Aboubacar Mé Diomandé

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Aboubacar Mé Diomandé
Personnel
birthday May 7, 1988
place of birth Séguéla ,  Ivory Coast
date of death August 9, 2019
Place of death near Naya Baradwar ,
Janjgir-Champa , Chhattisgarh ,  India
size 168 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
0000–2005 Académie de Sol Beni
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2005-2006 ASEC Mimosas
2006-2007 Charlton Athletic
2006-2007 →  Germinal Beerschot  (loan)
2007-2019 Stella Club d'Adjamé
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Ivory Coast U-17
Ivory Coast U-20
~ 2007-2010 ~ Ivory Coast
1 Only league games are given.

Aboubacar Mé Diomandé (born May 7, 1988 in Séguéla , Ivory Coast , † August 9, 2019 near Naya Baradwar , Janjgir-Champa , Chhattisgarh , India ) was an Ivorian football player on the position of midfielder . The Ivorian, who has been back in his home country since 2007, was about to move to an Indian club when he was allegedly killed in a fall from a moving train at the age of 31.

Club career

Aboubacar Mé Diomandé was born on May 7, 1988 in Séguéla, the capital of the Worodougou region and the Woroba district , and played in his youth in the Académie de Sol Beni . In the academy, which was founded in 1993 by Jean-Marc Guillou and Roger Ouégnin , he was active until 2005 and then moved to the men's team of ASEC Mimosas . In this he was active until the following year, before he moved from the Ivorian record champions , who had also become champions again in 2006, to England to Charlton Athletic . The club was still represented in the Premier League this season , but rose at the end of the season as 19th and penultimate in the league in the second-rate Football League Championship . At the then first division club, however, Diomandé did not make any appearances and was immediately awarded to the Belgian first division club Germinal Beerschot for one season . After only one year in Europe, Diomandé returned to his homeland, where he joined Stella Club d'Adjamé from Adjamé , a district of Abidjan . With this he was active for twelve years. During this time he also came into contact with the Ivorian national football team .

In the 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 seasons he was always represented with the team in the middle of the table and did not get beyond fifth place. In the Coupe de Côte d'Ivoire , too, the team made it to the round of 16 at most in the four years. With the restructuring of the highest Ivorian football league before the start of the 2011 game year, the Stella Club d'Adjamé was able to achieve better results. As the first place in Group B of the regular season, the team qualified for the championship round, which was decisive for the season; However, the team only finished fifth out of six participants. It was similar in 2012, when the 1.68 m tall midfielder and his team reached second place in Group A of the regular season and then only finished sixth and last in the championship round. For the first time since 1981 the Stella Club was in the final of the Coupe de Côte d'Ivoire in 2012 and was able to win this competition for the first time since 1975. In the following 2013 game year, Diomandé and his team made it to the final again, but lost to the ASEC Mimosas 4-5 on penalties. After another league reform, Diomandé's club found themselves back in the middle of the table and came in fifth in 2012/13 and seventh in 2013/14.

After only six wins from 26 championship games, the Stella Club was in last place in the table at the end of the 2014/15 season and had to relegate to the second highest football league in the country together with the same points Bouaké FC , who came in thirteenth . A few days before relegation, the team secured the Coupe de la Ligue , the Ivorian league cup, by winning the final against Séwé Sport . In the Ivorian second division, the team around Aboubacar Mé Diomandé did not come out on a fifth place in the sometimes quite tightly staggered group A, the league divided into two groups. However, the Coupe de Côte d'Ivoire 2016 was much more successful for the team , in which the club from Adjamé made it to the semi-finals and lost to ASEC Mimosas by just 1: 0. There are no results of the Ivorian second division over the following season 2016/17, but Diomandé, who was used in various midfield positions, made it with his team to the semi-finals of the Coupe de la Ligue 2017 and was defeated by the later league cup winner AS Indenié Abengourou . Results from the Ivory Coast second division are also not available for the 2017/18 season; this season, however, the club was not particularly noticeable in the other national football competitions. In contrast, the Stella Club d'Adjamé, in which Diomandé also temporarily acted as team captain, presented itself strongly in the following season 2018/19. The club reached the round of 16 in the Ivorian Cup, as well as the quarter-finals in the Ivorian League Cup and just missed the return to the Ivorian first class with one point behind champion Issia Wazi .

After his contract with the Stella Club d'Adjamé expired in summer 2019, after twelve years with the club, Diomandé went looking for a new club and found one in far-away India . In July 2019, he received a visa to play football in India, with a club from Calcutta said to have signed him. On August 8, 2019, Diomandé arrived in India and - presumably coming from Mumbai - took the train to his new club in Calcutta. On August 9, 2019, Diomandé's lifeless body, severely injured, was found near Naya Baradwar train station . Using a cell phone that Diomandé had with him and ID documents stored on it, his identity was established by the local police. Since his luggage was not found with him, the police assumed that the Ivorian had fallen from the moving train; According to various media reports, the luggage was no longer found.

National team career

Diomandé gained his first experience in a national team of the Fédération Ivoirienne de Football , the Ivorian football association, when he played for the Ivorian U-17 national team . Later also international appearances for the U-20 national team of Ivory Coast were added. In 2007, the then 19-year-old midfielder was likely to have been part of the senior national team in his home country for the first time when he played in the Tournoi de l'UEMOA 2007 , the first football tournament in the UEMOA countries . At this point he had already returned from Europe and was an active player in the Stella Club d'Adjamé . Two years later he took part in the 2009 African Nations Cup in his own country with the elephants , as the team was nicknamed . During the tournament he also appeared as the team captain of the Ivorians. His national team career should have lasted a little until 2010, after which he does not appear in any competitions.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Footballer dies aged 31 after 'falling off train' , accessed on September 19, 2019
  2. ↑ a b CHARLTON ACE TRAIN DEATH - Me Aboubacar Diomande dead aged 31: Ex-Charlton midfielder found on railway tracks after 'falling from train' , accessed on September 19, 2019
  3. ↑ a b Ivory Coast 2007 on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on September 19, 2019
  4. ↑ a b Ivory Coast 2008 on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on September 19, 2019
  5. ↑ a b Ivory Coast 2009 on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on September 19, 2019
  6. ↑ a b Ivory Coast 2010 on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on September 19, 2019
  7. ↑ Ivory Coast 2011 on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on September 19, 2019
  8. ↑ Ivory Coast 2012 on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on September 19, 2019
  9. ↑ a b Ivory Coast - List of Cup Winners on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on September 19, 2019
  10. ↑ Ivory Coast 2012/13 on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on September 19, 2019
  11. ↑ Ivory Coast 2013/14 on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on September 19, 2019
  12. ↑ a b Ivory Coast 2014/15 on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on September 19, 2019
  13. ↑ a b Ivory Coast 2015/16 on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on September 19, 2019
  14. ↑ Ivory Coast 2016/17 on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on September 19, 2019
  15. ↑ Ivory Coast 2017/18 on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on September 19, 2019
  16. ↑ Ivory Coast 2018/19 on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on September 19, 2019
  17. ↑ a b c African footballer found dead on rail tracks in Chhattisgarh (English), accessed on September 19, 2019
  18. ↑ a b Tournoi de l'UEMOA 2007 on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on September 19, 2019
  19. ↑ CHAN 2009: Squad List ( Memento from July 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on September 19, 2019
  20. ↑ Côte d'Ivoire: un point d'honneur (French), accessed on September 19, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Diomandé, Aboubacar Mé
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Diomandé, Mé Aboubacar; Diomandé, Aboubacar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ivorian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Séguéla , Ivory Coast
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 2019
Place of death at Naya Baradwar , Janjgir-Champa , Chhattisgarh , India