Mickael Antoine-Curier Interview

"Now that I am a Dunfermline player I will do everything I can to help them achieve what they want to achieve."

- - Listen to Mickael Antoine Curier's first interview

Mickael Antoine-Curier made his first appearance for Dunfermline in Tuesday night's SPFL Development League match at St Mirren. He scored two of the Pars five goals as they emphatically disposed of their hosts. Mickael commented for the website:-

"I scored two, I am a goalscorer so it is my job to do that. Thanks to the boys and John Potter for letting me play. I am trying to do my best and what I can try to do is to score goals. I am just getting to get as fit as possible to play on Saturday.

"The team are playing well but I am here and I want to contribute as well. There are some good players in that team but the manager asked me to come and do what I do the best, score goals. We will take it from there, I will just take it day by day."

The 32 year old striker was in for training at Dunfermline for a week and then left for some personal business but Allan Johnston and John Potter kept in touch with him:-

"They tried to accommodate me as best as they could and they still do now. That is a good thing because I wanted to come to a club where I feel wanted. I didn't want to go to a club where they were unsure about me. That is crazy because when you are a top scorer, I went Burton Albion but I was one of five players who got injured. It was not my fault.

"I don't feel like 32 years old and when people see that I was injured they will think my legs are gone. I know people will always talk but I do not take notice of that. I am more focused on the positive things and that is to get Dunfermline back in the Championship and the SPL."

Mickael is the first to acknowledge that to get into a Dunfermline team that is going so well is not going to be an easy task:-

"I am here and here to make it a hard job for the manager to pick the team. For me my job is every time to win first and score."

After being at three other Scottish clubs - Hibs, Hamilton and Dundee - so what was Mickael's impressions of Dunfermline?

"It is a big club who don't deserve to be in League One. I have seen one game, I have already played at East End Park but now I am a Dunfermline player I will do everything I can to help them achieve what they want to achieve."

The most recent Pars signing demonstrated early into Tuesday's match that he has great physical presence on the park and he was to find the net within eight minutes. He feels that he can be a great acquisition for the Pars management:-

"The manager has said to me that he knows that I can hold the ball and can also run behind. At Hamilton I was being asked to always hold the ball at my feet because we had wingers to come behind me. It was one of those positions that I was willing to do. If I have to run the channel it doesn't bother me.

"I know I am fast but I just need to show it. I trained by myself during the summer, I had my own coach and then I was able to use the gym at Hamilton. It made me stronger and faster and that can benefit Dunfermline FC."

Allan Johnston is known to Mickael because they have played against each other in the past but other than that he has played against a couple of others while in the Championship with Hamilton. What he says that he can see is evidence of great talent in the Dunfermline squad:-

"I know they are in the third division but if they were in the SPL now they would give good opposition."

Mickael was born in France but his parents hail from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe and so he was raised there from the age of six months. He has represented Guadeloupe many times making him one of their leading scorers.

"I am still active and if I get called up then I would go. It is not FIFA ranked but we play for the Gold Cup and the Caribbean Cup which is important to me and my country. I am proud to wear my national jersey and moved there because my mum could not afford to keep me."

Mickael rattled off a string of well known footballers who also come from his West Indies Island:- Thierry Henri, Pascal Chimbonda, Gabriel Obertan, Lillian Thuram, William Gallas.

"It is not just a country lost in the Caribbean we have great players from there and I just try to make my mark to be one of those great players. I don't know when their next game is, my aim is just to play where I can enjoy my football and score as many goals as possible because people are doubting whether I can come back from my injury at Burton.

"I had an option to stay there but I didn't enjoy my time there. The lower division in England was not good football at all. I was happy we were the champions which gave me back to back promotion (after Hamilton) but I didn't enjoy it.

"That injury at Burton (hamstring) came at the wrong time but that's life and you just get on with it. Now everything in my focus is to do well for Dunfermline."