Moussa Konaté (footballer)

Moussa Konaté
Konaté with Sion in 2016
Personal information
Full name Pape Moussa Konaté[1]
Date of birth (1993-04-03) 3 April 1993
Place of birth M'Bour, Senegal
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2]
Playing position Forward, winger
Club information
Current team
 Amiens
Number 15
Youth career
2005–2010 ASC Toure Kunda de Mbour
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2011 ASC Toure Kunda de Mbour 9 (3)
2011–2012 Maccabi Tel Aviv 29 (5)
2012–2014 Krasnodar 10 (1)
2013–2014 → Genoa (loan) 25 (1)
2014–2017 Sion 93 (35)
2017– Amiens 32 (12)
National team‡
2010–2012 Senegal U20 4 (0)
2012 Senegal U23 4 (5)
2012– Senegal 27 (10)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 05:32, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 9 September 2018

Pape Moussa Konaté (born 3 April 1993) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a forward for French club Amiens and the Senegal national team. He was called up for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Career

Early career

Moussa Konaté started his career playing for Senegalese second division club ASC Toure Kunda de Mbour, helping them to win promotion to top division and win the Senegal FA Cup for 2010 season, which resulted in 2011 CAF Confederation Cup appearance. In spring 2011 Konaté went to Israel for a month trial for Maccabi Tel Aviv. He impressed Maccabi's coach Moti Ivanir enough to become Maccabi's first signing for the 2011–12 season.[3][4]

Maccabi Tel Aviv

After signing a two-year contract with the club, Konaté became Maccabi's fifth foreign player on the squad. He made his debut playing in UEFA Europe League second qualifying round against FK Khazar Lankaran scoring the first goal and assisting the second to Eliran Atar resulting in Maccabi's victory 3–1.[5]

Krasnodar

After excelling playing for Senegal in the 2012 Summer Olympics scoring five goals,[6] Konaté joined Russian club FC Krasnodar[7][8] for a fee of €2 million after previously being linked with Premier League clubs.[9] After joining Krasnodar, he revealed he had rejected Premier League clubs in favour of Krasnodar.[10]

Loan to Genoa

On 12 July 2013, Konaté joined Italian Serie A side Genoa on a season-long loan deal.[11]

Amiens

On 13 August 2017, Konaté signed a four-year contract with Amiens SC.[12]

International career

Konaté started all of Senegal's matches at the 2012 Olympic tournament in which the nation reached the quarter-finals. In the first group game at Old Trafford, he scored an 82nd-minute equaliser in a 1–1 draw with hosts Great Britain.[13]

Konaté was named in the Sengalese squad for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations after Diafra Sakho withdrew due to injury.[14]

In May 2018 he was named in Senegal's 23 man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.[15]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 30 August 2018[16]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueCupOtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Maccabi Tel Aviv2011–12Israeli Premier League 295009[lower-alpha 1]2387
Krasnodar2012–13Russian Premier League 1012000121
Genoa (loan)2013–14Serie A 2511000261
Sion2014–15Swiss Super League 2716541[lower-alpha 1]23322
2015–16 2910217[lower-alpha 1]33814
2016–17 33854003812
2017–18 41002[lower-alpha 1]162
Total 933512910611550
Amiens SC2017–18Ligue 1 271021002911
2018–19 33000033
Career totals 18755171019822373
  1. 1 2 3 4 Appearance(s) in UEFA Europa League

International

As of 9 September 2018[17]
Senegal
YearAppsGoals
201241
201300
201421
201574
201651
201730
201863
Total2710

International goals

Senegal score listed first, score column indicates score after each Konaté goal (includes one unofficial goal).[18]
#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.25 May 2012Stade de Marrakech, Marrakesh, Morocco Morocco
1–0
1–0
Friendly
2.31 May 2014Estadio Pedro Bidegain, Buenos Aires, Argentina Colombia
1–2
2–2
3.13 January 2015Stade Larbi Benbarek, Casablanca, Morocco Guinea
5–1
5–2
4.28 March 2015Stade Océane, Le Havre, France Ghana
1–0
2–1
5.
2–0
6.13 June 2015Stade Léopold Sédar Senghor, Dakar, Senegal Burundi
1–0
3–1
2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
7.17 November 2015Stade Léopold Sédar Senghor, Dakar, Senegal Madagascar
2–0
3–0
2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
8.29 March 2016Stade Général-Seyni-Kountché, Niamey, Niger Niger
1–0
2–1
2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
9.23 March 2018Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca, Morocco Uzbekistan
1–1
1–1
Friendly
10.11 June 2018Untersberg-Arena, Grödig, Austria South Korea
2–0
2–0
11.9 September 2018Mahamasina Municipal Stadium, Antananarivo, Madagascar Madagascar
1–0
2–2
2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification

Honours

Club

Sion

References

  1. ↑ "Uefa Profile Moussa". UEFA.
  2. ↑ "2018 FIFA World Cup: List of players" (PDF). FIFA. 15 July 2018. p. 26.
  3. ↑ "Maccabi Tel Aviv recruit Senegal's Moussa Konaté". Goal.com. 13 June 2011. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
  4. ↑ "M. Konaté". Soccerway. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
  5. ↑ "UEFA Europa League 2011/12 - History - M. Tel-Aviv-Xäzär Länkäran –". Uefa.com. 14 July 2011. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
  6. ↑ "World Player of the Week: Moussa Konate - Senegal". Goal.com. 30 July 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
  7. ↑ "Senegal striker Moussa Konate joins Russia's Krasnodar". BBC Sport. 24 August 2012. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
  8. ↑ "Official: Moussa Konate joins Kuban Krasnodar". Goal.com. 23 August 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  9. ↑ "THE INSIDER: West Ham join Newcastle and City in Konate chase as Villa eye Fletcher". Daily Mail. 30 July 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
  10. ↑ "Konate opts for Russian move". Sky Sports. 24 August 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
  11. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 July 2013. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
  12. ↑ "MOUSSA KONATE EST UN JOUEUR DE L'AMIENS SC" (in French). Amiens SC. 13 August 2017.
  13. ↑ Fletcher, Paul (26 July 2014). "London 2012: Great Britain denied by late Senegal strike". BBC Sport. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  14. ↑ "2015 Africa Cup of Nations: Diafra Sakho ruled out for Senegal". BBC Sport. 7 January 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  15. ↑ "Revealed: Every World Cup 2018 squad - 23-man & preliminary lists & when will they be announced?". Goal. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  16. ↑ Moussa Konaté at Soccerway. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  17. ↑ "Moussa Konaté". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmerman. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  18. ↑ "Konaté, Moussa". National Football Teams. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
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