Full name Pape Moussa Konaté Playing position Height 1.81 m Career start 2010 | Number 14 Weight 78 kg Salary 750,000 EUR (2012) | |
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Date of birth (1993-04-03) 3 April 1993 (age 23) 2005–2010 ASC Toure Kunda de Mbour Similar Kara Mbodji, Lamine Gassama, Mame Biram Diouf, Aliou Cissé, Saliou Ciss | ||
Pape Moussa Konaté (born 3 April 1993) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Swiss club FC Sion and the Senegal national team.
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Career
Moussa Konaté started his career playing for Senegalese second division club ASC Toure Kunda de Mbour, helping them to win promotion to top division and win the Senegal FA Cup for 2010 season, which resulted in 2011 CAF Confederation Cup appearance. In spring 2011 Konaté went to Israel for a month trial for Maccabi Tel Aviv. He impressed Maccabi's coach Moti Ivanir enough to become Maccabi's first signing for the 2011–12 season.
Maccabi Tel Aviv
After signing a two-year contract with the club, Konaté became Maccabi's fifth foreign player on the squad. He made his debut playing in UEFA Europe League second qualifying round against FK Khazar Lankaran scoring the first goal and assisting the second to Eliran Atar resulting in Maccabi's victory 3–1.
FC Krasnodar
After excelling playing for Senegal in the 2012 Summer Olympics scoring five goals, Konaté joined Russian club FC Krasnodar for a fee of €2 million after previously being linked with Premier League clubs. After joining Krasnodar, he revealed he had rejected Premier League clubs in favour of Krasnodar.
Loan to Genoa
On 12 July 2013, Konaté joined Italian Serie A side Genoa on a season-long loan deal.
International career
Konaté started all of Senegal's matches at the 2012 Olympic tournament in which the nation reached the quarter-finals. In the first group game at Old Trafford, he scored an 82nd-minute equaliser in a 1–1 draw with hosts Great Britain.
Konaté was named in the Sengalese squad for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations after Diafra Sakho withdrew due to injury.
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