Bacary Sagna named Defensive Player of the Year

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·10 October 2019

Bacary Sagna named Defensive Player of the Year

Bacary Sagna has been named Montreal Impact’s Defensive Player of the Year following his second season with the club.

Bacary Sagna was named the fourth-most important player in the team for the year just finished but the highest-rated defender playing a total of 2,630 minutes in all competitions as they won the Canadian Championship.

Now 36, Sagna joined Montreal in the summer of 2018, moving from Benevento on a free transfer.

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He was an £8.1m signing for Arsenal in 2007, arriving from Auxerre to establish himself as the team’s first-choice left back. In total, Sagna made 285 appearances for Arsenal, more than he made for all his other clubs combined.

After leaving Arsenal on a free transfer for Manchester City in 2014, Sagna won just one League Cup with the Citizens.

With Arsenal, he won the FA Cup just before he left.