Mamadou Sarr (born 29 August 2005) is a French professional footballer who plays as a defender for Ligue 1 club Lyon.[1]
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Full name | Mamadou Sarr | |||||||||||||||
Date of birth | (2005-08-29) 29 August 2005 (age 17) | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Martigues, France | |||||||||||||||
Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Defender | |||||||||||||||
Club information | ||||||||||||||||
Current team | Lyon | |||||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||||
2011–2012 | ESSLB | |||||||||||||||
2012–2018 | Lens | |||||||||||||||
2018– | Lyon | |||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
2022– | Lyon B | 3 | (0) | |||||||||||||
National team‡ | ||||||||||||||||
2021–2022 | France U17 | 14 | (0) | |||||||||||||
2022– | France U18 | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||||
Honours
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 June 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22 September 2022 |
He is the son of former Senegalese International Pape Sarr. Mamadou was born in Martigues while his father was playing for Istres. Sarr spent most of his childhood living in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, following his father who spent a large part of his career at Lens.[2]
Sarr began his football career at Étoile Sportive de Saint-Laurent-Blangy, before joining Lens, where his father plays.[2]
Sarr then moved to Lyon in 2018.[2]
During the 2021-22 season, at only 16 years old, he established himself as a starter with the Rhone under-19 team. He thus plays a important role in Lyon's triumph in the Coupe Gambardella alongside players like Mathieu Patouillet, Hugo Vogel or Mohamed El Arouch. He scored in the quarter-final against Strasbourg[3] then in the semi-final against Troyes[4] [5] [6]
Eligible to play with Senegal, Mamadou Sarr nevertheless chose France for his first selections for the youth team, even recovering the captain's armband on several occasions with the under-17s.[2] In April 2022, he was selected with the France team for the 2022 UEFA European Under-17 Championship organized in Israel.[7] He was a starter during the competition, where France was crowned as champions after a defeating Netherlands 2-1 in the final thanks to Saël Kumbedi's brace.[8]
Trained as a central-back, Sarr also occasionally played as a defensive midfielder during at Lyon's youth teams.[2]
Lyon Youth
U17 France
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