Jules Keita
![]() Keita in 2019 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Abdoulaye Jules Keita | ||
| Date of birth | 20 July 1998 | ||
| Place of birth | Conakry, Guinea | ||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||
| Position | Winger | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | AS Kaloum | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2016 | FC Atouga | ||
| 2016–2017 | Bastia | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2018–2019 | Dijon | 20 | (2) |
| 2019–2021 | Lens | 4 | (0) |
| 2020–2021 | → CSKA Sofia (loan) | 14 | (2) |
| 2022– | AS Kaloum | 0 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2015 | Guinea U-17 | 3 | (0) |
| 2017 | Guinea U-20 | 3 | (0) |
| 2019– | Guinea | 3 | (1) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 13:02, 21 July 2022 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 07:39, 23 February 2025 (UTC) | |||
Abdoulaye Jules Keita (born 20 July 1998) is a Guinean professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for AS Kaloum.
Keita started his senior career at Dijon in Ligue 1, before joining Lens in September 2019.
Club career
On 20 July 2020, Keita left Lens and joined Bulgarian club CSKA Sofia on a season-long loan.[1] In June 2021, CSKA Sofia decided against exercising the purchase option and Keita returned to Lens.[2]
International career
Keita debuted for the Guinea national team in a 1–0 friendly loss to Comoros on 12 October 2019.[3]
Career statistics
Club
- As of 1 July 2022[4]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | League Cup | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Dijon | 2018–19 | Ligue 1 | 17 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 21 | 3 | ||
| 2019–20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 3 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 20 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 3 | ||
| Lens | 2019–20 | Ligue 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 6 | 2 | ||
| CSKA Sofia | 2020–21 | First League | 14 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | 6 | 1 | – | 21 | 3 | ||
| Career total | 38 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 8 | ||
International
- As of match played 25 March 2024
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guinea | 2019 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | – | ||
| 2021 | – | ||
| 2022 | – | ||
| 2023 | – | ||
| 2024 | 2 | 1 | |
| Total | 3 | 1 | |
- Scores and results list Guinea's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Keita goal.
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 March 2024 | King Abdullah Sports City Stadium, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | 4–1 | 5–1 | 2024 FIFA Series |
Honours
CSKA Sofia
Guinea U17
- Africa U-17 Cup of Nations bronze: 2015[5]
References
- ↑ "ЦСКА привлече Жул Кейта". cska.bg (in Bulgarian). 20 July 2020.
- ↑ "Jules Keita vers un retour au RC Lens avant un nouveau départ" (in French). lensois.com. 4 June 2021. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
- ↑ "Guinea vs. Comoros Islands - Football Match Summary - October 12, 2019 - ESPN". ESPN.com.
- ↑ Jules Keita at Soccerway
- ↑ "African U-17 Championship 2015".
External links
- Jules Keita at National-Football-Teams.com
Categories:
- 1998 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Conakry
- Guinean men's footballers
- Men's association football midfielders
- Guinea men's international footballers
- Guinea men's under-20 international footballers
- Guinea men's youth international footballers
- Ligue 1 players
- Ligue 2 players
- First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players
- Dijon FCO players
- RC Lens players
- PFC CSKA Sofia players
- Guinean expatriate men's footballers
- Guinean expatriate sportspeople in France
- Expatriate men's footballers in France
- Guinean expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria
- Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria
- 21st-century Guinean sportsmen
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