Dimitry Bertaud

Dimitry Jean Sylvain Bertaud (born 6 June 1998) is a French professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Ligue 1 club Montpellier and the France Olympic football team.

Bertaud first joined Montpellier at the age of 13 and within three years found himself training with the club's first and reserve teams. He currently serves as the teams second-choice goalkeeper, behind Jonas Omlin.

Bertaud has represented France internationally in various youth levels, first with the under-16s and later on from the under 19 level, all the way up to the France Olympic football team.

Club Career

Early career

Bertaud first joined his local football academy, Avenir Castriote, at age 6, where he stayed for 7 years, before moving to Montpellier's youth system.

Montpellier

Bertaud quickly proved his worth at Montpellier, and quickly advanced to teams older than his age group, playing in the U17 and U19 youth leagues, before appearing with the reserves at only age 16.

2014-15 season

As is typical with reserve teams of professional clubs in French football, the goalkeeping spot was an object of contention among first team players looking for playing time and youth team players looking for a chance to break through. In a season where Montpellier's reserves were struggling to avoid relegation from the fourth division, this resulted Laurent Pionnier and Jonathan Ligali continuously switching places between the first team's bench in the Ligue 1 and the reserves' starting line-up, with a series of youth players sitting on the reserves' bench. A broken finger for main man Geoffrey Jourdren in November meant that both Pionnier and Ligali would play with the first team, leaving open the number 1 spot for the reserves.

Bertaud was unexpectedly chosen to take that spot, ahead of Benjamin Martinez, Charly Boucherat and Valentin Lamoulie, who had all sat on the reserve team's bench during the season, unlike Bertaud. His d