Abdu Cadri Conté (born 24 March 1998) is a professional

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who plays as a

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or a

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for

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club

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. He represented

Sporting CP B Sporting Clube de Portugal B is the reserve team of Portuguese football club Sporting CP, a team based in Lisbon. Reserve teams in Portugal play in the same league system as the senior team, rather than in a reserve team league. However, they cann ...

Moreirense Moreirense Futebol Clube is a Portuguese professional football club based in Moreira de Cónegos, Guimarães Municipality, Minho. Founded on 1 November 1938, it plays in the Primeira Liga, holding home games at Parque de Jogos Comendador Joaquim d ...

and Young Boys in his career, making his

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debut with the second of those clubs. Born in Guinea-Bissau, Conté represented Portugal at youth level.

Club career

Sporting CP

Born in

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, Conté joined the youth academy of

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at the age of 13, from Sport Futebol Damaiense. He made his senior debut with the former's reserves on 7 January 2017 while still a junior, playing the second half of the 1–2 home loss against Braga B in the

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. Conté finished the 2017–18 season with 24 matches – 17 starts – as his team suffered relegation as third from the bottom. He also appeared for the under-23s before his departure.

Moreirense

On 22 July 2019, Conté signed with

club

on a four-year contract. He made his debut in the competition on 23 August, playing the entire 0–0 away draw against

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. Conté totalled 67 appearances during his spell at the

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, providing seven assists.

Troyes

On 12 January 2022, Conté joined

of the French

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on a four-and-a-half-year deal. He scored his first goal as a senior on 9 October, but in a 3–2 loss at

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were relegated due to bankruptcy. In the summer, he was loaned to

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champions Young Boys. At the end of the season, Young Boys decided not to exercise the option to buy, and Conté returned to Troyes.

International career

Born in Guinea-Bissau, Conté represented Portugal at youth level. He was called by under-21 manager

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for the second stage of the 2021 UEFA European Championship in May after Thierry Correia tested positive for

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, earning his first

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on 3 June by featuring 90 minutes in a 1–0 semi-final victory over

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Career statistics

Honours

Portugal U19 *

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runner-up:

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Portugal U21 *

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runner-up:

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Individual *UEFA European Under-19 Championship Team of the Tournament: 2017

References

External links

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Portuguese League profile
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Conte, Abdu 1998 births Living people Bissau-Guinean emigrants to Portugal Portuguese sportspeople of Bissau-Guinean descent Black Portuguese sportspeople 21st-century Portuguese sportsmen Bissau-Guinean men's footballers Portuguese men's footballers Footballers from Bissau Men's association football central defenders Men's association football fullbacks Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Sporting CP B players Moreirense F.C. players Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players ES Troyes AC players Swiss Super League players BSC Young Boys players Portugal men's youth international footballers Portugal men's under-21 international footballers Bissau-Guinean expatriate men's footballers Portuguese expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in France Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland Bissau-Guinean expatriate sportspeople in France Bissau-Guinean expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in France Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland