Salif Keïta (football player, 1946)

Salif Keita
Salif Keita
Personnel
birthday	December 6, 1946
place of birth	Bamako ,  Mali
size	176 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	AS Real Bamako
1960-1963	Stade Malien
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1963	Pioneers Ouolofobougou
1963-1965	AS Real Bamako
1965-1966	Stade Malien
1966-1967	AS Real Bamako
1967-1972	AS Saint-Etienne	150 (125)
1972-1973	Olympique Marseille	18 0(10)
1973-1976	Valencia CF	76 0(34)
1976-1979	Sporting Lisbon	63 0(43)
1979-1980	New England Tea Men	39 0(17)
Indoor
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1979-1980	New England Tea Men	13 0(23)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1963-1972	Mali	at least 13 0(11)
1 Only league games are given.

Salif Keïta (born December 6, 1946 in Bamako ) is a former Malian football player . Since June 2005 he has been President of the Fédération Malienne de Football (FMF).

Sports career

Keïta is considered one of the most successful football players in his country's history. In his home country he was three-time national champion with AS Real Bamako in the 1960s . In 1967 he moved to AS Saint-Étienne in Division 1 . With the club he was French champion three times in a row from 1967/68 to 1969/70 and twice cup winners (1968 and 1970). In the five years in Saint-Étienne , the striker scored 125 goals in 150 first division games and he was twice the second best league hunter . During the 1972/73 season Salif Keïta played for Olympique Marseille (18 games in the D1, 10 goals). He then moved to Valencia .

In 1970 Keïta was voted Africa's first footballer of the year . His greatest success with the national team came in 1972 when he led them to the final of the Africa Cup , in which the team was defeated 2: 3 by the team from the Congo . Keïta was the top scorer in this tournament with five goals.

Web links

• Salif Keïta on NASLJerseys.com (English)

References and footnotes

1. ↑ Application data with the exception of the indoor season 1979/80