Personal information | |||
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Full name | Souleymane Camara | ||
Date of birth | 22 December 1982 | ||
Place of birth | Dakar, Senegal | ||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Youth career | |||
2000–2001 | Monaco | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
2001–2005 | Monaco | 59 | (7) |
2004 | → Guingamp (loan) | 13 | (2) |
2005–2008 | Nice | 31 | (1) |
2007–2008 | → Montpellier (loan) | 37 | (11) |
2008–2020 | Montpellier | 347 | (59) |
Total | 487 | (80) | |
International career | |||
2002–2012 | Senegal | 35 | (7) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Souleymane Camara (born 22 December 1982) is a Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is a former Senegal international and has represented his nation at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and three Africa Cup of Nations tournaments in 2002, 2006, and 2012. [1] As of 2021, he holds the record of the most appearances for French club Montpellier, with 433, and is the club's second-highest goalscorer, with 76 goals. [2]
Camara was influential in Montpellier winning their first ever Ligue 1 title in 2012, scoring 9 goals, including one goal in a crucial 2–0 victory over Rennes with two matches left in the season. [3] [4] [1]
On 5 August 2017, Camara scored the only goal in Montpellier's 1–0 win against Caen on matchday 1 of the 2017–18 season. It was his 48th Ligue 1 goal for Montpellier and made him Montpellier's record scorer in Ligue 1, breaking Laurent Blanc's 26-year-old record of 47 Division 1 goals scored for Montpellier in four seasons. [5]
In March 2019 he became the first player to score in 15 different seasons in France's Ligue 1 in the 21st century. [6] In May 2019 he extended his contract with Montpellier for a further season. [7]
In May 2020, it was announced that Camara would not extend his contract with Montpellier, and would retire at the end of the season. [8] By the end of his Montpellier career, Camara played a club-record 433 games in all competitions during his 13-year stay with 76 goals scored – a record bettered only by France legend Laurent Blanc. [1]
Monaco
Montpellier
Senegal
Personal information | |||
---|---|---|---|
Full name | Souleymane Camara | ||
Date of birth | 22 December 1982 | ||
Place of birth | Dakar, Senegal | ||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Youth career | |||
2000–2001 | Monaco | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
2001–2005 | Monaco | 59 | (7) |
2004 | → Guingamp (loan) | 13 | (2) |
2005–2008 | Nice | 31 | (1) |
2007–2008 | → Montpellier (loan) | 37 | (11) |
2008–2020 | Montpellier | 347 | (59) |
Total | 487 | (80) | |
International career | |||
2002–2012 | Senegal | 35 | (7) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Souleymane Camara (born 22 December 1982) is a Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is a former Senegal international and has represented his nation at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and three Africa Cup of Nations tournaments in 2002, 2006, and 2012. [1] As of 2021, he holds the record of the most appearances for French club Montpellier, with 433, and is the club's second-highest goalscorer, with 76 goals. [2]
Camara was influential in Montpellier winning their first ever Ligue 1 title in 2012, scoring 9 goals, including one goal in a crucial 2–0 victory over Rennes with two matches left in the season. [3] [4] [1]
On 5 August 2017, Camara scored the only goal in Montpellier's 1–0 win against Caen on matchday 1 of the 2017–18 season. It was his 48th Ligue 1 goal for Montpellier and made him Montpellier's record scorer in Ligue 1, breaking Laurent Blanc's 26-year-old record of 47 Division 1 goals scored for Montpellier in four seasons. [5]
In March 2019 he became the first player to score in 15 different seasons in France's Ligue 1 in the 21st century. [6] In May 2019 he extended his contract with Montpellier for a further season. [7]
In May 2020, it was announced that Camara would not extend his contract with Montpellier, and would retire at the end of the season. [8] By the end of his Montpellier career, Camara played a club-record 433 games in all competitions during his 13-year stay with 76 goals scored – a record bettered only by France legend Laurent Blanc. [1]
Monaco
Montpellier
Senegal