Gérald Cid (born 17 February 1983) is a French former professional

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who played primarily as a

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. He played Ligue 1 football for

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefect ...

and

Nice Nice ( , ; Niçard dialect, Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department in France. The Nice urban unit, agg ...

, spent a season on loan at Ligue 2 club

Istres Istres (; Occitan: Istre) is a commune in southern France, some 60 km (38 mi) northwest of Marseille. It is in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, of which it is a subprefecture. Location ...

, and played briefly for English

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club Bolton Wanderers. He represented both Bordeaux and Bolton in

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Career

Cid was born in

Talence Talence (, ; oc, Talança, ; ca, Talença, ) is a commune in the Gironde department, administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. It is the third-largest suburb of the city of Bordeaux, and is adjacent to it on the south side. It is ...

, Gironde. He joined

club Bolton Wanderers from

in July 2007, having spent 8 years with the French club. He left the club in mid-January 2008 by mutual consent and returned to France, joining Ligue 1 side

, on a three-and-a-half-year deal. On 16 July 2010, Cid announced his retirement on the OGC Nice website.

Career statistics

References

External links

Bolton Wanderers Profile
at ''Burnden Aces'' website * * 1983 births Living people People from Talence Sportspeople from Gironde French footballers Association football defenders FC Girondins de Bordeaux players FC Istres players Bolton Wanderers F.C. players OGC Nice players Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players Premier League players Expatriate footballers in England French expatriate footballers French expatriate sportspeople in England Footballers from Nouvelle-Aquitaine {{France-footy-defender-1980s-stub