Diallo Guidileye (born 30 December 1989) is a Mauritanian

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, who currently plays as a defensive

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for

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, a club based in Rabat.

Club career

Guidileye began his career playing for

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, in the western suburbs of

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, before moving to

Troyes AC Espérance Sportive Troyes Aube Champagne (ESTAC), commonly known as Troyes, is a French association football club, based in Troyes, who play in Ligue 1, the highest level of France's football league system, and plays its home matches at the ...

on a youth contract. After impressing during training sessions, he was called up to the first team and made his professional debut, at the age of 17, on 30 November 2007, in a Ligue 2 match against

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. He started the match playing the full 90 minutes, picking up a yellow card in the process. Guidileye went on to become a staple of the starting eleven, appearing in every following match that season. Midway through the season, Guidileye agreed to his first professional contract signing three-year contract with the club. His surprising success at Troyes have attracted several Ligue 1 clubs to scout him. OGC Nice,

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, and Saint-Étienne have all declared their interest in the young midfielder. On 9 October 2009, Guidileye scored his first career league goal in a 4–0 victory over

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. In January 2011, Guidileye joined Stade Brestois 29, but remained on loan at Troyes until the end of the season. His 2011–2012 season with Brest was limited due to injuries: he could only participate to 6 games. In January 2013, he was loaned out to Ligue 2 club LB Chateauroux, for whom he played 10 league games. For the 2013–2014 season, he returned to Brest, who had been relegated to Ligue 2 in the meantime. On the last day of the 2019 January transfer window, Guidileye was one of 22 players on two hours, that signed for Turkish club

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. They had been placed under a transfer embargo but managed to negotiate it with the Turkish FA, leading to them going on a mad spree of signing and registering a load of players despite not even having a permanent manager in place. In just two hours, they managed to snap up a record 22 players - 12 coming in on permanent contracts and a further 10 joining on loan deals until the end of the season. In July 2019, Diallo joined

International career

Though Guidileye was born in Mauritania, he has

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and thus can represent

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on the national level. He has played for the France U-19 squad and recently was called up to participate in a training camp for future France under-21 players. On 25 May 2009, he was selected to the under-20 squad to participate in the

2009 Mediterranean Games The 2009 Mediterranean Games, officially the XVI Mediterranean Games ( it, XVI Giochi del Mediterraneo) and commonly known as Pescara 2009, was a multi-sport event held in Pescara, Italy, from 26 June to 5 July 2009. It was governed by the Inter ...

. In 2012, the French coach of Mauritania,

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, said he had reached an agreement with Guidileye to represent the senior national team from his country of origin in the future.

Goals

:''Scores and results list Mauritania's goal tally first.''

References

External links

LFP Profile
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Guidileye, Diallo 1989 births Living people French sportspeople of Mauritanian descent People from Gorgol Region Association football midfielders Mauritanian footballers Mauritania international footballers Mauritanian expatriate footballers French footballers France youth international footballers Competitors at the 2009 Mediterranean Games French expatriate footballers ES Troyes AC players Stade Brestois 29 players LB Châteauroux players AS Nancy Lorraine players AEL Limassol players Gençlerbirliği S.K. footballers Shamakhi FK players Elazığspor footballers Ligue 2 players Ligue 1 players Cypriot First Division players Süper Lig players Azerbaijan Premier League players TFF First League players Expatriate footballers in Cyprus 2019 Africa Cup of Nations players Mediterranean Games competitors for France Mauritanian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Mauritanian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Mauritanian expatriate sportspeople in Azerbaijan Expatriate footballers in Azerbaijan Expatriate footballers in Turkey Mauritanian expatriate sportspeople in Morocco Expatriate footballers in Morocco