Nasser Djiga

Yacouba Nasser Djiga (born 15 November 2002) is a Burkinabé professional footballer who plays as a defender for Serbian club Red Star Belgrade, on loan from Swiss Super League club FC Basel, and the Burkina Faso national team.[1][2]

Nasser Djiga
Djiga with Nîmes in 2022
Personal information
Full name Yacouba Nasser Djiga
Date of birth (2002-11-15) 15 November 2002
Place of birth Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 Red Star Belgrade
(on loan from FC Basel)
Number 24
Youth career
0000–2019 Vitesse FC
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2019–2021 Vitesse FC 40 (1)
2021– FC Basel 7 (0)
2022–2023 → Nîmes (loan) 21 (0)
2023– → Red Star Belgrade (loan) 3 (0)
International career‡
2021– Burkina Faso U-20 4 (0)
2022– Burkina Faso 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21 October 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 29 March 2023

Club career

Djiga played his youth football with Vitesse FC in Burkina Faso.[3] After having received various call-ups to their first team and having made his team debut during the last games of the 2018–19 season, he advanced to their squad in the 2019–20 season. Djiga played 14 games for them, scoring one goal, in the Deuxième Division the second tier of football in Burkina Faso. Despite the season remaining uncompleted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, because the team were league leaders, they won promotion to the Burkinabé Premier League. In the following season Djiga was regular starter in the team. He received a calls-up to the Burkina Faso U20 team and played four games for them in the 2021 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations.

During the transfer window in the summer of 2021, Djiga signed for Swiss top flight side FC Basel after receiving interest from Lille OSC in the French Ligue 1 and Belgian and Spanish clubs.[4] Basel announced his signing on 19 June.[5]

After having played in five test games, on 29 July 2021 Djiga debuted for FC Basel's first team during a 2–0 away win over Partizani in the second qualifying round of the 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League.[6] Unfortunately Djiga injured himself during the game and was forced out for six weeks with a capsular ligament injury in the left ankle.[7] He returned to the team on 19 September to play the Swiss Cup match against armature team FC Rorschach-Goldach.[8]

On 24 October Djiga then played his Swiss Super League debut for his new club in the home game at St. Jakob-Park as Basel won 2–0 against Lugano and he played the entire game.[9]

On 28 August 2022, Djiga joined Nîmes in France on a season-long loan.[10]

International career

Djiga debuted for the Burkina Faso national team in a 5–0 friendly loss to Kosovo on 24 March 2022.[11]

References
  1. "l'invraisemblable imbroglio autour de Nasser Djiga, bloqué par son club". ouest-france.fr.
  2. "Commentaire: il faut sauver les sélections avant leur disparition". lematin.ch.
  3. "Neue Welt für Djiga beim FC Basel". srf.ch.
  4. "Yacouba Nasser Djiga, la pépite qui fait craquer de grands clubs". burkina24.com.
  5. FC Basel 1893 (19 June 2021). "Der FCB verpflichtet Yacouba Nasser Djiga". FCB signed Yacouba Nasser Djiga. FC Basel homepage. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  6. uefa.com (29 July 2021). "FK Partizani - FC Basel 0:2 (0:1) – Overview". uefa.com. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  7. FC Basel 1893 (31 July 2021). "Nasser Djiga verletzt". Nasser Djiga injured. FC Basel homepage. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  8. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” (19 September 2021). "FC Rorschach-Goldach 17 - FC Basel 0:3 (0:1)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  9. FC Basel 1893 (24 October 2021). "Wieder ein Dreier – der FCB Schlägt Lugano 2:0". Another three pointer - FCB beat Lugano 2-0. FC Basel homepage. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  10. "NASSER DJIGA PRÊTÉ POUR LA SAISON" (in French). Nîmes. 28 August 2022. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  11. Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Kosovo vs. Burkina Faso". www.national-football-teams.com.
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