Pierre Piskor
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Pierre Olivier Piskor is a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 footballer
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

. Right-footed, Piskor currently plays as a striker
Striker
Forwards, also known as strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...

 for FC Differdange 03
FC Differdange 03
Football Club Differdange 03 is a football club, based in Differdange, in south-western Luxembourg.-History:Differdange 03 was formed in 2003 as an amalgam of two clubs from the city of Differdange: FA Red Boys Differdange and AS Differdange...

 in the Luxembourg National Division
Luxembourg National Division
The National Division is the highest football league in Luxembourg. Until 2011, it is to be known as the BGL Ligue, after the Luxembourg Football Federation managed to seal a sponsorship deal with Fortis. Before 2006, it contained twelve teams, but it expanded to fourteen for the 2006-07 season,...

.

He won the Luxembourgian Footballer of the Year
Luxembourgian Footballer of the Year
The Luxembourgian Footballer of the Year is an award granted every season to a football player from Luxembourg's domestic top-flight National Division, rewarding the player judged to have been the most valuable to his team that season. It is awarded by the sports desk of d'Wort, Luxembourg's...

 at the end of the 2008-09 season, having scored 30 goals in 26 games for Differdange in the season.

Club career

Piskor was virtually unknown until the summer of 2006, when he moved from Third Division FC Rodange 91 to Differdange. In his first season, he finished the 2006-07 season
Luxembourg National Division 2006-07
The 2006-07 season of Luxembourg's National Division ran from 5 August 2006 to 30 May 2007. F91 Dudelange continued their domination of the National Division by winning their third league title in a row; Dudelange also won the Luxembourg Cup to complete the Double.-Teams:The National Division was...

 of the National Division
Luxembourg National Division
The National Division is the highest football league in Luxembourg. Until 2011, it is to be known as the BGL Ligue, after the Luxembourg Football Federation managed to seal a sponsorship deal with Fortis. Before 2006, it contained twelve teams, but it expanded to fourteen for the 2006-07 season,...

 as the league's second-top goalscorer behind Daniel Da Mota
Daniel Da Mota
Daniel da Mota Alves is a Luxembourgian football striker of Portuguese origin, who currently plays in Luxembourg for F91 Dudelange.-Club career:...

, bagging 25 goals including five goals in an 8-0 win against FC Mamer 32
FC Mamer 32
FC Mamer 32 is a football club, based in Mamer, in south-western Luxembourg.-History:FC Mamer was founded in 1932. The club plied its trade in the lower leagues of Luxembourgish football for most of its first sixty years, and only reached the third tier briefly in the 1970s, before relegation again...

.

The following season, he topped the National Division goal-scoring charts, totalling 30 goals in 26 games, and winning the Luxembourgian Footballer of the Year
Luxembourgian Footballer of the Year
The Luxembourgian Footballer of the Year is an award granted every season to a football player from Luxembourg's domestic top-flight National Division, rewarding the player judged to have been the most valuable to his team that season. It is awarded by the sports desk of d'Wort, Luxembourg's...

 award: the first time a non-F91 Dudelange
F91 Dudelange
F91 Dudelange is a football club, based in Dudelange, in southern Luxembourg.Dudelange's team colors are red and yellow vertically-striped shirts, with red shorts and socks.-History:...

 player had won in five years. Qualifying for the UEFA Europe League 2nd Qualifying round in 2009–10, Piskor scored Differdange's sole goal against NK Rijeka
NK Rijeka
HNK Rijeka is a Croatian football club, from Rijeka on the Croatian coast.-History:The club was founded as NK Kvarner in 1946, after Rijeka passed from Italy to Yugoslavia following the end of World War II. During its early period in Yugoslavia, the club had moderate success in various Yugoslav...

 of Croatia. However, the following season, Piskor failed to follow up this goalscoring record, scoring eight goals in nineteen games.

Honours

  • Luxembourgian Footballer of the Year
    Luxembourgian Footballer of the Year
    The Luxembourgian Footballer of the Year is an award granted every season to a football player from Luxembourg's domestic top-flight National Division, rewarding the player judged to have been the most valuable to his team that season. It is awarded by the sports desk of d'Wort, Luxembourg's...

     - 2008-09
  • Luxembourg National Division
    Luxembourg National Division
    The National Division is the highest football league in Luxembourg. Until 2011, it is to be known as the BGL Ligue, after the Luxembourg Football Federation managed to seal a sponsorship deal with Fortis. Before 2006, it contained twelve teams, but it expanded to fourteen for the 2006-07 season,...

     Top Scorer - 2008-09 (30 goals)

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