Didier Danio

Didier Danio
Personnel
birthday	May 10, 1962
place of birth	Toulon ,  France
size	180 cm
position	Midfield , left winger
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1979-1981	INF Vichy	34 (15)
1981-1986	AJ Auxerre	128 (18)
1986-1987	Rennes stadium	31 0(2)
1987-1990	Stade Reims	87 (14)
1990-1993	AS Nancy	89 0(1)
1993-1995	FC Lorient	62 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Didier Danio (born May 10, 1962 in Toulon ) is a former French football player .

Career

Danio began playing football in his youth at a club from Solliès-Pont in his home region in the south of France. At the age of 17 he was accepted into the training center INF Vichy and played for its selection in the third division. He was in a team with numerous future professionals and was able to win the Coupe Gambardella with them in 1980 . In the following season he scored twelve goals in 25 games and was discovered by Guy Roux , the coach of AJ Auxerre . Although Roux had warned Danio that he would have to expect to play mainly for the reserve eleven, the player was regularly used in the first division team and came to 23 games in his first season, in which he also scored the first four goals of his career. Although he was able to consolidate this role in the course of his second professional year, was then largely ousted by a trio of Patrice Garande , Andrzej Szarmach and Gérard Lanthier . He often ran for the second team and became third division champions with them in 1984. Because Auxerre qualified for the UEFA Cup in the same year , Danio was able to debut in international competition shortly afterwards. Because Lanthier moved to Paris Saint-Germain , he got his regular seat back at the beginning of the 1984/85 season, played in all 38 games during the season and qualified for the UEFA Cup for the second time in a row with his team.

After five years at Auxerre, Danio turned his back on the club in 1986 and signed with Stade Rennes , where he was one of a number of new signings together with German international Uwe Reinders . Nevertheless, he was given a regular place and was therefore part of a team that had to go to the second division as bottom of the table with just five wins in 38 games at the end of the season. For Danio, the season 1987/88 was his first year in the second highest division, which he did not complete for Rennes, but for Stade Reims . Even if he contributed nine goals in 27 missions and experienced the season with the highest scoring as a professional, he failed with the team on the aspired promotion. The two following seasons did not bring the hoped-for success either.

Despite everything, Danio returned to the first division when he moved to newly promoted AS Nancy in 1990 . Under coach Aimé Jacquet , he was part of a team that successfully fought relegation for a year, but was relegated to the second division in the 1991/92 season. In 1993 he just missed the rebound with Nancy and ended his career as a professional at the age of 31 after 215 first division games and 21 goals as well as 120 second division games and 14 goals. He ran two more for the third division club FC Lorient , with whom he made the leap to the second division in 1995. At the same time he was third division champion for the second time. Danio decided against a promotion-related return to professional football at the age of 33 and announced the end of his career.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Didier Danio ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , afterfooot.fr  
2. ↑ Football: Didier Danio , footballdatabase.eu
3. ↑ Didier Danio ( Memento from July 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), soccerdatabase.eu