Bacari

Bubacar Njie Kambi (born 14 March 1988), known as Bacari, is a Gambian footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club UE Vilassar de Mar.

Bacari
Bacari playing with Cherno More in 2013
Personal information
Full name Bubacar Njie Kambi
Date of birth (1988-03-14) 14 March 1988
Place of birth Mataró, Spain
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Forward
Club information
Current team
 Vilassar Mar
Youth career
1999–2006 Espanyol
2006–2007 Mataró
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2009 Premià 33 (13)
2009 Zaragoza B 11 (1)
2009–2011 Valladolid B 51 (28)
2011 Valladolid 8 (1)
2011–2012 Espanyol B 28 (20)
2012 Espanyol 1 (0)
2012–2013 Hospitalet 33 (13)
2013–2017 Cherno More 76 (19)
2018–2019 San Fernando 28 (4)
2019 Linense 15 (2)
2019– Vilassar Mar 19 (3)
National team‡
2016– Gambia 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 8 March 2020
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 4 June 2016

Club career

Born in Mataró, Barcelona, Catalonia, to Gambian parents,[1][2] Bacari played for four clubs as a youth (all in his native region, mainly RCD Espanyol),[3] finishing his development at CE Mataró and starting his career as a central defender, being known as Buba.[4] He made his senior debut with CE Premià, then spent two and a half seasons with Real Zaragoza and Real Valladolid's reserve teams.[5]

Bacari made his official debut with Valladolid's main squad on 20 March 2011, coming on as a substitute for Álvaro Antón for the last eight minutes of the 1–0 Segunda División home victory over Girona FC.[6] He contributed with one goal[7] in 131 minutes during the campaign, as the Castile and León side finished in seventh position.

In July 2011, Bacari signed with RCD Espanyol B.[8] On 3 December he made his first La Liga appearance with the first team, replacing Álvaro Vázquez in the dying minutes of a 1–2 away defeat against Valencia CF.[9] On 20 July of the following year, he joined CE L'Hospitalet in the third level.[10]

After being Hospi's second top scorer during his only season, only behind Sergio Cirio, Bacari moved to Bulgaria with PFC Cherno More Varna.[11] On 29 May 2017, after four First Professional Football League campaigns and an average of five goals, his contract was terminated by mutual consent.[12] In January 2018, Bacari joined San Fernando.[13]

International career

Bacari made his debut for Gambia on 4 June 2016, starting in a 0–4 home loss against South Africa for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.[14]

Club statistics
As of 5 March 2017
Club Season League Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Valladolid 2010–11[15] Segunda División 81001[lower-alpha 1]091
Espanyol 2011–12[15] La Liga 1000—10
Hospitalet 2012–13[15] Segunda División B 3313106[lower-alpha 1]04013
Cherno More 2013–14[16] First Professional League 351130—3811
2014–15[16] 12152—173
2015–16[16] 1130000113
2016–17[16] First Professional League 18411—195
Total 761993008522
Career total 118331037013536
  1. Appearances in promotion play-offs

Honours

Cherno More

References
  1. Gambian starlet spotted at Spanish side Espanyol Archived 27 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine; The Daily Observer, 2 February 2012
  2. Murillo, Óscar (17 June 2013). "Los ´chicos´ de Stosic se estudian a fondo la Segunda B" [Stosic ´boys´ have thoroughly studied Segunda División B] (in Spanish). Estadio Deportivo. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  3. Equipos del fútbol base (Youth system teams); at Webcindario (in Spanish)
  4. Els equips infantils (The infant squads); at Webcindario (in Catalan)
  5. El Promesas refuerza su delantera con Bakary (Promesas strengthen offense with Bakary); Real Valladolid, 30 July 2009 (in Spanish)
  6. El Valladolid sigue dando Guerra (Valladolid still wage War ("Guerra" in English)); Marca, 21 March 2011 (in Spanish)
  7. Goleada sin brillo del Valladolid ante un Salamanca que acabó con nueve (Uninteresting Valladolid rout against Salamanca who ended with nine); Marca, 27 March 2011 (in Spanish)
  8. Bacari ficha por Espanyol B (Bacari signs with Espanyol B) Archived 17 January 2013 at Archive.today; Aquesubimos, 14 July 2011 (in Spanish)
  9. Sold to the man on the bench!; ESPN Soccernet, 3 December 2011
  10. L'Hospi incorpora el porter Octavi i el davanter Bacari (Hospi add goalkeeper Octavi and forward Bacari); LH Digital, 20 July 2012 (in Spanish)
  11. Бакари подписа с Черно море (Bakary signed with Cherno More); PFC Cherno More, 9 July 2013 (in Bulgarian)
  12. "ПФК "Черно море" се раздели с 8 футболисти" [PFC Cherno More parted ways with 8 players] (in Bulgarian). PFC Cherno More. 29 May 2017. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  13. Rodriguez, Joaquín (4 January 2018). "Buba Bacari, delantero de primera para el San Fernando" [Buba Bacari, a top striker, signs with San Fernando] (in Spanish). grada3.com. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  14. Bafana Bafana thump Gambia in Bakau; SuperSport, 4 June 2016
  15. "Bacari: Bubacar Njie Kambi". BDFutbol. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  16. "Bacari". Soccerway. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
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