Mourtala Diakité (born 1 October 1980, in

Bamako Bamako is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Mali, with a 2022 population of 4,227,569. It is located on the Niger River, near the rapids that divide the upper and middle Niger valleys in the southwestern part of the country. Bamak ...

) is a

Mali Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the List of African countries by area, eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over . The country is bordered to the north by Algeria, to the east b ...

an former professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played as a

defensive midfielder In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. ...

Honours

Cercle Olympique *

Malien Cup The Malian Cup, known as the Coupe du Mali Orange for sponsorship reasons, is the top knockout tournament of the Malien football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball ...

: 2000, 2002 Shandong Luneng *

Chinese Super League The Chinese Football Super League (), commonly known as the Chinese Super League or the CSL (), also known as the China Resources Beverage Chinese Football Super League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Ch ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

Benfica Luanda *

Taça de Angola :''This is about the Angolan football (soccer) competition. For the similarly named sports competitions, see Taça de Angola (basketball), Taça de Angola (handball) Taça de Angola (roller hockey)'' The Angolan football Cup is the main "knockou ...

: 2014 1° de Agosto *

Girabola Girabola, or ''Campeonato Nacional de Futebol de Séniores Masculinos'', is the top division of Angolan association football, football. It is organized by the Angolan Football Federation. The term "Girabola" () is a creation of the nationalist, ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

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* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Diakite, Mourtala 1980 births Living people Footballers from Bamako Malian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders CO Bamako players Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players S.C. Beira-Mar players Boavista F.C. players C.F. Os Belenenses players C.S. Marítimo players Liga I players FC Dinamo București players Chinese Super League players China League One players Shandong Taishan F.C. players Shaanxi Wuzhou F.C. players Girabola players S.L. Benfica (Luanda) players C.D. Primeiro de Agosto players Mali men's international footballers Malian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal Expatriate men's footballers in Romania Expatriate men's footballers in China Expatriate men's footballers in Angola Malian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Malian expatriate sportspeople in China Malian expatriate sportspeople in Romania 21st-century Malian sportsmen