Sidiki Maiga

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Sidiki Maiga
Personal information
Date of birth (1999-01-18) 18 January 1999 (age 26)
Position(s) Forward, winger
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(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]

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Career

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]

Style of play

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]

References

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  3. "Maiga se aprovecha de un error visitante para firmar los tres puntos". nuevaalcarria.com. 9 January 2022.
  4. "Maiga acerca a Mali a las Tri Series". leonoticias.com. 14 August 2016.
  5. "Extraordinarias sensaciones en el inicio de pretemporada del filial del Alcorcón bajo la dirección de Fran Blasco". futmadrid.com.
  6. "Barça: Maiga, nouvelle priorité" [Barça: Maiga a new priority]. abamako.com (in French). 17 November 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "Next Generation 2015: 50 of the best young talents in world football". The Guardian . 7 October 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  8. "Sidiki Maïga : «Ici, on me surnomme la machine»". Archived from the original on 4 January 2023. Retrieved 8 September 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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  11. "Maiga et Koita, accélérateurs du rêve malien". maliweb.net. 6 November 2015.
  12. "Malle, Traoré, Maiga: le trio d'attaque de feu du Mali à la CAN U17". africatopsports.com. 26 February 2015.
  13. "Composure and speed making Malian history".
  14. "Sidiki Maiga, la perla que enfrenta a Real Madrid y FC Barcelona". fichajes.com. 16 November 2015.
  15. Marsden, Rory. "Arsenal Transfer News: Sidiki Maiga Wanted Amid Real Madrid, Barcelona Rumours". Bleacher Report. bleacherreport.com.
  16. "Le rêve de Sidiki Maïga et Moussa Diakité". Archived from the original on 5 April 2023. Retrieved 8 September 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  17. "SIDIKI MAÏGA SIGNE SON PREMIER CONTRAT PROFESSIONNEL". koulouba.com.
  18. "Sidiki Maiga nominé!". malifootball.com.
  19. 1 2 Angulo, Adrián (20 July 2025). "Las joyas de Mali" [The jewels of Mali]. Marca (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  20. "Betis, Titi: Canterano de Mali que llama la atención en el filial" [Betis, Titi: Mali youth player attracting attention in the reserve team]. El Desmarque. 20 July 2025. p. Spanish. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  21. Loeches, J. M. (11 October 2019). "Calleja duda si poner a Titi en el once inicial" [Calleja doubts whether to put Titi in the starting XI]. La Tribuna de Toledo (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  22. "CD Toledo | Titi, el mejor de la jornada, ya asoma por los primeros puestos del Sector 12" [CD Toledo | Titi, the best of the day, is already looking at the top of the Sector 12 standings.]. El Español (in Spanish). 5 December 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  23. Loeches, J. M. (7 January 2020). "Titi quiere decir gol" [Titi means goal]. La Tribuna de Toledo (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  24. "El delantero del C. D. Toledo Sidiki Maiga es intervenido con éxito de su fractura de muñeca en el Hospital Quirónsalud Toledo" [C. D. Toledo striker Sidiki Maiga undergoes successful surgery on his wrist fracture at Hospital Quirónsalud Toledo]. Quirónsalud (in Spanish). 30 January 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  25. Fernández, Raúl (8 April 2020). "Dos africanos unidos por el fútbol" [Two Africans united by football]. Lanza  [ es ] (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  26. "Titi renueva por el CD Azuqueca" [Titi renews his contract with CD Azuqueca]. GuadalajaraDiario (in Spanish). 10 June 2022. Retrieved 20 July 2025.