Cheick Fantamady Diarra (born 11 February 1992) is a Malian professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays as a striker for club

Paris 13 Atletico Paris 13 Atletico is a French football club based in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. It competes in the Championnat National, the third tier of French football. The club was founded in 1968 as ''Football Club Gobelins''. It was renamed ''F ...

Career

Diarra began his career with

Centre Salif Keita Jeunesse Sportive Centre Salif Keita (JS CSK) is a Malian football club based in Bamako. History Founded in 1995, former players include Mahamadou Diarra, Cheick Diabaté and Seydou Keita. The club was founded by Malian football legend Salif Kei ...

, later played with

Stade Malien Stade Malien is a Malian professional football and sports club based in Bamako. One of the two dominant clubs of Malian football, their eastern Bamako training grounds host other sports as well, including a successful basketball club. Football ...

. On 6 July 2011, he moved to

Rennes Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...

. He was loaned to

Ligue 2 Ligue 2 (, League 2), also known as Ligue 2 BKT due to sponsor (commercial), sponsorship by Balkrishna Industries, is a French professional football league. The league serves as the second division of French football and is one of two divisions ...

club

Istres Istres (; Occitan: Istre) is a commune in southern France, some 60 km (38 mi) northwest of Marseille. It is in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, of which it is a subprefecture. Location Istr ...

for the 2013–14 season. He was again loaned in Ligue 2 the following season to

Auxerre Auxerre ( , ) is the capital of the Yonne department and the fourth-largest city in Burgundy. Auxerre's population today is about 35,000; the urban area (''aire d'attraction'') comprises roughly 113,000 inhabitants. Residents of Auxerre are r ...

. On 15 July 2016, Fantamady Diarra joined

club

Tours Tours ( , ) is one of the largest cities in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Indre-et-Loire. The Communes of France, commune of Tours had 136,463 ...

. On 18 August 2018, he joined

club

Châteauroux Châteauroux (; ; oc, Chasteurós) is the capital city of the French department of Indre, central France and the second-largest town in the province of Berry, after Bourges. Its residents are called ''Castelroussins'' () in French. Climate Ch ...

. On 8 September 2021, he moved to

Créteil Créteil () is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Créteil is the ''préfecture'' (capital) of the Val-de-Marne department as well as the seat of the Arrondissement of Cré ...

for the 2021–22 season. On 17 July 2022, Diarra signed with

Career statistics

International goals

:''Scores and results list Mali's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Diarra goal''.

Honours

Mali *

Africa Cup of Nations The Africa Cup of Nations referred to as AFCON (french: Coupe d'Afrique des Nations, sometimes referred to as CAN, or TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons), and sometimes as African Cup of Nations, is the main internati ...

bronze:

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References

External links

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Cheick Fantamady Diarra's profile, stats & pics
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Diarra, Cheick Fantamady 1992 births Living people Footballers from Bamako Men's association football forwards Malian men's footballers Mali men's international footballers 2013 Africa Cup of Nations players Stade Malien players Stade Rennais F.C. players FC Istres players AJ Auxerre players Paris FC players Tours FC players LB Châteauroux players USL Dunkerque players US Créteil-Lusitanos players Paris 13 Atletico players Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players Championnat National players Malian expatriate men's footballers Malian expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate men's footballers in France 21st-century Malian people