Thierry Abel Bonalair (born 14 June 1966) is a French former professional

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who played as a

right-back In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Defenders fall into four main categories: centre-backs, full-backs, sweepers ...

midfielder In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in t ...

, most notably for

Nantes Nantes (, ; ; or ; ) is a city in the Loire-Atlantique department of France on the Loire, from the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. The city is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, sixth largest in France, with a pop ...

. He is chief scout for

Lille Lille (, ; ; ; ; ) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders. Positioned along the Deûle river, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Prefectures in F ...

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* 1966 births Living people Footballers from Paris French men's footballers Men's association football defenders Men's association football midfielders Amiens SC players FC Nantes players AJ Auxerre players Lille OSC players Neuchâtel Xamax FCS players Nottingham Forest F.C. players FC Zürich players Ligue 1 players Premier League players French expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in England Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland French expatriate sportspeople in England French expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland 20th-century French sportsmen 21st-century French sportsmen {{france-footy-defender-1960s-stub