Hemeya Tanjy (born 1 May 1998) is a Mauritanian

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who plays as a

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for Mauritanian club Nouadhibou and the Mauritania national team.

Club career

Tanjy grew up playing

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in the streets of his hometown of

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. He played for local teams such as Skok Club and Zamzam club before he was discovered by the National Football Academy, where he spent a few years. Tanjy made his senior debut with topflight club

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, where he played for three years. He finished as the league's leading scorer in the 2017–18 season. Tanjy signed a two-year deal with Nouadhibou in June 2018. In his first year with the club, he scored the game-winning goal in the title-clinching match against

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. He finished as the leading scorer in the 2020–21 season, scoring 19 goals in 18 matches. In December 2022, Tanjy became the first player in league history to score 100 goals.

International career

Tanjy played for the national under-20 team during the 2017 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations qualifiers in 2016, scoring twice in two matches. In May 2018, he was named to the 22-man squad selected to play at the 2019 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations qualifiers. He received a callup up to the senior national team in January 2018 ahead of the

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. He made his senior international debut during the first group stage match against

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on 13 January, replacing Moussa Samba in the 77th minute of an eventual 4–0 defeat. Mauritania was eliminated in the group stage. He was called up yet again for the

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in Egypt, though he did not appear in any games. On 9 October 2020, Tanjy scored his first senior international goal in a 2–1

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. He scored his second international goal on 22 June 2021, netting the second goal in a 2–0 win over Yemen national football team, Yemen that qualified Mauritania to the

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. In November 2021, Tanjy was named to the final squad for the FIFA Arab Cup.

Career statistics

Club

International

International goals

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

Honours

Nouadhibou *

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: 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23 Individual * Super D1 best young player: 2016–17 * Super D1 top scorer (Golden Boot): 2016–17, 2020–21, 2022–23

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tanjy, Hemeya Living people 1998 births Mauritanian men's footballers Mauritania men's international footballers Men's association football forwards 2018 African Nations Championship players 2019 Africa Cup of Nations players 2021 Africa Cup of Nations players 2023 Africa Cup of Nations players Mauritania men's under-20 international footballers Chemal FC players FC Nouadhibou players People from Nouakchott Mauritania men's A' international footballers 2022 African Nations Championship players