Stéphane Carnot (born 10 July 1972) is a former French
footballer
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who played as a
midfielder
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.
Carnot played in
Jean Tigana
Amadou Jean Tigana (born 23 June 1955) is a French former football player and manager. A central midfielder, he was renowned as one of the best midfielders in the world during the 1980s. He spent his entire playing career in France, and made 5 ...
's Monaco side which defeated
Manchester United
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knocking them out of the
Champions League in 1998 on away goals after a 1–1 draw at
Old Trafford
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. Whilst at Guingamp he won the
1996 UEFA Intertoto Cup
The 1996 UEFA Intertoto Cup finals were won by Silkeborg, Guingamp, and Karlsruhe. All three teams advanced to the UEFA Cup. No English team took part in support of Tottenham Hotspur and Wimbledon initially getting banned by UEFA from European co ...
, scoring the decisive goal in the second leg of the final against
FC Rotor Volgograd
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.
Personal life
Carnot is the father of the footballer
Louis Carnot.
Honours
*
UEFA Intertoto Cup
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:
1996
1996 was designated as:
* International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
Events January
* January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
*
Trophée des Champions
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:
1997
Events January
* January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States.
* January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis.
* January 1 ...
References
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1972 births
Living people
Footballers from Quimper
Men's association football midfielders
French men's footballers
En Avant Guingamp players
AS Monaco FC players
AJ Auxerre players
Entente SSG players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
20th-century French sportsmen
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