Yacouba Nasser Djiga (born 15 November 2002) is a Burkinabé professional

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who plays as a defender for Serbian club

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and the Burkina Faso national team.

Club career

Djiga played his youth football with Vitesse FC in Burkina Faso. After having received various call-ups to their first team and having made his team debut during the last games of the 2018–19 season, he advanced to their squad in the 2019–20 season. Djiga played 14 games for them, scoring one goal, in the Deuxième Division the second tier of

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. Despite the season remaining uncompleted due to the

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, because the team were league leaders, they won promotion to the

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. In the following season Djiga was regular starter in the team. He received a calls-up to the Burkina Faso U20 team and played four games for them in the

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. During the transfer window in the summer of 2021, Djiga signed for Swiss top flight side

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after receiving interest from

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in the French

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and Belgian and Spanish clubs. Basel announced his signing on 19 June. After having played in five test games, on 29 July 2021 Djiga debuted for FC Basel's first team during a 2–0 away win over Partizani in the second qualifying round of the

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. Unfortunately Djiga injured himself during the game and was forced out for six weeks with a capsular ligament injury in the left ankle. He returned to the team on 19 September to play the

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match against armature team FC Rorschach-Goldach. On 24 October Djiga then played his

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debut for his new club in the home game at

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as Basel won 2–0 against

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and he played the entire game. On 28 August 2022, Djiga joined

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in France on a season-long loan.

International career

Djiga debuted for the Burkina Faso national team in a 5–0 friendly loss to

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on 24 March 2022.

Career statistics

Club

References

External links

Profile on the Swiss Football League homepage

Profile at FC Basel
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Nasser Djiga
at playmakerstats.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Djiga, Nasser 2002 births 21st-century Burkinabé people Living people Burkinabé men's footballers Burkina Faso men's under-20 international footballers Burkina Faso men's international footballers Men's association football defenders FC Basel players Nîmes Olympique players Red Star Belgrade footballers Swiss Super League players Burkinabé expatriate men's footballers Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in France Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in Serbia Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland Expatriate men's footballers in France Expatriate men's footballers in Serbia 2023 Africa Cup of Nations players