Diego Contento
Contento training with Bordeaux in April 2015
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| Full name | Diego Armando Valentin Contento | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 1 May 1990 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Munich, West Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Left back | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team
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Bordeaux | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1995–2008 | Bayern Munich | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2008–2011 | Bayern Munich II | 36 | (2) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2014 | Bayern Munich | 49 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014– | Bordeaux | 63 | (2) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2007 | Germany U17 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Germany U20 | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 6 December 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 19 January 2010 |
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Diego Armando Valentin Contento (born 1 May 1990) is a German professional footballer of Italian descent who currently plays as a left back for Girondins de Bordeaux in the Ligue 1.
Contento's family is from the outskirts of Naples (his father from Casalnuovo di Napoli and his mother from Caivano), Italy, and he was named after former S.S.C. Napoli star Diego Armando Maradona. His older brothers Vincenzo and Domenico were previously in Bayern's youth team.
Contento played for Bayern's first-team in pre-season friendlies in 2009, appearing against the Austrian Bundesliga Champion Red Bull Salzburg as a second-half substitute for Edson Braafheid, and was named on the substitutes' bench for a Bundesliga match against FSV Mainz in August 2009. He was called up to Bayern Munich's squad for the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League, where he was assigned the number 26. In January 2010, it was announced that Contento would train with the first-team for the rest of the 2009–10 season, along with reserve team-mates David Alaba and Mehmet Ekici.
Contento signed his first professional contract with FC Bayern Munich on 13 January 2010. The trio were named on the first-team substitutes' bench for the first time on 10 February 2010, for a DFB-Pokal game against SpVgg Greuther Fürth, and Contento came on in the 59th minute, replacing Anatoliy Tymoshchuk. Contento made his UEFA Champions League debut a week later, coming on as a half time substitute for Daniel Van Buyten in a game against Fiorentina, and the following weekend he made his league debut in the Bavarian Derby against 1. FC Nürnberg, starting in place of the injured Van Buyten.
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