- Pape Diakhaté
Infobox Football biography
playername = Pape Diakhaté
fullname = Pape Malick Diakhate
height = 1.84 m
nickname =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1984|06|21
cityofbirth =Dakar
countryofbirth =Senegal
currentclub = flagicon|Ukraine Dynamo Kyiv
clubnumber =
position = Centre-back
youthyears = -2001
youthclubs = flagicon|SenegalUS Ouakam
years = 2001-2007
2007-present
clubs = flagicon|FranceAS Nancy
flagicon|Ukraine Dynamo Kyiv
caps(goals) = 141 (3)
18 (0)
nationalyears = 2005-
nationalteam = flagicon|Senegal Senegal
nationalcaps(goals) = 21 (1)
pcupdate = March 4, 2008
ntupdate = August 7, 2008Pape Diakhaté (born
June 21 1984 inDakar ) is aSenegal ese professionalfootball (soccer) player, currently withFC Dynamo Kyiv .Career
Diakhaté has been at Nancy since his youth, and made his
Ligue 2 debut onOctober 20 2001 , playing the first half of the 2-0 win overLB Châteauroux . Originally a left-back and capable of playing as a wide midfielder, he is recognised mainly as acentre-back .He played 25 league matches the following season, and has appeared regularly for the club, although his 2003-04 season was severely disrupted by injury.
2004-05 brought Diakhaté favourable recognition, winning a place in
France Football 's team of the season and also a full international call-up from Senegal. After Nancy's promotion toLigue 1 in 2005, Diakhaté was also part of the Senegalese team that finished fourth in the2006 African Cup of Nations .Diakhaté is seen as a leading defender for the future and has therefore been linked to a number of larger clubs such as Juventus, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Schalke and Stuttgart as well as Lyon. Although even due to speculations that Diakhaté has signed a long term contract with Nancy.
However, on
July 18 2007 it was announced that he has signed a contract with Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv. Diakhaté made his debut for Dynamo onAugust 1 2007 in a league fixture againstFC Chornomorets Odessa . [http://www.fcdynamo.kiev.ua/ua/on_line_sostav/?match1=2912] . Pape quickly established himself in a first team and has even captained it. Month later onSeptember 1 he broke acollar bone in a match againstFC Kharkiv , but has recovered since and returned to the team.External links
*uk icon [http://www.fcdynamo.kiev.ua/ua/dynamo/players/?player=5064 Diakhaté's profile at Dynamo's official website]
* [http://www.lfp.fr/joueur/index.asp?no_joueur=104151 Career stats at lfp.fr]
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