Raoul Diagne

Raoul Diagne (born 10 November 1910 – 12 November 2002) was a French footballer who played defender, and who had stints as a coach after his playing career.

Raoul Diagne
Diagne pictured in November 1938
Personal information
Date of birth 10 November 1910
Place of birth Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni,
French Guiana, France
Date of death 12 November 2002(2002-11-12) (aged 92)
Place of death Créteil, France
Height 1.87 cm (1 in) [1]
Playing position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1930–1940 RC Paris
1940–1944 Toulouse
1944–1946 FC Annecy[2]
National team
1931–1940 France 18 (0)
Teams managed
1960–1961 Senegal
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Born in French Guiana, Diagne, son of politician Blaise Diagne, was the first black player to be selected for the France national football team.[3] He was of Senegalese descent and became the first coach of the Senegal national football team.[4]

Titles
As a player

Footnotes
  1. Auclair, Philippe (1 September 2011). "What Makes a Nation?". The Blizzard. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  2. Raoul Diagne Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Raoul Diagne est parti : Raoul Diagne est parti – Sénégal – Portrait – Afrique
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 June 2009. Retrieved 3 June 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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