Ebrima Darboe

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Ebrima Darboe
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Darboe in 2024
Personal information
Date of birth (2001-06-06) 6 June 2001 (age 23)
Place of birth Bakoteh, The Gambia
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Defensive midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Frosinone
(on loan from Roma)
Number 55
Youth career
2016–2017 Young Rieti
2017–2021 Roma
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2021– Roma 6 (0)
2023–2024 → LASK (loan) 5 (0)
2024 → Sampdoria (loan) 14 (2)
2024– → Frosinone (loan) 0 (0)
International career‡
2021– Gambia 15 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10 May 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 Frosinone, on loan from Roma. He also plays for the Gambia national team. [1]

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Early life

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  [ it ] – 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]

Club career

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]

International career

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]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 23 August 2024 [1]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueNational Cup [a] EuropeOtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Roma 2020–21 Serie A 50001 [b] 0—60
2021–22 10004 [c] 0—50
Total600050—110
LASK (loan) 2023–24 Austrian Bundesliga 50102 [b] 0—80
Sampdoria (loan) 2023–24 Serie B 14200——142
Career total2521070—332
  1. ↑ Includes Austrian Cup
  2. 1 2 Appearance(s) in UEFA Europa League
  3. ↑ Appearance(s) in UEFA Conference League

International

As of match played 19 January 2024. [22]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Gambia 202160
202270
202300
202420
Total150

Honours

Roma

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