Alou Diarra

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Alou Diarra
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in the jersey of the national team (2012)
Personnel
birthday July 15, 1981
place of birth Villepinte ,  France
size 190 cm
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1999-2000 CS Louhans-Cuiseaux 3 0(0)
2000-2002 FC Bayern Munich amateurs 41 0(5)
2001-2002 FC Bayern Munich 0 0(0)
2002-2005 Liverpool FC 0 0(0)
2002-2003 →  Le Havre AC  (loan) 25 0(0)
2003-2004 →  SC Bastia  (loan) 35 0(4)
2004-2006 RC Lens 66 0(4)
2006-2007 Olympique Lyon 15 0(1)
2007-2011 Girondins Bordeaux 133 (11)
2011–2012 Olympique Marseille 34 0(2)
2012-2014 West Ham United 6 0(0)
2013 →  Stade Rennes  (loan) 12 0(0)
2015-2016 Charlton Athletic 44 0(1)
2016-2017 AS Nancy 18 0(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2004–2012 France 44 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2019– RC Lens B (assistant coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Alou Diarra (born July 15, 1981 in Villepinte , Département Seine-Saint-Denis ) is a former French football player who was most recently under contract with the French first division club AS Nancy . Since August 2018 he has been working as an assistant trainer in the junior division of the RC Lens .

Career

societies

After the 1999/2000 season with the French second division club CS Louhans-Cuiseaux , Diarra moved to Germany for Bayern Munich . For the amateur team he played 28 times in his first season in the Regionalliga Süd and scored four goals. In the 2: 4 defeat on July 30, 2000 (1st matchday) in the home game against VfR Mannheim , he was substituted in for Andrew Sinkala in the 46th minute and scored in the 73rd minute with the goal to make it 1: 2 his first goal.

Appointed to the professional squad for the 2001/02 season , only played three friendly matches, but not a competitive match, he played 13 point games for the second team, for which he only played on April 7, 2002 (28th matchday) at 9-0 Victory in the home game against Borussia Fulda scored a goal.

In 2002 he left Bayern and signed a contract with Liverpool . With his skills, however, he could not convince his compatriot and coach Gérard Houllier and as a result did not come to a competitive game for the Reds . On loan, he was given match practice at Le Havre AC , SC Bastia and RC Lens; from the second season for RC Lens, in the 2005/06 season , Diarra was a contract and regular player.

For the 2006/07 season there was a reunion with Houllier: Diarra switched to reigning French champions Olympique Lyon for around seven million euros and contributed to the OL championship with one goal in 15 appearances . Most recently, Diarra fell out with Houllier, who, however, resigned at the end of the season. Thereupon Werder Bremen showed interest in a commitment Diarra; the change did not materialize, however, since Diarra moved to league rivals Girondins Bordeaux in July 2007 for 7.7 million euros . In 2008 he was second in the championship and won it with the team in 2009 .

In the 2011/12 season he played for the first division and second last season Olympique Marseille . With him he won the first title of the season on July 27, 2011 in Tangier, Morocco . In the game for the Supercup , his team beat Lille OSC spectacularly 5: 4 in regular time.

For the 2012/13 season he moved to the Premier League for West Ham United . He signed a contract with the "Hammers" until June 30, 2015. He made his debut on August 25, 2012 (2nd matchday) in the 3-0 defeat in the away game against Swansea City with a substitution for Momo Diamé in the 70th minute.

On loan, he returned to France until the end of the season and played twelve top division games for Stade Rennes from February 2 to May 18, 2013 . After the loan period expired, he played his first league game on August 17, 2013 (1st matchday) in a 2-0 home win against Cardiff City . After the end of the 2013/14 season , Diarra was initially without a club. In February 2015 he moved to the English second division club Charlton Athletic and played 44 point games by the end of the 2015/16 season . The 2016/17 season he played for the French first division club AS Nancy and was used in 18 point games, scoring two goals. He has been without a club since the end of the season.

National team

On October 9, 2004 Diarra completed his first international match for the senior team , which parted from the national team of Ireland goalless in Paris . Diarra came on as a substitute for Olivier Dacourt in the 63rd minute of this international match.

His height and assertiveness make him a similar type of player to Patrick Vieira . For this he was substituted on in his two appearances at the 2006 World Cup - in the preliminary round match against Togo and in the 56th minute of the final against Italy .

Trainer

In August 2018, Diarra started his career as a trainer at RC Lens. Until June 2019 he worked as an assistant trainer for the U-19s and since July 2019 as an assistant to the B team.

successes

National team

society

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release ( memento of August 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the West Ham United homepage
  2. ↑ Press release from West Ham United ( Memento of February 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Diarra, Alou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Villepinte