Alphousseyni Keita

Alphousseyni Keita (born 3 November 1985) is a Malian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Alphousseyni Keita
Personal information
Date of birth (1985-11-03) 3 November 1985
Place of birth Bamako, Mali
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
2003–2005 Cercle Olympique de Bamako
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2006 Cercle Olympique de Bamako 13 (0)
2007 Djoliba AC 15 (1)
2007–2009 Le Mans 16 (0)
2009 → Nîmes (loan) 16 (0)
2010–2011 Nîmes 46 (1)
2011–2012 U.D. Leiria 7 (0)
2012–2014 Académica de Coimbra 16 (0)
2014−2015 Gil Vicente 13 (0)
Total 142 (2)
National team
2005–2010 Mali 13 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Club career

Born in Bamako, Keita began his career by Cercle Olympique de Bamako, in January 2007 joined to Djoliba AC. After six months he left Djoliba and moved to French side Le Mans, where he played 8 games for the reserve and was promoted to first team in January 2008.[1]

On 28 January 2009, the midfielder joined Nîmes Olympique on loan from Le Mans until the end of the season.[2] One year later, on 7 January 2010, Nîmes signed him permanently until June 2012.[3]

On 29 April 2012, while due to play a game for his new temporary team U.D. Leiria against Feirense, he was accused of running out of the dressing room with a money box containing approximately €6000, and vanished. Later the club stated that the accusation was false.[4] The player agreed not to press charges against the club for defamation.

International career

Keita played his first international game for Mali, on 3 September 2005 against Congo DR national football team.[5]

References
  1. "Alphousseyni Keita". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmerman.
  2. "Accueil - Nîmes Olympique". Nîmes Olympique (in French). Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  3. Alphousseyni Keita transféré à Nîmes Archived 11 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 1 May 2012. Retrieved 30 April 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 February 2009. Retrieved 29 January 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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