Who is djibril cisse

When you saw Cisse through on goal, you expected him to convert the chance, and to do so before the goalkeeper even had time to accept the inevitable. The ball would always stick. The shot would always end up exactly where he wanted. The result would always be the same. During a game against Paris Saint-Germain in the season, for example, Cisse drifted — seemingly aimlessly, as Teemu Tainio meandered down the left and set up an attack.

It took several more phases for the ball to reach him, by which time there were more than 10 other players in the PSG box. He had been targeted by Gerard Houllier and still made the move after the French coach was replaced by Rafa Benitez.

That broken leg, suffered in a freak incident against Blackburn, left a big gap in the middle of his first season — albeit one made less terminal by a goal in that penalty shootout in Istanbul after arriving as a late substitute. Then, seeing his second season as a chance to make up for lost time, he began the campaign on fire with four goals in five Champions League qualifiers.

The goal showed his smart movement and ability to drift away from defenders the instant they looked away. On reflection I don't know how we managed it, but we did and this sort of fairy story could only happen at a club with such a glorious European pedigree as Liverpool. Houllier was a firm admirer and signalled his intentions to his old friend Guy Roux, Auxerre's manager. With his pace, he would be one of the most destructive strikers in the English game.

In the summer of Roux persuaded him to stay for one more season. He was top-scorer by a good margin of six from Alexander Frei at Rennes and seven from Marseille's star striker Didier Drogba. He was out of action for six months returning in the second leg of the quarter-finals of the Champions League against Juventus.

He was a substitute in nine of the ten games he featured in the rest of the season including the Istanbul final where he played 35 minutes and scored Liverpool's second penalty in the shoot-out. He didn't command a regular place in the team but two starts inspired winning goals in two consecutive games in the middle of October against Blackburn and Anderlecht. Now at a big club like Liverpool, he needs to learn that he has to work for his teammates, who are also very good players.

He has to understand the difference between a club that plays to win games and a club that plays to win trophies. He scored seven goals in his last ten games including the opening goal in the FA Cup final win over West Ham. He missed the World Cup but a loan deal was agreed that took him to Marseille in July In August he signed a one-year loan deal with Sunderland where he played 38 games and scored 11 goals. He struggled for goals in the second half of the season so the Black Cats didn't take up the option to sign him.

His club also won the Greek cup to complete a domestic double. He added another twenty goals in his second full season in Greece and his efficiency secured him a four-year contract with Italian Serie A club Lazio in July He had only scored five goals in 27 matches when he returned to England a few months later and signed for Queens Park Rangers.

He scored on his debut at Aston Villa but was sent off in the next match against Wolves. He then scored against Liverpool before being again dismissed, at Sunderland. On the final day of the season, he scored at Manchester City and although Rangers lost they retained their place in the Premier League because Bolton could only draw at Stoke City.

By the end of his first half-season with the Corsican club he had netted twice in eleven matches and those two goals took his career club total close to the two hundred and fifty mark. In the summer of , Cisse left Bastia and joined Saint Pierroise, who play in the French Indian Ocean territory of La Reunion in the sixth tier of French football, but played just once and announced his retirement from the game in October that year.

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