Ricardo Faty
| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Ricardo Faty | ||
| Date of birth | 4 August 1986 | ||
| Place of birth | Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France | ||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
| Playing position | Defensive midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Aris FC | ||
| Number | 14 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2002 | Clairefontaine[1] | ||
| 2004–2005 | Strasbourg | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2005–2006 | Strasbourg | 7 | (0) |
| 2006–2010 | Roma | 19 | (0) |
| 2007 | → Bayer Leverkusen (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 2008–2009 | → Nantes (loan) | 41 | (3) |
| 2010– | Aris FC | 38 | (2) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 5 December 2011. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Ricardo Faty (born 4 August 1986 in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, Val-de-Marne) is a French Defensive midfielder who currently plays for Aris Thessaloniki.[2]
He is the younger brother of Jacques Faty, who plays for French Ligue 1 club FC Sochaux-Montbéliard. Though they were born in France, their father is Senegalese and their mother is from Cape Verde.
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[edit] Football career
Faty's football career began with Strasbourg in the 2004–05 season of the Championnat de France Amateurs, in which he played 27 matches and scored one goal. The following year he earned fourteen more caps in the CFA, along with twelve matches for RC Strasbourg's professional squad, five being in cup competition. His Ligue 1 debut was on 29 October 2005.
During Uefa Cup 2005–06, AS Roma faced Strasbourg in the group stage, and Luciano Spalletti noted the young Frenchman, so the following year, due to Strasbourg's relegation to Ligue 2 and Olivier Dacourt's departure from Roma to Inter Milan, Faty was signed to giallorossi for a fee of 350,000 Euros for a five-year contract.
He made his Champion's League debut with Roma against Olympiacos at the Karaiskákis Stadium. He was given the job of man-marking the former Brazilian star Rivaldo. Roma eventually won the match 1–0. He employed this role so well and efficiently that Luciano Spalletti praised him and many tabloids and newspapers named him the "new" Patrick Vieira.
At the end of his first season in Serie A he said that, though he was satisfied of his experience at AS Roma, he would like to transfer on loan to have more chances to play and thus, on 6 July, he moved to German team Bayer Leverkusen for a two year loan.[3] In January 2008 he was loaned to FC Nantes, where he stayed until the end of the 2008–09 Ligue 1 season.[4] On 31 July 2010, it was revealed that Faty would be joining English Premier League club Blackburn Rovers on trial for a undisclosed length of time.[5] The trial came to nothing as Faty then signed for Greek club Aris Salonica.
In his first season in Thessaloniki (2010–2011), Faty played in about 35 matches and scored two goals (against Kerkyra and Rosenborg BK).
[edit] Honours
- Champions
- Runner-up
[edit] References
- ^ "INF, formateur de talents" (in French). FFF. http://www.fff.fr/presentationfff/actualite/418646.shtml. Retrieved 21 July 2009.
- ^ "Ο Ρικάρντο Φατί στον ΑΡΗ!" (in Greek). arisfc.gr. 27 August 2010. http://www.arisfc.gr/index.cfm?pid=2&view=detail&id=1796. Retrieved 27 August 2010.
- ^ "Roma: Faty a Leverkusen" (in Italian). uefa.com. 6 July 2007. http://it.uefa.com/competitions/uefacup/news/kind=1/newsid=559216.html. Retrieved 1 December 2007.
- ^ "Faty claims Everton interest". skysports.com. 24 January 2008. http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_3075691,00.html. Retrieved 28 January 2008.
- ^ "Faty Rovers Trial". Lancashire Evening Telegraph. 31 July 2010. http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/blackburnrovers/news/8305195.Faty_gets_Rovers_chance/?ref=rss. Retrieved 31 July 2010.
[edit] External links
- Ricardo Faty at racingstub.com (French)
- Ricardo Faty at ESPN Soccernet
- Ricardo Faty at fussballdaten.de (German)
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- 1986 births
- Living people
- People from Villeneuve-Saint-Georges
- French footballers
- RC Strasbourg players
- A.S. Roma players
- Bayer 04 Leverkusen players
- FC Nantes players
- Aris Thessaloniki F.C. players
- INF Clairefontaine players
- Serie A footballers
- Ligue 1 players
- Fußball-Bundesliga players
- Superleague Greece players
- French people of Senegalese descent
- France under-21 international footballers
- French expatriate footballers
- French people of Cape Verdean descent
- Expatriate footballers in Italy
- Expatriate footballers in Germany
