Yusupha Bobb

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Yusupha Bobb
Personal information
Date of birth (1996-06-22) 22 June 1996 (age 29)
Place of birth Banjul, The Gambia
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2015 Banjul Hawks
2015–2019 Chievo 0 (0)
2015–2016 → Cittadella (loan) 12 (1)
2016–2017 → Taranto (loan) 14 (0)
2017 → Padova (loan) 4 (0)
2017–2018 → Reggiana (loan) 21 (1)
2018–2019 → Cuneo (loan) 32 (3)
2019–2020 Lecco 17 (1)
2021 Livorno 7 (0)
2021–2022 Piacenza 23 (2)
International career‡
Gambia U19
Gambia U20
2017– Gambia 8 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 24 April 2022
‡ National team caps and goals as of 11 June 2021

Yusupha Bobb (born 22 June 1996) is a Gambian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for the Gambia national team.[1]

Club career

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Bobb's career started in The Gambia with local team Banjul Hawks.[2] In 2015, Bobb joined Serie A side Chievo.[1][2] On 24 July 2015, Bobb completed a loan move to Lega Pro club Cittadella, he subsequently made his Cittadella and professional debut on 2 August in a Coppa Italia match against Potenza; Cittadella won 15–0 as Bobb scored twice.[1][3] Three matches later, Bobb scored his first goal in professional league football with a strike against Pavia.[1] He suffered a serious leg injury in a match against Cuneo on 17 January 2016 and subsequently did not feature for Cittadella again prior to returning to Chievo at the end of the 2015–16 campaign.[4]

He was named on the Chievo substitutes bench on 13 August 2016 for a cup tie against Virtus Entella.[1] At the end of August, Bobb joined Taranto on loan, again in Lega Pro.[5] His debut for them came on 11 September in a goalless draw versus Siracusa.[1] In total, he played fourteen times for the club.[1] In 2017, Bobb signed for Padova of Lega Pro on loan.[4] He played five times before returning to his parent team.[1] On 12 July, ahead of the 2017–18 season, Bobb joined Reggiana on a temporary basis.[6] He was loaned out for a fifth occasion in July 2018, joining Cuneo.[1] His first goal arrived on 21 October away to Pro Piacenza, as they won 1–0.[1]

On 19 October 2019, having left Chievo, Bobb headed back to Serie C with Lecco.[7][8]

On 11 February 2021, he signed with Serie C club Livorno.[9] Following Livorno's relegation and exclusion from football, he joined Piacenza following a successful trial.[10]

International career

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Bobb has represented The Gambia at U19 and U20 level.[2] He was called up on numerous occasions to the senior squad, including twice being an unused substitute in 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying games against Morocco and Ivory Coast respectively.[1] In November 2017, Bobb was called up for Gambia's friendly with Morocco.[11][12] He made his debut in a 2–0 win in Rabat.[13] He played in the 2021 Africa cup of Nations, his national team's first continental tournament, where they made a sensational quarter-final.[14][15]

Career statistics

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Club

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As of match played 3 October 2021.[1]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup League Cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Chievo 2015–16 Serie A 0 0 0 0 — — 0 0
2016–17 0 0 0 0 — — 0 0
2017–18 0 0 0 0 — — 0 0
2018–19 0 0 0 0 — — 0 0
Total 0 0 0 0 — 0 0 0 0
Cittadella (loan) 2015–16 Lega Pro 12 1 2 2 — — 14 3
Taranto (loan) 2016–17 Lega Pro 14 0 0 0 — — 14 0
Padova (loan) 2016–17 Lega Pro 4 0 — — 1[a] 0 5 0
Reggiana (loan) 2017–18 Serie C 21 1 1 0 — 5[b] 0 27 1
Cuneo (loan) 2018–19 Serie C 32 3 0 0 2 0 — 34 3
Lecco 2019–20 Serie C 17 1 0 0 1 0 — 18 1
Livorno 2020–21 Serie C 7 0 0 0 — — 7 0
Piacenza 2021–22 Serie C 7 0 0 0 2 1 — 9 1
Career total 114 6 3 2 5 1 6 0 128 9
  1. ^ Appearance(s) in the Lega Pro play-offs
  2. ^ Appearance(s) in the Serie C play-offs

International

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As of match played 11 June 2021.[16]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Gambia 2017 1 0
2018 3 0
2021 4 0
Total 8 0

References

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