Abdoulaye Méïté
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Abdoulaye Méïté | ||
| Date of birth | 6 October 1980 | ||
| Place of birth | Paris, France | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Playing position | Centre Back | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1998–2000 | Red Star | 28 | (3) |
| 2000–2006 | Marseille | 152 | (3) |
| 2006–2008 | Bolton Wanderers | 56 | (0) |
| 2008–2011 | West Bromwich Albion | 48 | (0) |
| 2011–2012 | Dijon | 25 | (1) |
| 2013–2014 | FC Honka | 25 | (0) |
| 2014 | Doncaster Rovers | 16 | (1) |
| 2014–2015 | OFI Crete | 9 | (0) |
| 2015 | Ross County | 0 | (0) |
| 2016 | SJK | 18 | (1) |
| 2016–2017 | Newport County | 4 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2003–2011 | Cote d'Ivoire | 48 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:49, 16 January 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 8 January 2011 |
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Abdoulaye Méïté (born 6 October 1980) is a French-born Ivorian footballer. He represents Côte d'Ivoire internationally and has been awarded 48 caps.
His first club at the age of 17 was the Division 2 Paris side, Red Star 93. He joined in 1998 before being snapped up by Olympique de Marseille.
Méïté joined Marseille in July 2000 and made 172 League appearances, as well as many in European competition – including one against Bolton in January 2006. Whilst at Marseille he started in the 2004 UEFA Cup Final.
He moved to Bolton Wanderers in July 2006 from . Méïté scored two goals for Bolton: one in the 3–1 FA Cup defeat to Arsenal on Wednesday, 14 February 2007, and the other in a 1–1 draw against ZFK Rabotnicki Kometal of Macedonia, in the UEFA Cup, on 20 September the same year.
In March 2008 he was involved in controversy during Bolton's defeat against Manchester United at Old Trafford. Manager Gary Megson blamed him for two goals that Bolton had conceded in the first half of the game (both scored by Cristiano Ronaldo), and Méïté refused to come out for the second half. He claimed he was unfit to carry on, but the Bolton medical staff confirmed that there was no injury.
Megson subsequently forced Méïté to train with the reserves, and the player was widely expected to move on from the Reebok Stadium. He never played for Bolton again; he was not selected for any of the remaining eight Premier League fixtures in the 2007–08 season. He had previously missed only twelve League games in the two years he had been at Bolton, and five of these were while he was representing Cote d'Ivoire in the African Nations Cup, in January and February 2008.
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