Biranna Diop

Biranna Diop

Personal information
Full name	Birahim Diop
Date of birth	(1982-01-26) 26 January 1982
Place of birth	Dakar, Senegal
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s)	Central defender
Team information
Current team	Peñarroya
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
200?–2007	Renacimiento FC	–	(–)
2007–2011	Peñarroya	–	(–)
2011	Campillo	–	(–)
2012–	Peñarroya
International career‡
2006–2008	Equatorial Guinea	20	(5)
2005–2009	Equatorial Guinea B
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 5 May 2009 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 5 May 2009

Birahim Diop (born 26 January 1982) is a naturalized Equatoguinean football defender, who plays for Peñarroya in the Spanish Primera Andaluza (Group 2).

Honours

Club

• Renacimiento FC
  • Equatoguinean Premier League: 2006, 2007

International

• Equatorial Guinea
  • CEMAC Cup: 2006

National team

Diop was playing in a Senegalese club until that he has been sold to an Equatoguinean club (Renacimiento FC). There the coach of the Equatoguinean national team (that in this moment was the Brazilian Antônio Dumas) proposed him to play him with his selection. This way, he has adopted the Equatoguinean nationality, and he already takes 20 matches with the national team. [4].

Diop played also a friendly match against the Brazilian side Cruzeiro and other against the team of Pará de Minas (Minas Gerais, Brasil) in the Estádio Ovídio de Abreu on 5 December 2005. He was part of the Equatoguinean team in the Mundialito de la Inmigración y la Solidaridad 2009 in Madrid, Spain.

External links

• Birahim Diop – FIFA competition record (archived)