Biranna Diop

Biranna Diop
Personal information
Full name	Birahim Diop
Date of birth	26 January 1982 (age 42)
Place of birth	Dakar, Senegal
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s)	Centre-back
Senior career*
Years	Team
2006–2007	Renacimiento FC
2007–2011	Peñarroya
2011	Campillo
2012–2013	Peñarroya
International career‡
2006	Equatorial Guinea
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 3 September 2006

Birahim "Biranna" Diop (born 26 January 1982) is a former footballer who played as a centre-back. Born in Senegal, he played for the Equatorial Guinea national team.

Honours

Club

Renacimiento FC
- Equatoguinean Premier League: 2006, 2007

International

Equatorial Guinea
- CEMAC Cup: 2006

National team

Diop was playing in a Senegalese club until that he has been sold to an Equatoguinean club (Renacimiento FC). There the coach of the Equatoguinean national team (that in this moment was the Brazilian Antônio Dumas) proposed him to play him with his selection. This way, he has adopted the Equatoguinean nationality, and he already takes 20 matches with the national team. [4].

Diop played also a friendly match against the Brazilian side Cruzeiro^[1] and other against the team of Pará de Minas (Minas Gerais, Brazil) in the Estádio Ovídio de Abreu on 5 December 2005.^[2] He was part of the Equatoguinean team in the Mundialito de la Inmigración y la Solidaridad 2009 in Madrid, Spain.^[3]

References

^ [1] (in Portuguese)
^ [2] (in Portuguese)
^ [3] (in Spanish)

External links

Birahim Diop – FIFA competition record (archived)

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[2] [2] (in Portuguese)

[3] [3] (in Spanish)

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