Cheick Oumar Dabo

Cheick Oumar Dabo
Personal information
Full name	Cheick Oumar Dabo
Date of birth	12 January 1981 (age 44)
Place of birth	Bamako, Mali
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team
2000–2001	Djoliba
2001–2002	Gençlerbirliği
2002–2004	Bucheon SK
2005	Dubai Club
2006–2007	JS Kabylie
2007–2010	Le Havre
2008	→ Tours (loan)
2008–2009	→ Chamois Niortais (loan)
2010	→ Difaa El Jadida (loan)
2010–2011	Alahly Benghazi
2011–2012	SC Angérien
International career‡
2001–2007	Mali
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:35, 21 August 2010 (UTC); ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:37, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Cheick Oumar Dabo (born 12 January 1981 in Bamako) is a Malian football player.

Club career

Bucheon SK

Dabo joined

Lee Young-Pyo (in 2002) who both went on to play in the Premier League

in England.

JS Kabylie

Dabo would go on to score a penalty against

FAR Rabat

, which was his last match in which he scored twice. Dabo was the first ever non-Algerian to be captain for JSK.

Le Havre

Dabo made his debut for Le Havre on 20 August 2007, coming on as a sub for Nikola Nikezić against Nantes. He scored his first goal and got his first assist in the same game, after coming on as a sub against Ajaccio on 28 September. Le Havre were champions of Ligue 2 in 2007/08, Dabo's first year, but Dabo only made six appearances that season, scoring one goal. Despite having scored one goal and getting one assist in 180 minutes for Le Havre in 2007, Dabo was never again given a chance to prove himself and was released in the summer of 2010 after three loans, two of which could be considered successful.

Tours

Dabo was loaned to

Cherbourg. Dabo's five game scoring streak near the end of the season helped Tours to a 2nd-place finish in 2007/08 to ensure their promotion back to Ligue 2

. Despite interest from Tours and Dabo, Dabo did not make the move to Tours in the summer of 2008, due to Dabo's high price tag set by president of Le Havre, Jean-Pierre Louvel.

Niort

Dabo was again loaned to a

arthroscopic surgery

to repair it. He finished the season with two goals and Niort were relegated.

El Jadida

Despite scoring three goals (and one assist) in three matches for Le Havre's reserves at the start of the 2009–10 season, Dabo was not considered for Le Havre's senior team. On 14 December 2009,

Difaa El Jadida signed the Malian forward on loan until the end of the season.^[2] He made his debut for DHJ on 13 February in an African Champions League

match against OS Balantas, and scored twice in the return leg two weeks later. Dabo scored on his league debut for DHJ against FAR Rabat on 18 February 2010. At the end of the season, Dabo scored four league goals and four goals in the Champions League to total eight goals in seventeen matches for DHJ, who finished third. When combined with his goals for Le Havre's reserves, he scored eleven goals in twenty matches in 2009–10.

Alahly Benghazi

Dabo joined Al Ahly Benghazi of the

Al Hilal

on 18 August.

Clubs

He played for Konate

Algerian Championnat National

.

International career

Dabo was in

African Nations Cup Squad in 2002 (the year Mali hosted the tournament). He came on for Mali in the 79th minute for Mamadou Bagayoko in their 0–1 loss to Nigeria. Dabo's great play for Kabylie earned him a call up to the national team for their African Nations Cup Qualifier against Benin on 3 June 2007 and against Sierra Leone

on 16 June 2007. Dabo started both matches.

International goals

*Results list Mali's goal tally first.*
**Cheick Oumar Dabo: International Goals**
Dabo has scored 7 goals for Mali, these are the only ones I could find.
#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1^[4]	7 April 2001	Stade Modibo Keita, Bamako, Mali	Liberia	3–0	Win	WAFU Qualifier
2^[4]	3 November 2001	Stade du 26 Mars, Bamako, Mali	Mauritania	3–2	Win	Amilcar Cabral Cup
3^[4]	5 November 2001	Stade Amari Daou, Ségou, Mali	Guinea-Bissau	2–0	Win	Amilcar Cabral Cup
4^[4]	11 November 2001	Stade du 26 Mars, Bamako, Mali	Guinea-Bissau	2–1	Win	Amilcar Cabral Cup 3rd Place Game