Full name Dominique Da Silva Playing position Name Dominique Silva Height 1.77 m Date joined 2011 | Years Team Role Footballer Weight 76 kg | |
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Date of birth (1989-08-16) 16 August 1989 (age 26) Current teams Mauritania national football team (Forward), Al Ahly SC (#26 / Forward) | ||
Dominique Da Sylva (born 16 August 1989) is a Mauritanian footballer of Bissau-Guinean descent who plays as a forward for Ermis Aradippou and the Mauritanian national team. He spent time at the Académie de Football Nouakchott before joining Tunisian club CS Sfaxien in 2007. Four years later, he was transferred to Egyptian club Al-Ahly.
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Early life
Da Silva was born in Nouakchott to Bissau-Guinean parents. He is Catholic.
Club career
He spent the 2006–07 season at the city's Académie de Football before joining Tunisian club CS Sfaxien in 2007. In his second season with Sfaxien, he scored four goals in ten appearances in Tunisia's top division, the Ligue Professionnelle 1. He scored three league goals in the 2009–10 campaign and two more the following season before joining Egyptian side Al-Ahly for $600,000 in January 2011. Da Silva scored three more goals during the 2010–11 campaign and helped the Al-Ahly win the Egyptian Premier League for the seventh successive season. On 9 September 2012, he came on as a late substitute in Al-Ahly's 2–1 win over ENPPI in the Egyptian Super Cup. In January 2014, Da Silva moved to Zamalek SC. He made an immediate impression, scoring in each of his first four games.
International career
He made his debut for the Mauritania national team in 2007. He scored his first goal for his country against Morocco in 2008.
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