Ricardo Faty
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Ricardo Faty | ||
| Date of birth | 4 August 1986 | ||
| Place of birth | Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France | ||
| Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||
| Playing position | Defensive midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Bursaspor | ||
| Number | 14 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1999–2002 | INF Clairefontaine | ||
| 2002–2005 | Strasbourg | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2005–2006 | Strasbourg | 7 | (0) |
| 2006–2010 | Roma | 19 | (0) |
| 2007 | → Bayer Leverkusen (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 2008–2009 | → Nantes (loan) | 41 | (3) |
| 2010–2012 | Aris | 47 | (3) |
| 2012–2014 | Ajaccio | 47 | (4) |
| 2014–2015 | Standard Liège | 31 | (4) |
| 2015– | Bursaspor | 9 | (1) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2006–2007 | France U20 | 8 | (1) |
| 2012– | Senegal | 3 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 5 January 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 26 December 2016 |
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Ricardo Faty (born 4 August 1986 in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France) is a Senegalese international football midfielder who currently plays for Bursaspor in Turkey.
He is the younger brother of Jacques Faty, who plays for Australian club Central Coast Mariners FC. Though they were born in France, their father is Senegalese and their mother is from Cape Verde. His father is Muslim and his mother is Catholic, while Faty converted to Islam at age 20, while playing for Roma, and hopes to end his career in a Gulf country to increase his faith.
Faty's football career began with Strasbourg in the 2004–05 season of the Championnat de France Amateurs, in which he played 27 matches and scored one goal. The following year he earned fourteen more caps in the CFA, along with twelve matches for RC Strasbourg's professional squad, five being in cup competition. His Ligue 1 debut was on 29 October 2005.
During 2005–06 UEFA Cup, A.S. Roma faced Strasbourg in the group stage, and Luciano Spalletti noted the young Frenchman, so the following year, due to Strasbourg's relegation to Ligue 2 and Olivier Dacourt's departure from Roma to Inter Milan, Faty was signed to giallorossi for a fee of 350,000 Euros for a five-year contract.
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