Mama Baldé

Mama Samba Baldé (born 6 November 1995) is a Bissau-Guinean professional footballer who plays as a winger and for Ligue 1 club Lyon, on loan from Ligue 2 club Troyes, and the Guinea-Bissau national team. He also holds Portuguese citizenship.

Mama Baldé
Baldé in 2021
Personal information
Full name Mama Samba Baldé[1]
Date of birth (1995-11-06) 6 November 1995[1]
Place of birth Bissau, Guinea-Bissau[1]
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s) Winger, right-back
Team information
Current team
 Lyon
(on loan from Troyes)
Number 7
Youth career
2006–2007 Recreios Algueirão
2007–2013 Sintrense
2013–2014 Sporting CP
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013 Sintrense 1 (0)
2014−2019 Sporting CP B 58 (1)
2015 → Benfica Castelo Branco (loan) 10 (1)
2017–2019 → Aves (loan) 41 (11)
2019−2021 Dijon 53 (13)
2021− Troyes 64 (15)
2022– Troyes B 1 (0)
2023− → Lyon (loan) 6 (0)
International career‡
2019– Guinea-Bissau 20 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12:48, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10:40, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Club career

Sporting CP

Born in Bissau, Baldé moved to Portugal before his tenth birthday. In 2013, he signed with Sporting CP for his last year as a junior, arriving for free from Sintrense.[2]

Baldé made his professional debut with the reserves on 11 May 2014, coming on as a 75th-minute substitute in a 1–0 away win against Braga B in the Segunda Liga.[3] In January 2015, he was loaned to third division side Benfica de Castelo Branco until June.[4]

Returned to Sporting B for 2015–16, Baldé scored his first league goal on 30 September 2015, but in a 1–3 home defeat to Olhanense.[5] He totalled 38 appearances during the season, helping to a tenth-place finish in the second tier.

Baldé went on loan to Primeira Liga club Aves in the summer of 2017.[6] His first match in the competition occurred on 11 September, when he started as a right-back in the 2–1 home victory over Belenenses.[7]

In February 2019, Baldé became Aves' all-time scorer in the Portuguese top flight with nine goals.[2]

Dijon

On 27 June 2019, Baldé joined Dijon on a three-year contract.[8] He made his Ligue 1 debut on 10 August, playing the first half of a 1–2 home loss against Saint-Étienne.[9]

Baldé scored seven times during the 2020–21 campaign, but his team suffered relegation as last.[10]

Troyes

On 31 July 2021, Baldé agreed to a four-year deal at Troyes in the same country and league.[11] He scored a career-best 12 goals in 2022–23, but his side also went down.[12]

On 30 August 2023, Baldé joined Lyon on loan for one year for €2 million, with a €6 million buying option.[13]

International career

Baldé won his first cap for Guinea-Bissau on 8 June 2019, in a friendly against Angola where he replaced Toni Silva (2–0 loss in Penafiel).[14] He was selected in the squad for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations tournament.[15]

Career statistics

Club
As of match played 23 September 2023[16]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[lower-alpha 1] League cup[lower-alpha 2] Europe Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Sporting CP B 2013–14 Segunda Liga 10————10
2014–15 Segunda Liga 20————20
2015–16 Segunda Liga 381————381
2016–17 LigaPro 170————170
Total 58100000000581
Aves 2017–18 Primeira Liga 1333010——173
2018–19 Primeira Liga 2883131—1[lower-alpha 3]03510
Total 41116141—105213
Dijon 2019–20 Ligue 1 2463010——286
2020–21 Ligue 1 29700———297
Total 53133010——5713
Troyes 2021–22 Ligue 1 30300———303
2022–23 Ligue 1 341210———3512
Total 641510———6515
Troyes B 2021–22 Championnat National 3 10————10
Lyon 2023–24 Ligue 1 3000———30
Career total 2204010151001023643

International
As of match played 14 June 2023
Appearances and goals by national team and year[17]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Guinea-Bissau 201960
202030
202131
202240
202311
Total192
As of match played 24 March 2023
List of international goals scored by Mama Baldé[17]
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
17 September 2021Al-Hilal Stadium, Omdurman, Sudan Sudan2–32–42022 FIFA World Cup qualification
224 March 2023Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja, Nigeria Nigeria0–10–12023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification

Honours

Aves

Notes
  1. Includes Taça de Portugal, Coupe de France
  2. Includes Taça da Liga
  3. Appearance in Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira

References
  1. "Mama Baldé" (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  2. Casaca, Manuel (15 February 2019). "Uma viagem ao passado de Mama Baldé: "Rendeu bola, como diz o outro"" [A trip to Mama Baldé's past: "We got the short end of the stick, as they say"]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  3. "Esgaio decide com penálti "à Panenka"" [Esgaio decides it with "Panenka-like" penalty]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). 11 May 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  4. "CNS: Benfica e Castelo Branco reforça-se no Sporting e Paços" [CNS: Benfica e Castelo Branco bolster in Sporting and Paços] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 27 January 2015. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  5. "Sporting B-Olhanense, 1–3: Leões derrotados com Labyad em campo" [Sporting B-Olhanense, 1–3: Lions defeated with Labyad on the pitch]. Record (in Portuguese). 30 September 2015. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  6. "OFICIAL: Sporting empresta Mama Baldé ao Desp. Aves" [OFFICIAL: Sporting loan Mama Baldé to Desp. Aves] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 14 July 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  7. "Reviravolta tira Aves dos lugares de descida" [Comeback takes Aves from relegation zone] (in Portuguese). Rádio Renascença. 11 September 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  8. "Mama Baldé signe à Dijon (officiel)" [Mama Baldé signs with Dijon (official)]. Le Figaro (in French). 27 June 2019. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  9. "Saint-Etienne tue le match à Dijon en 10 minutes" [Saint-Etienne kill match at Dijon in 10 minutes] (in French). Be Soccer. 10 August 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  10. "Officiel | Troyes recrute l'ailier Mama Baldé de Dijon" [Official | Troyes bring in winger Mama Baldé from Dijon] (in French). Sport News 24. 31 July 2021. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  11. "Mama Baldé s'engage avec l'ESTAC!" [Mama Baldé commits to ESTAC!] (in French). ES Troyes. 31 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  12. Lantheaume, Romain (30 June 2023). "Nantes: des discussions pour Mama Baldé" [Nantes: the Mama Baldé talks] (in French). Maxi Foot. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
  13. "Mama Baldé joins OL on loan until the end of the season". Olympique Lyonnais. 30 August 2023. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
  14. "Angola bate Guiné-Bissau em jogo com vários "portugueses"" [Angola beat Guinea-Bissau in match with several "Portuguese"] (in Portuguese). TVI 24. 8 June 2019. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  15. Soliman, Seif (12 June 2019). "Ittihad's Toni Silva named in Guinea Bissau's AFCON squad". KingFut. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  16. Mama Baldé at Soccerway
  17. Mama Baldé at National-Football-Teams.com
  18. "Aves ganha a Taça de Portugal graças a bis de Guedes" [Aves win Portuguese Cup thanks to Guedes brace]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). 20 May 2018. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
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