Augustus Kargbo
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 24 August 1999 | ||
Place of birth | Freetown, Sierra Leone | ||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Crotone | ||
Number | 24 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2017–2018 | Campobasso | 20 | (6) |
2018– | Crotone | 6 | (0) |
2018–2019 | → Roccella (loan) | 13 | (4) |
2019–2020 | → Reggiana (loan) | 21 | (8) |
2020–2021 | → Reggiana (loan) | 20 | (2) |
National team‡ | |||
2021– | Sierra Leone | 2 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 10 May 2021 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 9 October 2021 |
Augustus Kargbo (born 24 August 1999) is a Sierra Leonean professional footballer who plays for Italian side Crotone.
Early career[]
As a boy Augustus Kargbo was scouted by his agent Numukeh Tunkara in Freetown, Sierra Leone at age of 13 years.[1] Believing in his quality he then persuaded the family to allow him to take the boy to Guinea where he could have a better training and development opportunity.
Club career[]
He started his professional career in Italian fourth-tier Serie D club Campobasso.[2]
In the summer of 2018, he joined Serie B club Crotone and was loaned back to Serie D, to Rocella. He returned from loan in January 2019.[3]
He made his Serie B debut for Crotone on 19 January 2019 in a game against Cittadella, as a 68th-minute substitute for Marco Firenze.[4]
On 2 September 2019, he joined Reggiana on loan.[5] On 22 July he scored an important goal for the promotion of the club in Serie B in the final against Bari.[6]
He made his Serie A debut for Crotone on 20 September 2020 in a 1–4 away loss against Genoa.[7] On 29 September 2020 he returned to Reggiana on a new loan.[8]
International career[]
On 29 September 2020, he was called up by Sierra Leone for the first team.[9]
He made his debut for the Sierra Leone national football team on 6 October 2021 in a friendly against South Sudan.[10]
References[]
- ^ Sierra Leone's Augustus Kargbo left mum at 13 and now plays in Italy bbc.com
- ^ "Profile by TuttoCalciatori" (in Italian). TuttoCalciatori. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- ^ "Crotone, Kargbo rientrato alla base dopo il prestito al Roccella" (in Italian). Crotone Sport. 11 January 2019.
- ^ "Crotone v Cittadella game report by Soccerway". Soccerway. 19 January 2019.
- ^ "KARGBO IN PRESTITO ALLA REGGIO AUDACE" (Press release) (in Italian). Crotone. 2 September 2019.
- ^ "Finale playoff Serie C: Reggiana-Bari 1-0. Emiliani in Serie B" (in Italian). La Gazzetta dello Sport. 22 July 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-07-23. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ^ "Genoa v Crotone game report". Soccerway. 20 September 2020.
- ^ "Kargbo alla Reggiana" (in Italian). Crotone. 29 September 2020.
- ^ Russo, Andrea (29 September 2020). "Kargbo, felicità doppia: Nazionale e Reggiana" (in Italian). Il Resto del Carlino. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Sierra Leone v South Sudan game report". ESPN. 6 October 2021.
External links[]
- Augustus Kargbo at Soccerway
- 1999 births
- Sportspeople from Freetown
- Living people
- Sierra Leonean footballers
- Sierra Leone international footballers
- Association football forwards
- A.S.D. Roccella players
- F.C. Crotone players
- A.C. Reggiana 1919 players
- Serie A players
- Serie B players
- Serie D players
- Sierra Leonean expatriate footballers
- Sierra Leonean expatriate sportspeople in Italy
- Expatriate footballers in Italy
- 2021 Africa Cup of Nations players