Silas Gnaka

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Silas Gnaka
Personal information
Date of birth (1998-12-18) 18 December 1998 (age 25)
Place of birth Ouragahio, Ivory Coast
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Left back
Team information
Current team
 Magdeburg
Number 25
Youth career
Aspire Academy
Eupen
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2017–2022 Eupen 63 (0)
2022– Magdeburg 64 (4)
International career‡
2019 Ivory Coast U23 5 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22 May 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 05:05, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Silas Gnaka (born 18 December 1998) is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as left-back for German 2. Bundesliga club Magdeburg. [1]

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Club career

A product of Aspire Academy in Senegal, Gnaka signed a professional football contract with Belgian club Eupen in January 2017. [2] [3] He became a regular left-sided defender for the club under manager Claude Makélélé. [4]

In June 2022, German club 1. FC Magdeburg, newly promoted to the 2. Bundesliga, announced that Gnaka would join the club for the 2022–23 season. [5] [6]

International career

In March 2019, Gnaka earned his first call-up to the Ivory Coast under-23 team for a pair of 2019 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations qualification matches against Niger. [7] [8] He was named in the squad for the Africa U-23 Cup of Nations finals, which took place in November 2019 in Egypt. [9] He played every minute of the five tournament games, as the team finished runners-up after a 2–1 defeat in the final against Egypt. [10]

In 2021, Gnaka was named in the Ivory Coast squad for the Olympic football tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics. [11] He did not make an appearance during the competition, while the team got eliminated in the quarter-final against Spain.

Honours

Ivory Coast U23

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References

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  2. ↑ "Silas Gnaka, new player for KAS Eupen". as-eupen.be. K.A.S. Eupen. 10 February 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
  3. ↑ "Gnaka prolonge à Eupen". sport.be (in French). Golazo Media. 19 March 2018. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
  4. ↑ "Eupen: Gnaka, la solution côté gauche?". La Dernière Heure (in French). 13 August 2018. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
  5. ↑ Nowak, Patrick (6 June 2022). "Silas Gnaka verstärkt den FCM". Volksstimme (in German). Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  6. ↑ "1. FC Magdeburg verpflichtet Silas Gnaka". 1.fc-magdeburg.de. 1. FC Magdeburg. 6 June 2022. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  7. ↑ Marc, ALLA Jean (14 March 2019). "CAN U23 : Nicolas Tié, Kouamé Christian, Guiagon Parfait… les surprises du chef Kamara". Mondialsport.net.
  8. ↑ "CAF - Competitions - Qualifiers of Total U-23 Africa Cup of Nations - Match Details". www.cafonline.com.
  9. ↑ "CAN U23 "Egypte 2019" : Voici les Eléphants sélectionnés". www.fifciv.com (in French). 30 October 2019. Archived from the original on 22 October 2020. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  10. ↑ "Africa U23 Cup of Nations". soccerway.com. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  11. ↑ "Men's Olympic Football Tournament Tokyo 202 - Ivory Coast". fifa.com. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  12. ↑ "Matches | Total U-23 Africa Cup of Nations Egypt 2019". cafonline.com. Retrieved 26 October 2022.


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