Ricardo Faty

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Ricardo Faty
Ricardo Faty
Personal information
Date of birth August 4, 1986 (1986-08-04) (age 21)
Place of birth    Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France
Height 1.92 m (6 ft 3+1⁄2 in)
Playing position Defensive midfielder
Club information
Current club FC Nantes
Number 23
Youth clubs
2004–2005 RC Strasbourg
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
2005–2006
2006–2007
2007
2008–		 RC Strasbourg
A.S. Roma
→ Bayer Leverkusen (loan)
→ FC Nantes (loan)		 07 (0)
11 (0)
01 (0)
   

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of January 28, 2008.
* Appearances (Goals)

Ricardo Faty (born 4 August 1986 in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France) is a French Defensive midfielder, who currently plays for FC Nantes. However, he is owned by Italian Serie A team AS Roma.

He is the younger brother of Jacques Faty, who plays for French Ligue 1 side Olympique de Marseille. Though they were born in France, their father is Senegalese and their mother is from Cape Verde.

[edit] Football career

Ricardo Faty's football career began in the 2004–05 season of the Championnat de France Amateurs for RC Strasbourg, 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 October 29, 2005.

During Uefa Cup 200506, 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 July 6, he moved to German team Bayer Leverkusen for a two year loan.[1] In January 2008 he was loaned to FC Nantes.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Roma: Faty a Leverkusen (Italian). uefa.com (2007-07-06). Retrieved on 2007-12-01.
  2. ^ Faty claims Everton interest. skysports.com (2008-01-24). Retrieved on 2008-01-28.

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