page_title: Aly Cissokho
section_title: Liverpool (loan)
hierarchical_section_title: Aly Cissokho / Club career / Valencia / Liverpool (loan)
caption_attribution_description: English: French football players of Liverpool: Aly Cissokho (left) and Mamadou Sakho (right) competing with Trinidadian player of Cardiff City Kenwyne Jones (center).
context_page_description: Aly Cissokho is a French professional footballer who last played for Turkish Süper Lig club Antalyaspor. He plays as a left back and has been described as a "sprightly left-back with good speed and stamina".
  Cissokho began his career playing for local clubs within his hometown, such as Blois Foot 41. In 2004, he signed with professional club FC Gueugnon and spent three years in the club's youth system before making his debut in the 2006–07 season. He spent only one season at the club and, in June 2008, signed with Portuguese club Vitória de Setúbal in the Primeira Liga. After spending only half a season with the club, Cissokho departed Vitória for the league's defending champions Porto, where he won the Portuguese league and cup double and played in the UEFA Champions League for the first time. In July 2009, after a failed transfer attempt to Italian club A.C. Milan, he signed a five-year contract with French club Lyon for a fee of €15 million. At the beginning of the 2012–2013 season Cissokho was sold to Valencia CF and was subsequently loaned to Liverpool for the 2013–14 season.
  Cissokho is also a French international and earned his first call-up to the team in November 2009.
context_section_description: On 20 August 2013, Cissokho signed for English side Liverpool on a season-long loan deal. He made his Premier League debut four days later away to Aston Villa, replacing Iago Aspas in the 69th minute. He was ruled out for six weeks after an injury which caused him to be taken off after ten minutes in the League Cup match against Notts County. He made his first assist for Luis Suárez's second goal in a 4–1 victory over West Bromwich Albion, via an inadvertent rebound. He soon fell out of favour after making six appearances for the senior team. Cissokho returned to first-team action on 26 December against Manchester City in the absence of injured Jon Flanagan in a narrow 2–1 defeat at the City of Manchester Stadium. Cissokho made his second and final goal contribution for Liverpool at Stoke City in January, when his shot deflected off the groin of Ryan Shawcross for an own goal after five minutes to open a 5–3 win.
caption: Cissokho challenging Cardiff City's Kenwyne Jones in 2014
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