Career
Gouttebarge played football in France between 1993 and 1997 for AJ Auxerre and Football Club Cournon-d"Auvergne before moving to the Netherlands. There he played for Football Club Volendam and Football Club Omniworld ( now Almere City Football Club ). Due to severe injuries, Gouttebarge played only 232 games as a professional football player between 1993 and 2007.
The Frenchman, also the holder of a Dutch passport, announced early in the 2006/2007 season that he would stop playing professional football at the end of the season in order to concentrate on his academic career.
His last game was in 2007 in the away match against AGOVV.
During his professional career, Gouttebarge studied Sports Science at the University Blaise Pascal in Clermont - Ferrand, and graduated in 2000 with a degree in Exercise Physiology. From 2002, Gouttebarge studied next to his football career at the Academic Medical Center / Faculty of Medicine at the University of Amsterdam.
Gouttebarge wrote a Doctor of Philosophy thesis on clinimetrics and earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree in late 2008. Gouttebarge now works as assistant professor at the Academic Medical Center of Amsterdam, and is also Chief Medical Officer at the World Players" Union FIFPro.