| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 9 October 1992 | ||
| Place of birth | Nguidile, Senegal | ||
| Playing position | Striker, Wing forward | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Avellino | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Real San Marco (Venice) | |||
| 2008–2009 | Treviso | ||
| 2009–2011 | Internazionale | ||
| 2009–2010 | → Sassuolo (loan) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2011– | Internazionale | 0 | (0) |
| 2011– | → Avellino (loan) | 7 | (3) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 30 October 2011. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Mame Baba Thiam (born 9 October 1992) is a Senegalese footballer who plays for Avellino.
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Born in Nguidile,[1] Louga Region,[2] Thiam left for Italy at young age. Thiam was selected to Veneto region Allievi team for Coppa Nazionale Primavera, a competition against other Italy regional representatives in 2007–08 season.[3] At club level he played for Real San Marco of Chirignago area of Venice.[4] In 2008 he was signed by Veneto club Treviso.[5] In January 2009 he was signed by Internazionale from Treviso along with Samuel Longo.[6] He immediately entered Inter's Allievi Nazionali under-17 team,[7] scoring 4 goals in regular season (group stage).[8] Due to Inter's Primavera under-20 team had many strikers, namely Denis Alibec, Mattia Destro, Simone Dell'Agnello and Giuseppe Angarano, Thiam left for Sassuolo's Primavera team (literally Spring team) in August 2009. The Emilia-Romagna side also signed Raffaele Conforto from Inter in co-ownership deal for €500, borrowed Alberto Gallinetta and kept numbers of players by extended the loans or excised the option to sign outright from Inter.
During the season also saw Inter formed a complex deal with Sassuolo, which Thiam allowed to join Sassuolo for free in January 2010 (made Inter registered a loss of €71,000),[9] then Thiam re-joined Inter on 30 August[10] in co-ownership deal, made Thiam's contract treated as a financial asset in Sassuolo's account and a intangible asset in Inter account, as well as the "parent" club of the co-ownership contract became Sassuolo instead of Inter. With Inter "Spring", he scored 4 goals in regular season, behind strikers Dell'Agnello, Alibec and midfielder Milan Jirásek.[11] He also won 2011 Torneo di Viareggio with the spring.[12]
On 30 August 2011 he left for Avellino.[13] Thiam made his professional debut on 25 September, substituted Gianluca De Angelis.[14] He made his first start in the next game, partnering Gianmarco Zigoni. He played the successive game, scoring on 13 and 16 October.