Djimi Traoré
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| Djimi Traoré | ||
| Image:Traore.jpg | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Djimi Traoré | |
| Date of birth | March 1, 1980 (age 27) | |
| Place of birth | Laval, France | |
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | |
| Nickname | Bambi | |
| Playing position | Centre Back, Left Full Back | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Portsmouth | |
| Number | 6 | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1997-1999 1999-2006 2001-2002 2006-2007 2007- |
Laval Liverpool → Lens (loan) Charlton Athletic Portsmouth |
5 (0) 88 (0) 19 (0) 11 (0) 5 (0) |
| National team2 | ||
| 2004-2005 | Mali | 5 (1) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Djimi Traoré (born March 1, 1980 in Laval) is a French-born Malian football player, who can play as a left back or as a centre back. He currently plays for Portsmouth.
Traoré started his career at home club Laval before moving on to Liverpool, with Gérard Houllier paying £500,000 for him in February 1999. His career at Liverpool has had some ups and downs — he played for most of the 2002–03 season, deputising for the injured Stéphane Henchoz, having been on loan with French club Lens the previous season.
He spent the 2003-04 season, Houllier's last at the club, in the reserve team, of which he was captain, and almost left Liverpool for their Merseyside neighbours Everton on the 2004 transfer deadline day but remained at Anfield, where he was mostly employed at left back.
Traoré was a player whose career appeared to have been revitalised by Rafael Benítez. While the defender had been continually exposed for being poor positionally, and seemed reticent to attack, particularly during the 2004-05 season, he showed more willingness to support the left winger, as well as improving his positional play.
Nonetheless, his mistakes opened him up to a large amount of criticism. Memorably, Traoré's bizarre own-goal handed Championship side Burnley a 1-0 victory over Premiership giants Liverpool in the third round of the 2004–05 FA Cup, and also forced viewers to wonder whether his attempt to perform a combination of a Zinedine Zidane drag-back and a Cruijff turn on the edge of his own six-yard box characterised a certain Premiership haughtiness towards humble opposition. [1]
Traoré was poor in the first half of the 2005 Champions League Final against AC Milan but he improved substantially in the second half, and his greatest moment was clearing a shot from Andriy Shevchenko off the goal-line. Traoré became the first Malian to win a UEFA Champions League winners medal.
In the 2005-06 season, Traoré found his first team appearances limited, with John Arne Riise and Stephen Warnock also starting regularly at left back. It was to be his last season with Liverpool, and, although he had played some part in Liverpool's pre-season in 2006, he was sold for £2 million to Charlton Athletic on 8 August 2006.[1]
Traore was sent off on his Addicks debut on August 19, 2006, after receiving two yellow cards, the latter of which was for hauling down West Ham's Marlon Harewood. After only half a season at the Valley, Traoré was allowed to leave the club by new manager Alan Pardew, joining Harry Redknapp's Portsmouth for a fee believed to be in the region of £1m[2].
On January 13 2007, he played his first Premier League game with Portsmouth against Sheffield United [2]
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[edit] Statistics
| Club | Season | Premiership | FA Cup | League Cup | Europe | Others | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | ||
| Portsmouth | 2006-07 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Charlton Athletic | 2006-07 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| Liverpool | 2005-06 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 0 |
| 2004-05 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 0 | |
| 2003-04 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | |
| 2002-03 | 32 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 49 | 0 | |
| Club | Season | Ligue 1 | French Cup | Ligue Cup | Europe | Others | Total | ||||||
| App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | ||
| Lens Loan | 2001-02 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 |
| Club | Season | Premiership | FA Cup | League Cup | Europe | Others | Total | ||||||
| App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | ||
| Liverpool | 2001-02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000-01 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | |
| 1999-00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 1998-99 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Club | Season | Ligue 2 | French Cup | Ligue Cup | Europe | Others | Total | ||||||
| App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | ||
| Laval | 1998-99 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1997-98 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 125 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 32 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 181 | 1 | |
[edit] Career Honours
[edit] 
Liverpool
Winner
- 2001–02 Charity Shield
- 2002–03 League Cup
- 2004–05 UEFA Champions League
- 2005–06 FA Cup
Runner Up
- 2002–03 Charity Shield
- 2004–05 League Cup
- 2005 FIFA World Club Championship
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Lens
Runner Up
- 2001–02 French Ligue 1
[edit] References
- ^ Charlton snap up Faye and Traore BBC News
- ^ Tactical Formation. Football-Lineups.com. Retrieved on January 20, 2007.
[edit] External links
- Djimi Traoré career stats at Soccerbase
- djimitraore.co.uk - Fansite
- Profile at liverpoolfc.tv
- Profile at BBCSport
- Djimi Traoré on Sitercl.Com
| Portsmouth F.C. - Current Squad |
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1 James | 2 Primus | 3 Stefanović | 4 Johnson | 5 O'Brien | 6 Traoré | 9 Todorov | 10 Lauren | 11 Pamarot | 14 Taylor | 15 Ashdown | 19 Kranjčar | 21 Songo'o | 22 Hughes | 23 Campbell | 25 Benjani | 26 O'Neil | 27 Kanu | 28 Davis | 29 Douala | 30 Pedro Mendes | 32 LuaLua | 34 Mvuemba | 35 Jordan | Manager: Redknapp |
