Sinaly Diomandé (born 9 April 2001) is an Ivorian professional

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who plays as a center-back or

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for

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side

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and the Ivory Coast national team.

Club career

Diomandé came out of the

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academy in

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, before joining the Guidars FC, in

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. He moved to

Olympique Lyonnais Olympique Lyonnais (), commonly referred to as simply Lyon () or OL, is a French professional association football, football club based in Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. With origins dating back to 1899, they were founded in 1950 and p ...

in September 2019 for a fee of €550,000, with bonuses rising up to €2 million. After a year of playing in Lyon's reserve team, where he became one of the players most used by Gueïda Fofana, and an impressive summer preparation, Diomande made his professional debut for

on 18 September 2020, helping his team keep a clean sheet against

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in this

encounter. On 30 August 2024, Diomandé was transferred to

, signing a three-year contract.

International career

Diomandé debuted with the Ivory Coast national team in a 1–1 friendly draw with

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on 8 October 2020.

Career statistics

Club

International

References

External links

Profile
at the Olympique Lyonnais website *
JMG FOotball Profile
2001 births Living people People from Lacs District Ivorian men's footballers Ivory Coast men's international footballers Men's association football defenders Olympique Lyonnais players AJ Auxerre players Ligue 1 players Championnat National 2 players Ivorian expatriate men's footballers Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate men's footballers in France 21st-century Ivorian sportsmen {{IvoryCoast-footy-bio-stub