Jackson Mendy
Mendy playing for Litex Lovech in 2014
Personal information
Date of birth (1987-05-25) 25 May 1987
Place of birth Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
Height 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s) Centre back, left back
Youth career
Auxerre
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2006 US Quevilly 14 (0)
2006–2007 Rennes B 23 (0)
2007 Paris FC 10 (0)
2008–2009 Hansa Rostock II 27 (0)
2009 SC Freiburg II 27 (1)
2009–2010 SC Freiburg 6 (0)
2010–2011 Grenoble 28 (2)
2011 AC Ajaccio 4 (0)
2012–2013 Levadiakos 43 (1)
2013–2014 CSKA Sofia 38 (0)
2014–2015 Litex Lovech 15 (1)
2015 Omonia 2 (0)
2016–2018 Levadiakos 47 (1)
2018–2019 Schaffhausen 26 (0)
2019–2021 Boulogne 22 (1)
International career
2010 Senegal 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22 January 2021

Jackson Mendy (born 25 May 1987) is a professional footballer who plays as a defender. Born in France, he played for the Senegal national team internationally.

Club career

Mendy was born in Mont-Saint-Aignan, France. He started his career in the training centre of Auxerre, moving first to Quevilly, before signing a one-season professional trainee contract with Rennes in June 2006. A year later, having not imposed himself, he left Rennes for Paris FC.[1]

After one season at Paris FC, Mendy moved to Germany, first with Hansa Rostock, where he played for the B team, and then with SC Freiburg.[2] He left the club in July 2010, having a trial at English Championship team Middlesbrough before signing a two-year deal with French side Grenoble Foot 38.[3] He stayed just one season, due to Grenoble filing for bankruptcy at the end of the 2010–11 Ligue 2 campaign. On 31 July 2011, he signed a one-year contract with Ligue 1 side AC Ajaccio.[4]

Mendy made his Ligue 1 debut on 17 September 2011, as a second half substitute in the match at Nice.[1] After making just three Ligue 1 appearances, he moved to Superleague Greece side Levadiakos in January 2012, signing a two-year deal.[5] He was released from his contract at the end of the 2012–13 season, and joined Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia.[6] He spent a second season in Bulgaria with Litex Lovech in 2014–15 before a six-month spell in Cyprus with Omonia.[1]

In January 2016 Mendy returned to Levadiakos for a second spell, spending two-and-a-half seasons with the club.[7] In July 2018 he signed a two-year deal with Swiss side FC Schaffhausen.[8] Having been used most often as a substitute in the second half of the 2018–19 season, he signed for US Boulogne.[9]

International career

On 11 May 2010, he earned his first call-up for the Senegal national football team for a friendly match against Denmark on 27 May 2010.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Jackson Mendy" (in French). Stade Rennais Online. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  2. "Jackson Mendy im Gespräch" (in German). scfreiburg.com. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  3. "Mendy makes French move". Sky Sports. 18 August 2010.
  4. "Grenoble : Jackson Mendy à Ajaccio, c'est fait" (in French). foot-national.com. 1 August 2011.
  5. "Football (Ligue 1) - Jackson Mendy quitte l'AC Ajaccio pour la Grèce" (in French). Alta Frequenza Corse. 7 January 2012.
  6. "CSKA Sofia : Jackson Mendy a signé" (in French). afrik-foot.com. 19 July 2013.
  7. "Jackson Mendy". Superleague Greece. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  8. "Zwei Neuzugänge Beim FC Schaffhausen" (in German). FC Schaffhausen. 9 July 2018.
  9. "Foot: Greece, Switzerland, Bulgaria, the adventurer Jackson Mendy arrives in Boulogne" (in French). La Voix du Nord. 16 July 2019.
  10. "Denmark vs Senegal 2–0". Soccerway. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
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