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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 18 January 1999 | ||
Position(s) | Forward, winger | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Real Bamako | |||
2017–2019 | Alcorcón B | ||
2019–2021 | Toledo | ||
2021–? | Azuqueca | ||
International career | |||
Mali U17 | |||
Mali U20 | |||
* Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Sidiki Maiga (born 28 December 1998) is a Malian footballer who most recently played as a forward or winger for Azuqueca. Besides Mali, he has played in Spain. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
As of November 2015, aged 16, Maiga was playing for Real Bamako. [6]
In June 2015 he won the 2015 African U-17 Championship with the Mali under-17 national team. [7] British newspaper The Guardian listed Maiga in its "Next Generation 2015" list of "50 of the best young talents in world football" in early October 2015. [7]
Maiga represented Mali at the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup, helping them finish second place. [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]
In 2016, Maiga was one of five nominees for the Golden Boy award for the best young player in Africa. [19]
In January 2017, Maiga joined Spanish club Alcorcón along with Mali U20 teammate Moussa Diakite, being initially assigned to the side's B team. [19] In July 2019, while contracted to Alcorcón, he trialled with Betis Deportivo, the reserves of La Liga side Real Betis, and scored two goals in a friendly against Écija Balompié. [20]
In October 2019 Maiga was expected to make his debut for Spanish club Toledo under manager Manu Calleja. [21] He was competing for Toledo's best player of the season award in December 2020, being placed fifth in the rankings. [22] He had scored four goals in nine appearances by early January 2020, averaging a goal every 90 minutes. [23] In late January 2020, he underwent surgery on a scaphoid fracture in his wrist. [24] In April, while the season was interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, he was living with his Mali teammate and friend Samu Diarrá, who played as a goalkeeper for Villarrubia in Segunda División B. [25]
Maiga extended his contract for a season with Azuqueca in June 2022, having scored 15 goals in 28 appearances in the previous season. [26]
At the 2015 African U-17 Championship, Maiga was deployed at the right side of a three-man attack. [7] At the time, The Guardian's Nick Ames described him as a "pacy, tricky menace of a winger with set-piece prowess". [7]
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