Birahim "Biranna" Diop (born 26 January 1982) is a former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who played as a

centre-back In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either s ...

. Born in Senegal, he played for the Equatorial Guinea national team.

Honours

Club

Renacimiento FC Renacimiento Fútbol Club is an Equatoguinean football club based in the city of Malabo. From 2004 to 2007, the club won 4 national titles. It was disestablished between 2009 and 2011, but returns for the 2012 season in Second Division. Honours ...

** Equatoguinean Premier League:

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International

Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea ( es, Guinea Ecuatorial; french: Guinée équatoriale; pt, Guiné Equatorial), officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea ( es, link=no, República de Guinea Ecuatorial, french: link=no, République de Guinée équatoria ...

CEMAC Cup The CEMAC Cup was a non-commercialised football tournament that included only local league players from the Republic of Congo, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Gabon and the Central African Republic. As the local leagues in these six countri ...

National team

Diop was playing in a Senegalese club until that he has been sold to an Equatoguinean club (

). There the coach of the Equatoguinean national team (that in this moment was the Brazilian

Antônio Dumas Antônio Dumas Ramalho Esteves (28 November 1955 – 30 December 2019) was a Brazilian football player and manager. Playing career He played for Esporte Clube Bahia, Desportiva Leônico, Santos, S.C. Olhanense and G.D. Chaves. Coaching car ...

) 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

Diop played also a friendly match against the Brazilian side Cruzeiro and other against the team of

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( 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.

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* 1982 births Living people Footballers from Dakar Equatoguinean men's footballers Equatorial Guinea men's international footballers Senegalese men's footballers Naturalized citizens of Equatorial Guinea Senegalese emigrants to Equatorial Guinea Renacimiento FC players Equatoguinean expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Men's association football defenders 21st-century Senegalese people {{EquatorialGuinea-footy-bio-stub