Aboubacar Bassinga

Ivorian footballer (born 2005)

Aboubacar Bassinga
Personal information
Date of birth	(2005-07-13) 13 July 2005 (age 18)
Place of birth	Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Las Palmas
Number	34
Youth career
2020–	Las Palmas
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2024–	Las Palmas	0	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 7 January 2024

Aboubacar Bassinga (born 13 July 2005) is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Spanish club UD Las Palmas.

Career

Born in Abidjan,^[1] Bassinga left his country at the age of 14 after boarding a boat; he intended to meet his uncle in France, but ran into authorities upon arriving in Arguineguín on 13 February 2020.^[2] He then joined the youth sides of UD Las Palmas,^[3] but had to wait until September 2023, when he turned 18, to start to play a competition for the club.^[4]

On 7 January 2024, before even having appeared for the reserves, Bassinga made his first team – and professional – debut, starting in a 2–0 away loss to rivals CD Tenerife, for the season's Copa del Rey.^[5]^[6]

References

^ "El sueño que Abou nunca imaginó al subirse a la patera" [The dream that Abou never imagined on boarding the boat] (in Spanish). Marca. 5 December 2023. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
^ "Bassinga 'cooked' the football that arrived from Abidjan at UD Las Palmas". Today Times Live. 8 January 2024. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
^ "La nueva perla de Costa de Marfil está en UD Las Palmas" [The new pearl of Ivory Coast is at UD Las Palmas] (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 17 December 2023. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
^ "Aboubacar Bassinga, primer jugador de la UD Las Palmas D en obtener la Licencia Federativa" [Aboubacar Bassinga, first player of UD Las Palmas D to obtain a federative license] (in Spanish). UD Las Palmas. 5 September 2023. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
^ "Tenerife, Amo y señor del derbi" [Tenerife, lord and master of the derby] (in Spanish). Marca. 7 January 2024. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
^ "Aboubacar Bassinga, de llegar en patera a debutar en un derbi canario 47 meses después" [Aboubacar Bassinga, from arriving by boat to debuting in a Canarian derby 47 months later] (in Spanish). EFE. 8 January 2024. Retrieved 8 January 2024.