Bernard Diomède

Bernard Diomède

Diomède in 2012
Personal information
Full name	Bernard Nicolas Thierry Diomède[1]
Date of birth	(1974-01-23) 23 January 1974 (age 50)[2]
Place of birth	Saint-Doulchard, France
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[3]
Position(s)	Winger[4]
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1992–2000	Auxerre	176	(30)
2000–2003	Liverpool	2	(0)
2003	→ Ajaccio (loan)	15	(2)
2003–2004	Ajaccio	32	(7)
2005	Créteil	12	(4)
2006	Clermont Foot	11	(1)
Total		248	(44)
International career
1998	France	8	(0)
Managerial career
2015–2016	France U17
2016–2017	France U18
2017–2018	France U19
2018–2020	France U20
Medal record Men's football Representing  France UEFA European Under-19 Championship Runner-up 2024 Northern Ireland
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bernard Nicolas Thierry Diomède (born 23 January 1974) is a French football manager and former professional player. He was most recently the manager of the France U20s. He played as a winger and won the World Cup with France in 1998.

Diomède was born in Saint-Doulchard, Cher,^[5] to parents of Guadeloupean descent.^[6]

Diomède's career began with AJ Auxerre. After playing at youth level for the club, he made his Division 1 debut in 1992. He played in the first team during eight years, under Guy Roux Auxerre won the Division 1 and Coupe de France double in 1996. The winger scored 30 goals in 175 Ligue 1 matches for Auxerre.^[7]

In June 2000, Diomède was signed for £3m by then Liverpool F.C. manager Gérard Houllier.^[8] Making his debut against Sunderland, Diomède appeared to have scored with an overhead kick, but the goal was not given even though replays showed that the ball had crossed the line.^[9] However, he did not settle in England, and only played five matches for Liverpool. In January 2003, he was loaned out to AC Ajaccio, newly promoted in France's Ligue 1, until the end of his contract.^[10] After his spell at Liverpool had come to an end, he joined the Ligue 2 team Créteil, and then Clermont Foot in the Championnat National (3rd division).^{[citation needed]}

Diomède was capped eight times for the France national team, but never scored. He received his first cap in a friendly against Spain on 28 January 1998. At the 1998 World Cup he started in three matches, against Saudi Arabia and Denmark in the group stage and against Paraguay in the round of 16. He was unable to regain his place in the France national team after the 1998 World Cup.^[11]

On 18 January 2008, Diomède announced his retirement from the game after being without a club for 18 months.^[12]

He now runs the Bernard Diomede Football Academy at the Saint Nicolas high school in Issy-les-Moulineaux, just south of Paris.^[13]

Auxerre

• Division 1: 1995–96^{[citation needed]}
• Coupe de France: 1995–96^{[citation needed]}

France

• FIFA World Cup: 1998^[14]

Orders

• Knight of the Legion of Honour: 1998^[15]
• Officer of the National Order of Merit: 2013^[16]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bernard Diomède.

• Bernard Diomède at the French Football Federation (in French)
• Bernard Diomède at the French Football Federation (archived) (in French)
• LFC History Profile
• FIFA Profile
• Bernard Diomède at National-Football-Teams.com