Lucas Digne

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Lucas Digne
Lucas Digne (cropped) .jpg
Lucas Digne (2012)
Personnel
birthday July 20, 1993
place of birth MeauxFrance
size 178 cm
position Left full-back
Juniors
Years station
1999-2002 Mareuil-sur-Ourcq
2002-2005 Crépy-en-Valois
2005-2010 Lille OSC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2010-2011 Lille OSC II 36 (1)
2011-2013 Lille OSC 49 (2)
2013-2015 Paris Saint-Germain 30 (0)
2015-2016 →  AS Roma  (loan) 33 (3)
2016-2018 FC Barcelona 29 (0)
2018– Everton FC 61 (4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2008-2009 France U16 15 (0)
2009-2010 France U17 15 (0)
2010-2011 France U18 11 (0)
2011–2012 France U19 12 (1)
2013 France U20 12 (2)
2013– France U21 7 (0)
2014– France 20 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 14, 2020

2 As of November 14, 2017

Lucas Digne (born July 20, 1993 in Meaux ) is a French football player . The left full-back plays for Everton FC .

Club career

Digne with Paris Saint-Germain (2013)

Lille OSC

Dignes first station in professional club football was the OSC Lille , which he joined in 2005 as a youth and in whose second team he played for the first time in 2010. He first ran for the club's second team on September 4, 2010. During the 2010/11 season he belonged exclusively to the squad of the fourth-class secondary exploitation Lilles and completed 29 league games for this.

In 2011/12 he was also part of the first division squad of the reigning French champions. He sat on the bench for the first time on August 6, 2011. At the beginning of the season he mainly gained match practice with the second team, but in the second half of the season the young defender played in the starting line-up and at the end of the year had played 16 league games. He made his professional debut on January 28, 2012 when he came on for Eden Hazard shortly before the end of the game .

In the 2012/13 season he went as a regular player and lived up to his role. Of the possible 38 league games, Digne made 33 and scored his first two goals in Ligue 1. He was used five times in the Champions League , and in August 2012 he played two qualifying games against FC Copenhagen . At the Trophées UNFP du football he was nominated as one of the four "greatest hopes of Ligue 1".

Paris Saint-Germain

On July 17, 2013, the reigning French champions Paris Saint-Germain announced the commitment of Dignes. In Paris he signed a five-year contract. According to media reports, the transfer fee was around 15 million euros. At his new club he is fighting with the Brazilian Maxwell for a possible place in the regular formation.

He made his competitive debut for the club on September 13, 2013 in a Ligue 1 game against Girondins Bordeaux . He played 20 competitive games over the entire season. At the end of the season he was able to celebrate winning his first French championship.

AS Roma

On August 26, 2015, Digne moved to the Italian Serie A at AS Roma on loan until the end of the 2015/16 season .

FC Barcelona

For the 2016/17 season , Digne did not return to Paris, but switched to the Spanish Primera División for FC Barcelona for a transfer fee of 16 million euros, which was increased by four million euros through bonus payments . He received a five-year contract until June 30, 2021 with an exit clause of EUR 60 million. In two seasons, however, Digne could not prevail against Jordi Alba and came to 29 league games. With FC Barcelona he was Spanish champion in the 2017/18 season as well as two cup winners and one Supercup winner .

Everton FC

For the 2018/19 season, Digne moved to the English Premier League for Everton for a transfer fee of 20.2 million euros, which can be increased by 1.5 million euros through bonus payments . He signed a contract with the Liverpool club that runs until June 30, 2023.

National team

Digne also went through various youth national teams in France. He was already playing for his country at the U-16 level. From then on he played for all junior selections so far.

At the U-19 European Championship in 2012 , he failed with France in the semifinals on eventual winners Spain. In July 2013, however, he was able to celebrate his greatest success to date with the national team when he won the 2013 Junior World Cup with a 4-1 final win against Uruguay .

Since qualifying for the European Championship in 2015 , he has also been part of the U-21 national team.

On March 5, 2014, Lucas Digne made his debut for the French national team in a friendly against the Netherlands. In the same year he was nominated by national coach Didier Deschamps in the squad for the World Cup in Brazil . Until he was eliminated in the quarterfinals, he was used once: in the insignificant last group game against Ecuador, he played 90 minutes.

As France hosted the European Football Championship in 2016 , only friendly matches were played in the following two years, in which the left-back was used in every second game. Then he was included in the EM squad in France . In the tournament he was one of three field players in the squad who were not used.

successes

Web links

Commons : Lucas Digne  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. Emmanuel Magdelaine: LOSC: Digne nommé parmi les 4 meilleurs espoirs de Ligue 1 aux trophées UNFP. france3.fr , May 9, 2013, accessed August 12, 2013 (French).
  2. PSG sign U-20 world champion Digne. (No longer available online.) Transfermarkt.de, July 18, 2013, archived from the original on February 6, 2016 ; Retrieved August 12, 2013 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.transfermarkt.de
  3. Paris Saint-Germain: Lucas Digne loaned to AS Roma until June 2016 , August 26, 2015, accessed on August 27, 2015.
  4. FC Barcelona: Lucas Digne becomes FC Barcelona's latest signing , July 13, 2016, accessed on July 13, 2016.
  5. Agreement with Everton FC for the transfer of Lucas Digne , fcbarcelona.com, August 1, 2018, accessed August 1, 2018.
  6. Blues Sign Digne From Barcelona ( Memento of the original from August 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , evertonfc.com, August 1, 2018, accessed August 1, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.evertonfc.com