Mama Baldé

Mama Samba Baldé (born 6 November 1995) is a Bissau-Guinean professional footballer who plays for French club Dijon FCO as a right winger or a right back. He also holds Portuguese citizenship.

Mama Baldé
Personal information
Full name Mama Samba Baldé[1]
Date of birth (1995-11-06) 6 November 1995[1]
Place of birth Bissau, Guinea-Bissau[1]
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Position(s) Winger, right back
Club information
Current team
 Dijon
Number 17
Youth career
2006–2007 Recreios Algueirão
2007–2013 Sintrense
2013–2014 Sporting CP
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013 Sintrense 1 (0)
2014−2019 Sporting CP B 58 (1)
2015 → Benfica Castelo Branco (loan) 10 (1)
2017–2019 → Aves (loan) 41 (11)
2019− Dijon 35 (11)
National team‡
2019– Guinea-Bissau 10 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23 December 2020
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15 November 2020

Club career

Sporting

Born in Bissau, Baldé moved to Portugal before his tenth birthday. In 2013, he signed with Sporting CP for his last year as a junior, arriving for free from S.U. Sintrense.[2]

Baldé made his professional debut with the reserves on 11 May 2014, coming on as a 75th-minute substitute in a 1–0 away win against S.C. Braga B for the Segunda Liga.[3] In January 2015, he was loaned to third division side Sport Benfica e Castelo Branco until June.[4]

Returned to Sporting B for 2015–16, Baldé scored his first league goal on 30 September 2015, but in a 1–3 home defeat to S.C. Olhanense.[5] He totalled 38 appearances during the season, helping to a tenth-place finish in the second level.

Baldé went on loan to Primeira Liga club C.D. Aves in the summer of 2017.[6] His first match in the competition occurred on 11 September, when he started as a right back in the 2–1 home victory over C.F. Os Belenenses.[7]

In February 2019, Baldé became Aves' all-time scorer in the Portuguese top division with nine goals.[2]

Dijon

On 27 June 2019, Baldé joined Dijon FCO on a three-year contract.[8]

International career

Baldé won his first cap for Guinea-Bissau on 8 June 2019, in a friendly against Angola where he replaced Toni Silva (2–0 loss in Penafiel).[9] He was selected in the squad for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations tournament.[10]

Honours

Aves

References
  1. "Mama Baldé" (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  2. Casaca, Manuel (15 February 2019). "Uma viagem ao passado de Mama Baldé: "Rendeu bola, como diz o outro"" [A trip to Mama Baldé's past: "We got the short end of the stick, as they say"]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  3. "Esgaio decide com penálti "à Panenka"" [Esgaio decides it with "Panenka-like" penalty]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). 11 May 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  4. "CNS: Benfica e Castelo Branco reforça-se no Sporting e Paços" [CNS: Benfica e Castelo Branco bolster in Sporting and Paços] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 27 January 2015. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  5. "Sporting B-Olhanense, 1–3: Leões derrotados com Labyad em campo" [Sporting B-Olhanense, 1–3: Lions defeated with Labyad on the pitch]. Record (in Portuguese). 30 September 2015. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  6. "OFICIAL: Sporting empresta Mama Baldé ao Desp. Aves" [OFFICIAL: Sporting loan Mama Baldé to Desp. Aves] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 14 July 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  7. "Reviravolta tira Aves dos lugares de descida" [Comeback takes Aves from relegation zone] (in Portuguese). Rádio Renascença. 11 September 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  8. "Mama Baldé signe à Dijon (officiel)" [Mama Baldé signs with Dijon (official)]. Le Figaro (in French). 27 June 2019. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  9. "Angola bate Guiné-Bissau em jogo com vários «portugueses»" [Angola beat Guinea-Bissau in match with several «Portuguese»] (in Portuguese). TVI 24. 8 June 2019. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  10. Soliman, Seif (12 June 2019). "Ittihad's Toni Silva named in Guinea Bissau's AFCON squad". KingFut. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  11. "Aves ganha a Taça de Portugal graças a bis de Guedes" [Aves win Portuguese Cup thanks to Guedes brace]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). 20 May 2018. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
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