Amara Konate (Guinean footballer)

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Amara Konate
Personal information
Date of birth (1999-02-01) 1 February 1999 (age 24)
Place of birth Nzérékoré, Guinea
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Cavese
Number 32
Youth career
2017–2018 Perugia
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(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 D club Cavese.

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Personal life

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

Perugia

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

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

On 30 July 2021 he joined Messina. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "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.
  2. ↑ "Profile by TuttoCalciatori" (in Italian). TuttoCalciatori. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  3. ↑ "UNA SQUADRA INTERNAZIONALE, ARRIVA ANCHE KONATE: PRESTITO ANNUALE DAL PERUGIA" (in Italian). Rieti. 1 October 2018. Archived from the original on 7 March 2020.
  4. ↑ "Game Report by Soccerway". Soccerway. 29 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "KONATE ALL'ACR MESSINA" (in Italian). Perugia. 30 July 2021.


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