Modibo Sagnan (born 14 April 1999) is a professional

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who plays as a

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for club

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. Born in France, he represented its Olympic team, before switching allegiance to the Mali national team.

Club career

Lens

A youth product of

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, Sagnan signed his first professional contract with them on 28 July 2017, tying him down to the club for three years. Sagnan made his professional debut for Lens in a 1–0

Ligue 2 Ligue 2 (, League 2), also known as Ligue 2 BKT due to sponsorship reasons, is a French professional football league. The league serves as the second division of French football and is one of two divisions making up the Ligue de Football Prof ...

loss to

FC Sochaux-Montbéliard Football Club Sochaux-Montbéliard (; commonly referred to as FCSM or simply Sochaux) is a Football in France, French association football club based in the city of Montbéliard. The club was founded in 1928 and currently plays in Championnat N ...

on 30 January 2018.

Real Sociedad

On 30 January 2019, Sagnan joined

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side

Real Sociedad Real Sociedad de Fútbol, more commonly referred to as Real Sociedad ( ; ''Royal Society'') in English, and Erreala or Reala in Basque language, Basque, is a Spanish professional sports club in the city of San Sebastián, Donostia / San Sebastián, ...

for an estimated fee of

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5 million, and was immediately loaned back to Lens for the remainder of the season. The following 31 January, after failing to make a first team appearance, he was loaned to

Segunda División The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Segunda División, commonly known as Segunda División or La Liga 2, and officially known as LaLiga HyperMotion for sponsorship reasons, is the men's second professional association football division of the Spa ...

side

CD Mirandés Club Deportivo Mirandés is a List of football clubs in Spain, Spanish football team based in Miranda de Ebro, Province of Burgos, in the autonomous community of Castile and León. Founded on 3 May 1927, the club competes in the Segunda División ...

until June. Sagnan made his debut for the ''Txuri-urdin'' on 3 October 2020, replacing Andoni Gorosabel in a 3–0 home win over

Getafe CF Getafe Club de Fútbol S.A.D. () is a Spanish professional association football, football club based in Getafe, a city in the Community of Madrid. They compete in La Liga, the top tier of the Football in Spain, Spanish football. The team has pla ...

. On 31 August of the following year, after featuring sparingly, he moved to Portuguese

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side C.D. Tondela on a one-year loan deal.

Utrecht

On 11 July 2022, Sagnan was loaned to

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in the Netherlands, with an option to buy. On 2 June 2023, he signed a permanent three-year contract with the club.

Montpellier

On 1 February 2024, Sagnan signed for

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club

International career

Sagnan made his debut for the senior Mali national team on 26 March 2024 in a friendly against

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Personal life

Sagnan was born in France to a Burkinabé father and a Malian mother. He was raised a Muslim.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Real Sociedad *

Copa del Rey The , commonly known as , or (in English) the Spanish Cup or King's Cup, and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–1936) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–1976), is an annual knockout football competition in Spanis ...

: 2019–20

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sagnan, Modibo 1999 births Living people Footballers from Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis Malian men's footballers Mali men's international footballers French men's footballers Olympic footballers for France Malian people of Burkinabe descent French sportspeople of Malian descent French sportspeople of Burkinabe descent French Muslims Men's association football defenders Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players RC Lens players La Liga players Segunda División players Primeira Liga players Eredivisie players Real Sociedad footballers CD Mirandés footballers C.D. Tondela players FC Utrecht players Montpellier HSC players Malian expatriate men's footballers French expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands Malian expatriate sportspeople in Spain Malian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Malian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands French expatriate sportspeople in Spain French expatriate sportspeople in Portugal French expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Footballers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Sportspeople of Malian descent Sportspeople of Burkinabe descent 21st-century French sportsmen