Karim Guédé

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Karim Guédé
Guédé in 2013
Personal information
Full name Karim Abdul-Jabbar Guédé
Date of birth (1985-01-07) 7 January 1985 (age 39)
Place of birth Hamburg, West Germany
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 SC Freiburg (scout)
Youth career
SC Hamm 02
FC St. Pauli
2002–2003 SC Concordia
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003–2004 SC Concordia 24 (0)
2004–2006 Hamburger SV II 24 (0)
2006–2009 Petržalka 88 (9)
2010–2011 Slovan Bratislava 60 (10)
2012–2018 SC Freiburg 102 (7)
2018–2019 SV Sandhausen 9 (0)
Total 307 (26)
International career
2011–2014 Slovakia 14 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Karim Abdul-Jabbar Guédé (born 7 January 1985) is a former professional footballer who works as a scout for SC Freiburg. He started his career at the amateur level with SC Concordia and Hamburger SV II. After impressing at Slovakian clubs Petržalka and Slovan Bratislava, he joined SC Freiburg, where he spent six seasons. He ended his career after one season with SV Sandhausen. Born in West Germany, he played for the Slovakia national team.

Club career[edit]

Guédé, born in Hamburg, is a son of Togolese mother and French father. After playing for the Oberliga Hamburg club SC Concordia von 1907 and Hamburger SV II he came to Artmedia Petržalka in July 2006. He made his Corgoň Liga debut in a 4–0 defeat against Trenčín on 9 September 2006. He began playing as a defensive midfielder in Artmedia, previously he played as a defender. In the next season he won the Double. He moved to ŠK Slovan Bratislava in January 2010. In his first season in a new club he won the Slovak Cup. He won his second Slovak Double in 2010–11. After five years in Slovakia he obtained Slovak citizenship and became a possible choice for the national team manager Vladimír Weiss.[1]

In May 2018, Guédé left SC Freiburg after six seasons with the club.[2][3]

In June, Guédé joined 2. Bundesliga side SV Sandhausen on a free transfer having agreed a one-year contract.[3]

International career[edit]

Guédé made his Slovakia national team debut in the 2–1 away win against Austria on 10 August 2011 after gaining Slovakian citizenship. Five years earlier in 2006, Guédé was initially part of the Togo national team squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup but never made an appearance because a shoulder injury stopped his debut.[4]

After retirement[edit]

After retiring at the end of the 2018–19 season, Guédé returned to SC Freiburg where he was hired as a scout in France and Africa.[5]

Honours[edit]

Artmedia

Slovan

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Guédé dostal slovenské občianstvo". profutbal (in Slovak). 21 July 2011. Archived from the original on 24 December 2013. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
  2. ^ "Freiburgs Schuster beendet Karriere". kicker Online (in German). 12 May 2018. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  3. ^ a b Dörfler, Michael (25 June 2018). "Karim Guédé verlässt den Sportclub nach sechs Spielzeiten und geht nach Sandhausen". Badische Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  4. ^ Kübler, René; Disch, Peter; Goebel, Thomas (8 January 2012). "SC Freiburg will Karim Guédé fürs defensive Mittelfeld – Bastians wechselt nach Berlin". Badische Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 9 January 2012.
  5. ^ In neuer Rolle: Karim Guedé zurück in Freiburg, kicker.de, 5 July 2019

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