He is 28 years old, has 16 caps (1 goal) with the Senegalese selection, has played for Olympiakos since 2017 and was not the most publicized of the Lions during the victory at the CAN in 2022 and during the journey to the 2022 World Cup . You have it ?
Defender Pape Abou Cissé has therefore decided to take a new direction in his career. More in the plans of his coach in Greece, the native of Pikine in Senegal signed up with Adana Demirspor in Turkey on Friday in the final hours of the transfer window. Pending its match this Saturday against Pendikspor, the Turkish club is in 10th place (out of 20 teams) in the national championship. Last season, the imposing Senegalese defender (1 meter 97) only played 19 games in total with Olympiakos. The one who started his career at Ajaccio, in Ligue 2, before joining Greece and then briefly returning viahexagon by being loaned to AS Saint-Etienne in 2021 (14 Ligue 1 matches) is therefore preparing to discover a new country.
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We call him “The Rock”
Pape Abou Cissé stands out for his physical strength, showing resistance in physical duels, while demonstrating good technique. Author of 18 career goals, which is pretty good for a central defender, he therefore has a certain ability to be decisive. His nickname, “The Rock“, is anything but hackneyed. “Since I was little, my friends said I was as hard as a rock. Then they called me Kher, which means stone, rock, in Wolof, our language. As I grew up, I spotted Dwayne Johnson (also called ‘The Rock’) a wrestler and actor who I liked. My friends told me “now you have your namesake, the Rock!” At Olympiakos, everyone called me that too” he confided on this subject to Progress. Not present in Aliou Cissé’s latest listhe will first have to find significant playing time and prove himself up to the task in order to hope to return to the national team.