Alou Diarra

He is a French football player. He plays as a midfielder.

Alou Diarra (born July 15, 1981 in Villepinte) is a French footballer of Malian descent. He is a midfielder who currently plays for FC Girondins de Bordeaux.
Diarra started out at CS Louhans-Cuiseaux, before moving to Bayern Munich in 2000. He did not play any matches for Bayern's first team, and spent a period on loan to SC Freiburg. In 2002 he was signed by Gérard Houllier's Liverpool, but never played a competitive match for the Reds either; instead, he had loan spells at Le Havre AC and SC Bastia.
He spent the whole of the 2004-05 season at RC Lens, before making the move permanent in the close season. At Lens, he has become a first-team regular, and made his début for France; as of 18 June 2006, he has ten caps for his country. This included coming on as a second half substitute for Patrick Vieira in the 2006 World Cup Final against Italy, which France went on to lose on penalties 5-3. Following the World Cup, he was involved in rumours of a transfer to Italian side, A.S. Roma during the 2006 Summer Transfer window. However he finally went to Lyon to replace the departed Mahamadou Diarra who was sold to Real Madrid for £17,700,000.
After an embarrassing year playing for Lyon, Diarra was linked with a move to either English Premiership sides Manchester City, Portsmouth, Newcastle United and German outfit Werder Bremen. On July 19, 2007, Olympique Lyonnais agreed to transfer Diarra to Bordeaux at a fee of €7.75m. Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas said: "We have come to an agreement with Bordeaux and he will join them on Friday." Diarra is likely to replace the departed Rio Antonio Mavuba.
Diarra made his debut for Bordeaux in their first Ligue 1 match of the season against his former club Lens. He played the full 90 minutes in the victory picking up a yellow card in the process. He went on to score his first goal for Bordeaux against Lorient in the third game of the season. Diarra scored his first goal for Bordeaux on August 29, 2007 against FC Metz. It was the only goal of the match.

Bordeaux
15 July 1981
Source: Wikipedia