Lucas Digne

Lucas Digne with the U-19 France (2012 )

Lucas Digne ( born July 20, 1993 Meaux ) is a French football player. The left-back has been playing Summer 2013 for Paris Saint- Germain.

Club career

Lille

Dignes first station in the professional association football was the OSC Lille, which he joined as a teenager in 2005 and in the second team, he played for the first time in 2010. He ran for the second team of the club for the first time on 4 September 2010. During the season 2010/11 he was a member of the squad still only the fourth-rate secondary use of Lille, and completed for this 29 league games.

2011/12 he was also in the squad of Erstligakaders the reigning French champions. On 6 August 2011, he sat for the first time on the bench. At the beginning of the season, he gained still mainly in the second team game practice, but in the second half, the young defender played in the starting lineup and had played 16 league games at the end of the year. His professional debut came on 28 January 2012, when he was a substitute just before the game ends for Eden Hazard.

In the 2012/13 season so he went as a regular player and was his role. Of the possible 38 league games, scoring 33 Digne made ​​his first two goals in Ligue 1 in the Champions League he was used five times, he also denied in August 2012 the two qualifying matches against FC Copenhagen. The Trophée UNFP du football, he was nominated as one of the four " highest hopes of the Ligue 1".

Paris

On July 17, 2013 was with Paris Saint-Germain, the reigning French champions the obligation Dignes known. In Paris, he signed a five -year contract. According to media reports, the transfer fee was around 15 million euros. With his new club, he fights with the Brazilian Maxwell for a possible place in the root formation.

His competitive debut for the club he gave on September 13, 2013 in a game against the Ligue 1 Girondins Bordeaux.

National

Digne also passed through various youth national teams of France. Already at U-16 level, he played for his country. From then on he played for so far all youth teams.

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

Since qualifying for the European Championship in 2015, he is also in the squad of the U-21 national team.

On March 5, 2014 Lucas Digne made ​​his debut in the national team of France against the Netherlands.

Statistics

As of December 27, 2013

Achievements

  • U- 20 World Cup: 2013
  • French Supercup winner: 2013
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