Amara Konate (Guinean footballer)
{{short description|Guinean footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Amara Konate
| image =
| fullname =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1999|2|1|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Nzérékoré, Guinea
| height = 1.80 m
| position = Midfielder
| currentclub = Cavese
| clubnumber = 8
| youthyears1 = 2017–2018 | youthclubs1 = Perugia
| years1 = 2018–2021 | clubs1 = Perugia | caps1 = 10 | goals1 = 0
| years2 = 2018–2019 | clubs2 = → Rieti (loan) | caps2 = 16 | goals2 = 0
| years3 = 2021–2023 | clubs3 = Messina | caps3 = 53 | goals3 = 1
| years4 = 2023– | clubs4 = Cavese | caps4 = 45 | goals4 = 1
| club-update = 18 December 2024
}}
Amara Konate (born 1 February 1999) is a Guinean footballer who plays as a midfielder for Italian {{Italian football updater|Cavese}} club Cavese.
Personal life
Born in Nzérékoré, Guinea, Konate left his native country in 2017 to move to Europe, crossing the Mediterranean Sea via Libya and then finally settling down to Italy.{{cite web |url=https://www.perugiatoday.it/sport/calciomercato-serie-b-perugia-favola-konate-guinea-africa-guerra-grifo-cosmi.html|publisher=PerugiaToday |language=it |accessdate=12 May 2022 |date=20 April 2020 |title=Dalla guerra al pallone, la favola di Konate. "Così il Perugia mi ha cambiato la vita"}} After landing to Catania, he was moved to an immigration center in Cassino, where he started playing football with a local team, despite not having ever seriously played the game before.
Career
=Perugia=
While in Cassino, he was noticed by a football agent, who proposed him to Perugia; on his trial, he convinced the club managers to sign him, joining the club's Under-19 squad in the 2017–18 season.{{cite web|publisher=TuttoCalciatori|url=https://www.tuttocalciatori.net/?mod=cc1&par=31951|title=Profile by TuttoCalciatori|language=Italian|accessdate=24 October 2018}}
==Loan to Rieti==
On 1 October 2018, Serie C club Rieti officially announced that Konate joined them on a season-long loan.{{cite web|publisher=Rieti|url=http://www.rieticalcio.it/2018/10/01/una-squadra-internazionale-arriva-anche-konate-prestito-annuale-dal-perugia/|title=UNA SQUADRA INTERNAZIONALE, ARRIVA ANCHE KONATE: PRESTITO ANNUALE DAL PERUGIA|date=1 October 2018|language=Italian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200307153557/http://www.rieticalcio.it/2018/10/01/una-squadra-internazionale-arriva-anche-konate-prestito-annuale-dal-perugia/|archive-date=7 March 2020}} He made his Serie C debut for Rieti earlier, on 29 September 2018 in a game against Cavese as a 90th-minute substitute for Boubakary Diarra.{{cite web|publisher=Soccerway|url=https://int.soccerway.com/matches/2018/09/29/italy/serie-c1/fc-rieti/ss-cavese-1919/2919681/|title=Game Report by Soccerway|date=29 September 2018}}
=Messina=
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{Soccerway|amara-konate/546538}}
{{Cavese 1919 squad}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Konate, Amara}}
Category:People from Nzérékoré
Category:Guinean men's footballers
Category:Men's association football midfielders
Category:AC Perugia Calcio players
Category:Guinean expatriate men's footballers
Category:Guinean expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Category:Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
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