Badara Badji

Badara Badji
Personal information
Date of birth (1994-02-24) 24 February 1994
Place of birth Dakar, Senegal
Height 1.92 m (6 ft 3 1⁄2 in)
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current team
 Delhi Dynamos
Youth career
Académie Mawade Wade
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2014 Yeggo Dakar
2014–2016 Dinamo Zagreb 0 (0)
2014–2016 → Dinamo Zagreb B 53 (25)
2016– Delhi Dynamos 3 (2)
National team‡
2013– Senegal 2 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13 October 2016.

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 13 October 2016

Badara Badji (born 24 February 1996) is a Senegalese footballer playing for Indian Super League side Delhi Dynamos.[1] He had stints with Dinamo Zagreb B and ASC Yeggo.

Career

Early career

Badji was born in Dakar, Senegal. He played in his home country with ASC Yeggo in the 2013 and 2013–14 Senegal Premier League.[2] He came to Yeggo from the Académie Mawade Wade.[3] While playing with Yeggo, he was selected to be part of the Senegalese U-20 squad at the 2013 Jeux de la Francophonie[4]

In summer 2014 Badji joined Croatian powerhouse Dinamo Zagreb on a two year loan spell. Badji has also made appearances for the Senegalese national team.[5][6][7]

Dinamo Zagreb

He was a regular and a prolific scorer for Dinamo Zagreb B team during the two seasons he spent there, the first one playing at 2014–15 Croatian Third League and next in the 2015–16 Croatian Second League. He has also made a solitary appearance for Dinamo Zagreb main team,[8] in a 2015–16 Croatian Cup first-round game against Oštrc Zlatar.[9]

Delhi Dynamos

Badji signed for the Delhi Dynamos FC, 15 days before the start of the season to pair up with Richard Gadze on the Dynamos frontline.[10]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.delhidynamos.com/news/1162-delhi-dynamos-f-c-add-badara-badji-and-lalruatthara-to-their-squad-for-hero-isl-2016
  2. ↑ Badara Badji at National-Football-Teams.com
  3. ↑ Badara Badji (Yeggo) : la révélation at galsenfoot.com, 23-4-2013, retrieved 13-10-2016 (French)
  4. ↑ Jeux de la francophonie : 28 joueurs de moins de 20 ans présélectionnés at Radiodiffusion Télévision Sénégalaise official website, retrieved 13-10-2016 (French)
  5. ↑ http://www.goal.com/en-india/news/7083/isl/2016/09/18/27649882/indian-super-league-2016-delhi-dynamos-make-late-additions
  6. ↑ http://www.modernafricantimes.com/sports/five-u20-players-selected-in-the-olympic-team-to-play-the-african-games/
  7. ↑ http://www.national-football-teams.com/country/163/2013/Senegal.html#
  8. ↑ http://www.goal.com/hr/news/7037/prva-hnl/2014/09/13/5101118/ekskluzivno-prvi-intervju-dinamova-senegalca-badjija-najbolji-su-
  9. ↑ Badara Badji profile at Soccerway
  10. ↑ http://sports.yahoo.com/news/indian-super-league-2016-delhi-133852923.html
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