Cheick Diabaté (footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Cheick Tidiane Diabaté | ||
| Date of birth | 25 April 1988 | ||
| Place of birth | Bamako, Mali | ||
| Height | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Benevento | ||
| Number | 25 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2000–2006 | Centre Salif Keita | ||
| 2006–2008 | Bordeaux | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2008–2016 | Bordeaux | 127 | (50) |
| 2008–2009 | → Ajaccio (loan) | 30 | (14) |
| 2009–2010 | → Nancy (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 2016– | Osmanlıspor | 8 | (0) |
| 2017 | → Metz (loan) | 14 | (8) |
| 2018– | → Benevento (loan) | 1 | (1) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2005 | Mali U-17 | ||
| 2005– | Mali | 39 | (15) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22:16, 13 January 2018 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 21:21, 15 April 2017 (UTC) |
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Cheick Tidiane Diabaté (born 25 April 1988) is a Malian professional footballer who plays for Serie A side Benevento, on loan from Osmanlıspor.
Diabaté was promoted to the senior squad of Girondins de Bordeaux for the 2008–09 season following a successful season in the CFA, where he made 35 appearances and scored 18 goals. As Bordeaux preferred to field more experienced strikers, manager Laurent Blanc loaned Diabaté out to the Corsica-based and Ligue 2 club AC Ajaccio to enable him to get more playing time.
Diabaté made his debut for AC Ajaccio in their opening match of the 2008–09 Ligue 2 season, in a loss to Châteauroux, playing the full 90 minutes. In the second match, he scored a brace in their 3–1 away win over Stade de Reims. Three weeks later, he scored another brace, this time in a 4–0 home thrashing of Vannes. He scored one goal in each of the following three Ligue 2 matches with Ajaccio earning wins over Brest and Clermont and drawing with Nîmes.
Diabaté's positive play continued throughout the season scoring important match-winning goals in Ligue 2 matches against Guingamp,Lens,Angers, and Boulogne. He also scored a goal in the Derby Corse against SC Bastia, in a 1–1 home Ligue 2 draw. Diabaté finished the season with 14 Ligue 2 goals, which made him the club's top scorer and placed him 4th among the top Ligue 2 scorers of the season; Ajaccio managed to stave off relegation only on the final day of the season.
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