Sidiki Cherif (born 15 December 2006) is a 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 plays as a

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for club

Angers Angers (, , ;) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the Prefectures of France, prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Duchy of Anjou, Anjou until the French Revolution. The i ...

. Born in Guinea, he represents France at youth international level.

Club career

Born in

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, Cherif arrived in France at the age of 5. He is a youth product of US Bayard Saumur, Olympique Saumur and

, where he impressed with the under-19. In July 2023, he signed his first professional contract with Angers. Cherif made his professional debut with Angers 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 ...

away loss to

Stade Lavallois Stade Lavallois Mayenne Football Club (), also referred to as Stade Lavallois or simply Laval,Stade Laval, used by some English-speaking media outlets and journalists, is not a grammatically correct name for the club. is a Football in France, F ...

on 9 January 2024.

International career

Born in

Guinea Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea, is a coastal country in West Africa. It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Guinea-Bissau to the northwest, Senegal to the north, Mali to the northeast, Côte d'Ivoire to the southeast, and Sier ...

, Cherof was called to the France under-16 team during the 2021–22 season.

References

External links

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Angers SCO Angers Sporting Club de l'Ouest, commonly referred to as Angers SCO (), is a French professional football club based in Angers in Pays de la Loire in western France. The club was founded in 1919 and plays in Ligue 1, the first division of Foot ...

* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cherif, Sidiki 2006 births Living people Footballers from Conakry French men's footballers France men's youth international footballers French people of Guinean descent Guinean men's footballers Guinean emigrants to France Men's association football forwards Angers SCO players Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players 21st-century French sportsmen