Souleymane Dembélé (born 3 September 1984) is a

Mali Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the List of African countries by area, eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over . The country is bordered to the north by Algeria, to the east b ...

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

player, currently playing for

Stade Malien Stade Malien is a Malian professional Association football, football and sports club based in Bamako. One of the two dominant clubs of Malian football, their eastern Bamako training grounds host other sports as well, including a successful bask ...

International

He was part of the

U-23 team who finish third in group stage of 2003

FIFA World Youth Championship The FIFA U-20 World Cup is the biennial football world championship tournament for FIFA members' men's national teams with players under the age of 20. The competition has been staged every two years since the inaugural tournament in 1977 when i ...

. Dembélé was selected for the

2008 Africa Cup of Nations The 2008 Africa Cup of Nations, also known as the MTN Africa Cup of Nations due to the competition's sponsorship by MTN, was the 26th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the biennial football tournament for nations affiliated with the Confede ...

. He made his debut with the senior side in a

2006 FIFA World Cup The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international Association football, football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which had won the right to FIFA World Cup hosts ...

qualifying match against Liberia on 5 June 2005.

References

External links

* 1984 births Living people Malian men's footballers Mali men's international footballers Mali men's under-20 international footballers Olympic footballers for Mali Expatriate men's footballers in Morocco Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics 2008 Africa Cup of Nations players AS Bamako players Malian expatriate men's footballers Stade Malien players Djoliba AC players Fath Union Sport players Footballers from Bamako Men's association football midfielders 21st-century Malian sportsmen {{Mali-footy-bio-stub