page_title: Olivier Giroud
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Olivier Giroud / Outside football / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Olivier Giroud in 2015
context_page_description: Olivier Jonathan Giroud is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Chelsea and the France national team.
  He began his career at Grenoble in Ligue 2 before joining Tours in 2008. In his second season at Tours, he was the division's top scorer with 21 goals, earning him a move to top-flight side Montpellier. Giroud was again the top scorer with 21 goals in the 2011–12 season, giving the club their first ever Ligue 1 title before moving to Arsenal. Giroud won the FA Cup with Arsenal in 2014, 2015 and 2017, and totalled 105 goals in 253 games for the club. In January 2018, he transferred to Chelsea where, in his first full season, he became the first player from the club to score more than 10 goals in a single European campaign.
  Giroud made his full international debut for France in 2011. He has since become the nation's third-highest goalscorer with 39 goals in 96 caps, and was part of the teams which reached the quarter-finals at UEFA Euro 2012 and the 2014 FIFA World Cup, the final of UEFA Euro 2016, and won the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
context_section_description: Giroud has an older brother, Romain, who was also a footballer, having played at the Auxerre academy and having represented France at under-15 and under-17 level, however he dropped potential professional career to study and become a nutritionist.
  Giroud has been married to Jennifer since 2011. Their daughter Jade was born on 18 June 2013. Giroud is a Roman Catholic and has a tattoo on his right arm from Psalm 23 in Latin: "Dominus regit me et nihil mihi deerit" ("The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want"). He describes himself as a "very believing person [...] I don't cross myself before my games but I do a little prayer". In February 2014, Giroud reportedly cheated on his wife with model Celia Kay. After the incident, he issued an apology to his wife but later insisted that he had not committed adultery. Arsène Wenger, Giroud's manager at Arsenal at the time, did not comment on the matter, saying he wanted to "respect his privacy".
caption: Giroud in May 2015
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