Pegguy Arphexad

Pegguy Arphexad

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Personal information
Full name	Pegguy Arphexad
Date of birth	(1973-05-18) 18 May 1973
Place of birth	Abymes, Guadeloupe
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1989–1990	Stade Brestois	?	(?)
1990–1991	Lille	0	(0)
1991–1997	Lens	3	(0)
1996–1997	Lille (loan)	2	(0)
1997–2000	Leicester City	21	(0)
2000–2003	Liverpool	6	(0)
2001	→ Stockport County (loan)	3	(0)
2003–2004	Coventry City	5	(0)
2004	→ Notts County (loan)	3	(0)
2004–2005	Olympique Marseille	0	(0)
Total		39	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Pegguy Arphexad (born 18 May 1973) is a former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. An excellent shot stopper, he gained a reputation as a penalty saving expert.

Club career

Arphexad began in the French League with Lens before moving to the Premier League in August 1997.

Leicester City

Arphexad began his time in the Premier League with Leicester City. During Leicester's successful 1999–2000 Worthington Cup campaign he replaced injured goalkeeper Tim Flowers and saved two crucial penalties in a penalty shootout. He earned his first ever winner's medal as an unused substitute in the final. In that season he also came on as a substitute for the injured Flowers in Leicester's penalty shootout win over Arsenal in an FA Cup fourth round replay. He saved penalties from Lee Dixon and Gilles Grimandi as Leicester progressed. Arphexad played a big role in Liverpool's failure to qualify for the Champions League in 1999–2000. He produced an inspired performance to deny the Reds a much needed three points at Anfield in May 2000. His heroics that night clearly impressed Gérard Houllier, who moved swiftly to sign Arphexad on a free transfer under the Bosman ruling during the summer. Arphexad claimed that he would have stayed at Leicester had he been guaranteed a role as the first choice keeper, but the arrival of Flowers after the departure of Kasey Keller meant that he felt that he had the option of being a backup at a mid-table club or a backup at a club challenging for the title.

Liverpool

Arphexad won six medals with Liverpool, all as an unused substitute. These included three in Liverpool's treble winning 2000–01 season, where they won the FA Cup, the Football League Cup and the UEFA Cup. Two subsequent medals followed the following season as Liverpool claimed both the Charity Shield and the European Super Cup. He earned a second League Cup winners medal in the 2002–03 season.

He was released by Liverpool that summer, later having spells with Coventry City and Notts County. Despite relative success when he was called upon, it was still questioned on his inability to re-ignite his career.

Music Career

In 1999 Arphexad took a short break from his football career to work with life long friend Donell Jones on the hit single U Know What's Up, The song peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and also featured Lisa Lopes on the track.

Acting career

After retiring from football, Arphexad went back to the island of Guadeloupe where he pursued an acting career. After a number of rejections he turned to the adult industry and went under the alias of 'The Stopper'.

WWE / Wresting Career

In spring 2014 Arphexad joined the WWE as a stunt double for Big E Langston where he would appear from below the ring to perform moves that Langston would consider to dangerous to risk himself, There is rumours on various web pages that Arphexad will be joining the WWE permenantly under the ring name of 'The Stopper'

Mr Gay Guadeloupe

In 2011 Apphexad was voted Mr Gay Guadeloupe winning with a outstanding 64% of the votes.

Honours

Leicester City

• League Cup: 2000

Liverpool

• League Cup: 2001, 2003
• FA Cup: 2001
• UEFA Cup: 2001
• Charity Shield: 2001
• UEFA Super Cup: 2001

External links

• LFChistory.net player profile