Stéphane Carnot (born 10 July 1972) is a former French

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who played as a

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. Carnot played in

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's Monaco side which defeated

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knocking them out of the Champions League in 1998 on away goals after a 1–1 draw at

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. Whilst at Guingamp he won the

1996 UEFA Intertoto Cup The 1996 UEFA Intertoto Cup finals were won by Silkeborg, En Avant Guingamp, and Karlsruher SC. 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 ...

, scoring the decisive goal in the second leg of the final against

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Personal life

Carnot is the father of the footballer

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Honours

UEFA Intertoto Cup The UEFA Intertoto Cup (from la, Inter, 'between' + german: toto, 'betting pool'),Most precisely, from (football pool); cf. often abbreviated and more known in the German-speaking world as UI Cup and originally called the International Foot ...

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

Trophée des Champions The Trophée des Champions (, ) is a French association football trophy contested in an annual match between the champions of Ligue 1 and the winners of the Coupe de France. It is equivalent to the super cups found in many other countries. His ...

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

References

* * 1972 births Living people Sportspeople from Quimper Association football midfielders French footballers En Avant Guingamp players AS Monaco FC players AJ Auxerre players Entente SSG players Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players Footballers from Brittany {{france-footy-midfielder-1970s-stub