Abdel Rahamane Diarra Khalil (born 28 December 1994) is an Ivorian professional

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who plays for

Leixões SC The Port of Leixões ( pt, Porto de Leixões, ) is one of Portugal's major seaports, located 4 km north of the mouth of the Douro River, in Matosinhos municipality, near the city of Porto. Leixões Sport Club The Port of Leixões ( pt, P ...

as a

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Club career

On 21 January 2020, Diarra joined

Danish 1st Division The 1st Division (''1. Division'') is the second-highest football league in Denmark, also known as NordicBet Liga for sponsorship reasons. From 1945 to 1991 the 1. Division was the name of the highest level of football in Denmark. With the forma ...

club

HB Køge HB Køge () is a professional Danish football club based primarily in the town of Herfølge, and secondly in the town of Køge, both in the Køge Municipality, part of 'Region of Zealand', in the eastern part of Zealand, south of Copenhagen. It w ...

on a 2.5-year contract. After terminating his deal with Køge on 30 May 2020 with zero appearances for the club, Diarra returned to Sweden and joined

Superettan Superettan (; meaning the super first (division)) is an association football league and the second highest league in the league system of Swedish men's football. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Al ...

club AFC Eskilstuna He was released again in July 2021.

International career

Diarra represented Ivory Coast U23s during the

2015 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations qualification The 2015 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations qualification was a men's under-23 football competition which decided the participating teams of the 2015 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations. Players born on or after 1 January 1993 were eligible to compete in the tour ...

matches.

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* * 1994 births Living people Ivorian men's footballers Ivorian expatriate men's footballers Men's association football defenders TFF First League players Superettan players Challenger Pro League players Academie de Foot Amadou Diallo players RC Strasbourg Alsace players Antalyaspor footballers Karşıyaka S.K. footballers Syrianska FC players K Beerschot VA players HB Køge players AFC Eskilstuna players Leixões S.C. players Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in France Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Expatriate men's footballers in France Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal People from Divo, Ivory Coast {{IvoryCoast-footy-bio-stub