News24
30 Nov 2020, 06:42 GMT+10
Former Senegal midfielder Papa Bouba Diop has died at the age of 42 after a long illness, local media and the West African state's football federation said on Sunday.
Diop is best known in his native country for scoring the winning goal against then defending champions France in the opening match of the 2002 World Cup.
The Senegalese squad went on to reach the quarter-finals of the tournament before they were knocked out by Turkey.
Diop was also part of the team that lost to Cameroon on penalties in the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations final.
He won the 2008 FA Cup with Portsmouth in a club career that included stints at French club Lens, Fulham, West Ham United and Birmingham City.
Victor Cisse, the secretary general of the Senegalese football federation, confirmed Diop's death to AFP.
Senegal's President Macky Sall said on Sunday it was a "great loss" for the country.
Get a daily dose of Poland Sun news through our daily email, its complimentary and keeps you fully up to date with world and business news as well.
Publish news of your business, community or sports group, personnel appointments, major event and more by submitting a news release to Poland Sun.
More InformationTurkmenistan on Friday opened a gas compressor station it hopes will help boost natural gas supplies to China and elsewhere.Turkmen ...
Institutions meeting from Tokyo to Frankfurt to Ottawa are pondering the prospect of another lost quarter amid renewed lockdowns to ...
Serie A leaders AC Milan will be without French defender Theo Hernandez and Turkish midfielder Hakan Calhanoglu for Monday's game ...
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky [Russia], January 17 (ANI/Xinhua): An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 jolted 241 km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia at ...
France's foreign minister says Iran's continued breaches of the nuclear agreement it reached with world powers have made it urgent ...
Washington [US], January 17 (ANI): Certain metabolites may be predictive indicators for persons at risk for recurrent major depressive disorder, ...
A Chinese government survey ship was intercepted "running dark" without broadcasting its position via AIS (Automated Identification System) by Indonesian ...
WASHINGTON, DC The man who struck down three U.S. Capitol Police officers with a fire extinguisher during last week's storming ...
WASHINGTON, DC - A Utah man has been charged with breaking into the U.S. Capitol last week wearing a bullet-proof ...
Provided by Xinhua | &A 6.2-magnitude earthquake has killed 35 people in Indonesia, injuring 637 and displacing around 15,000 people.JAKARTA, ...
Five United Nations peacekeepers lost their lives on Wednesday, 4 in Mali and one in the Central African Republic. 4 ...
Turkmenistan on Friday opened a gas compressor station it hopes will help boost natural gas supplies to China and elsewhere.Turkmen ...