Pierre Laigle

1990/96 RC Lens (FRA) 204 matches, 27 goals

(French Championship: 148 matches, 18 goals)

(French D2 Championship: 34 matches, 5 goals)

(D2 Play-offs: 5 matches)

(Coupe de France: 12 matches, 4 goals)

(UEFA Cup: 5 matches)

1996/99 Sampdoria Genoa (ITA) 100 matches, 9 goals

(Italian Championship: 90 matches, 9 goals)

(Coupe d'Italie: 8 matches)

(UEFA Cup: 2 matches)

1999/2002 Olympique Lyonnais (FRA) 107 matches, 11 goals

(French Championship: 70 matches, 5 goals)

(Coupe de France: 10 matches, 1 goal)

(Coupe de la ligue: 5 matches, 3 goals)

(Champions League: 17 matches, 2 goals)

(UEFA Cup: 5 matches)

2002/04 Montpellier HSC (FRA) 41 matches, 1 goal

(Championnat de France: 40 matches, 1 goal)

(Coupe de France: 1 match)

2005/07 Saint-Priest (FRA) 51 matches, 4 goals

With the National Team :

8 caps, 1 goal

(Friendly matches: 7 caps, 1 goal)

(Tournoi de France: 1 cap)

1st cap: February 21, 1996 against Greece (3-1)

Last cap: November 12, 1997 against Scotland (2-1)

A': 7 caps, 1 goal

Pierre Laigle

Born September 12, 1970 in Auchel (FRA)

French, Left-midfielder, Defensive-midfielder, Left-back, 1m80

Nickname: Pierrot

Pierre Laigle was born on September 12, 1970 in Auchel, France. He had an adolescence linked to the RC Lens club with whom he went through the training center then the reserve team before finding himself in 1989 on the bench of the professional team then in the French second division.

With a team based on youth and its trained players, RC Lens will make the player debut at 20 years old in 1990 in a great generation of players such as Sikora and Wallemme. The club obtains its promotion in the elite and he becomes one of the best players in his position in the championship.

Playing left midfielder, left defender or defensive midfielder, the player joined the French national team in 1996. Having become a favorite of Bollaert, he eventually left the club to join the immense Serie A and the Sampdoria Genoa club.

In a mid-table club, the player proved to be an undisputed starter for the team and a good player in the Italian championship. Despite everything, he was barely publicized, which cost him his place in the French team, his last match being in 1997. He therefore narrowly missed the World Cup won by his country at home in 1998.

Finally, his club was relegated to the Italian second division in 1999 and he decided to leave the country, returning to France while he was still a very good football player, at 29 years old. He then signed for one of the rising clubs in the championship, Olympique Lyonnais.

Within a team that had made some great recruits with the arrivals of Sonny Anderson and Tony Vairelles, the player had to take the club to the next level. He first won the League Cup in 2001 before winning the French championship in 2002, on the very last day, against RC Lens, who would finish second.

Aged 32 at the time, the Auchel native went straight away to spend two difficult seasons with Montpellier. After these 2 years, he decided to join a small French club, Saint-Priest, where he retired at the age of 37.

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