Aboubacar Bassinga
Personal information
Date of birth (2005-07-13) 13 July 2005
Place of birth Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Las Palmas
Number 34
Youth career
2020– Las Palmas
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2024– Las Palmas 0 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 7 January 2024

Aboubacar Bassinga (born 13 July 2005) is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Spanish club UD Las Palmas.

Career

Born in Abidjan,[1] Bassinga left his country at the age of 14 after boarding a boat; he intended to meet his uncle in France, but ran into authorities upon arriving in Arguineguín on 13 February 2020.[2] He then joined the youth sides of UD Las Palmas,[3] but had to wait until September 2023, when he turned 18, to start to play a competition for the club.[4]

On 7 January 2024, before even having appeared for the reserves, Bassinga made his first team – and professional – debut, starting in a 2–0 away loss to rivals CD Tenerife, for the season's Copa del Rey.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "El sueño que Abou nunca imaginó al subirse a la patera" [The dream that Abou never imagined on boarding the boat] (in Spanish). Marca. 5 December 2023. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
  2. ↑ "Bassinga 'cooked' the football that arrived from Abidjan at UD Las Palmas". Today Times Live. 8 January 2024. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  3. ↑ "La nueva perla de Costa de Marfil está en UD Las Palmas" [The new pearl of Ivory Coast is at UD Las Palmas] (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 17 December 2023. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  4. ↑ "Aboubacar Bassinga, primer jugador de la UD Las Palmas D en obtener la Licencia Federativa" [Aboubacar Bassinga, first player of UD Las Palmas D to obtain a federative license] (in Spanish). UD Las Palmas. 5 September 2023. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  5. ↑ "Tenerife, Amo y señor del derbi" [Tenerife, lord and master of the derby] (in Spanish). Marca. 7 January 2024. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  6. ↑ "Aboubacar Bassinga, de llegar en patera a debutar en un derbi canario 47 meses después" [Aboubacar Bassinga, from arriving by boat to debuting in a Canarian derby 47 months later] (in Spanish). EFE. 8 January 2024. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
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