Mame Baba Thiam

Mame Thiam
Personal information
Full nameMame Baba Thiam
Date of birth9 October 1992
Place of birthNguidile, Senegal
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing positionStriker, wing forward
Club information
Current team
Lanciano
Youth career
Real San Marco (Venice)
2008–2009Treviso
2009–2011Internazionale
2009–2010→ Sassuolo (loan)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
2011–2013Internazionale0(0)
2011–2012→ Avellino (loan)26(4)
2012–2013→ South Tyrol (loan)[nb 1]25(5)
2013–2014Lanciano22(3)
2014–Juventus0(0)
2014–→ Lanciano (loan)0(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 July 2014.
† Appearances (Goals).

Mame Baba Thiam (born 9 October 1992) is a Senegalese footballer who plays for Italian Serie B club Lanciano.

Biography

Youth career

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, Giuseppe Angarano and Longo, Thiam left for Sassuolo's Primavera team (literally Spring team) in August 2009. The Emilia-Romagna side also borrowed Alberto Gallinetta and kept numbers of former Inter players by extended the loans or excised the option to sign outright from Inter, such as Pellegrino Albanese, Raffaele Conforto and Giorgio Schiavini. Thiam was the starting forward along with Diego Falcinelli,[9][10][11][12] who also from Inter academy. However the coach also used other formation and preferred Falcinelli as sole centre forward[13] despite Thiam also played that role few time.[14] That season Thiam scored 4 times.[15]

During the season, Inter formed a complex deal with Sassuolo, which allowed Thiam to join Sassuolo for free in January 2010 (Inter registered a loss of €71,000),[16] then Thiam re-joined Inter on 30 August[17] in co-ownership deal, with Thiam's contract treated as a financial asset in Sassuolo's account and an 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 the regular season, behind strikers Dell'Agnello, Alibec and midfielder Milan Jirásek.[18] He also won 2011 Torneo di Viareggio with the spring.[19]

Serie C1 loans

On 30 August 2011 he left for Avellino.[20] Thiam made his professional debut on 25 September (round 4), substituted Gianluca De Angelis.[21] He made his first start in the next game, partnering Gianmarco Zigoni (round 5). He played the successive game, scoring on 13, 16 and 30 October (round 7, 8 and 10), partnering Zigoni, Fabrizio Lasagna and De Angelis respectively. However after a goal drought Thiam lost the starting place, and became the backup of De Angelis and Zigoni. He returned to starting XI again on 7 March 2012, partnering Zigoni. In June 2012 Inter also acquired Thiam outright, as Sassuolo gave up their 50% registration rights of Thiam.

On 12 July 2012 Thiam was signed by another third division club South Tyrol (German: Südtirol, Italian: Alto Adige).[22]

Lanciano and Juventus

On 15 July 2013, Thiam joined Serie B club Lanciano on free transfer.[23] On 30 January 2014, Lanciano signed goalkeeper Laurențiu Brănescu in a co-ownership deal for €250,000 cash plus 50% registration rights of Thiam (50% "card" of Thiam was valued at €1.4 million; 50% "card" of Brănescu was valued €1.65 million).[24][25] Thiam spent the rest of the 2013–14 season in Lanciano. He continues in Lanciano in the 2014–2015 season.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Excluding 2 games in promotion playoffs

References

  1. ↑ "F.C. INTERNAZIONALE MILANO - OFFICIAL WEB SITE". inter.it.
  2. ↑ "PEPAM". pepam.gouv.sn.
  3. ↑ Finali Nazionali per Rappresentative Regionali Allievi "CU n.17 (2007–08)". Settore Giovanile e Scolastico (SGS), FIGC (in Italian). 22 June 2008. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
  4. ↑ 43° Coppa Nazionale Primavera 2007/2008, "CU n.82 Allego (2007–08)". Comitato Regionale Veneto, SGS, FIGC (in Italian). 17 June 2008. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
  5. ↑ "ALLIEVI NAZIONALI". Treviso FBC 1993 (in Italian). Archived from the original on 27 October 2008. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
  6. ↑ "Academy ins and outs". FC Internazionale Milano (www.inter.it). 2 February 2009. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
  7. ↑ "Under-17s defeated: thanks all the same". FC Internazionale Milano (www.inter.it). 19 June 2009. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
  8. ↑ "Championship ALLIEVI A 2008/09". FC Internazionale Milano (www.inter.it). Retrieved 19 October 2011.
  9. ↑ "CAMPIONATO PRIMAVERA: SASSUOLO AL COMANDO DEL GIRONE A". Zona Calcio (in Italian). 19 September 2009. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
  10. ↑ "CAMPIONATO PRIMAVERA: DERBY A RETI BIANCHE". UC Sampdoria (in Italian). 10 October 2009. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
  11. ↑ "VIAREGGIO CUP: NAPOLI - SASSUOLO 4-5". Zona Calcio (in Italian). 9 February 2010. Retrieved 9 February 2010.
  12. ↑ "VIAREGGIO CUP: JUVENTUS - SASSUOLO 1-0". Zona Calcio (in Italian). 11 February 2010. Retrieved 9 February 2010.
  13. ↑ "Poker al Sassuolo: Primavera agli ottavi con Krsticic". UC Sampdoria (in Italian). 14 April 2010. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
  14. ↑ "Primavera: i gol di Obiang, Rabiu e Foti piegano il Sassuolo". UC Sampdoria (in Italian). 7 November 2009. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
  15. ↑ "THIAM Mame Baba". fullsoccer.eu.
  16. ↑ FC Internazionale Milano Spa 2009–10 Bilancio. FC Internazionale Milano (in Italian) (Registro Imprese & C.C.I.A.A.). ca. January 2011. Check date values in: |date= (help);
  17. ↑ "Two arrivals and a departure". FC Internazionale Milano (www.inter.it). 30 August 2010. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
  18. ↑ "Championship PRIMAVERA 2010/11". FC Internazionale Milano. www.inter.it. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
  19. ↑ "Viareggio: Dell'Agnello's brace, Inter champions". FC Internazionale Milano (www.inter.it). 7 March 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
  20. ↑ "Ingaggiato dall’Inter l’esterno Thiam". AS Avellino 1912 (in Italian). 30 August 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
  21. ↑ "Zigoni di testa lancia l' Avellino Per il Viareggio quarto k.o. di fila" (require login). La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 26 September 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
  22. ↑ "DALL INTER ARRIVA IN PRESTITO IL SENEGALESE MAME BABA THIAM" (in Italian). FC Südtirol. 12 July 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
  23. ↑ "Ufficiale: Mame Baba Thiam è un calciatore della Virtus Lanciano: Per lui contratto triennale" (in Italian). SS Virtus Lanciano 1924. 15 July 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  24. ↑ "Mercato: scambio di comproprietà Thiam-Branescu: Accordo raggiunto tra la Virtus e la Juventus" (in Italian). SS Virtus Lanciano 1924. 30 January 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  25. ↑ "Resoconto intermedio di gestione al 31 marzo 2014" (in Italian). Juventus FC. 13 May 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2014.

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