Geny Catamo
Personal information
Full name Geny Cipriano Catamo
Date of birth (2001-01-26) January 26, 2001
Place of birth Beira, Mozambique
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Winger, wing-back
Team information
Current team
 Sporting CP
Number 21
Youth career
Black Bulls
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2018–2019 Amora 4 (1)
2019–2022 Sporting CP B 30 (2)
2021– Sporting CP 15 (1)
2022 → Vitória Guimarães (loan) 10 (0)
2022–2023 → Marítimo (loan) 9 (1)
2023 → Marítimo B (loan) 1 (1)
International career‡
Mozambique U17
2018 Mozambique U20 1 (1)
2019– Mozambique 18 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 01:11, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 00:10, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Geny Cipriano Catamo (born 26 January 2001) is a Mozambican professional footballer who plays as a winger or wing-back for Primeira Liga club Sporting CP and the Mozambique national team.

Club career

On 11 June 2019, Catamo signed a professional contract with the youth academy of Sporting for 2 years.[1] He made his first bench for the first team in September 2021 against Porto, wearing jersey number 57.[2]

On 22 December 2023, Catamo signed a new five-year contract with Sporting CP, with his release clause being set at €60 million.[3]

International career

Catamo represented the Mozambique U20 in December 2018, scoring on his debut in the 2018 COSAFA U-20 Cup.[4] He had previously played in the 2017 COSAFA Under-17 Championship.[5]

Catamo debuted with the senior Mozambique national football team in a 2-0 win over Mauritius on 10 September 2019, again scoring in his debut.[6] In October 2021 he scored in a world cup qualifier with his goal being Mozambique's only goal in a 3–1 loss to Cameroon.

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 5 January 2024[7]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup League cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Amora 2018–19 Campeonato de Portugal 41————41
Sporting CP B 2020–21 Campeonato de Portugal 170————170
2021–22 Liga 3 13 2 — — — — 13 2
Total 302————302
Sporting CP 2021–22 Primeira Liga 100000000 010
2023–24 Primeira Liga 14121104[lower-alpha 1]0—212
Total 15121104000222
Vitória SC (loan) 2021–22 Primeira Liga 1000000——100
Marítimo (loan) 2022–23 Primeira Liga 910000—2[lower-alpha 2]0111
Marítimo B (loan) 2022–23 Campeonato de Portugal 1 1 — — — — 1 1
Career total 69621104020787

International

As of match played 9 September 2023
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Mozambique 201931
202020
202171
202241
202321
Total184
Scores and results list Mozambique's goal tally first.[8]
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.10 September 2019Estádio do Zimpeto, Maputo, Mozambique Mauritius2–02–02022 FIFA World Cup qualification
2.8 October 2021Japoma Stadium, Douala, Cameroon Cameroon1–31–32022 FIFA World Cup qualification
3.8 June 2022Stade de l'Amitié, Cotonou, Benin Benin1–01–02023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
4.18 June 2023Stade Huye, Huye, Rwanda Rwanda1–02–02023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification

References

  1. ↑ hdc-uc-acsweb1/aceyus45/Dash_Viewer.aspx?DashID=5028
  2. ↑ Geny Catamo at Soccerway
  3. ↑ "Geny Catamo vai continuar de Leão ao peito" [Geny Catamo will remain with a Lion at his chest] (in European Portuguese). Sporting CP. 22 December 2023. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  4. ↑ "Torneio Cosafa sub-20: Mambinhas vencem com golo de Geny Catamo". December 5, 2018.
  5. ↑ "COSAFA Under-17 Championship". Retrieved 1 November 2020.
  6. ↑ "Mundial2022: Moçambique vence Ilhas Maurícias e está na fase de grupos". Maisfutebol.
  7. ↑ Geny Catamo at Soccerway
  8. ↑ "Geny Catamo". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
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