Raoul Diagne

Raoul Diagne
Personal information
Date of birth	10 November 1910
Place of birth	Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni,; French Guiana, France
Date of death	12 November 2002 (aged 92)
Place of death	Créteil, France
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team
1930–1940	RC Paris
1940–1944	Toulouse
1944–1946	FC Annecy
International career
1931–1940	France
Managerial career
1960–1961	Senegal
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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.

Born in French Guiana, Diagne, son of politician Blaise Diagne, was the first black player to be selected for the France national football team.^[2] He was of Senegalese descent and became the first coach of the Senegal national football team.^[3]

Titles

As a player

French championship in 1936 with RC Paris
Coupe de France 1936, 1939, 1940 with RC Paris

Footnotes

^ Raoul Diagne Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
^ Raoul Diagne est parti : Raoul Diagne est parti – Sénégal – Portrait – Afrique
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 June 2009. Retrieved 3 June 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

References

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An article by Juliet Jacques on the Diagne family and the footballing relationship between France and Senegal [1]

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[1] Raoul Diagne Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine

[2] Raoul Diagne est parti : Raoul Diagne est parti – Sénégal – Portrait – Afrique

[3] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 June 2009. Retrieved 3 June 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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