Matar Coly
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 10 November 1984 | ||
Place of birth | Tivaouane, Senegal | ||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Youth career | |||
1994—2002 | Génération Foot | ||
2002—2003 | Lens | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2003–2005 | Lens B | 38 | (11) |
2005–2008 | Neuchâtel Xamax | 104 | (35) |
2009 | Al-Wahda | 12 | (6) |
2009–2010 | Young Boys | 13 | (1) |
2010–2013 | Young Boys II | 5 | (1) |
2012–2013 | → Biel-Bienne (loan) | 21 | (9) |
2013–2014 | Lausanne-Sport | 20 | (4) |
2014–2015 | Biel-Bienne | 0 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Matar Coly (born 10 November 1984) is a Senegalese former professional footballer.
Career
[edit]Coly began his career in 1994 in Dakar with Génération Foot, at 10 years old. Aged 18 he joined the youth team of RC Lens, in 2003 was called up to the second team of Lens, where he played alongside Seydou Keita, Daniel Cousin and John Utaka.[1] In the summer of 2005 he transferred to Neuchâtel Xamax, where he played until January 2009 before being sold to Al-Wahda in the United Arab Emirates where he would remain for only six months. Coly returned to Switzerland during the summer of 2009, signing for BSC Young Boys. After featuring for the first-team in his first season with the club, he was moved down to the reserve team for the next two seasons and was finally sent on loan to second-tier side FC Biel-Bienne for the 2012–13 season. In the summer of 2013 Coly signed for FC Lausanne-Sport on a one-year contract with an option for a one-year extension, arriving as a free transfer.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Matar COLY". Site RC Lens (in French). sitercl.com. 26 April 2005. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
- ^ "Matar Coly signe au Lausanne-Sport". FC Lausanne-Sport (in French). lausanne-sport.ch. 20 June 2013. Archived from the original on 1 July 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
External links
[edit]- Matar Coly at WorldFootball.net
- 1984 births
- Living people
- Senegalese men's footballers
- Men's association football forwards
- Expatriate men's footballers in France
- Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
- Expatriate men's footballers in the United Arab Emirates
- RC Lens players
- Neuchâtel Xamax FCS players
- Al Wahda FC players
- BSC Young Boys players
- FC Biel-Bienne players
- FC Lausanne-Sport players
- Swiss Super League players
- Swiss Challenge League players
- Génération Foot players
- UAE Pro League players
- 21st-century Senegalese sportsmen
- Senegalese football biography stubs