Mamadou Fofana

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Mamadou Fofana
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Mamadou Fofana (2019)
Personnel
birthday January 21, 1998
place of birth Bamako ,  Mali
size 187 cm
position Central defense
Juniors
Years station
2014-2016 Stade Malien
2016-2017 Alanyaspor
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2017-2018 Alanyaspor 24 (0)
2017 →  Bandırmaspor  (loan) 10 (0)
2018– FC Metz 52 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2015 Mali U17 7 (0)
2017– Mali U20 3 (0)
2017– Mali 13 (1)
1 Only league games are given.
As of May 7, 2020

2 As of May 7, 2020

Mamadou Fofana (born January 21, 1998 in Bamako ), also known as Nojo , is a Malian football player who has been under contract with the French first division club FC Metz since July 2018 . The central defender has been a Malian international since October 2017 .

Career

society

Mamadou Fofana comes from the youth department of Stade Malien and switched to the offspring of the Turkish club Alanyaspor in January 2016 . On January 14, 2017 (17th matchday) he made his debut in the top Turkish league in a 3-2 home defeat against Caykur Rizespor .

On January 31, 2017, he moved to the second division Bandırmaspor on loan until the end of the 2016/17 season . His first league game he played on February 12 (20th matchday) in the 2: 3 home defeat against Altınordu Izmir , when he came on in the 54th minute for Yiğit Gökoğlan . He quickly established himself as a regular player and returned to Alanya after 10 league appearances .

At Alanyaspor he started the 2017/18 season as a core player in central defense . On January 19, 2018, he flew in the 3-2 away defeat against Kasımpaşa Istanbul in the 83rd minute of the game with " smooth red " and was suspended for two league games. He then slipped out of the starting line-up and ended the season with 24 league appearances.

On July 5, 2018, Mamadou Fofana moved to the French second division club FC Metz , where he signed a four-year contract. On July 30, 2018 (1st matchday) he made his debut in the 1-0 away win against Stade Brest in the second-highest French division. Under head coach Frédéric Antonetti , Fofana developed as a regular player in the 2018/19 season. He won the championship with the Grenats and rose to the first-class Ligue 1 . In total, he was used in 32 league games.

He retained his status as a regular in the 2019/20 season and ended it with 20 league games after it was canceled due to the Covid 19 pandemic .

National team

With the Malian U17 national team , Mamadou Fofana took part in the U17 Africa Cup 2015 in Niger , where he played three games and won the tournament with the selection. He then took part with the U17s in the 2015 U17 World Cup in Chile . There he stood in all seven games over the full distance and reached the final with his home country, which they lost 2-0 to Nigeria .

With the U20 he took part in the U20 Africa Cup 2017 in Zambia , where he played all three games of the selection.

On October 6, 2017, he made his debut in the 0-0 draw against Ivory Coast in the qualifier for the 2018 World Cup for the senior national team . On October 16, 2018, he scored his first international goal in a 1-1 draw against Burundi in qualifying for the Africa Cup of 2019 . With Mali he ultimately took part in this tournament, where he played three games.

successes

FC Metz
Mali U17

Web links

Commons : Mamadou Fofana  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mamadou Fofana: “Je suis très heureux à Analyaspor” In: Foot Mali from August 5, 2016 (accessed on May 7, 2020)
  2. ↑ Aytemiz Alanyaspor 2-3 Çaykur Rizespor A.Ş. In: TFF from January 14, 2017 (accessed May 7, 2020)
  3. ↑ Ara transfer döneminde gelenler-gidenler In: Kral Spor from February 1, 2017 (accessed on May 7, 2020)
  4. ↑ Bandırmaspor Teknik Direktörü Uçar: Mağlubiyet benim suçumdur ama ... In: Milliyet from February 12, 2017 (accessed May 7, 2020)
  5. ↑ Mamadou Fofana - performance data 2016/17 In: transfermarkt.at (accessed on May 7, 2020)
  6. ↑ a b Mamadou Fofana - performance data 2017/18 In: transfermarkt.at (accessed on May 7, 2020)
  7. ↑ Özet İzle: Kasımpaşa 3-2 Alanyaspor Maçı Özeti ve Golleri İzle | Kasımpaşa Alanyaspor kaç kaç bitti? In: IHA from January 19, 2018 (accessed May 7, 2020)
  8. ↑ L2 - Metz: Mamadou Fofana (Alanyaspor) signe pour 4 ans In: Football365 of July 5, 2018 (accessed on May 7, 2020)
  9. ↑ Mamadou Fofana signe à Metz In: L'Équipe of July 5, 2018 (accessed on May 7, 2020)
  10. ↑ Stade Brest 0-1 FC Metz In: transfermarkt.at from July 30, 2018 (accessed May 7, 2020)
  11. ↑ Mamadou Fofana - performance data 2018/19 In: transfermarkt.at (accessed on May 7, 2020)
  12. ↑ Ligue 2: le FC Metz sacré champion, le Red Star descend en National In: Le Monde from May 4, 2019 (accessed on May 7, 2020)
  13. ↑ Mamadou Fofana - performance data 2018/19 In: transfermarkt.at (accessed on May 7, 2020)
  14. ↑ Mamadou Fofana - Performance data 2019/20 In: transfermarkt.at (accessed on May 7, 2020)
  15. ↑ a b c Mamadou Fofana - Mali U17 In: transfermarkt.at (accessed May 7, 2020)
  16. ↑ CAN U17- 2015: le Mali devient 8e pays à remporter la Coupe In: Mali Actu from March 3, 2015 (accessed on May 7, 2020)
  17. ↑ Mali U17 0-2 Nigeria U17 In: FIFA from November 8, 2015 (accessed May 7, 2020)
  18. ↑ Mamadou Fofana - Mali U20 In: transfermarkt.at (accessed on May 7, 2020)
  19. ↑ Mali 0-0 Ivory Coast In: transfermarkt.at from October 6, 2017 (accessed May 7, 2020)
  20. ↑ Metz's Mamadou Fofana opens Mali's goal account in Burundi stalemate In: Goal.com from October 16, 2018 (accessed May 7, 2020)
  21. ↑ Mamadou Fofana - Mali In: transfermarkt.at (accessed May 7, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Fofana, Mamadou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION malian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamako , Mali