Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 6 June 2001 | ||
Place of birth | Bakoteh , Serekunda, The Gambia | ||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defensive midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Sampdoria (on loan from Roma) | ||
Number | 55 | ||
Youth career | |||
2016–2017 | Young Rieti | ||
2017–2021 | Roma | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2021– | Roma | 7 | (0) |
2023–2024 | → LASK (loan) | 7 | (0) |
2024– | → Sampdoria (loan) | 12 | (2) |
International career‡ | |||
2021– | Gambia | 15 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 28 April 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 19 January 2024 |
Ebrima Darboe (born 6 June 2001) is a Gambian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Serie B club Sampdoria, on loan from Roma. He also plays for the Gambia national team. [1]
Ebrima Darboe was born in Bakoteh, a district of Serekunda in The Gambia. [2] [3] [4] He left his birth country aged 14, alone, arriving in Libya, [3] [5] before sailing to Sicily, Italy, where he arrived as a refugee after a six-month journey. [6] [7]
In Italy, Darboe was taken in charge by the SPRAR – a service from the Italian ministry of the Interior – as an unaccompanied underage migrant and ended in Rieti, where he started playing with amateur club Young Rieti. [6] [8]
Darboe joined Italian club Roma in summer 2017, making his primavera debut for the youth team in January 2019. [6] [9] [10] Darboe signed his first professional contract with Roma the following July, having just turned eighteen. [3] [6] [10] He first featured on as an unused substitute in Roma's 2–1 Serie A home victory against Milan on 27 October 2019. [5] [6] [10] Darboe scored his first goal for the under-19 side in October 2020, [2] and got an additional brace later that month in the Campionato Primavera. [11] [12]
Darboe made his professional debut for the club on 2 May 2021, coming off the bench for the final ten minutes of Roma's 2–0 defeat against Sampdoria. [13] On 6 May, Darboe made his UEFA Europa League debut against Manchester United, in the second leg of the semi-finals. [14] Darboe played in the Derby della Capitale against rivals Lazio on 15 May, becoming the first player born in the 2000s to do so. [15]
On 7 July 2023, Darboe was loaned to Austrian Bundesliga club LASK for the 2023–24 season. [16] On 1 February 2024, this loan was cut short, and Darboe was then loaned to Serie B club Sampdoria. [17]
On 26 October 2020, while still a youth team player for Roma, Darboe received his first senior call-up for the Gambia national team by head coach Tom Saintfiet. [18] He debuted for the Gambia in a 2–0 friendly win over Niger on 6 June 2021. [19]
Darboe was selected to the Gambia squad for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, his national team's first continental tournament, where they made a sensational quarter-final. [20] [21]
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