Yusupha Bobb
Personal information
Date of birth (1996-06-22) 22 June 1996
Place of birth Banjul, The Gambia
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2015 Banjul Hawks
2015–2019 Chievo 0 (0)
2015–2016 → Cittadella (loan) 12 (1)
2016–2017 → Taranto (loan) 14 (0)
2017 → Padova (loan) 4 (0)
2017–2018 → Reggiana (loan) 21 (1)
2018–2019 → Cuneo (loan) 32 (3)
2019–2020 Lecco 17 (1)
2021 Livorno 7 (0)
2021–2022 Piacenza 23 (2)
International career‡
Gambia U19
Gambia U20
2017– Gambia 8 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 24 April 2022
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11 June 2021

Yusupha Bobb (born 22 June 1996) is a Gambian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for the Gambia national team.[1]

Club career

Bobb's career started in The Gambia with local team Banjul Hawks.[2] In 2015, Bobb joined Serie A side Chievo.[1][2] On 24 July 2015, Bobb completed a loan move to Lega Pro club Cittadella, he subsequently made his Cittadella and professional debut on 2 August in a Coppa Italia match against Potenza; Cittadella won 15–0 as Bobb scored twice.[1][3] Three matches later, Bobb scored his first goal in professional league football with a strike against Pavia.[1] He suffered a serious leg injury in a match against Cuneo on 17 January 2016 and subsequently did not feature for Cittadella again prior to returning to Chievo at the end of the 2015–16 campaign.[4]

He was named on the Chievo substitutes bench on 13 August 2016 for a cup tie against Virtus Entella.[1] At the end of August, Bobb joined Taranto on loan, again in Lega Pro.[5] His debut for them came on 11 September in a goalless draw versus Siracusa.[1] In total, he played fourteen times for the club.[1] In 2017, Bobb signed for Padova of Lega Pro on loan.[4] He played five times before returning to his parent team.[1] On 12 July, ahead of the 2017–18 season, Bobb joined Reggiana on a temporary basis.[6] He was loaned out for a fifth occasion in July 2018, joining Cuneo.[1] His first goal arrived on 21 October away to Pro Piacenza, as they won 1–0.[1]

On 19 October 2019, having left Chievo, Bobb headed back to Serie C with Lecco.[7][8]

On 11 February 2021, he signed with Serie C club Livorno.[9] Following Livorno's relegation and exclusion from football, he joined Piacenza following a successful trial.[10]

International career

Bobb has represented The Gambia at U19 and U20 level.[2] He was called up on numerous occasions to the senior squad, including twice being an unused substitute in 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying games against Morocco and Ivory Coast respectively.[1] In November 2017, Bobb was called up for Gambia's friendly with Morocco.[11][12] He made his debut in a 2–0 win in Rabat.[13] He played in the 2021 Africa cup of Nations, his national team's first continental tournament, where they made a sensational quarter-final.[14][15]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 3 October 2021.[1]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup League Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Chievo 2015–16 Serie A 0000——00
2016–17 0000——00
2017–18 0000——00
2018–19 0000——00
Total 0000—0000
Cittadella (loan) 2015–16 Lega Pro 12122——143
Taranto (loan) 2016–17 Lega Pro 14000——140
Padova (loan) 2016–17 Lega Pro 40——1[lower-alpha 1]050
Reggiana (loan) 2017–18 Serie C 21110—5[lower-alpha 2]0271
Cuneo (loan) 2018–19 Serie C 3230020—343
Lecco 2019–20 Serie C 1710010—181
Livorno 2020–21 Serie C 7000——70
Piacenza 2021–22 Serie C 700021—91
Career total 11463251601289
  1. ↑ Appearance(s) in the Lega Pro play-offs
  2. ↑ Appearance(s) in the Serie C play-offs

International

As of match played 11 June 2021.[16]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Gambia 201710
201830
202140
Total80

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Yusupha Bobb at Soccerway
  2. 1 2 3 "Gambia: Hawks' Yusupha Bobb Completes Italy Move". All Africa. 22 August 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  3. ↑ "Official: Benedetti, Bobb and Jallow going to Cittadella". A.C. ChievoVerona. 24 July 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  4. 1 2 "Yusupha Bobb al Padova in prestito dal Chievo". Calcio Padova. 31 January 2017. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  5. ↑ "Mercato: Yusupha Bobb è del Taranto!". S.S. Taranto Football Club 1927. 31 August 2016. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  6. ↑ "Yusupha Bobb è un calciatore della Reggiana". A.C. Reggiana 1919. 12 July 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  7. ↑ "Comunicato Ufficiale: Yusupha Bobb nuovo giocatore della Calcio Lecco 1912". Lecco. 19 October 2019. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  8. ↑ "Calcio Lecco, ufficiale: preso il giovane gambiano Yusupha Bobb". Lecco Channel News. 19 October 2019. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  9. ↑ "Bobb nuovo acquisto amaranto" (in Italian). Livorno. 11 February 2021. Archived from the original on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  10. ↑ "Piacenza, tesserato il centrocampista Yusupha Bobb" (in Italian). Piacenza Sera. 23 July 2021.
  11. ↑ "Yusupha Bobb convocato in nazionale". A.C. Reggiana 1919. 7 November 2017. Archived from the original on 13 November 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  12. ↑ "Scorpions Performed First Training Session". Gambia Football Federation. 10 November 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  13. ↑ "GAMBIA WHACKS MOROCCO -Assan steals show but debutants shine too". Foroyaa. 15 November 2017. Archived from the original on 10 April 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  14. ↑ https://www.cafonline.com/total-africa -cup-of-nations/matches/2021/2243295/lineups
  15. ↑ "The Gambia name squad for first Nations Cup finals". BBC Sport.
  16. ↑ "Yusupha Bobb profile". National Football Teams. 27 March 2018. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
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