Cheick Diabaté (footballer)

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Cheick Diabaté
Personal information
Full name Cheick Tidiane Diabaté
Date of birth (1988-04-25) 25 April 1988 (age 28)
Place of birth Bamako, Mali
Height 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
Playing position Striker
Club information
Current team
 Osmanlıspor
Number 14
Youth career
2000–2006 Centre Salif Keita
2006–2008 Bordeaux
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2008–2016 Bordeaux 128 (50)
2008–2009 → Ajaccio (loan) 30 (14)
2009–2010 → Nancy (loan) 2 (0)
2016– Osmanlıspor 1 (0)
National team‡
2005 Mali U-17
2005– Mali 37 (15)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19:32, 22 August 2016 (UTC).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 22:21, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Cheick Tidiane Diabaté (born 25 April 1988) is a Malian international football player who currently plays for Turkish club Osmanlıspor in Süper Lig.

Club career[edit]

Bordeaux[edit]

Diabaté was promoted to the senior squad of Bordeaux for the 2008–09 season following a successful season in the CFA, where he made 35 appearances and scored 18 goals. Due to a surplus of more experienced strikers, manager Laurent Blanc loaned him out to the Corsica-based and Ligue 2 club AC Ajaccio to get more playing time.

Ajaccio (loan)[edit]

Diabaté made his debut for Ajaccio in their opening match loss to Châteauroux playing the full 90 minutes. In the second match, he proved beneficial to the club scoring a brace in their 3–1 win over Stade Reims.[1] Three weeks later, he scored another brace, this time in a 4–0 thrashing of Vannes.[2] The following three weeks, he scored one goal in each match with Ajaccio earning wins over Brest[3] and Clermont[4] and drawing with Nîmes.[5]

Diabaté's positive play continued throughout the season scoring important game-winning goals against Guingamp,[6] Lens,[7] Angers,[8] and Boulogne.[9] He also scored a goal in the annual Derby Corse against Bastia with the match finishing in a 1–1 draw.[10] Diabaté finished the season with 14 goals, a team high and 4th among Ligue 2 topscorers, helping the club stave off relegation on the final day of the season.

Diabaté's play with Ajaccio earned him a contract extension with his parent club agreeing to remain in Bordeaux until June 2013.[11]

Nancy (loan)[edit]

Despite returning to Bordeaux on 1 July, on 20 July, he was sent on loan again, this time to fellow Ligue 1 club AS Nancy.[12] The striker has spent most of the stint playing in the reserves only featuring twice with the senior team.

Return to Bordeaux[edit]

Diabaté had an excellent 2013–14 season in Ligue 1 with Bordeaux, scoring goals against Toulouse FC, FC Lorient, and a brace against Sochaux taking his tally to 8 goals in 19 Ligue 1 outings as well as 2 goals in the French Cup.

International career[edit]

Diabaté started out with Mali's national under-17 team where they participated in the 2005 African U-17 Championship. He scored a goal in each of their group stage matches but Mali failed to advance to the knockout round.[13] Less than a month after the tournament, he would get his senior debut against Liberia in a 2006 World Cup qualifier where they won 4–1. He came on as an 85th-minute substitute for Dramane Coulibaly.[14] Diabaté was a member of the Mali side that earned third place at the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations. He finished the tournament as one of the top scorers, having netted 3 goals in total, including two in the third place play-off against Ghana on 11 February 2012.[15]

Statistics[edit]

As of match played 22 August 2016.[16]
Club Season League Cup Europe Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Ajaccio 2008–09 30 14 1 0 0 0 31 14
Nancy 2009–10 2 0 1 0 0 0 3 0
Bordeaux 2010–11 16 4 2 2 0 0 18 6
2011–12 26 8 0 0 0 0 26 8
2012–13 23 8 4 6 8 4 35 18
2013–14 25 12 1 0 2 0 28 12
2014–15 15 8 2 1 0 0 17 9
2015–16 23 10 2 2 4 1 28 16
Total 127 50 11 11 14 5 152 66
Osmanlıspor 2016–17 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Career total 161 64 13 11 14 5 188 80

Honours[edit]

Bordeaux
Mali

References[edit]

  1. ^ Reims v. Ajaccio Match Report. Ligue de Football Professionnel. Retrieved on 22 September 2011.
  2. ^ Ajaccio v. Vannes Match Report. Ligue de Football Professionnel. Retrieved on 22 September 2011.
  3. ^ Brest v. Ajaccio Match Report. Ligue de Football Professionnel. Retrieved on 22 September 2011.
  4. ^ Ajaccio v. Clermont Match Report. Ligue de Football Professionnel. Retrieved on 22 September 2011.
  5. ^ Nîmes v. Ajaccio Match Report. Ligue de Football Professionnel. Retrieved on 22 September 2011.
  6. ^ Ajaccio v. Guingamp Match Report. Ligue de Football Professionnel. Retrieved on 22 September 2011.
  7. ^ Lens v. Ajaccio Match Report. Ligue de Football Professionnel. Retrieved on 22 September 2011.
  8. ^ Angers v. Ajaccio Match Report. Ligue de Football Professionnel. Retrieved on 22 September 2011.
  9. ^ Boulogne v. Ajaccio Match Report. Ligue de Football Professionnel. Retrieved on 22 September 2011.
  10. ^ Ajaccio v. Bastia Match Report. Ligue de Football Professionnel. Retrieved on 22 September 2011.
  11. ^ Bordeaux: Trois prolongations. Mercato365.com (31 August 2011). Retrieved on 22 September 2011.
  12. ^ Trois Bordelais à Nancy. L'Equipe. Retrieved on 22 September 2011.
  13. ^ Díaz Rubio, Julian; Kalumiana, Kalumiana. "African U-17 Championship 2005". RSSSF. Retrieved 24 January 2012. 
  14. ^ "Match Report: Mali - Liberia". FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 24 January 2012. 
  15. ^ Agencies. "Mali beat Ghana to finish third". Daily Monitor. Uganda. Retrieved 13 February 2012. 
  16. ^ "Cheick DIABATé - Football : la fiche de Cheick DIABATé (Osmanlispor)". L'Equipe (in French). Retrieved 22 August 2016. 

External links[edit]

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