Papa Gueye

Gueye in the jersey of Metalist Kharkiv (April 2011)

Papa Gueye ( born June 7, 1984 in Dakar ) is a Senegalese football player. He currently plays for Metalist Kharkiv Ukrainian top flight outfit.

Club career

Papa Gueye played at the beginning of his career from 2002 to 2004 in his hometown of Dakar for the AS Douanes. Here he played with, among others with the later Papiss Demba Cissé league player. The club won each of the Senegalese Cup in both seasons. Since no data are known, it is not clear whether Gueye has come in the cup matches are used. In the final two games of the defenders was not involved. During the winter break of the season 2004/ 05 he was bound by the Ukrainian first division club Volyn Lutsk. In the following season Lutsk grew in spite of equality with the FK Kharkiv and Krywbas Krivoy Rog due to goal difference from.

Papa Gueye joined after relegation to League Metalist Kharkiv competitors. There he was, together with the newly committed earlier Bundesliga player Milan Obradovic, the new duo in the center of defense and also to master Donetsk migrated Olexandr coachman replaced. In Gueyes first season 2006/ 07 Kharkiv reached the third place, the best finish in club history and first time qualifying for a European club competition. In addition, the club was able to provide the best defense in the league with 20 goals conceded. Also in the following years until 2012 played Dynamo Kiev and Shakhtar Donetsk the championship among themselves, while Kharkiv each took third place in the table. Greatest success for Gueye and his team was reaching the quarter finals in the UEFA Europa League 2011 /12. There, the club narrowly failed at the Portuguese representative Sporting Lisbon. In the 2012/13 season Metalist Kharkiv to improve its best league placement again, was runner-up behind Donetsk and was therefore unable to first qualify for the UEFA Champions League.

National

Due to its continued strong performance debuted Papa Gueye on 29 February 2012 for the Senegal national football team. At 0-0 in the friendly against South Africa, he played over the full length. Also for the 2012 Summer Olympics and in a previous friendly against Switzerland, he was appointed as one of three possible strengthening of players who may have at the Olympics, the U-23 age limit is already exceeded. In the four tournament games Gueye came over the full distance to use. In the quarterfinals, Senegal failed with 2:4 after extra time in the late Olympic champion Mexico.