Formose Mendy
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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 23 March 1989 | ||
Place of birth | Guédiawaye, Senegal | ||
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Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team
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Adana Demirspor | ||
Youth career | |||
Septème-les-Vallons | |||
Lyon | |||
Consolat | |||
Lens | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2006–2009 | Lens B | 13 | (1) |
2008–2009 | → Istres (loan) | 1 | (0) |
2009–2010 | Puertollano | 14 | (0) |
2010–2012 | Sporting B | 42 | (4) |
2012–2014 | Sporting Gijón | 35 | (0) |
2014–2015 | Blackpool | 3 | (0) |
2015 | HJK | 13 | (2) |
2016– | Adana Demirspor | 4 | (0) |
International career | |||
2011 | Guinea-Bissau[1] | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 5 January 2016 |
Formose Mendy (born 23 March 1989) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Turkish club Adana Demirspor.[2]
Mendy played club football in France, Spain, England and Finland, for Lens, Istres, Puertollano, Sporting de Gijón, Blackpool and HJK Helsinki.
Born in Senegal, Mendy represented Guinea-Bissau at international level.
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Early and personal life
Mendy was born in Guédiawaye, Senegal to a father that had numerous wives and 25 children. He emigrated to Marseille, France at the age of seven, to live with an aunt.[3]
Club career
France
Mendy played youth football for Septème-les-Vallons, Lyon, Consolat and Lens,[4] and started his senior career in France with Lens B and Istres.[1] After finishing his loan deal with Istres, being part of the squad that won promotion to Ligue 2,[5] he was released by Lens.[6]
Spain
Mendy arrived in Spain in the summer of 2009, signing for Puertollano in Segunda División B.[7][8] After just one season he joined another club in the same division, Sporting de Gijón's reserve side.[9]
Following a change of management at the Asturias team in 2012, Mendy was promoted to the main squad.[10] He made his La Liga debut on 25 February 2012 in a 1–1 away draw against Racing de Santander,[11] and added a further nine appearances (often as a starter[12]) as the campaign ended in relegation;[13][14] additionally, he scored four goals for the B's,[15][16][17][18] who finished in tenth position in the third level.[19]
England and Finland
On 29 September 2014, Mendy signed a season-long deal with Blackpool in the Football League Championship.[20] On 20 April of the following year he joined Finnish club HJK Helsinki,[21] scoring his first goal for his new team on 14 May in a 1–0 home victory over IFK Mariehamn, after entering as a substitute.[22]
Turkey
On 1 January 2016, Mendy signed a one 1/2-year contract with Adana Demirspor in the Turkish TFF First League.[23]
International career
As his grandfather hailed from the country,[3] Mendy chose to represent Guinea-Bissau internationally, making his debut on 7 February 2011 against Gambia.[10]
References
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External links
- Formose Mendy profile at BDFutbol
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- Pages using infobox football biography with height issues
- No local image but image on Wikidata
- 1989 births
- Living people
- Senegalese footballers
- Bissau-Guinean footballers
- Association football midfielders
- Olympique Lyonnais players
- RC Lens players
- FC Istres players
- La Liga players
- Segunda División players
- Segunda División B players
- CD Puertollano footballers
- Sporting de Gijón B players
- Sporting de Gijón players
- The Football League players
- Blackpool F.C. players
- Veikkausliiga players
- Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi players
- TFF First League players
- Guinea-Bissau international footballers
- Bissau-Guinean expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in France
- Expatriate footballers in Spain
- Expatriate footballers in England
- Expatriate footballers in Finland
- Expatriate footballers in Turkey
- Bissau-Guinean expatriates in France
- Bissau-Guinean expatriates in Spain
- Bissau-Guinean expatriates in England
- Bissau-Guinean expatriates in Finland