Tiécoro Keita (born 13 April 1994) is a Malian professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club Fréjus Saint-Raphaël. He is a former Mali international.

Club career

Keita started his career at

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in 2012, where he trained with the first team, but played for the reserves in

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. He was loaned to

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for six months at the start of 2014, and made his first team debut on 21 February 2014 against Fréjus Saint-Raphaël in the

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. In August 2014 he joined

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, helping them to promotion from

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. He featured 30 times in Ligue 2, and when Paris FC were relegated at the end of the season, Keita stayed in Ligue 2, signing for

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International career

Keita represented the Mali under-20 national team four times at the

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. He also played at the

2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup The 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup was the nineteenth edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup, since its inception in 1977 as the FIFA World Youth Championship. It ran from 21 June to 13 July 2013. At the FIFA Executive Meeting in Zürich on 3 March 2011, ...

, appearing three times. Keita made his debut for the senior Mali national team in a 1–0 friendly loss to

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on 27 May 2016.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Keita, Tiecoro 1994 births Living people Footballers from Bamako Malian men's footballers Mali men's international footballers Men's association football midfielders Ligue 2 players Championnat National players Championnat National 2 players Championnat National 3 players En Avant Guingamp players Vannes OC players Paris FC players Red Star F.C. players Les Herbiers VF players ÉFC Fréjus Saint-Raphaël players Malian expatriate men's footballers Malian expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate men's footballers in France 21st-century Malian people