French football player Vassiriki Abou Diaby was born on 11 May 1986. He is currently playing in Premier League for Arsenal as a mid-fielder. He normally plays central midfielder but has been playing as a wing for Arsenal. Diaby started playing football for Paris Saint-Germain at age 13. Diaby started playing his professional football with Auxerre in 2004. After playing two seasons with them he joined Arsenal in 2006 for a fee believed to be around £2m. Diaby is consider to be a attacking midfielder and an athletic box-to-box midfield "schemer" or in a holding role in front of the back four. In 2007 Diaby made his international debut for france and managed to appeared in two for them up till now.