Jackson Mendy (born 25 May 1987) is a professional

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who plays as a defender. Born in France, he played for the Senegal national team internationally.

Club career

Mendy was born in

Mont-Saint-Aignan Mont-Saint-Aignan () is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the region of Normandy, northwestern France. The inhabitants of the town of Mont-Saint-Aignan are called ''Mont-Saint-Aignanais'' in French. Due to the presence of higher edu ...

, France. He started his career in the training centre of

Auxerre Auxerre ( , , Burgundian language (Oïl), Burgundian: ''Auchoirre'') is the capital (Prefectures in France, prefecture) of the Yonne Departments of France, department and the fourth-largest city in the Burgundy historical region southeast of Par ...

, moving first to Quevilly, before signing a one-season professional trainee contract with

Rennes Rennes (; ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in Northwestern France at the confluence of the rivers Ille and Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the Brittany (administrative region), Brittany Regions of F ...

in June 2006. A year later, having not imposed himself, he left Rennes for

Paris FC Paris Football Club (French pronunciation: Help:IPA/French, aʁi futbol klœb, commonly referred to as Paris FC or simply PFC, is a French professional Association football, football club based in Paris, France. They will compete in Ligue ...

. After one season at Paris FC, Mendy moved to Germany, first with

Hansa Rostock FC Hansa Rostock () is a German association football club based in the city of Rostock, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The club is also called as "the cog" because of its club crest. They have emerged as one of the most successful clubs from ...

, where he played for the B team, and then with

SC Freiburg Sport-Club Freiburg e.V., commonly known as SC Freiburg (), is a Football in Germany, German professional football club, based in the city of Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg. It plays in the Bundesliga, having been promoted as champions ...

. He left the club in July 2010, having a trial at

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team

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before signing a two-year deal with French side

Grenoble Foot 38 Grenoble Foot 38, commonly referred to as simply Grenoble or GF38, is a Football in France, French association football club based in Grenoble. The club plays its home matches at the Stade des Alpes, a sports complex based in the heart of the c ...

. He stayed just one season, due to Grenoble filing for bankruptcy at the end of the

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campaign. On 31 July 2011, he signed a one-year contract with

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side

AC Ajaccio Athletic Club Ajaccien (), commonly referred to as AC Ajaccio, ACA or simply Ajaccio, is a French professional football club based in the city of Ajaccio on the island of Corsica. The club was founded in 1910 and plays in the Ligue 2, the sec ...

. Mendy made his Ligue 1 debut on 17 September 2011, as a second half substitute in the match at

Nice Nice ( ; ) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly one million Superleague Greece The Super League Greece 1 (), or Stoiximan Super League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Greece and the highest level of the Greek football league system. The league was formed on 16 July 2006 and repl ...

side

Levadiakos Levadiakos Football Club (officially romanized: ''Levadeiakos'' ) is a Greek professional football club that plays in the Super League Greece. Based in Livadeia, Greece, the club was promoted to the Alpha Ethniki, forerunner of the Super League, ...

in January 2012, signing a two-year deal. He was released from his contract at the end of the 2012–13 season, and joined Bulgarian side

CSKA Sofia CSKA Sofia () is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia and currently competing in the country's premier football competition, the First League. ''CSKA'' is an abbreviation for ''Central Sports Club of the Army'' ...

. He spent a second season in Bulgaria with

Litex Lovech FC Lovech (; formerly Litex Lovech) is a Bulgarian professional association football, football club based in Lovech, that competes in the Second Professional Football League (Bulgaria), Second League. The club was founded in 1921 as Hisarya Spor ...

in 2014–15 before a six-month spell in Cyprus with Omonia. In January 2016 Mendy returned to Levadiakos for a second spell, spending two-and-a-half seasons with the club. In July 2018 he signed a two-year deal with Swiss side

FC Schaffhausen FC Schaffhausen is a Swiss Association football, football team from the town of Schaffhausen. The club set to plays in the Promotion League from 2025–26, the third tier of Swiss football after relegation from Challenge League (Switzerland), Ch ...

. Having been used most often as a substitute in the second half of the 2018–19 season, he signed for

US Boulogne Union Sportive de Boulogne-sur-Mer Côte d'Opale (commonly referred to as US Boulogne, USBCO or frequently, simply Boulogne) is a French association football club based in the commune of Boulogne-sur-Mer. The club was founded in 1898 and cur ...

International career

On 11 May 2010, he earned his first call-up for the

Senegal national football team The Senegal national football team (French language, French: ''Équipe de football du Senegal''), nicknamed ''Les Lions de la Teranga'' (meaning: ''The Lions of Teranga''), represents Senegal in men's international association football and is op ...

for a friendly match against

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on 27 May 2010.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mendy, Jackson 1987 births Living people French sportspeople of Senegalese descent Footballers from Seine-Maritime French men's footballers Senegalese men's footballers 21st-century Senegalese sportsmen Men's association football defenders Senegal men's international footballers FC Hansa Rostock players SC Freiburg players Paris FC players Stade Rennais FC players AJ Auxerre players Grenoble Foot 38 players AC Ajaccio players US Quevilly-Rouen Métropole players Levadiakos F.C. players PFC CSKA Sofia players FC Lovech players AC Omonia players FC Schaffhausen players US Boulogne players Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players Championnat National players Bundesliga players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Super League Greece players Cypriot First Division players Challenge League (Switzerland) players Senegalese expatriate men's footballers Senegalese expatriate sportspeople in Germany French expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Senegalese expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria Senegalese expatriate sportspeople in Greece Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Senegalese expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus Senegalese expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland 21st-century French sportsmen