Nasser Djiga
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Yacouba Nasser Djiga | ||
Date of birth | 15 November 2002 | ||
Place of birth | Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso | ||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | FC Basel | ||
Number | 6 | ||
Youth career | |||
–2019 | Vitesse FC | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2019–2021 | Vitesse FC | 40 | (1) |
2021– | FC Basel | 1 | (0) |
National team | |||
2021– | Burkina Faso U-20 | 4 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Yacouba Nasser Djiga (born 15 November 2002) is a Burkinabé footballer who plays as a defender for FC Basel in the Swiss Super League.
Career[]
Djinga played his youth football with Vitesse FC in Burkina Faso. 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. Djinga 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 Djinga was regular starter in the team. He received a calls-up to the Burkina Faso U-20 team and played four games for them in the 2021 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations.[citation needed]
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.[1] Basel announced his signing on 19 June.[2]
After having played in five test games, on 29 July 2021 Djinga 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.[3] Unfortunately Djinga injured himself during the game and was forced out for six weeks with a capsular ligament injury in the left ankle.[4] He returned to the team on 19 September to play the Swiss Cup match against armature team FC Rorschach-Goldach.[5]
On 24 October Djinga 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.[6]
References[]
- ^ "Yacouba Nasser Djiga, la pépite qui fait craquer de grands clubs". burkina24.com.
- ^ FC Basel 1893 (19 June 2021). "Der FCB verpflichtet Yacouba Nasser Djiga". FCB signed Yacouba Nasser Djiga. FC Basel homepage. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
- ^ uefa.com (29 July 2021). "FK Partizani - FC Basel 0:2 (0:1) – Overview". uefa.com. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
- ^ FC Basel 1893 (31 July 2021). "Nasser Djiga verletzt". Nasser Djiga injured. FC Basel homepage. Retrieved 2021-07-31.
- ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” (19 September 2021). "FC Rorschach-Goldach 17 - FC Basel 0:3 (0:1)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2021-09-19.
- ^ 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 2021-10-24.
External links[]
- Profile on the Swiss Football League homepage
- Profile at FC Basel (in German)
- Nasser Djiga at Soccerway
- Nasser Djiga at playmakerstats.com
- 2002 births
- Living people
- Burkinabé footballers
- FC Basel players
- Burkinabé expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Switzerland
- Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
- Association football defenders
- 21st-century Burkinabé people
- Burkina Faso under-20 international footballers
- Burkinabé football biography stubs