Oumar Kondé (born 19 August 1979) is a Swiss former professional

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who played as a defender in the 1990s and 2000s.

Career

Youth football and FC Basel

Born in

Binningen Binningen may refer to: * Binningen, Switzerland Binningen ( Swiss German: ''Binnige'') is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. It is nestled in a valley, on a plateau, and on ...

, Switzerland, and his of Congolese descent, Kondé started his youth football with career with local club

SC Binningen Sport Club Binningen is a Swiss football club based in Binningen. Founded in 1920, the club competes in 2. Liga, the fifth tier of the Swiss Football League. They play at Spiegelfeld, a stadium in Binningen which opened in 2005 and has a capaci ...

in his native Switzerland. In 1994 he moved to

FC Basel Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel, FCB, or just Basel, is a Swiss football club based in Basel, in the Canton of Basel-Stadt. Formed in 1893, the club has been Swiss national champions 20 times, Swiss Cup winners 13 times, and ...

and joined their first team during their 1995–96 season signing his first professional contract under head-coach

Claude Andrey Claude "Didi" Andrey (born 13 June 1951) is a former Swiss footballer, who most recently managed Yverdon-Sport FC in the Challenge League. Andrey took over FC Basel for their 1993–94 season. His team included the likes of Swiss internatio ...

. Kondé played his debut for the club in the

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game on 10 March 1996. It was an away match and won 2–0 against

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. Kondé played his domestic league debut for the club in the away game on 14 April as Basel were defeated 3–0 by Grasshopper Club. He scored his first goal in the Swiss Cup on 15 March 1997. It was a home match in the

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and Basel won 2–1 against Young Boys. Between the years 1995 and 1999 Kondé played a total of 90 games for Basel scoring a total of four goals. 58 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, six in the Swiss Cup, one in the UI Cup and 25 were friendly games. He scored that one goal in the domestic cup and the others were scored during the test games. He played for Basel for three and a half years before he was sold to

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club

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for £500,000. However, he made just one appearance for the club as a substitute, in a 0–0 draw with

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in the

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SC Freiburg

Kondé had stints in the German

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with

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and

Hansa Rostock FC Hansa Rostock () is a German association football club based in the city of Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The club is also called as "the cog" because of its club crest. They have emerged as one of the most successful clubs from the forme ...

Later years

Kondé next played for

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club Hibernian. He was eventually deemed surplus to requirements at the

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club by manager John Collins. After a short trial with the Austrian side

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, Kondé signed for Greek club

Panionios Panionios G.S.S. Football Club (Greek: ΠΑΕ Πανιώνιος Γ.Σ.Σ.), the ''Pan- Ionian Gymnastics Club of Smyrna'' (Πανιώνιος Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Σμύρνης, ''Panionios Gymnastikos Syllogos Smyrnis'') ...

in January 2007. After a six-month spell in Greece, he returned to his homeland on 28 August 2007 and signed a three-year contract for

FC Zürich Fussballclub Zürich, commonly abbreviated to FC Zürich or simply FCZ, is a Swiss football club based in Zürich. The club was founded in 1896 and has won the Swiss Super League 13 times and the Swiss Cup 10 times. The most recent titles a ...

. He left FC Zürich and signed, on 9 March 2009, with the Chinese club

Chengdu Blades Chengdu Tiancheng F.C. () was a Chinese professional football club based in Chengdu, China who last played in the 26,000 seater Shuangliu Sports Center in the China League One division. The club was founded on 26 February 1996 and was formerly k ...

a loan deal through 31 December 2009. Kondé spent some time with

TOT FC TOT Sport Club ( th, ทีโอที สปอร์ต คลับ) is a Thai defunct football club based in Lak Si district in northern Bangkok which represents the national telecommunications company, TOT Public Company Limited. TOT orig ...

, then he returned to

and spent one year with amateur club

FC Kreuzlingen FC Kreuzlingen is a Swiss football club from the town of Kreuzlingen in Canton Thurgau, the German-speaking region of Switzerland. The team currently plays in 2. Liga Interregional 2. Liga Interregional (2nd League Interregional in english) ...

and again returned to his club of origin. Kondé was capped by the Switzerland national under-21 team.

References

Sources

* Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2017/2018. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. * Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel.
Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" Homepage

External links

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