Personal information | |||
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Full name | Mohameth Djibril Ibrahima Sow [1] | ||
Date of birth | 6 February 1997 | ||
Place of birth | Zürich, Switzerland | ||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) [2] | ||
Position(s) | Defensive midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Sevilla | ||
Number | 18 | ||
Youth career | |||
2007–2008 | BC Albisrieden | ||
2008–2015 | Zürich | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2014–2015 | Zürich II | 20 | (0) |
2015–2017 | Borussia Mönchengladbach II | 31 | (6) |
2016–2017 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 1 | (0) |
2017–2019 | Young Boys | 55 | (4) |
2019–2023 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 120 | (7) |
2023– | Sevilla | 24 | (1) |
International career‡ | |||
2013 | Switzerland U16 | 4 | (0) |
2013–2014 | Switzerland U17 | 14 | (0) |
2014–2016 | Switzerland U19 | 15 | (1) |
2016 | Switzerland U20 | 4 | (2) |
2016 | Switzerland U21 | 6 | (1) |
2018– | Switzerland | 41 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:09, 30 March 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:23, 15 October 2023 (UTC) |
Mohameth Djibril Ibrahima Sow (born 6 February 1997) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for La Liga club Sevilla and the Switzerland national team. [3]
Sow made his professional debut for Borussia Mönchengladbach on 25 October 2016, in the second round of the 2016–17 edition of the DFB-Pokal, against second-division club VfB Stuttgart. Sow was substituted on in the 88th minute for Lars Stindl. The match finished as a 2–0 home win for Gladbach. [4]
In June 2017, Sow returned to Switzerland, agreeing to a four-year contract with Young Boys. The transfer fee paid to Borussia Mönchengladbach was reported as €1.7 million. [5] [6]
He was part of the Young Boys squad that won the 2017–18 Swiss Super League, their first league title in 32 years. [7]
On 27 June 2019, Sow signed to Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt a contract until 2024. [8]
On 4 August 2023, Sow moved to La Liga club Sevilla for a fee €10 million and signed a five-year contract. [9]
Born in Switzerland, his father comes from Senegal and his mother's Swiss. [10] He earned his first appearance for the Switzerland national team on 8 September 2018, coming on as a substitute for Steven Zuber in a 6–0 win against Iceland in the UEFA Nations League. In May 2019, he played in 2019 UEFA Nations League Finals, where his team finished fourth. [11] In 2021 he was called up to the national team for the 2020 UEFA European Championship, where the team created one of the main sensations of the tournament reaching the quarter-finals. [12]
Club | Season | League | National cup | Europe | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Borussia Mönchengladbach II | 2015–16 | Regionalliga | 15 | 3 | — | — | — | 15 | 3 | |||
2016–17 | 16 | 3 | — | — | — | 16 | 3 | |||||
Total | 31 | 6 | — | — | — | 31 | 6 | |||||
Borussia Mönchengladbach | 2016–17 | Bundesliga | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | |
Young Boys | 2017–18 | Swiss Super League | 27 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 [lower-alpha 1] | 0 | — | 37 | 1 | |
2018–19 | 28 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 [lower-alpha 2] | 0 | — | 39 | 3 | |||
Total | 55 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 0 | — | 76 | 4 | |||
Eintracht Frankfurt | 2019–20 | Bundesliga | 29 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 [lower-alpha 3] | 0 | — | 40 | 1 | |
2020–21 | 28 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 29 | 0 | |||
2021–22 | 31 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 12 [lower-alpha 3] | 1 | — | 44 | 3 | |||
2022–23 | 32 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 8 [lower-alpha 2] | 0 | 1 [lower-alpha 4] | 0 | 47 | 4 | ||
Total | 120 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 160 | 8 | ||
Sevilla | 2023–24 | La Liga | 24 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 [lower-alpha 2] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 1 |
Career total | 231 | 18 | 22 | 0 | 49 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 303 | 19 |
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Switzerland | 2018 | 2 | 0 |
2019 | 4 | 0 | |
2020 | 7 | 0 | |
2021 | 11 | 0 | |
2022 | 12 | 0 | |
2023 | 5 | 0 | |
Total | 41 | 0 |
Sow is the cousin of the female footballer Coumba Sow. [15]
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