Babacar Sarr
Babacar Sarr (born 15 February 1991) is a Senegalese football midfielder who last played for Damac FC, and an international fugitive wanted for failing to appear before courts in Norway on accusations of rape.
![]() Sarr with Molde in 2018 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 15 February 1991 | ||
Place of birth | Senegal | ||
Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2011–2012 | Selfoss | 38 | (3) |
2012 | → Bastia (loan) | 3 | (0) |
2013–2014 | Start | 36 | (1) |
2014–2016 | Sogndal | 55 | (6) |
2016–2019 | Molde | 65 | (5) |
2019 | Yenisey Krasnoyarsk | 13 | (1) |
2019–2020 | Damac | 13 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16 December 2019 |
Career
Club
Sarr started his professional career at Icelandic team Selfoss, before being loaned out to French side CA Bastia in 2012.
In December 2012, Sarr signed a four-year contract with Start.[1] He made his Start debut 17 March 2013 against Hønefoss, helping his team to a 3-2 win.
On 13 July 2014, Sarr signed for Sogndal,[2] playing there for two seasons before signing for Norwegian side Molde.[3] Sarr was released from his contract with Molde by mutual consent on 18 January 2019.[4]
On 5 February 2019, Sarr signed for Yenisey Krasnoyarsk.[5] On 3 March 2019, in his Yenisey debut, he scored a late equalizer in a 1–1 game against FC Rostov.[6] Following Yenisey's relegation from the Russian Premier League at the end of the 2018–19 season, Sarr was released by the club.[7]
Just hours after Norwegian police declared him internationally wanted,[8] Damac of Saudi Professional League announced his signature on 11 June 2019.[9]
Personal life
Whilst playing for Sogndal, Sarr was accused of rape on an end-of-season players’ trip to Stockholm in 2015, though Swedish police did not press charges against the player. Sarr was later accused of four more rapes whilst a player of Molde (with one of the women giving birth to his child), but was acquitted by the Molde district court in August 2018. However the prosecution appealed, and a second round of criminal proceedings was scheduled to start on 14 February 2019. Sarr also refused to give blood sample in order to aid the inquest.[10] The case was postponed for eight months on 14 February 2019.[11] Sarr is currently wanted internationally by Interpol for failure to appear in court and as a suspect in another rape case.[12]
Career statistics
Club | Season | Division | League | Cup | League Cup | Europe | Total | |||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
Selfoss | 2011 | 1. deild karla | 17 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | 22 | 2 | |
2012 | Úrvalsdeild | 21 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | 27 | 1 | ||
Total | 38 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 0 | — | — | 49 | 3 | ||
CA Bastia (loan) | 2011-12 | Championnat de France Amateur | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | |
Start | 2013 | Tippeligaen | 23 | 0 | 5 | 0 | — | — | 28 | 0 | ||
2014 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 17 | 1 | ||||
Total | 36 | 1 | 9 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 45 | 1 | ||
Sogndal | 2014 | Tippeligaen | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 11 | 0 | ||
2015 | OBOS-ligaen | 29 | 4 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 32 | 0 | |||
2016 | Tippeligaen | 15 | 2 | 3 | 1 | — | — | 18 | 3 | |||
Total | 55 | 6 | 6 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 61 | 6 | ||
Molde | 2016 | Tippeligaen | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | |
2017 | Eliteserien | 25 | 1 | 5 | 0 | — | — | 30 | 1 | |||
2018 | 27 | 4 | 2 | 0 | — | 7 | 1 | 36 | 5 | |||
Total | 65 | 5 | 7 | 0 | — | — | 7 | 1 | 79 | 6 | ||
Yenisey Krasnoyarsk | 2018–19 | Russian Premier League | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 13 | 1 | ||
Damac | 2019–20 | Saudi Professional League | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 13 | 0 | ||
Career total | 223 | 16 | 26 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 263 | 18 |
References
- Sellevold, Terje (21 December 2012). "Babacar Sarr is the new Start Player". nrk.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 11 November 2013.
- "Sarr: – Trist, men riktig å gå til Sogndal". nrk.no (in Norwegian). 13 July 2014. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
- "Babacar Sarr klar for Molde FK". moldefk.no (in Norwegian). 20 July 2016. Archived from the original on 25 July 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- "BABACAR SARR FRISTILLES FRA MOLDE FOTBALLKLUBB". moldefk.no (in Norwegian). Molde FK. 18 January 2019. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
- "БАБАКАР САРР — ИГРОК "ЕНИСЕЯ"!". фк-енисей.рф (in Russian). FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk. 5 February 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- "Yenisey v Rostov game report" (in Russian). Russian Premier League. 3 March 2019.
- "ЕНИСЕЙ ПОКИНУЛИ ДЕСЯТЬ ИГРОКОВ". фк-енисей.рф (in Russian). FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk. 3 June 2019. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
- "Babacar Sarr er etterlyst internasjonalt" (in Norwegian). Nettavisen. 12 June 2019. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
- "بابكر سار ضمكاوي" (in Arabic). Damac FC Official Twitter. 11 June 2019. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
- "The B Sarr transfer to Siberia". josimarfootball.com/. Josimar Football. 12 February 2019. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
- "John Christian Elden raser etter at voldtektssak ble utsatt i nesten åtte måneder". nettavisen.no/ (in Norwegian). Nettavisen. 14 February 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
- Ighoubah, Farid. "Babacar Sarr er etterlyst internasjonalt". Nettavisen (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2020-01-01.
- "B.Sarr". soccerway.com. Soccerway. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
- "Babacar Sarr". nifs.no. NIFS. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
- "Babacar Sarr". ksi.is. ksi. Retrieved 13 September 2017.