Bernard Diomède
Bernard Diomède (2006)
Bernard Diomède ( born January 23, 1974 in Saint- Doulchard ) is a former French football player with AJ Auxerre won the French double during his playing career in 1996 with the French national team two years later at the Football World Cup 1998 winning the title managed with the Équipe Tricolore.
Career
Association
Bernard Diomède began his career in the youth of AJ Auxerre, for its professional team, he made his debut in Ligue 1 in 1992. In his first season, he completed seven games for the burgundy and was able to post any score. In the following season, it was hard for him to play in the team and received only two more missions. Already in his third season at Auxerre, he managed to impose itself as a regular player and played 26 games and marked three goals. In the following 1995/96 season, he established himself permanently as a winger at Auxerre. With 9 goals in 33 games he had a stake in the success of the Burgundians, who won in 1996 for the first time the French championship and the Coupe de France de football even brought the domestic double.
Diomède remained four more years at Auxerre, but could not build on these successes with the team. In the summer of 2000, he transferred for £ 3 million pounds in the English Premier League for Liverpool. In Liverpool never managed to prevail and obtain consistent performance, such as in Auxerre. In 2 ½ years, he ran to only two league appearances for the Reds and was awarded in January 2003 back to France for AC Ajaccio. The Corsicans he found thanks to the surviving match practice his form and played in the basic formation.
Ajaccio took Diomède after the loan period expires for one year fixed contract and the winger scored in 32 games scoring seven goals in Ligue 1 After that, he was the second division side U.S. Créteil under contract. After twelve games and four goals scored, he left the club and signed for Clermont Foot. In the third division Clermont he could not build on its previous achievements and received after the end of the season 2005/ 06, do not continue running with the contract. After he had not found a new club, he ended his active career.
National
Bernard Diomède debuted in 1998 for the French national football team. After he played five friendly matches and remained without a goal, he was mobilized in the French squad for the World Cup 1998. He was inducted into the two group matches on 18 June 1998 against Saudi Arabia and on 24 June 1998 against Denmark from the start as a winger. The knockout round game four days later against Paraguay, in which he was substituted after 77 minutes for Stéphane Guivarc'h, was also his last game for France. He still could be celebrated as World Champion on 12 July 1998, after the final Brazil was defeated.