Ismaïla Sarr

Ismaïla Sarr
Personal information
Full name Ismaïla Sarr
Date of birth (1998-02-25) 25 February 1998
Place of birth Saint-Louis, Senegal
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Playing position Winger
Club information
Current team
 Rennes
Number 7
Youth career
2009–2016 Génération Foot
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2017 Metz 31 (5)
2017– Rennes 29 (7)
National team‡
2015 Senegal U23 3 (0)
2017– Senegal 19 (3)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14 September 2018
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 9 September 2018

Ismaïla Sarr (born 25 February 1998) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as winger for French club Stade Rennais in Ligue 1 and Senegal national football team.

Club career

Early career

Born in Saint-Louis, Senegal, Sarr started his football career with Senegalese football club Génération Foot.[2]

FC Metz

On 13 July 2016, Sarr signed his first professional contract with FC Metz for five years.[3] He made his league debut on 13 August 2016 against Lille OSC at Stade Saint-Symphorien, the FC Metz's home ground, which Metz won by 3–2. In this match, he played 20 minutes, after he was substituted for Florent Mollet.[4] On 11 September 2016, Sarr played a league game against FC Nantes as a starter and he played a whole game and he was shown a yellow card.[5][6]

Stade Rennais

On 26 July 2017, Sarr signed a four-year contract with Ligue 1 side Rennes. The transfer fee paid to Metz was reported as €17 or 20 million, depending on the source.[7][8] He picked the transfer to Rennes over a move to FC Barcelona.[9]

International career

Sarr has represented his country at Senegal national under-23 football team. In 2015, he played in 2015 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations.[10] At that time, his age was only 17. He contributed that Senegal finished the competition in a fourth place, playing 3 games.

He played for the first time with Senegal national football team for a match against Namibia in September 2016 in Dakar (2–0) for 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification, for which Senegal is already qualified. As a symbol, it comes into play in the 67th minute in place of the former resident of Génération Foot and Metz, Sadio Mané.[11] On 8 January 2017, Sarr scored his first international goal in a friendly match against Libya national football team in Stade Municipal de Kintélé, Brazzaville.

In May 2018 he was named in Senegal's 23 man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.[12]

Career statistics

Club

As of 20 September 2018[13]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup1 League Cup2 Europe Other Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Metz 2016–17 3150020——335
Rennes 2017–18 2451020——275
2018–19 5200001[lower-alpha 1]1—63
Total 29710201100338
Career total 6012104011006613

1 Includes Coupe de France matches.
2 Includes Coupe de la Ligue matches.

  1. ↑ Appearances in UEFA Europa League

International

As of match played 9 September 2018[14]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Senegal 201610
201792
201891
Total193

International goals

Scores and results list Senegal's goal tally first.[14]
NoDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.8 January 2017Stade Municipal de Kintélé, Brazzaville, Congo Libya2–12–1Friendly
2.5 September 2017Stade du 4 Août, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Burkina Faso1–12–22018 FIFA World Cup qualification
3.8 June 2018Stadion Gradski vrt, Osijek, Croatia Croatia1–01–2Friendly

References

  1. ↑ "2018 FIFA World Cup: List of players" (PDF). FIFA. 15 July 2018. p. 26.
  2. ↑ "Football : Ismaïla Sarr". footballdatebase.eu. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  3. ↑ "Ismaïla Sarr s'engage pour 5 ans !" [Ismaïla Sarr has signed for five seasons.] (in French). fcmetz.com. 13 July 2016.
  4. ↑ "Metz vs. Lille - 13 August 2016 - Soccerway". us.soccerway.com. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  5. ↑ "Nantes vs. Metz - 11 September 2016 - Soccerway". us.soccerway.com. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  6. ↑ "Ismaila Sarr". Ligue de Football Professionnel. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  7. ↑ "Transferts : Ismaïla Sarr s'engage officiellement avec Rennes". L'Équipe (in French). 26 July 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  8. ↑ Okeleji, Oluwashina (27 July 2017). "Senegal's Ismaila Sarr 'rejects Barcelona' for Rennes move". BBC Sport. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  9. ↑ "Senegal's Ismaila Sarr 'rejects Barcelona' for Rennes move". BBC Sport. 27 July 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  10. ↑ "CAF - Competitions - U-23 Africa Cup of Nations - Team Details - Player Details - Ismaïla Sarr". cafonline.com. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  11. ↑ "Sénégal : première convocation pour le jeune attaquant de Metz Ismaïla Sarr". lequipe.fr. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  12. ↑ "Revealed: Every World Cup 2018 squad - 23-man & preliminary lists & when will they be announced?". Goal. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  13. ↑ Ismaïla Sarr at Soccerway
  14. 1 2 "Sarr, Ismaïla". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmerman. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
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