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Dika meme
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Dika Mem (Palau Blaugrana 2018)

Player information
Nickname "Dikson"
birthday August 31, 1997
place of birth Paris , FranceFranceFrance
citizenship FrenchmanFrenchman French
height 1.96 m
Playing position Back right
Throwing hand Left
Club information
society FC Barcelona FC Barcelona
Jersey number 24
Clubs in the youth
from ... to society
2011-2013 FranceFrance CSM Eaubonne
2013-2015 FranceFrance Saint-Gratien / Sannois
Clubs as active
from ... to society
2015-2016 FranceFrance Tremblay-en-France handball
2016– SpainSpain FC Barcelona
National team
Debut on 3rd November 2016
against LithuaniaLithuania Lithuania (1 gate)
  Games (goals)
FranceFrance France 52 (135)

As of January 15, 2020

Dika Akwa Mem (born August 31, 1997 in Paris ) is a French national handball player and world champion of the year 2017. His playing position is right back . Dika Mem plays for the Spanish top club and Champions League record winner FC Barcelona Lassa in the ASOBAL league . In expert circles, Dika Mem is considered an outstanding exceptional athlete who is predicted to have a great future.

Career

youth

At the age of 13, Dika Mem began playing handball in 2011 at CSM Eaubonne , a club from the suburbs of Paris. He hadn't really been interested in handball until then. One day a childhood friend suggested that he take part in a screening of young players in Eaubonne. He was told that left-handers were very popular and that he might be given a chance to play in the Val d'Oise selection . Although Dika Mem had previously been more interested in football, he liked being able to represent the best players in the department and so he stuck to handball and liked it. Even before he even joined a club, he was called into the selection of Val-d'Oise.

In 2013, after two years, he moved to the neighboring club Entente Sannois Saint-Gratien in the north of Paris , where he played for the men in the French third division as a 16-year-old and only three months after being directly integrated into the A -Team developed into a cornerstone of the team. A week before his 17th birthday in 2014, at the age of 16, he won the gold medal at the U18 European Championships in Poland. A year later, as a 17-year-old, he became world champion with the French U19 national team in Russia in 2015 and with six goals was the most successful goalscorer in the final, which France won against Slovenia 33:26.

During this time, from 2012 to 2015, Dika Mem completed his training as a selected beacon of hope in the excellence center of the CDFAS (Center départemental de formation en activités sportives), which is located in the municipalities of Eaubonne and Saint-Gratien and one of the best youth training centers in France in the field of handball counts. A large number of French professional players were trained here.

Shortly after Dika Mem had already received a professional contract for the 1st French league at the age of 17 and a few weeks before he won the world championship with the U19 national team, he graduated from a technical high school with a BTS (Brevet de technicien supérieur) in computer science management.

Professional in the Ligue Nationale de Handball

Dika Mem was recruited for the 2015/2016 season by almost all clubs in the French Ligue Nationale de Handball after his achievements during his youth . Among other things, the big PSG ( Paris Sant-German ) tried to sign the then 17-year-old as a professional. However, Dika Mem decided on a three-year contract with the neighboring club Tremblay-en-France , which also played in the French first division. He preferred to play it safe and play for a club that, while less prestigious than the PSG, would likely have more opportunities to express himself. His coach at the time, David Christman, wanted to carefully integrate the young Dika Mem into the team, especially since Tremblay already had two good and more experienced players in his playing position. a. about a Slovenian international. After three weeks, however, it turned out that Dika Mem was in no way inferior to the two competitors. After a month and a half he proved to be the undisputed number one on the right backcourt position in the professional team and convinced with outstanding qualities in attack and defense. For the coach there was no way around putting Dika Mem at the head of the team. In his first season as a professional, Dika Mem already completed 25 games in which he scored 93 goals.

After only one year as a professional in the French top league, another career step should soon follow for Dika Mem when the nine-time Champions League winner FC Barcelona contacts him.

The great FC Barcelona calls the 18-year-old

In the meantime, people in the world of handball had become aware of Dika Mem across all borders. He was still 18 when he was offered a 6-year contract for a long-term strategy together with FC Barcelona in 2016. Dika Mem used this perhaps unique opportunity. He was able to fall back on a release clause in his contract with Tremblay, and FC Barcelona unconditionally paid the agreed transfer fee of 100,000 euros. This makes Dika Mem the youngest player Barça has ever signed for the first team.

Dika Mem is the best young player in the world

After his second season at FC Barcelona, ​​in which he was already one of the top performers, and after another very successful year as a player for the French national team, Dika Mem was named the best young player in the world in 2018, after having previously gone into space -Star team of the EHF Champions League was chosen.

High achiever at FC Barcelona

Both in the Spanish ASOBAL league and in the Champions League, Dika Mem is one of the top performers at FC Barcelona. Already in his second season at Barça, at the age of 20, he was selected by the EHF as the best right backcourt player in the Champions League All-Star team and thus prevailed in his playing position due to his outstanding performance against the entire world elite. Although the contract with Dika Mem was still valid for another four years at that time, shortly before the start of the 2018/2019 season, FC Barcelona set a clear example by offering the French, who has now been recognized as the best young player in the world, a contract extension until 2024 in order to secure its services as a key player in the long term. The reigning world champion accepted the offer and emphasized how comfortable he feels in the team and the entire environment of the club. Dika Mem justified the trust placed in him with a very strong performance during the 2018/2019 season and was elected to both the All-Star Team of the ASOBAL league and the top 7 of the EHPU (European Handball Players Union).

National team

Dika Mem, national team jersey (2018)

With the French men's national team , Dika Mem became world champion in 2017 at the age of only 19 . A year later he won the bronze medal with the " Les Experts " at the European Championships in Croatia in 2018 and was selected as the best right back player in the All-Star team after the preliminary round. In the 2017/2018 Golden League, Dika Mem was given the role of playmaker of the French national team during the third stage in Norway, as Nikola Karabatic was unable to take part in the tournament due to an injury. The 20-year-old also mastered this new challenge with an impressive performance and was chosen as the best playmaker in the tournament's all-star team. In a preview of the 2019 World Cup in Germany and Denmark, the DHB counted Dika Mem, who has meanwhile been awarded the title of the best young player in the world, to one of the top three players on the French national team, which was considered the tournament's favorite. With a victory against the DHB selection in the game for third place, Dika Mem won the bronze medal at the 2019 World Cup.

Personal

Social commitment - DIKA DAYS

Since 2018 , a five-day handball camp for young people in the U13 and U15 age groups has been taking place at the beginning of July at the CDFAS (Center départemental de formation en activités sportives) in Eaubonne , the place where Dika Mem himself was promoted as a bearer of hope and which is considered the origin of his remarkable development under the name "DIKA DAYS". Dika Mem is present daily during this event and actively accompanies the young people during the training units in order to support them in their further development in handball. In addition to handball, other sports activities and excursions are on the program of the "DIKA DAYS". Dika Mem feels personal pride in being a role model for the young people and being able to work with them. With his volunteer work, he would like to thank the club that has always believed in him and that has made it possible for him to get to where he is today, and to give back something that he brought back and made possible during his time at the CDFAS training center has been.

successes

National team

Men

  • gold Gold medal at the 2017 Men's World Cup (France)
  • bronze Bronze medal at the Men's World Cup 2019 (Germany / Denmark)
  • bronze Bronze medal at the European Men's Championship 2018 (Croatia)
  • starTemplate: smiley / maintenance / star  Best right back player in the all-star team in the preliminary round at the European Men's Championship 2018 (Croatia)
  • starTemplate: smiley / maintenance / star  Best playmaker in the 2018 Golden League All-Star Team (France, Norway, Denmark)

Youth and Juniors

societies

FC Barcelona

  • goldgoldgold Super Globe 2017, 2018, 2019
  • goldgoldgoldgold Spanish champion 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
  • goldgoldgoldgold ASOBAL Cup 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
  • goldgoldgoldgoldSpanish Super Cup ( Supercopa de España de Balonmano ) 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
  • goldgoldgoldgold Catalan Super Cup 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
  • goldgoldgoldgold Copa del Rey 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
  • bronze 3rd place in Final 4 of the Champions League 2018/2019

Further honors

Match and goal balance

societies

season society National League Champions League Super Globe
Surname league country Games Gates success Games Gates success Games Gates success
2015/2016 Tremplay Ligue Nationale de Handball FranceFrance France 25th 93 - - - - - - -
2016/2017 FC Barcelona ASOBAL SpainSpain Spain 29 81 gold master 18th 29 Final 4 - 4th place - - -
2017/2018 FC Barcelona ASOBAL SpainSpain Spain 29 107 gold master 16 73 1/8 finals,

Election to the all-star team

3 12 goldClub world champion
2018/2019 FC Barcelona ASOBAL SpainSpain Spain 29 104 gold master 18th 74 bronze 3rd place in the final 4

Man of the Match

3 12 gold Club world champion
2019/2020 * FC Barcelona ASOBAL SpainSpain Spain 17th 66 gold master 13 45 3 9 gold Club world champion
total 129 451 65 221 9 33

* current season, as of June 20, 2020

National team youth and juniors - world championships and European championships

year competition Host country Games Gates success
2014 U18 European Championship PolandPoland Poland 8th 20th gold European champion
2015 U19 World Championship RussiaRussia Russia 9 28 gold World Champion
2016 U20 European Championship DenmarkDenmark Denmark 7th 35 bronze 3rd place
2017 U21 world championship AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 9 38 bronze 3rd place

National team

Game no. date competition Match encounter Game result Gates
WM EM GL SO designation Game round Final score S. U N number WM EM GL SO
1 03/11/2016 X Qualification for the European Championship 2018 Matchday 3 France - Lithuania 37:20 X 1 1
2 11/06/2016 X Matchday 4 Belgium - France 37:38 X 0 0
3 January 17, 2017 X World Cup 2017 (France) Preliminary round Russia - France 24:35 X 2 2
4th 01/19/2017 X France - Poland 26:25 X 0 0
5 01/21/2017 X Round of 16 France - Iceland 31:25 X 0 0
6th 01/24/2017 X Quarter finals France - Sweden 33:30 X 0 0
7th 01/26/2017 X Semifinals France - Slovenia 31:25 X 0 0
8th 01/29/2017 X final France - Norway 33:26 X 0 0
9 06/14/2017 X Qualification for the European Championship 2018 Matchday 5 Lithuania - France 25:26 X 4th 4th
10 06/17/2017 X Matchday 6 France - Belgium 32:28 X 0 0
11 10/26/2017 X Golden League (Denmark) Stage 1 France - Poland 29:15 X 3 3
12 28.10.2017 X Norway - France 30:26 X 3 3
13 October 29, 2017 X Denmark - France 27:23 X 1 1
14th 04/01/2018 X Golden League (France) Stage 2 France - Norway 32:27 X 2 2
15th 01/06/2018 X France - Egypt 33:23 X 1 1
16 07/01/2018 X France - Denmark 28:29 X 5 5
17th 01/12/2018 X European Championship 2018 (Croatia) Preliminary round France - Norway 32:31 X 3 3
18th 01/14/2018 X Austria - France 26:33 X 3 3
19th January 16, 2018 X France - Belarus 32:25 X 9 9
20th January 20, 2018 X Main round Sweden - France 17:23 X 1 1
21st 01/22/2018 X Serbia - France 30:39 X 2 2
22nd 01/24/2018 X Croatia - France 27:30 X 3 3
23 01/26/2018 X Semifinals France - Spain 23:27 X 1 1
24 04/05/2018 X Golden League (Norway) Stage 3 France - Denmark 35:29 X 5 5
25th 04/08/2018 X Iceland - France 26:28 X 5 5
26th 06/09/2018 X Air Caraïbes Cup 2018 (Guadeloupe) Preparatory games for the 2019 World Cup France - Denmark 30:23 X 3 3
27 06/13/2018 X France - Denmark 29:29 X 4th 4th
28 10/25/2018 X Qualification for the European Championship 2020 Matchday 1 France - Lithuania 42:27 X 4th 4th
29 28.10.2018 X Matchday 2 Romania - France 21:31 X 3 3
30th 05/01/2019 X Preparatory games for the 2019 World Cup Game 1 France - Slovenia 34:25 X 3 3
31 07/01/2019 X Game 2 France - Slovenia 29:21 X 4th 4th
32 11/01/2019 X World Cup 2019 (Germany / Denmark) Preliminary round Brazil - France 22:24 X 6th 6th
33 01/12/2019 X France - Serbia 32:21 X 3 3
34 01/14/2019 X France - Korea 34:23 X 2 2
35 January 15, 2019 X Germany - France 25:25 X 2 2
36 January 17, 2019 X France - Russia 23:22 X 3 3
37 01/19/2019 X Main round France - Spain 33:30 X 6th 6th
38 January 20, 2019 X Iceland - France 22:31 X 1 1
39 01/23/2019 X France - Croatia 20:23 X 1 1
40 01/25/2019 X Semifinals Denmark - France 38:30 X 1 1
41 01/27/2019 X 3rd place match Germany - France 25:26 X 2 2
42 04/11/2019 X Qualification for the European Championship 2020 Matchday 3 Portugal - France 33:27 X 2 2
43 April 14, 2019 X Matchday 4 France - Portugal 33:24 X 1 1
44 06/13/2019 X Matchday 5 Lithuania - France 17:37 X 2 2
45 June 16, 2019 X Matchday 6 France - Romania 34:25 X 0 0
46 October 24, 2019 X Golden League (Denmark) Stage 1 Denmark - France 27:31 X 5 5
47 10/26/2019 X France - Spain 36:34 X 8th 8th
48 03/01/2020 X Golden League (France) Stage 2 France - Serbia 40:26 X 1 1
49 05/01/2020 X France - Denmark 30:31 X 7th 7th
50 01/10/2020 X European Championship 2020 (Norway, Sweden, Austria) Preliminary round France - Portugal 25:28 X 5 5
51 01/12/2020 X France - Norway 26:28 X 0 0
52 01/14/2020 X Bosnia-Herzegovina - France 23:31 X 2 2
total 16 10 12 14th 40 2 10 135 29 29 46 31

WM = world championship, EM = European championship, GL = Golden League, SO = other
S = win, U = draw, N = defeat
* = nominated for the upcoming game

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dika Mem is France's new handball star on: www.spiegel.de
  2. ↑ Barcelona presents "Players with a great future" at: www.handball-world.news
  3. ↑ The discovery ... Dika Mem on: www.lnh.fr
  4. ↑ a b WM 2017: Who is Dika Mem? on: www.lequipe.fr
  5. ↑ Euro 2018: Dika Mem, the French nugget that shines on: www.lepoint.fr
  6. ↑ Dika, the pheno ... Mem! on: www.actu.fr
  7. ↑ a b Dika Mem is the future star of French handball on: sports.vice.com
  8. ↑ Russia 2015: France Champions on: www.ihf.info
  9. ↑ MEM Dika at: www.cdfas.com
  10. ↑ HIGH LEVEL PLAYERS at: www.cdfas.com
  11. ↑ Handball - N1M / NHL-Mem Dika (St. Gratien Sannois / Tremblay): The new child prodigy on: www.sportsco-idf.fr
  12. ↑ Dika Mem, our handball talent on: www.leparisien.fr
  13. ↑ Tremblay prefers hopefuls to PSG on: www.leparisien.fr
  14. ↑ Dika Mem, the young French hopeful turns up in Barcelona : www.sport365.fr
  15. ↑ International media: Barcelona sign France's young hopes on: www.handball-world.news
  16. ↑ a b Dika Mem is the World's Young Handball Player 2017/2018 on: www.handball-planet.com
  17. ↑ a b c ALL-STAR TEAM 2017/2018 at: www.ehfcl.com
  18. ↑ VELUX EHF Champions League at: www.ehfcl.com
  19. ↑ Barcelona extended with French international Mem to: www.handball-world.news
  20. ↑ Barça binds Dika Mem to the end of the 2023-24 season on: www.as.com
  21. ↑ a b The Liga Asobal honors its best: Numerous newcomers in the "siete ideal" on: /www.handball-world.news
  22. ↑ a b Fabregas, Mem, Hansen and Gensheimer in the 7th of the year on: www.sports.fr
  23. ↑ a b A single Dane in the All-Star Team in the Golden League at: www.hbold.dk
  24. ↑ World Cup opponent portraits: Defending champion France is the big favorite in Berlin on: www.dhb.de.
  25. ↑ Val d'Oise. First edition of the Dika Days in Eaubonne on: www.actu.fr
  26. ↑ DIKA DAYS at: www.comite-handball95.fr
  27. ↑ All-Star-Team of the Junior World Championship announced on: www.handball-world.news
  28. ↑ Cindric better than Karabatic, Raul convincing in front of all coaches! on: www.sport1.mk
  29. ↑ Raul Entrerrios for the eighth time in the All-Star-Team of the Liga Asobal on: /www.handball-world.news
  30. ↑ European Handball Federation - Dika Mem 2014 on: www.eurohandball.com
  31. ↑ 2015 MEN'S YOUTH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN RUS at: www.ihf.info
  32. ↑ European Handball Federation - Dika Mem 2016 on: www.eurohandball.com
  33. ↑ THE 21ST IHF MEN'S JUNIOR (U21) WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2017 at: www.ihf.info
personal data
SURNAME Mem, Dika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mem, Dika Akwa (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French handball player
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris