Boubacar Diarra (footballer, born 1994)

Boubacar Diarra
Personal information
Date of birth	18 April 1994
Place of birth	Bamako, Mali
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Playing position(s)	Defensive midfielder[2]
Club information
Current team	Horoya AC
Youth career
	AS Revenant
Senior career*
National team‡
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17:18, 3 July 2020 (UTC); ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15:57, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

Boubacar Diarra (born 18 April 1994) is a Malian footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Horoya AC.[1]

Club career

Diarra's career began in Mali with AS Revenant and AS Korofina, he then left his homeland to go to the DR Congo to join Linafoot team TP Mazembe.[3][4] During his time with TP Mazembe, Diarra won the 2013 Linafoot, the 2013–14 Linafoot and the 2015 CAF Champions League.[1] He departed in 2016 to join Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 outfit Club Africain, making his debut in a defeat to Stade Tunisien on 17 February 2016.[1][4] Six months and thirteen appearances later, Diarra was on the move again as he signed for Wadi Degla of the Egyptian Premier League.[1] On 19 January 2017, Diarra completed a transfer to Wadi Degla's sister club Lierse.[5]

He made his Lierse debut on 27 January in a league match against OH Leuven.[6] In October 2018, Diarra joined Sudan Premier League side Al-Hilal Club.[7] A move to Saudi Arabia and Najran of the Prince Mohammad bin Salman League occurred on 26 June 2019.[8] However, in the succeeding September, Diarra headed to I-League club NEROCA; having terminated his Najran contract.[9][10][11][12] He netted goals against Chennai City, East Bengal, TRAU and Real Kashmir across 2019–20.[1]

Diarra has represented Mali at U20, U23 and senior level.[1][3] He won three caps for the U20s during the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Turkey.[1] He made his senior debut on 29 June 2016 in a friendly against China at the Shenzhen Stadium.[1]

As of 3 July 2020.[1]

Club statistics
Club	Season	League			Cup		League Cup		Continental		Other		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Lierse	2016–17	First Division B	5	0	—		—		—		8[lower-alpha 1]	0	13	0
	2017–18	First Division B	11	0	0	0	—		—		2[lower-alpha 1]	0	13	0
	Total		16	0	0	0	—		—		10	0	26	0
NEROCA	2019–20	I-League	12	4	0	0	0	0	—		0	0	12	4
Career total			28	4	0	0	0	0	—		10	0	38	4

As of 27 October 2018.[1]

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Mali
Mali	2014	1	0
Total		1	0

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"Boubacar Diarra". World Football. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
"Boubacar Diarra avec les Espoirs du Mali". TP Mazembe. 9 May 2015. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
"Diarra declined to extend with TPM". TP Mazembe. 17 January 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
"Boubacar Diarra tekende bij Lierse". Lierse S.K. 19 January 2017. Archived from the original on 24 January 2017. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
"OH Leuven vs. Lierse". Soccerway. 29 January 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
"رسمياً..الهلال يكمل الاتفاق مع مهاجم كنغولي ومدافع مالي". SNN. 27 October 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
"ديارا أول صفقات نجران الأجنبية". Alwatan. 26 June 2019. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
"اللاعب: بوباكار ديارا". Kooora. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
"برازيلي يدعم نجران". arriyadiyah. 31 August 2019. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
"We also signed Malian International midfielder Boubacar Diarra". NEROCA. 4 September 2019. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
"NEROCA FC complete signing of six foreigners for forthcoming I-League season". Goal. 4 September 2019. Retrieved 4 September 2019.

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