Moussa Sow

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Moussa Sow
Moussa Sow.jpg
Moussa Sow at the 2018 World Cup
Personnel
birthday January 19, 1986
place of birth Mantes-la-Jolie ,  France
size 180 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
1997-2002 FC Nantes
2002-2003 SC Amiens
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2003-2010 Rennes Stadium B 72 (26)
2004-2010 Rennes stadium 82 (12)
2007-2008 →  CS Sedan  (loan) 30 0(6)
2010-2011 Lille OSC 54 (31)
2012-2015 Fenerbahçe Istanbul 106 (51)
2015-2019 Al-Ahli Dubai 32 (14)
2016-2017 → Fenerbahçe Istanbul (loan) 25 (12)
2018 →  Bursaspor  (loan) 11 0(4)
2019 Gaziantep FK 13 0(4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2005 France U-19 5 0(2)
2007 France U-21 2 0(0)
2009-2018 Senegal 44 (16)
1 Only league games are given.

Moussa Sow (born January 19, 1986 in Mantes-la-Jolie , France ) is a Senegalese soccer player who also has French citizenship .

Career

society

Moussa Sow began his professional career in 2004 in Brittany at the French first division club Stade Rennes , for which he was used in both the reserve and the professional team. The then 18-year-old made his professional debut in October 2004 in Ligue 1 against FC Metz when he came on for Alexander Frei in the 87th minute . On November 3, 2005, he made his game debut in the European Cup against Rapid Bucharest in the group stage of the UEFA Cup . Sow scored his first goals with the professionals of Stade Rennes in January 2006 in the first round of the French Cup against USC Corte ; he scored two goals in two minutes for a 3-2 win for his team.

Shortly after the start of the 2007/08 season , he was loaned to the French second division club CS Sedan for the rest of the season . With Sedan, Sow just missed promotion to fourth in Ligue 2 . He also reached the semi-finals of the French Cup with the team and was eliminated from the eventual cup winners Olympique Lyon .

From 2010 he played for Lille OSC. In the 2010/11 season, Sow was Ligue 1's top scorer with 25 goals. In that season he won the French Cup and the French championship with Lille OSC .

27 January 2012 changed Sow for ten million euro transfer fee to Turkey for Fenerbahce , where he signed a four and a half year contract.

At the end of August 2015, he moved to Al-Ahli Dubai in the United Arab Emirates for a transfer fee of sixteen million euros , where he signed a three-year contract; his shirt number was 8. In addition, Sow received one million euros in hand money when he switched to Al-Ahli Dubai. In his second league game on October 15, 2015, he scored his first goal of the season in a 3-1 win over Al-Sharjah . In the 2015/16 season , Al-Ahli was Dubai champion and Sow was the best scorer of his team with 13 goals in 24 competitive games and finished seventh on the list of goalscorers.

On August 31, 2016, Sow returned to the Süper Lig and was loaned to the Turkish first division club Fenerbahçe Istanbul for the 2016/17 season. Moussa Sow scored his first goal of the season in a 5-1 win over Kasımpaşa Istanbul . Since October 2nd, 2017 he has been playing again for Al-Ahli Dubai . But at the beginning of January 2018 there was another change for six months, this time to Bursaspor . In January 2019 he moved to the Turkish second division to Gazişehir Gaziantep FK .

National team

Sow went through the French junior national teams of the U-19 and U-21 , in addition he won the 2005 European Championship in Northern Ireland with the U-19 juniors .

Later (2009) Moussa Sow decided to play for the Senegalese national team in the future. He made his international debut in September 2009 in the friendly against Angola and a year later he also scored his first international goal in a 4-2 win in the 2012 Africa Cup qualifier against the Democratic Republic of the Congo .

Sow was appointed to the Senegalese squad for the 2018 World Cup , but he was not used. In August 2018 he announced his resignation from the national team after a total of 50 international matches and scored 18 goals.

Achievements and Awards

National team

French U19 national team
Moussa Sow in action for Fenerbahçe Istanbul (2015).

society

Rennes Stadium (2003-2010)
Lille OSC (2010-2011)
Fenerbahçe Istanbul
Al-Ahli Dubai

Personal honors

  • Ligue 1 top scorer : 2010/11 (25 goals in 36 league games)
  • Elected to the Ligue 1 team of the year : 2011
  • Senegal's Footballer of the Year: 2011, 2013
  • Elected to the Team of the Year Africa ( CAF Best XI): 2011

Web links

Commons : Moussa Sow  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Player Profile: Moussa Sow (English) on Stade-Rennais-Online.com
  2. ↑ Moussa Sow UEFA player profile / General information in the UEFA .com database . Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b Fenerbahçe SK announces the transfer agreement with OSC Lille and Moussa Sow (Turkish) from January 27, 2012 on KAP.gov.tr
  4. ↑ Fenerbahçe announces the signing of Moussa Sow (Turkish)
  5. ↑ a b c d Moussa Sow in the Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu database (English). Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  6. ↑ KAP.gov.tr ​​(stock exchange report): Bildirim: Moussa Sow (summer 2015) from August 31, 2015
  7. ↑ UAE Arabian Gulf League 2015/16: List of goalscorers & assists . In: Soccerway.com . Retrieved May 11, 2016.
  8. ↑ Player Profile: Moussa Sow - Senegal ( memento of October 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on MTNFootball.com
  9. ^ Senegal striker Moussa Sow announces his international retirement. BBC Sport, August 2, 2018, accessed August 15, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Moussa Sow in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English). Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  11. ↑ RSSSF .com: France - Topscorers (English).
  12. ↑ rfi.fr: Sénégal: Moussa Sow désigné footballeur sénégalais 2011 of December 27, 2011.
  13. ↑ Africa: Ghana Dominates CAF's Best XI from December 25, 2011 on allAfrica.com (English).
personal data
SURNAME Sow, Moussa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Senegalese soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Mantes-la-Jolie , France