Emmanuel Mendy

Emmanuel Henry Gomis Mendy (born 30 March 1990) is a professional footballer who plays as a right back.

Emmanuel Mendy
Personal information
Full name Emmanuel Henry Gomis Mendy
Date of birth (1990-03-30) 30 March 1990
Place of birth Medina Gounass, Senegal
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Right back
Youth career
Murcia Deportivo
Liverpool
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2011–2012 Liverpool 0 (0)
2012–2013 Dinamo Tbilisi 1 (0)
2014 Daugava 19 (0)
2015–2016 Huércal-Overa 18 (1)
2016 Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț 7 (0)
2016–2017 Pulpileño 6 (0)
2017 Eldense 11 (0)
2017 Bergsøy IL 4 (0)
2018 Torre Levante 5 (0)
2018–2019 Huércal-Overa 18 (0)
National team
2016 Guinea-Bissau 4 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16:14, 11 August 2020 (UTC)

Raised in Spain, he never played higher than Segunda División B, and had unsuccessful spells at clubs in four foreign countries, including Liverpool. Mendy was born in Senegal and chose to represent Guinea-Bissau at international level, making his debut in 2016 and being chosen for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.

Club career

Born in Medina Gounass, Senegal, Mendy emigrated to the Spanish town of Vícar, Almería as an infant and is a naturalised Spanish citizen.[1] He began his career as a youth at Murcia Deportivo CF and was signed by Premier League club Liverpool in July 2008.[2]

Mendy never made the senior team at Anfield and went to FC Dinamo Tbilisi in Georgia in 2012; he missed several months through an ankle injury after his first game and was then no longer required.[3] He then spent an entire year unemployed before being signed by FK Daugava in Latvia. Having only been paid for two of five months' work for the Riga-based club, he returned to Spain and swore never to work abroad again.[3]

After a spell at Tercera División club Huércal-Overa CF, Mendy went back abroad in early 2016 to play for CSM Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț in Liga II, a team who refused to pay their players anything more than a daily meal in a soup kitchen.[3] Having lost seven kilograms through the ordeal, he returned to Spain's fourth tier at CA Pulpileño.[3] In January 2017, he moved up a level by signing for CD Eldense in Segunda División B, and caused a police investigation in April that year when he stated to Cadena SER that the club's assistant manager, Fran Ruiz, had told him to throw a game against FC Barcelona B.[4]

International career

Mendy represents Guinea-Bissau at international level, becoming eligible through his parents. He made his debut on 23 March 2016 in a 1–0 win away to Kenya in qualification for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations. Due to the suspension of regular goalkeeper Jonas Acevedo, he used his connections to recommend Papa Massé Fall, another Senegalese-born player resident in Vícar, to be in goal for the next game against Zambia in June.[5]

References
  1. "Mendy hace realidad su sueño internacional" [Mendy makes his international dream reality]. La Voz de Almería (in Spanish). 24 March 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
  2. "Liverpool sign Spanish teenager". BBC Sport. 23 July 2008. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  3. "Del infierno rumano a la Copa África" [From Romanian Hell to the Africa Cup of Nations] (in Spanish). Marcador Internacional. 12 January 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
  4. "Soccer: Two Eldense players and coach arrested in corruption probe after 12-0 loss". Reuters. 4 April 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
  5. "El senegalés que entrenaba en Almería y acabó de portero de Guinea Bissau" [The Senegalese who trained in Almería and ended up as Guinea-Bissau's goalkeeper]. El Mundo (in Spanish). 14 January 2017. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
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