Badara Badji

Badara Badji
Personal information
Date of birth (1994-02-24) 24 February 1994
Place of birth Dakar, Senegal
Height 1.92 m (6 ft 3 1⁄2 in)
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current team
 Inđija
Number 24
Youth career
Académie Mawade Wade
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2014 Yeggo Dakar
2014–2016 Dinamo Zagreb 0 (0)
2014–2016 → Dinamo Zagreb B 53 (25)
2016–2017 Delhi Dynamos 12 (2)
2018 Mladost Lučani 11 (1)
2018– Inđija 3 (1)
National team‡
Senegal U-20 3 (2)
Senegal U-23 7 (3)
2013 Senegal 2 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 6 October 2018
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 27 May 2018

Badara Badji, known as Bado (born 24 February 1994) is a Senegalese footballer who plays for Inđija. He had stints with ASC Yeggo, Dinamo Zagreb B, Mladost Lučani and Delhi Dynamos, and has represented Senegal national team.

Career

Early career

Badji was born in Dakar, Senegal. He played in his home country with ASC Yeggo in the 2013 and 2013–14 Senegal Premier League.[1] He came to Yeggo from the Académie Mawade Wade.[2] While playing with Yeggo, he was selected to be part of the Senegalese U-20 squad at the 2013 Jeux de la Francophonie[3]

In summer 2014 Badji joined Croatian powerhouse Dinamo Zagreb on a two-year loan spell. Badji has also made appearances for the Senegalese national team.[4][5][6]

Dinamo Zagreb

He was a regular and a prolific scorer for Dinamo Zagreb B team during the two seasons he spent there, the first one playing at 2014–15 Croatian Third League and next in the 2015–16 Croatian Second League. He has also made a solitary appearance for Dinamo Zagreb main team,[7] in a 2015–16 Croatian Cup first-round game against Oštrc Zlatar.[8]

Delhi Dynamos

Badji signed for the Delhi Dynamos FC, 15 days before the start of the season to pair up with Richard Gadze and Marcelo Leite Pereira on the Dynamos frontline.[9]

Mladost Lučani

On January 21, 2018, Badara Badji, nicknamed Bado, signed with Serbian top-flight side FK Mladost Lučani.[10]

International career

Bado made 3 appearances having scored 2 goals for Senegal national under-20 football team.[10] He then made 7 appearances having scored 3 goals for Senegal national under-23 football team.[10]

He made 2 appearances for Senegal national football team.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. "Badara Badji". National Football Teams. Archived from the original on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
  2. ↑ "Badara Badji (Yeggo) : la révélation". Galsenfoot.com. 2013-04-23. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
  3. ↑ Jeux de la francophonie : 28 joueurs de moins de 20 ans présélectionnés at Radiodiffusion Télévision Sénégalaise official website, retrieved 13-10-2016 (in French)
  4. ↑ "Indian Super League 2016: Delhi Dynamos make late additions to squad, rope in Lalruatthara and Badara Badji". Goal.com. Archived from the original on 2016-10-24. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
  5. ↑ "Account Suspended". Modernafricantimes.com. Archived from the original on 2016-10-13. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
  6. ↑ Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. "Senegal (2013)". National Football Teams. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
  7. ↑ "Ekskluzivno - prvi intervju Dinamova Senegalca Badjija: Najbolji su Ćorić i Ademi, a cilj mi je Real". Goal.com (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 2016-10-13. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
  8. ↑ Badara Badji profile Archived 2016-10-13 at the Wayback Machine. at Soccerway
  9. ↑ "Indian Super League 2016: Delhi Dynamos make late additions to squad, rope in Lalruatthara and Badara Badji". Sports.yahoo.com. 2016-09-18. Archived from the original on 2016-12-15. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
  10. 1 2 3 Senegalac Bađi pojačao Mladost, nekada igrao za zagrebački Dinamo at Sportski žurnal, 21-1-2018 (in Serbian)
  11. ↑ Badara Badji at National-Football-Teams.com
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