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Papiss Cissé

Papiss Cissé
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Cissé playing for Newcastle United in 2013
Personal information
Full name Papiss Demba Cissé
Date of birth (1985-06-03) 3 June 1985 (age 31)
Place of birth Dakar, Senegal
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Striker
Club information
Current team
Shandong Luneng
Number 18
Youth career
AS Génération Foot
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003–2004 Douanes Dakar 26 (23)
2005–2009 Metz 95 (36)
2005–2006 Cherbourg (loan) 28 (19)
2008–2009 Châteauroux (loan) 15 (4)
2009–2012 SC Freiburg 65 (37)
2012–2016 Newcastle United 117 (37)
2016– Shandong Luneng 13 (5)
National team
2009– Senegal 35 (16)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 30 October 2016.
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 29 January 2015

Papiss Demba Cissé (born 3 June 1985), also known as Papiss Cissé, is a Senegalese footballer who plays as a striker for Shandong Luneng and the Senegal national team.

Formerly of SC Freiburg, he holds the record of most goals scored by an African player in a single Bundesliga campaign – 22 in the 2010–11 season. That same season, Cissé won the EFFIFU award for being the most efficient striker in the league.

A full international since 2009, Cissé has earned over 30 caps for Senegal and played for the country at the 2012 and 2015 Africa Cup of Nations.

Cissé began his career with AS Génération Foot and Douanes Dakar before transferring to the French side Metz in summer 2005. After only one month during the 2005–06 season, he left Metz and was loaned to French side Cherbourg. During the season, Cissé played 26 games and scored 11 goals for the Normandy club. After the season, Cissé returned to Metz for a further two years before being loaned again to Châteauroux in January 2008 and before returning to Metz in July 2008 for a third stint.

Cissé signed for German Bundesliga side Freiburg on 28 December 2009 for fee of €1.62 million. He initially became a transfer target for Freiburg in the summer of 2009 after he scored a goal and assisted on another in a 2–1 friendly win for Metz over the club. However, a transfer fee could not be agreed upon at the time. Hannover 96 also expressed interest in the player. In his first partial season at Freiburg, Cissé appeared in 16 matches, scoring six goals.


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