Khaly Thiam

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Khaly Thiam
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Personal information
Full name Khaly Iyane Thiam
Date of birth (1994-01-07) 7 January 1994 (age 30)
Place of birth Dakar, Senegal
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Defensive midfielder
Team information
Current team
 MTK Budapest
Number 23
Youth career
Racing Club Dakar
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2012–2014 Kaposvári Rákóczi 25 (4)
2012–2014 Kaposvári Rákóczi II 13 (3)
2014–2018 MTK Budapest 47 (3)
2016 → Chicago Fire (loan) 20 (1)
2017 → Gaziantepspor (loan) 11 (1)
2017 → Dynamo Moscow (loan) 6 (0)
2018 → Levski Sofia (loan) 10 (0)
2018–2020 Levski Sofia 51 (4)
2020–2022 Altay 54 (3)
2022 Pendikspor 12 (0)
2023– MTK Budapest 23 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12 June 2024

Khaly Thiam (born 7 January 1994) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Hungarian club MTK Budapest. [1]

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Career

Club

Thiam started his senior footballing career in 2012 in Hungary with Kaposvári Rákóczi, making 25 appearances and scoring 4 goals in two years with the Nemzeti Bajnokság I team; he also played 13 times for the team's reserves in the second tier Nemzeti Bajnokság II. [1] In 2014, Thiam joined fellow Hungarian top-flight club MTK Budapest and subsequently made his debut on 26 July in a league match against Pécsi MFC. [1] 47 appearances and 3 goals in his first two seasons came prior to him leaving MTK to complete a loan move to Major League Soccer club Chicago Fire on 4 May 2016. [2] He scored one goal, vs. Philadelphia Union, in twenty games in the United States before returning to Hungary. [1]

Thiam with Dynamo Moscow in 2017 Khaly Thiam 2017.jpg
Thiam with Dynamo Moscow in 2017

On 25 January 2017, Thiam joined Süper Lig side Gaziantepspor on a three-and-a-half-year contract. [3]

On 21 August 2017, Russian club FC Dynamo Moscow announced the signing of Thiam on a one-year loan deal from MTK Budapest (as Gaziantepspor did not activate a buyout option). The Dynamo contract included a buyout option. [4] The loan was terminated on 12 February 2018 by mutual consent after Thiam failed to establish his position in the Dynamo squad. [5]

On 14 February 2018, he was loaned to the Bulgarian club Levski Sofia until the end of the season. [6] On 2 June 2018, Thiam was permanently transferred to Levski, where he established himself as a regular starter. On 28 June 2020, he captained the team in the 2:1 away win over Beroe in a First League game, which had been announced beforehand to be his last match for the "bluemen". [7]

In August 2020 Thiam joined Turkish club Altay. [8] In July 2022, Thiam joined Pendikspor [9] where he remained until December 2022. [10]

On 31 January 2023, Thiam returned to MTK Budapest, now in the second-tier NB II. He signed a two-and-a-half-year contract. [11]

Career statistics

Club

As of 8 December 2017. [1]
ClubSeasonLeagueCupLeague CupContinentalTotal
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Kaposvári Rákóczi
2012–13 610050—111
2013–14 1932140—254
Total2542190—365
Kaposvári Rákóczi II
2012–13 133———133
2013–14 00———00
Total133———133
MTK Budapest
2014–15 16100111—272
2015–16 31220—20352
2016–17 0000—0000
Total4732011120624
Chicago Fire (loan)
2016 20131——232
Total20131——232
Gaziantepspor (loan)
2016–17 11100——111
Total11100——111
FC Dynamo Moscow (loan)
2017–18 6000——60
Total6000——60
Career Total12212722012015115

Personal life

In an interview for Hungarian media in July 2019, Thiam announced he had sent his documents for a Hungarian passport since he moved to the country at age 18 and his wife, with whom they have two kids, is also Hungarian, and he also showed a desire to represent Hungary at international level. [12]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Khaly Thiam at Soccerway
  2. ↑ "Chicago Fire Acquire Senegalese Midfielder Khaly Thiam". Chicago Fire Soccer Club. 4 May 2016. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  3. ↑ "Khaly Thiam Gaziantepspor"da". Gaziantepspor. 25 January 2017. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  4. ↑ Хали Тиам – в «Динамо»! (in Russian). FC Dynamo Moscow. 21 August 2017.
  5. ↑ Хали Тиам покинул «Динамо» (in Russian). FC Dynamo Moscow. 12 February 2018.
  6. ↑ "Khaly Thiam signs with Levski" (in Bulgarian). PFC Levski Sofia. 14 February 2018. Archived from the original on 18 June 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  7. ↑ Dimitrov, Ivaylo (28 June 2020). "Левски" спечели гостуването си на Берое с 2:1" (in Bulgarian). topsport.bg. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  8. ↑ "Transfer haberleri: Khaly Thiam, Altay'da!" (in Turkish). hurriyet.com. 24 August 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  9. ↑ "Pendiksporlu Khaly Thiam'ın hedefi Süper Lig!" (in Turkish). Cumhuriyet. 13 July 2022. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  10. ↑ @PendiksporK (28 December 2022). "📢 Kamuoyuna Duyuru" (Tweet) (in Turkish). Retrieved 28 December 2022– via Twitter.
  11. ↑ "THIAM ÚJRA AZ MTK-BAN!" [THIAM IS BACK IN MTK!] (in Hungarian). MTK Budapest. 31 January 2023. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  12. ↑ Fradi helyett Moszkva és Szófia, de kérte magyar honosítását a szenegáli
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