Sidiki Maiga

Sidiki Maiga
Personal information
Date of birth (1999-01-18) 18 January 1999
Position(s) Forward, winger
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Real Bamako
2017–2019 Alcorcón B
2019–2021 Toledo
2021–? Azuqueca
International career
Mali U17
Mali U20
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Sidiki Maiga (born 28 December 1998) is a Malian footballer who most recently played as a forward or winger for Azuqueca. Besides Mali, he has played in Spain.[1][2][3][4][5]

Career

As of November 2015, aged 16, Maiga was playing for Real Bamako.[6]

In June 2015 he won the 2015 African U-17 Championship with the Mali under-17 national team.[7] British newspaper The Guardian listed Maiga in its "Next Generation 2015" list of "50 of the best young talents in world football" in early October 2015.[7]

Maiga represented Mali at the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup, helping them finish second place.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]

In 2016, Maiga was one of five nominees for the Golden Boy award for the best young player in Africa.[19]

In January 2017, Maiga joined Spanish club Alcorcón along with Mali U20 teammate Moussa Diakite, being initially assigned to the side's B team.[19] In July 2019, while contracted to Alcorcón, he trialled with Betis Deportivo, the reserves of La Liga side Real Betis, and scored two goals in a friendly against Écija Balompié.[20]

In October 2019 Maiga was expected to make his debut for Spanish club Toledo under manager Manu Calleja.[21] He was competing for Toledo's best player of the season award in December 2020, being placed fifth in the rankings.[22] He had scored four goals in nine appearances by early January 2020, averaging a goal every 90 minutes.[23] In late January 2020, he underwent surgery on a scaphoid fracture in his wrist.[24] In April, while the season was interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, he was living with his Mali teammate and friend Samu Diarrá, who played as a goalkeeper for Villarrubia in Segunda División B.[25]

Maiga extended his contract for a season with Azuqueca in June 2022, having scored 15 goals in 28 appearances in the previous season.[26]

Style of play

At the 2015 African U-17 Championship, Maiga was deployed at the right side of a three-man attack.[7] At the time, The Guardian's Nick Ames described him as a "pacy, tricky menace of a winger with set-piece prowess".[7]

References

  1. ^ "Los 5 extranjeros con más gol de Tercera RFEF no están en equipos de playoff". golsmedia.com. 8 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Titi, buenas sensaciones y sigue a prueba". sportcartagena.es.
  3. ^ "Maiga se aprovecha de un error visitante para firmar los tres puntos". nuevaalcarria.com. 9 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Maiga acerca a Mali a las Tri Series". leonoticias.com. 14 August 2016.
  5. ^ "Extraordinarias sensaciones en el inicio de pretemporada del filial del Alcorcón bajo la dirección de Fran Blasco". futmadrid.com.
  6. ^ "Barça: Maiga, nouvelle priorité" [Barça: Maiga a new priority]. abamako.com (in French). 17 November 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  7. ^ a b c d "Next Generation 2015: 50 of the best young talents in world football". The Guardian. 7 October 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  8. ^ "Sidiki Maïga : «Ici, on me surnomme la machine»". Archived from the original on 4 January 2023. Retrieved 8 September 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  9. ^ "Sidiki Maïga: «NOTRE AMBITION EST DE REMPORTER TOUTES LES COUPES D'AFRIQUE»". malijet.co (Archived). Archived from the original on 4 January 2023. Retrieved 8 September 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  10. ^ "Sidiki Maïga, seul Malien des prétendants". maliactu.info (Archived). Archived from the original on 4 January 2023. Retrieved 8 September 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  11. ^ "Maiga et Koita, accélérateurs du rêve malien". maliweb.net. 6 November 2015.
  12. ^ "Malle, Traoré, Maiga: le trio d'attaque de feu du Mali à la CAN U17". africatopsports.com. 26 February 2015.
  13. ^ "Composure and speed making Malian history".
  14. ^ "Sidiki Maiga, la perla que enfrenta a Real Madrid y FC Barcelona". fichajes.com. 16 November 2015.
  15. ^ Marsden, Rory. "Arsenal Transfer News: Sidiki Maiga Wanted Amid Real Madrid, Barcelona Rumours". Bleacher Report. bleacherreport.com.
  16. ^ "Le rêve de Sidiki Maïga et Moussa Diakité". Archived from the original on 5 April 2023. Retrieved 8 September 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  17. ^ "SIDIKI MAÏGA SIGNE SON PREMIER CONTRAT PROFESSIONNEL". koulouba.com.
  18. ^ "Sidiki Maiga nominé!". malifootball.com.
  19. ^ a b Angulo, Adrián (20 July 2025). "Las joyas de Mali" [The jewels of Mali]. Marca (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  20. ^ "Betis, Titi: Canterano de Mali que llama la atención en el filial" [Betis, Titi: Mali youth player attracting attention in the reserve team]. El Desmarque. 20 July 2025. p. Spanish. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  21. ^ Loeches, J. M. (11 October 2019). "Calleja duda si poner a Titi en el once inicial" [Calleja doubts whether to put Titi in the starting XI]. La Tribuna de Toledo (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  22. ^ "CD Toledo | Titi, el mejor de la jornada, ya asoma por los primeros puestos del Sector 12" [CD Toledo | Titi, the best of the day, is already looking at the top of the Sector 12 standings.]. El Español (in Spanish). 5 December 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  23. ^ Loeches, J. M. (7 January 2020). "Titi quiere decir gol" [Titi means goal]. La Tribuna de Toledo (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  24. ^ "El delantero del C. D. Toledo Sidiki Maiga es intervenido con éxito de su fractura de muñeca en el Hospital Quirónsalud Toledo" [C. D. Toledo striker Sidiki Maiga undergoes successful surgery on his wrist fracture at Hospital Quirónsalud Toledo]. Quirónsalud (in Spanish). 30 January 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  25. ^ Fernández, Raúl (8 April 2020). "Dos africanos unidos por el fútbol" [Two Africans united by football]. Lanza (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  26. ^ "Titi renueva por el CD Azuqueca" [Titi renews his contract with CD Azuqueca]. GuadalajaraDiario (in Spanish). 10 June 2022. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
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