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, 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

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Personal life

Carnot is the father of the footballer Louis Carnot.

Honours

UEFA Intertoto Cup The UEFA Intertoto Cup (from , "between" and , " betting pool"),Most precisely, from ( football pool); cf. originally called the International Football Cup, was a summer football competition between European clubs. The competition was dis ...

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 ...

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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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