Amara Konate (Guinean footballer)
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 1 February 1999 | ||
Place of birth | Nzérékoré, Guinea | ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Cavese | ||
Number | 8 | ||
Youth career | |||
2017–2018 | Perugia | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2018–2021 | Perugia | 10 | (0) |
2018–2019 | → Rieti (loan) | 16 | (0) |
2021–2023 | Messina | 53 | (1) |
2023– | Cavese | 3 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 8 October 2023 |
Amara Konate (born 1 February 1999) is a Guinean footballer who plays as a midfielder for Italian Serie C Group C club Cavese.
Personal life
[edit]Born in Nzérékoré, Guinea, Konate left his native country in 2017 to move to Europe, crossing the Mediterranean Sea via Libya and then finally settling down to Italy.[1] After landing to Catania, he was moved to an immigration center in Cassino, where he started playing football with a local team, despite not having ever seriously played the game before.[1]
Career
[edit]Perugia
[edit]While in Cassino, he was noticed by a football agent, who proposed him to Perugia; on his trial, he convinced the club managers to sign him, joining the club's Under-19 squad in the 2017–18 season.[1][2]
Loan to Rieti
[edit]On 1 October 2018, Serie C club Rieti officially announced that Konate joined them on a season-long loan.[3] He made his Serie C debut for Rieti earlier, on 29 September 2018 in a game against Cavese as a 90th-minute substitute for Boubakary Diarra.[4]
Messina
[edit]On 30 July 2021 he joined Messina.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Dalla guerra al pallone, la favola di Konate. "Così il Perugia mi ha cambiato la vita"" (in Italian). PerugiaToday. 20 April 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
- ^ "Profile by TuttoCalciatori" (in Italian). TuttoCalciatori. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
- ^ "UNA SQUADRA INTERNAZIONALE, ARRIVA ANCHE KONATE: PRESTITO ANNUALE DAL PERUGIA" (in Italian). Rieti. 1 October 2018. Archived from the original on 7 March 2020.
- ^ "Game Report by Soccerway". Soccerway. 29 September 2018.
- ^ "KONATE ALL'ACR MESSINA" (in Italian). Perugia. 30 July 2021.
External links
[edit]- Amara Konate at Soccerway
- 1999 births
- Living people
- People from Nzérékoré
- Guinean men's footballers
- Men's association football midfielders
- Serie B players
- Serie C players
- Serie D players
- AC Perugia Calcio players
- FC Rieti players
- ACR Messina players
- Cavese 1919 players
- Guinean expatriate men's footballers
- Guinean expatriate sportspeople in Italy
- Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
- Guinean football biography stubs