Jimmy Briand

Jimmy Briand
in the jersey of Stade Rennes (2008)
Personnel
birthday	2nd August 1985
place of birth	Vitry-sur-Seine ,  France
size	181 cm
position	Forward / midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1995-1998	US Ivry
1998-2000	CSF Brétigny
2000-2001	INF Clairefontaine
2001-2003	Rennes stadium
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2002-2010	Rennes Stadium B	57 (29)
2003-2010	Rennes stadium	169 (33)
2010-2014	Olympique Lyon	110 (22)
2014-2015	Hannover 96	29 0(3)
2015-2018	EA Guingamp	106 (30)
2018–	Girondins Bordeaux	7 0(2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
	France U-15	13 0(9)
	France U-16	16 0(4)
	France U-17	8 0(4)
	France U18	7 0(5)
2004-2006	France U-21	14 0(7)
	France U-23	23 0(9)
2008–2012	France	5 0(0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: October 15, 2018

Jimmy Briand (born August 2, 1985 in Vitry-sur-Seine ) is a French football player who has been under contract with the French first division club Girondins Bordeaux since the 2018/19 season .

Career

societies

Briand comes from the youth department of Stade Rennes . On May 20, 2003, he made his Ligue 1 debut when he came on for Alexander Frei in the 67th minute of the game against Paris Saint-Germain . In the 2002/03 season he won the Coupe Gambardella with the Rennes youth team . Since the 2003/04 season, the attacker has been part of the professional squad of Stade Rennes. Briand only made the breakthrough in the 2005/06 season. He came to 29 league games and scored three goals. The team ended up in seventh place. In the following years, Briand was injured several times, which repeatedly threw him back. Due to a serious injury, the striker missed the end of the 2008/09 season and the start of the following season. His contract with Rennes ran until 2010. After he had not renewed the contract, Briand went to league rivals Olympique Lyon and signed a contract with a term of four years, which expired on July 31, 2014.

On August 22, 2014, Briand moved to the Bundesliga for Hannover 96 . He received a contract until the end of the 2014/15 season . He scored his first Bundesliga goal on November 7, 2014 in the 44th minute of the game in a 2-0 away win at Hertha BSC . For the 2015/16 season , the French first division club EA Guingamp signed him .

National team

Briand already played in the French U-21 national team. In May 2007 he was appointed to the French A-squad for the first time for the games , but only made his three-minute debut against Romania in October 2008 . In May 2010 Briand was appointed by national coach Raymond Domenech in the preliminary squad for the 2010 World Cup . Shortly afterwards, on May 17th, he deleted the striker from his squad again.

Web links

• Jimmy Briand in the weltfussball.de database
• Player profile on the Ligue 1 homepage (French)
• Player profile on the homepage of L'Équipe (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jimmy Briand est lyonnais! ( Memento of June 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (French), accessed on September 11, 2010
2. ↑ Hannover 96 obliges Jimmy Briand ( memento of November 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 22, 2014