A former forward, Ginola played football for ten seasons in France before moving from Paris Saint-Germain to Newcastle United in the English Premier League in July 1995. He continued playing in the Premier League for Tottenham Hotspur, Aston Villa and Everton before retiring in 2002. At international level, he made 17 appearances scoring three goals for the France national team between 1990 and 1995.
Since his retirement from football, he has become involved in football punditry and acting. Ginola is a regular contributor to BBC, BT Sport and CNN. He has hosted Match of ze Day, a program which broadcasts live Premier League matches on Canal+. In January 2015, Ginola attempted to run for the FIFA presidency but withdrew after failing to receive the required backing of at least five national football associations.
David Ginola is a French former international football player who also played for Newcastle United during the club’s ‘Entertainers’ era. Ginola joined Newcastle United from Paris Saint-Germain for £2.5 million in 1995. He also played in the Premier League for Tottenham Hotspur, Aston Villa and Everton before retiring in 2002. He has also worked as an actor and model and sports commentary and analysis on BBC, BT and CNN.
Personal life
Ginola married fashion model Coraline in 1991. The couple have a son and a daughter, Andrea and Carla; they lived near Saint-Tropez. They split and Ginola entered a relationship with model Maeva Denat,with whom he has a child.
On the afternoon of 19 May 2016, Ginola was playing a charity football match at the home of Jean-Stéphane Camerini (the organiser of the Mapauto Golf Cup) in Mandelieu-la-Napoule in the southeast of France when he suddenly collapsed due to cardiac arrest and then fell into a coma. He was administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on the pitch by fellow footballer Frédéric Mendy. Minutes later, a team of medics who had arrived in an ambulance used a defibrillator on him; it took five shocks from the machine to restore normal heart rhythm within 10 minutes. Ginola was airlifted minutes later by a helicopter to the Cardiothoracic Center of Monaco 40 km northeast of Mandelieu, where he underwent an immediate, six-hour, operation. Professor Gilles Dreyfus, who operated on Ginola, said that were it not for Mendy who administered CPR on him he would be dead, or have suffered permanent brain damage. Dreyfus said that Ginola had “very complicated coronary lesions” which required the quadruple heart bypass operation to be performed. The morning after being admitted to the hospital, Ginola woke up “perfectly normally” with no neurological damage and was “recovering well.”
Club career
Ginola played at club level for Toulon (1985–88), RC Paris(1988–90), Brest (1990–92), Paris Saint-Germain (1992–95), Newcastle United (1995–97), Tottenham Hotspur(1997–2000), Aston Villa (2000–2002) and Everton(2002).
Ginola made his first senior appearance for Sporting Toulon as an eighteen-year-old in a 1985 2–0 victory away at Metz. He played fourteen times in his first season, and by 1986 he was a regular in the Toulon line-up. In 1988, he moved to RC Paris, where he remained until signing for Brest in 1990. There, he began to impress with his flamboyant style of play. In 1991, he played a crucial role in a landmark victory (3–2) against the side who would go on to sign him, Paris Saint-Germain F.C.
Who is David Ginola’s ex-wife Coraline?
David Ginola married former fashion model Coraline in 1991 and the pair lived with their family near St Tropez.
However their life together was riddled with cheating accusations and scandal.
In 2000 it was alleged Ginola had fathered a child with Parisian businesswoman Joelle Pinquier, during a four-month affair between 1991 and 1992.
This hit the press again in 2009 when claims that Ginola could be facing jail for unpaid child maintenance arose.
Then in 2016, he was spotted with a French model 22 years his junior, amid more cheating accusations.
Pictures of him and his mistress Maeva Denat surfaced, and the following year Ginola and Coraline’s divorce was finalised.
Coraline went on to release a book detailing her ex-husband’s affairs, and reportedly reverted back to the last name Delphin.
Do they have kids?
The former couple share two children from their 25-year marriage, Andrea and Carla.Advertisement
Their son Andrea – who lives in London – followed his father’s footsteps and entered the sporting world, working as a football agent.
French model Carla graduated from Regent’s University in 2016 with a degree in European Business.
She turned heads at Paris Fashion Week, and also got engaged to her long-term partner Adrien Rosenpick.
He also became a dad again in 2018 when he and Maeva welcomed a baby girl.Advertisement
Ginola took to twitter at the time to say “I am ecstatic, so very happy, just became a father of a very beautiful little girl”.
Is Coraline on social media?
It would appear Coraline does have Instagram, however her account is set to private.
Carla Ginola however, is an avid Instagram user, with 435k followers on the platform.
