Ricardo Faty

Football player infobox
playername = Ricardo Faty


fullname =
nickname =
height = height|m=1.92
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1986|8|4
cityofbirth = Villeneuve-Saint-Georges
countryofbirth = France
currentclub = FC Nantes
clubnumber = 23
position = Defensive midfielder
youthyears = 2004–2005
youthclubs = RC Strasbourg
years = 2005–2006
2006–2007 2007
2008–
clubs = RC Strasbourg
A.S. Roma
→ Bayer Leverkusen "(loan)"
→ FC Nantes "(loan)"
caps(goals) = 07 (0)
11 (0)
01 (0)
15 (3)
nationalyears =
nationalteam =
nationalcaps(goals) =
pcupdate = January 28, 2008
ntupdate =

Ricardo Faty (born 4 August 1986 in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France) is a French Defensive midfielder, who currently plays for FC Nantes. However, he is owned by Italian Serie A team AS Roma.

He is the younger brother of Jacques Faty, who plays for French Ligue 1 side Olympique de Marseille. Though they were born in France, their father is Senegalese and their mother is from Cape Verde.

Football career

Ricardo Faty's football career began in the 2004–05 season of the Championnat de France Amateurs for RC Strasbourg, in which he played 27 matches and scored one goal. The following year he earned fourteen more caps in the CFA, along with twelve matches for RC Strasbourg's professional squad, five being in cup competition. His Ligue 1 debut was on October 29, 2005.

During Uefa Cup 200506, AS Roma faced Strasbourg in the group stage, and Luciano Spalletti noted the young Frenchman, so the following year, due to Strasbourg's relegation to Ligue 2 and Olivier Dacourt's departure from Roma to Inter Milan, Faty was signed to "giallorossi" for a fee of 350,000 Euros for a five-year contract.

He made his Champion's League debut with Roma against Olympiacos at the Karaiskákis Stadium. He was given the job of man-marking the former Brazilian star Rivaldo. Roma eventually won the match 1-0. He employed this role so well and efficiently that Luciano Spalletti praised him and many tabloids and newspapers named him the "new" Patrick Vieira.

At the end of his first season in Serie A he said that, though he was satisfied of his experience at AS Roma, he would like to transfer on loan to have more chances to play and thus, on July 6, he moved to German team Bayer Leverkusen for a two year loan. [cite web | url = http://it.uefa.com/competitions/uefacup/news/kind=1/newsid=559216.html | title = Roma: Faty a Leverkusen | accessdate = 2007-12-01 | date = 2007-07-06 | language = Italian | publisher = uefa.com] In January 2008 he was loaned to FC Nantes, where he will remain until the end of the 2008-09 Ligue 1 season. [cite web | url = http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_3075691,00.html | title = Faty claims Everton interest | accessdate = 2008-01-28 | date = 2008-01-24 | | publisher = skysports.com]

References

External links

* [http://www.racingstub.com/page.php?page=joueur&id=586 Statistics] fr icon
* [http://soccernet.espn.go.com/players/stats?id=66618&cc=5901 2005-06 statistics]
* [http://fussballdaten.de/spieler/fatyricardo/ Career stats at fussballdaten.de] de icon