Abdoulaye Faye
Abdoulaye Diagne -Faye (2009)
Abdoulaye Diagne -Faye ( born February 26, 1978 in Dakar ) is a Senegalese football player. He's since the beginning of the 2012/13 season active for Hull City. active. Previously, he had already completed for Bolton Wanderers, Newcastle United, Stoke City and West Ham United on the defensive midfielder or central defender position for seven years in the Premier League.
Career
Association
Diagne -Faye began his club football career with the Senegalese capital club ASEC Ndiambour and eventually moved in 2001 to the top club and local rivals ASC Jeanne d' Arc, where he won the Senegalese championship in his only season. As previously Pape Bouba Diop his compatriot went Diagne -Faye a year later in the French Ligue 1 for there to join the RC Lens. There he completed two seasons and joined the 2004/05 season on loan to FC Istres Erstligaaufsteiger.
Again, on loan to Diagne -Faye then closed for the season 2005/ 06 in the Premier League Bolton Wanderers and made his debut there as a substitute for already 23 minutes later against his club Newcastle United. 2-0 home victory he watched Alan Shearer and won this personal duel against the most successful Premier League goal scorers of the 1990s. After ten inserts Bolton undertook the convincing by its resistance Diagne -Faye means of realization of a call option permanently and in the season 2006 /07 he came to the marches of Bruno N'Gotty and Radhi Jaïdi to Birmingham City nearly exclusively in the central defensive for use, where he formed a successful central defender pair with Abdoulaye Méïté that had a significant contribution to the good defense stats in the home matches of the club. Personal highlights during his two seasons at Bolton were the two goals against Arsenal in successive home games, leading the club to two wins against the favorite in series ( 2:0 and 3:1) and his reputation as a prolific header Player consolidated.
Mid-August 2007 were increasing rumors that Diagne -Faye would connect for two million pounds of Newcastle United to play there again under his former manager Sam Allardyce. On 30 August 2007, he confirmed this desire and his move to the clarification of smaller details and a medical examination. Shortly before the end of the transfer window on 31 August 2007, the trade was finally fixed by contract and officially officially confirmed as the next day as that of the defensive partner Habib Beye from Olympique Marseille. In August 2008, the Senegalese changed for 2.25 million pounds to Stoke City, where he signed a contract until 2011.
National
Diagne -Faye is current Senegalese national football team. He was nominated in 2004, 2006 and 2008 each of its national association in the squad for the African Cup of Nations.
Achievements
- Senegalese master: 2002