Mamadou Niang

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Mamadou Niang
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Mamadou Niang (2011)
Personnel
Surname Mamadou Hamidou Niang
birthday October 13, 1979
place of birth MatamSenegal
size 178 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1996-1998 Le Havre AC
1998-1999 RC Saint-André-les-Vergers
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1999-2002 ES Troyes AC B 35 (21)
1999-2003 ES Troyes AC 47 0(8)
2003 →  FC Metz  (loan) 12 0(5)
2003-2005 Racing Strasbourg 56 (21)
2004-2005 Racing Strasbourg B 1 0(0)
2005-2010 Olympique Marseille 154 (72)
2010-2011 Fenerbahçe SK 29 (15)
2011-2014 Al-Sadd SC 26 0(9)
2013 →  Beşiktaş JK  (loan) 10 0(3)
2014-2015 AC Arles-Avignon 16 0(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2002–2012 Senegal 54 (20)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2018-2019 Athlético Marseille ( assistant coach )
1 Only league games are given.
As of August 14, 2018

Mamadou Hamidou Niang (born October 13, 1979 in Matam , Senegal ) is a Senegalese former soccer player and current soccer coach who also has French citizenship.

Player career

Player profile

Mamadou Niang is a tech-savvy footballer who can play with both feet. His main position is center forward . He can also be used as a Second Striker or Left Winger, but he prefers to act as a center forward.

Mamad , his nickname in France, is known as an exemplary team player. As a successful striker, he has no star allure and refuses to devote all his energy to a personal goal.

“I always try to submit to the tactical concept given by the coach. [...] I [have] played in a wide variety of positions. I don't care where I'm deployed. If it is necessary for success, I also go on the wings, even if I otherwise prefer to play in the central attack. "

- Mamadou Niang (2008) on FIFA.com

In the club

youth

After two difficult years at the training center of Le Havre AC , the then 18-year-old Mamadou Niang decided against his dream of a professional career and then moved to the sixth-class RC Saint-André-les-Vergers in the honor division to play football just for fun play.

The Senegalese had enormous performance potential, but this fluctuated often and at times the striker let himself go a little. He had grown up in poor circumstances and therefore had a hard time. Although football took him off the streets, it was no longer a priority for him . In addition, Mamadou Niang could not imagine at the time that it would rule his life.

Professional career

ES Troyes AC and Metz Intermezzo

The French soccer coach Alain Perrin converted him in his decision to a professional career and thus the Senegalese became a professional soccer player and brought him to the Seine in Troyes on the recommendation of the youth coach Carlos Lopez from Le Havre AC. Subsequently, the striker signed his first professional contract with ES Troyes AC in 1999 .

In his first season for ESTAC, he was only used in the reserve team. In the following season Mamadou Niang denied his first appearances with the professionals, he was substituted on ten times and scored two goals. The Senegalese made his European debut the next season on June 30, 2001 in a 6-0 win over WIT Georgia Tbilisi in the first leg of the second round of the UEFA Intertoto Cup . The striker won the UI Cup final against Newcastle United with Troyes . So they then qualified for the UEFA Cup .

Those in charge of the then French second division club FC Metz were impressed by his football skills such as technique, speed and ball handling. So in January 2003 you borrowed it for the rest of the season. There he harmonized with his Togolese strike partner Emmanuel Adebayor and both helped Les Grenats to rise to Ligue 1 with their goals .

Via Strasbourg to Olympique Marseille

In the summer of 2003, the then French first division team Racing Strasbourg signed him . For the Alsatian , Mamadou Niang completed 63 competitive games in two years and scored 25 goals. At the end of April 2005, the Senegalese won his first national title, the French League Cup, with Les Bleus . In the final of the cup he headed a goal in a 2-1 win over SM Caen .

Mamadou Niang (2009) warming up in an OM dress

The scouts of Olympique Marseille he noticed because of his performances in Strasbourg . In addition, the 25-year-old striker left a lasting impression on April 9, 2005, when he scored the only and thus the winning goal for his team against French goalkeeper legend Fabien Barthez in stoppage time in the league game against OM .

For the 2005/06 season Mamadou Niang moved for a transfer fee of seven million euros from Strasbourg to Olympique Marseille. The Senegalese was supposed to replace Didier Drogba, who had emigrated from Ivorian . In a short time, the striker earned himself a regular place in the team. With Marseille he also won the UEFA Intertoto Cup in August 2005 . In the two seasons 2005/06 and 2006/07 Mamadou Niang and his team always narrowly missed victory in the French Cup final .

In the 2007/08 season , the Senegalese extended his contract early in February 2008 until June 2012. In addition, the striker became a key player and star of the team, in addition he was second best striker in the league with 18 goals behind Karim Benzema and in the team of the year elected in Ligue 1.

At the beginning of the 2009/10 season , Mamadou Niang again extended his contract early this time until June 2014. The year 2010 was his most successful year of his football career. In January 2010 in the League Cup , the Senegalese scored the winning goal in the fourth minute of stoppage time to 3-2 final against AS Saint-Étienne , so Olympique Marseille reached the round of 16. In addition, the striker was the top scorer in Ligue 1 with 18 goals and played a significant role in winning the league cup and ahead of the long-awaited championship , after two runner-up titles in 2007 and 2009 . In addition, he was elected goalscorer of the year and again in Ligue 1's team of the year.

Change to the Middle East

In August 2010, Mamadou Niang moved to Fenerbahçe Istanbul in Turkey for around eight million euros . At Fenerbahçe SK, the Senegalese made a great debut in his first six league games and scored seven times. On the sixth day of the 2010/11 season , he managed a hat trick in the 6-2 win over Kasımpaşa Istanbul . He completed 33 competitive games for the yellow-dark blue and scored 15 goals.

On September 6, 2011, he moved to the Qatari record champions Al-Sadd Sport Club for a transfer fee of 7.5 million euros . Two months later, Mamadou Niang won the Asian Champions League with his team , scoring two goals in four Champions League games. By winning the Champions League, he qualified with Al-Sadd for the FIFA Club World Cup 2011 and achieved third place in the tournament in December 2011.

On January 31, 2013, Beşiktaş Istanbul officially announced that they had loaned the Senegalese Niang until the end of the 2012/13 season.

Return to France

In August 2014, the 34-year-old Niang returned to France and moved to the French second division AC Arles-Avignon . He signed a two-year contract and will bring his experience as a footballer to the young Arles team . His engagement ended after a year with relegation at the end of the 2014/15 season . Niang played a total of 18 competitive games, consisting of league, league cup and cup appearances, and scored three goals.

In the national team

Mamadou Niang is a national player in his home country Senegal . He made his international debut at the age of 22 on March 27, 2002 in the friendly match against Bolivia in Dakar , where he also celebrated his first goal in the 64th minute and scored the Teranga Lions to a 2-1 victory. With the national team of Senegal he took part in the Africa Cup in 2004 , 2006 , 2008 and 2012 as well as the qualifications for the World Cup in 2006 and 2010 .

Achievements and Awards

Club level

French League Cup 2010 victory with Olympique Marseille
Asian Champions League victory 2011 with Al-Sadd

National team level

Individual honors

  • 3 × UNFP player of the month in Ligue 1: May 2005, December 2005, December 2007
  • 3 × Senegal's Footballer of the Year: 2007, 2009, 2010
  • Elected twice to Ligue 1 Team of the Year: 2008 , 2010
  • 1 × Ligue 1 top scorer : 2010 (18 goals in 32 league appearances)
  • 1 × Ligue 1 goalscorer of the year: 2009/10
1 Mamadou Niang played the first half of the season for Al-Sadd SC, the second half of the season he played on loan for Beşiktaş JK.

After the football player career

After retiring from his active football career and a three-year hiatus from the football business , the 38-year-old Senegalese decided to become active again as an assistant coach. He returned to Marseille . But signed together with his former teammate and compatriot Souleymane Diawara from OM times in August 2018 with the French fourth division and city rivals Athlético Marseille, formerly GS Consolat . After the departure of the sports director Djamal Mohamed from Athlético Marseille, Niang switched from coaching to sports management in September 2019 at the age of 39 and thus rose to sports director .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Mamadou Niang (basketball player) on EuroBasket.com, accessed September 11, 2019.
  2. UEFA .com: OM dreams of the title thanks to Brandão - Perfect addition from April 20, 2009 . Retrieved September 11, 2019.
  3. a b c d e f g h i j k Mamadou Niang - first useful, then indispensable. In: FIFA .com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association, April 11, 2008, accessed September 11, 2019 .
  4. ^ Mamadou Niang in the UEFA .com database . Retrieved May 3, 2019.
  5. UEFA .com: Strasbourg wins the League Cup - Strasbourg's tour of May 1, 2005
  6. UEFA .com: Ligue 1: A woman was twice a man - bankruptcy for Marseille on April 10, 2005
  7. UEFA .com: Niang extended at Marseille from February 20, 2008
  8. Mamadou Niang until 2014 from August 21, 2009 on Transfermarkt.de
  9. Mamadou Niang in the Ligue1.com database , accessed on May 3, 2019.
  10. UEFA .com: Party atmosphere in Marseille on May 6, 2010
  11. Fenerbahçe sign Niang. (No longer available online.) In: Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü. August 14, 2010, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on September 11, 2019 .
  12. UEFA .com: Mamadou Niang joins Fenerbahçe on August 14, 2010
  13. Match statistics: Mamadou Niang - Süper Lig - 2010/11 season on Weltfussball.de
  14. Match report: Kasımpaşa 2-6 Fenerbahçe (Spor Toto Super League - 09/27/2010) in the Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu database (English). Retrieved May 3, 2019.
  15. a b Mamadou Niang in the Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu database (English). Retrieved May 3, 2019.
  16. Mamadou Niang in the mackolik.com database (Turkish). Retrieved September 11, 2019.
  17. Official: Mamadou Niang leaves Fenerbahçe for Qatar on September 6, 2011 on Goal.com
  18. Match statistics: Mamadou Niang - AFC Champions League - season 2011 on Weltfussball.de
  19. Beşiktaş JK announced the loan of Mamadou Niang (English) January 31, 2013.
  20. a b AC Arles-Avignon announces the commitment of Mamadou Niang. (No longer available online.) AC Arles-Avignon, August 30, 2014, archived from the original on August 30, 2014 ; Retrieved August 30, 2014 (French).
  21. Player Profile: Mamadou Niang - Senegal, (Status: Nations Cup 2012) . (No longer available online.) In: MTNFootball.com. 2012, archived from the original on January 29, 2013 ; accessed in April 2019 .
  22. 2002 International matches (January - March) on RSSSF .com
  23. ^ Palmarès - Le Trophée UNFP du meilleur joueur. Season 2004/2005, May 2005 - 2005/2006, December 2005 - 2007/2008, December 2007. Union Nationale des Footballeurs Professionnels , accessed on September 24, 2019 (French).
  24. Senegal: Mamadou Niang and Aplha Oumar Sow voted players of the year. (No longer available online.) In: CAFOnline.com. Confédération Africaine de Football , December 20, 2009, archived from the original on December 23, 2009 ; accessed on September 11, 2019 (English).
  25. Africa: Mamadou Niang Named Senegalese Player Of The Year (English) from December 31, 2010 on Goal.com
  26. UEFA .com: Mamadou Niang was congratulated on scorer of the year on May 9, 2010 . Retrieved September 11, 2019.
  27. Athlético Marseille announces the commitments of Mamadou Niang and Souleymane Diawara (French) from August 14, 2018.
  28. ^ Athlético Marseille - Staff Technique (French) , accessed on August 25, 2018.
  29. GS Consolat becomes Athlético Marseille (French) from May 31, 2018.
  30. Athlético Marseille appoints Mamadou Niang as the new sports director (French) from September 20, 2019.