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Fortune Bassey

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Fortune Bassey
Personal information
Full name Fortune Akpan Bassey
Date of birth (1998-10-06) 6 October 1998 (age 26)
Place of birth Benin City, Nigeria
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
DAC 1904
Number 14
Youth career
Eagle's Wing
2018 Bohemians 1905
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2018–2019 Olympia Radotín 33 (24)
2019–2020 Ústí nad Labem 28 (5)
2020–2022 České Budějovice 25 (9)
2021Vlašim (loan) 14 (4)
2022– Ferencváros 15 (2)
2022Viktoria Plzeň (loan) 12 (1)
2023Degerfors (loan) 11 (0)
2023–2024Hapoel Petah Tikva (loan) 31 (5)
2024–DAC 1904 (loan) 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 6 October 2024

Fortune Akpan Bassey (born 6 October 1998) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Slovak club DAC 1904, on loan from the Hungarian club Ferencváros.

Club career

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Bassey is a youth product of the Nigerian academy Eagle's Wing and the Czech club Bohemians 1905. He began his senior career in the Czech Republic in the third division with Olympia Radotín, scoring 24 goals in 33 games. He then had a stint with Czech National Football League side Ústí nad Labem in 2019-20, before moving to the first division with České Budějovice.

On 17 January 2022, Bassey moved to the Hungarian side Ferencváros in a record sale from České Budějovice.[1] He finished his debut season in Hungary with 5 goals in 23 matches in all competitions.[2] In his debut season with Ferencváros he won the Nemzeti Bajnokság I and Magyar Kupa.[3] He returned to the Czech Republic on a loan with Viktoria Plzeň on 12 April 2022.[2] After half year Bassey returned back to Ferencváros.[4]

On 4 March 2023, Bassey moved on a new loan to Degerfors in Sweden until the end of 2023.[5]

On 7 September 2024, Bassey was loaned by DAC 1904 in Slovakia.[6]

Honours

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Ferencváros

References

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  1. ^ "Bassey už není k smíchu. Exbudějovický fotbalista jde za snem". iDNES.cz (in Czech). 19 January 2022.
  2. ^ a b Á, D. (12 August 2022). "FTC: a Qarabag BL-ellenfeléhez távozott kölcsönbe a támadó – hivata". NSO.hu.
  3. ^ percre), BORBOLA BENCE (összefoglaló), BACSKAI JÁNOS (percről (24 April 2022). "NB I: Ferencváros–Újpest rangadó - NSO". NSO.hu.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Neumann, Robert (14 February 2023). "Plzeň opouští útočník. Bassey se vrací do Ferencvárose". sport.cz (in Czech).
  5. ^ "Fortune Bassey klar för Degerfors" [Fortune Bassey ready for Degerfors] (in Swedish). Degerfors. 4 March 2023. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  6. ^ "DAC získal na hosťovanie útočníka z Ferencvárosu" [DAC acquired a striker from Ferencváros on loan] (in Slovak). DAC 1904. 7 September 2024. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
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