Sylvain Bied (26 February 1965 – 18 February 2011) was a French professional football player and manager. He played as a

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Playing career

Bied was a product of the

Paris Saint-Germain Paris Saint-Germain Football Club (), commonly referred to as Paris Saint-Germain, Paris, Paris SG or simply PSG is a professional football club based in Paris, France. They compete in Ligue 1, the top division of French football. As F ...

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. He was the third choice

of the first team during the 1984–85 season, while integrating the squad at the age of 19. On 26 March 1985, Bied played his first and only match for PSG, a 4–2 league loss to

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. He conceded the opening goal of the match in the first 84 seconds of play. Bied left PSG in the summer of 1985 to join

Valenciennes Valenciennes (, also , , ; nl, label=also Dutch, Valencijn; pcd, Valincyinnes or ; la, Valentianae) is a commune in the Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France. It lies on the Scheldt () river. Although the city and region experienced a ...

. He went on to play for

Amiens Amiens (English: or ; ; pcd, Anmien, or ) is a city and commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in the region of Hauts-de-France. In 2021, the population of ...

Melun Melun () is a Communes of France, commune in the Seine-et-Marne Departments of France, department in the Île-de-France Regions of France, region, north-central France. It is located on the southeastern outskirts of Paris, about from the kilome ...

Orléans Orléans (;"Orleans"
(US) and Dijon Dijon (, , ) (dated) * it, Digione * la, Diviō or * lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920. The earl ...

Angers Angers (, , ) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Anjou until the French Revolution. The inhabitants of both the city and the pr ...

, and Saint-Pryvé Saint-Hilaire before retiring in 1999.

Managerial career

Bied was

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for Saint-Pryvé Saint-Hilaire in the last two years of his playing career. He then spent nine years as the goalkeeping coach for

Laval Laval means ''The Valley'' in old French and is the name of: People * House of Laval, a French noble family originating from the town of Laval, Mayenne * Laval (surname) Places Belgium * Laval, a village in the municipality of Sainte-Ode, Luxemb ...

, FC Ailly-sur-Somme Samara, and

Beauvais Beauvais ( , ; pcd, Bieuvais) is a city and commune in northern France, and prefecture of the Oise département, in the Hauts-de-France region, north of Paris. The commune of Beauvais had a population of 56,020 , making it the most populo ...

. In 2008, Bied became the manager of CSA Montières Étouvie.

Career statistics

References

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