It did not necessarily go very well before, I was probably too young, without experience. I had maturity, experience, I'm now trying to go back and show that it was just a youthful problem, and not qualityHe explained compared to this springboard that was Luxembourg in his career. The second German division, a new field of expression for Rayan Philippe who will have fun. Excellent in two seasons with the Basse-Saxe club, he will play 63 games there for 22 goals and 11 assists. Again, the Rayan Philippe statistical machine responded present and allowed the maintenance of the club based in Brunswick. The native of Nice was able to convince Hamburg this summer to bet on him. Promoted in the Bundesliga, the Dino had been seduced by its performance. “Rayan was a first -rate player in Braunschweig and, especially this season, a key factor in the survival of Eintracht in the league”said Stefan Kuntz, a member of the HSV board of directors.
The main interested party was also satisfied with this new challenge: “I am very happy with my arrival at the HSV and impatient to get to know the team and the staff. I look forward to the first home game in front of our supporters; After all, I already discovered the atmosphere of the Volksparkstadion. I want to put myself immediately and contribute to the achievement of the club objectives. The HSV has a great story and is back in the Bundesliga, which I am very happy.“And from his first minutes, he split a goal while being involved on three others during an 8-1 victory against the TSV Elstorf and his coach Merlin Polzin was under the spell:”I am very happy for Rayan. We have seen its determination and precision in the face of the goal. These are exactly the qualities we are looking for in the last third of the land.However, it was with the status of replacement that he started the season. The right winger was established against Heidenheim on September 20 and scored his first goal in the Bundesliga. Again holder this Sunday against Mainz (4-0), he offered himself a double. A definite impact in the dynamics of his team which is now ninth in Bundesliga after 6 matches. His teammate Albert Sambi Lokonga was also under the spell: “He is sensational. We need performance like this to go to the next level. ” The upper level, Rayan Philippe has continued to pass it since his departure from France. A great revenge for the 24 -year -old striker who now shines in a historic club of one of the five major European championships.
