Jimmy Briand

Jimmy Briand in 2008

Jimmy Briand ( born August 2, 1985 in Vitry -sur -Seine ) is a French football player. Since mid-June 2010, the striker is the pro squad of the French division club Olympique Lyon.

Career

Association

Briand comes from the youth department of Stade Rennes. On 20 May 2003, he made ​​his debut in Ligue 1 when he came off the bench in the match against Paris SG in the 67th minute for Alexander Frei. In the season 2002/ 03 he won with the youth team of the Coupe Gambardella Rennes. Since the 2003/ 04 season, the attacker belongs definitively to the first team of Stade Rennes. The breakthrough Briand but only for season 2005/06. He came to 29 league games, scoring three goals. The team eventually finished in seventh place. In the following years, Briand injured several times, which threw him back again and again. Due to a serious injury, the striker missed the end of the 2008/09 season and the beginning of the following season. His contract at Rennes ran until 2010. Having not extended, Briand joined to a switch to Premier League rivals Olympique Lyon and there wrote a contract with a term of four years.

National

Briand has already played in the French Under-21 national team. In May 2007, he was appointed the first time in the French A- squad for the games, but only came in October 2008 against Romania to his three-minute debut. In May 2010, Briand was called by coach Raymond Domenech in the preliminary squad for the World Cup 2010. Shortly thereafter, on May 17, but Domenech dropped the striker back from his squad.