Fatou Kanteh

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Fatou Kanteh
Personal information
Full name Fatoumata Kanteh
Birth name Fatoumata Kanteh i Cham [lower-alpha 1] [1]
Date of birth (1997-07-02) 2 July 1997 (age 26) [2]
Place of birth Banyoles, Spain [3]
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) [4]
Position(s) Midfielder, [3] forward [2] [5]
Team information
Current team
 Villarreal
Number 10
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2013–2017 Porqueres
2018–2019 Logroño B
2018–2019 Logroño 17 (1)
2019–2022 Sporting Huelva 80 (9)
2022– Villarreal 17 (1)
International career‡
2021– Gambia 1 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:35, 29 January 2023 (UTC).
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 25 October 2022

Fatoumata Kanteh (born 8 May 1997), known as Fatou Kanteh or simply Fatou, is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or a forward for Liga F club Villarreal CF. Born in Spain to a Gambian father and a Senegalese mother, she represents the Gambia women's national team and the unaffiliated Catalonia national team.

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Club career

Kanteh has played for UE Porqueres, EdF Logroño and Sporting Huelva in Spain. She appeared in the professional 2021–22 Primera División for the latter. [1]

International career

Born in Spain, Kanteh is of Gambian and Senegalese descent. [6] On 25 October 2021, she made her senior debut for Gambia. On 9 February 2022, she was called up by Gambia for the 2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification (second round). [7]

Notes

  1. ↑ In this Catalan name, the first or paternal surname is Kantehand the second or maternal family name is Cham; both are generally joined by the conjunction "i".

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References

  1. 1 2 "Primera Iberdrola – Sporting de Huelva 0 - 3 At. Madrid". Royal Spanish Football Federation (in Spanish). 26 September 2021. Archived from the original on 26 September 2021. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Fatou". Royal Spanish Football Federation (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 8 October 2021. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Plantilla 21/22". Sporting de Huelva (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 28 August 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  4. ↑ "FATOUMATA KANTEH CHAM". Sporting de Huelva (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 26 September 2021. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  5. ↑ Fatou Kanteh at BDFutbol. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  6. ↑ "Kanteh y Gambia: del esperpéntico debut al proyecto solidario que le une con sus raíces". 28 December 2021.
  7. ↑ "Gambia Women's National Team Coach Upbeat Ahead of Cameroon Encounter". Gambia Football Federation. 9 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022.


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