Jonathan Beaulieu-Bourgault

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Jonathan Beaulieu-Bourgault

Full name	Jonathan Beaulieu-Bourgault
Date of birth	September 27, 1988 (1988-09-27) (age 19)
Place of birth	Montreal, Canada
Club information
Current club	FC St. Pauli
Youth clubs
	Lakers du Lac Saint-Louis
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2006-	FC St. Pauli	? (?)
National team²
2005 2006-2007	Canada U-17 Canada U-20	0 (0) 6 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 9 May 2008. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 9 May 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Jonathan Beaulieu-Bourgault (born September 27, 1988 in Montreal, Quebec) is a football (soccer) player from Canada. He plays for FC St. Pauli in Germany. He recently helped the team gain promotion from the Regionalliga Nord to the 2. Bundesliga during the 2006-2007 season, after being forced to sit out the prior season due to a broken leg. Bourgault signed with the German side at age 17 after being scouted while playing for Lakers du Lac Saint-Louis in Quebec.

Bourgault plays for the Canadian national U-20 team. He made his debut in a three-match series against Brazil in May 2006. The Canadians won the first match, which was the first time any Canadian team had achieved a result against the Brazilian national team. Bourgault contributed by making a key defensive played which resulted in the attacking move which created the winning goal in the 2-1 defeat. Prior to that, he was a member of the Canadian team in the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship, although he did not play for the team.

Beaulieu-Bourgault was called up to the U20 team for the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup in his home nation and played in all three of the team's matches. In the match against the Congo on July 8th, 2007, Canada's goalkeeper Asmir Begovic was red carded for handling the ball outside the box. As coach Dale Mitchell had already made his 3 substitutions, Beaulieu-Bourgault took the place of goalkeeper for the final 15 minutes of the match. He made several impressive saves and kept a clean sheet for his portion of the match (which ended 2-0 for the Congo, both goals already having been conceded by Begovic) which led to rousing applause by the Canadian fans.