Yankuba Jarju

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Yankuba Jarju
Personal information
Full name Yankuba Jarju
Date of birth (1996-08-20) August 20, 1996 (age 28)
Place of birth Gambia
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Quevilly-Rouen
Number 12
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2014–2017 Real Banjul
2017–2018 Génération Foot
2018–2019 → Pau (loan) 30 (8)
2019–2021 Pau 28 (5)
2021–2024 Cholet 104 (34)
2024– Quevilly-Rouen 7 (1)
International career‡
2017– Gambia 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 5 October 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 13 October 2019

Yankuba Jarju (born 20 August 1996) is a Gambian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Championnat National club Quevilly-Rouen.

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Club career

Jarju started his career in his native Gambia, with Real Banjul, before spending a season with Génération Foot in Senegal. [1] He arrived in France in the summer of 2018, initially on loan with Pau, but on a permanent contract from the summer of 2019. He was part of the side that gained promotion to Ligue 2 in 2020, but did not establish himself at that level, and moved to Cholet in January 2021. [2]

International career

Jarju made his professional debut with the Gambia national football team in a 0–0 2018 African Nations Championship qualifying tie on 15 July 2017. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Yankuba Jarju at FootballDatabase.eu
  2. ↑ "National. Yankuba Jarju (Pau FC) va renforcer l'attaque du SO Cholet" (in French). footamateur.fr. 12 January 2021.
  3. ↑ Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Gambia vs. Mali (0:0)". www.national-football-teams.com.
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