Damien Chrysostome
Beninese footballer (born 1982)
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Damien Koffi Anderson Chrysostome (born 24 May 1982) is a Beninese former professional footballer who played as a defender. He spent much of his career in the Italian lower leagues before joining French club FC Metz for the 2008–09 season. The following two seasons he played for Turkish side Denizlispor. He ended his career in Finland with JJK Jyväskylä. At international leve, he made 58 appearances for the Benin national team.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Koffi Damien Anderson Chrysostome | ||
| Date of birth | 24 May 1982 | ||
| Place of birth | Cotonou, Benin | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2002–2004 | Cittadella | 20 | (1) |
| 2004–2005 | Biellese | 15 | (1) |
| 2005–2006 | Cittadella | 26 | (0) |
| 2006–2007 | Cuneo | 18 | (1) |
| 2007–2008 | Casale | 24 | (0) |
| 2008–2009 | Metz | 19 | (0) |
| 2009–2011 | Denizlispor | 47 | (2) |
| 2012 | JJK | 0 | (0) |
| Total | 169 | (5) | |
| International career | |||
| 2002–2011 | Benin[1] | 58 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Club career
Chrysostome was born in Cotonou, Benin. In Italy he was a member of the A.S. Cittadella Serie C1 squad for the 2002–03 and 2003–04 seasons and part of the 2004–05 season. The rest of 2004–05 was spent with A.S. Biellese 1902 in Serie C2. He returned to Cittadella for the 2005–06 season, then moved to Associazione Calcio Cuneo 1905 for the 2005–06 season in Serie C2.[2] During the 2007–08 season he appeared for Casale in Serie D.[3]
International career
In 2001, Chrysostome appeared in all three of country's matches in the 2004 African Nations Cup. The Benin national team lost all three of their games in the first round of competition, and failed to secure qualification for the quarter-finals.[4] He was ever-present in the 2008 tournament, when again Benin failed to progress beyond the group stage.
