Mame Seydina Issa Laye Thiaw (born 12 October 1992), commonly known as Issa Thiaw, is a

Senegal Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. It borders Mauritania to Mauritania–Senegal border, the north, Mali to Mali–Senegal border, the east, Guinea t ...

ese professional

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

coach and a former player who played as a

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. He is the head coach of Finnish club

Mikkelin Palloilijat Mikkelin Palloilijat (or MP) is a Finnish professional football club, based in Mikkeli, that competes in the Ykkönen, the third tier in Finnish football league system. The club was founded in 1929 and also included volleyball, bandy and ice h ...

(MP) in

Ykkönen ''Ykkönen'' (Finnish language, Finnish for 'Number One'; , previously I divisioona) is the third highest level of the Finnish football league system (after the Veikkausliiga and Ykkösliiga), managed by the Football Association of Finland. Until ...

.MP:n uusi päävalmentaja tulee Kuopiosta – Issa Thiaw, 32, haluaa kehittää nuoria pelaajia
lansi-savo.fi, 18 October 2024

Club career

Issa started his career at RS Yoff from Senegal, then played in

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

for various

Liga I Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1 and officially known as SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Romania and the highest level of the Romanian football league system. Contested by 1 ...

and

Liga II The Liga 2, most commonly spelled as Liga II, is the second level of the Romanian football league system. The league changed its name from Divizia B just before the start of the 2006–07 Liga II, 2006–07 football season. It is currently Sponso ...

clubs such as: Voința Sibiu, FC Cisnădie,

Unirea Alba Iulia Clubul Sportiv Municipal Unirea Alba Iulia, commonly known as Unirea Alba Iulia (), is a Romanian professional football club based in Alba Iulia, Alba County, founded in 1924 and currently playing in the Liga III. Among the greatest achievements ...

and Șoimii Pâncota. After a

promotion with

Sepsi OSK Sepsi may refer to: *László Sepsi (born 1986), Romanian footballer of Hungarian descent *Sepsi-78, a football club from Seinäjoki, Finland *ACS Sepsi SIC ACS Sepsi SIC Sfântu Gheorghe or commonly Sepsi SIC is a women's basketball professional ...

, he made his debut with Sepsi Osk in the first league on 16 July 2017, in a 0-1 defeat against

Astra Giurgiu Asociația Fotbal Club Astra Giurgiu (), commonly known as Astra Giurgiu or simply Astra, was a Romanian football club last based in the city of Giurgiu, Giurgiu County. Founded in 1921 in Ploiești as ''Clubul Sportiv Astra-Română'', it spe ...

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* * 1992 births Living people Senegalese men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Liga I players Liga II players CSU Voința Sibiu players CSM Unirea Alba Iulia players CS Podgoria Pâncota players Sepsi OSK Sfântu Gheorghe players Veikkausliiga players Ilves (football) players Senegalese expatriate men's footballers Senegalese expatriate sportspeople in Romania Expatriate men's footballers in Romania Senegalese expatriate sportspeople in Finland Expatriate men's footballers in Finland Kuopion Palloseura non-playing staff 21st-century Senegalese sportsmen {{Senegal-footy-midfielder-stub