In the world football world, there is no shortage of inspirational model players, who may not have outstanding talents and good family conditions and growth living conditions, but rely on their persistent belief and love for football, rely on their own fighting spirit, and finally come to the peak step by step. Among them, fox city thigh Kante, who helped the team win the Premier League title in the past, is one of them, and now Kante has become the world's first midfielder, and has interpreted his football talent to the extreme, his defensive ability can cover the entire midfield and even many fans joke that he can cover the entire earth, and his offensive ability is also being developed in continuous progress. Of course, our protagonist today is not Kante, but another one who is in the same position as him, and the legend and inspirational nature of his career do not belong to Kante's black and hard one - Edu. Keita.
The representative of Barça's dream three period, once a super league star, can also be regarded as an evergreen tree in football, his career has rolled over a number of five major leagues, and has achieved good results in Ligue 1 la Liga and Serie A. Moreover, as a black and hard player, he could be an important rotation player at Barca Dream III, and he also had a place next to Xavi Iniesta and Busquets. Let's go back in time to 1999 and retrace the first acquaintance of this legend in the history of Mali football and world football.
Born in 1980 in Bamako, Mali, Keita is the seventh oldest in a family of 12 children, football, which is the sport he has loved since he was a child and a sport that he relies on to change his destiny. From 1995 to 1997, Keita trained at the Salif Keita Football Training Center founded by her uncle and began to emerge. In the 1999 U20 World Cup, as the absolute core of the team, he led Mali to the final four and was elected the best player in that U20 World Cup, when he was just 19 years old. At that time, he had become a member of the Ligue 1 Team of Marseille, and after the outstanding performance of the U20 World Cup, Marseille began to pay more and more attention to him.
Since joining Marseille in 1997, he has been playing for Marseille B, where his excellent performances in the B team and the U20 World Cup are enough to give him a place in the first team of Marseille. At the beginning of the turn of the century from 1999 to 2000, he finally saw his performance in Ligue 1. However, it was clear that Marseille, who was still a European giant at the time, did not have a place for him to play the main force, and there were many powerful players in the squad, so that the young Keita could only "find another way".
After playing just six league games for Marseille, he joined Lorient, where he was finally able to unleash himself and usher in the first spring of his career. After helping the team rush to Ligue 1, he successfully became the team's midfield hub, and played a phenomenal performance in Ligue 1, excellent physical fitness plus good skills, he single-handedly revitalized Lorient's all-team attack. The final stats are also very beautiful, in the 2000-01 season, Cedu Keita made 37 appearances for Lorient FC in the French Second Division, scoring 1 goal. He finished runner-up in the French Football League B and was promoted to the French Football League. In the 2001–02 season, Saidu Keita made 21 appearances for Lorient F.C. in the French First Division and 3 appearances in the French Cup, scoring 1 goal and helping Lorient F.C. win the French Cup.
After two seasons at Lorient, he was hit by Ligue 1 powerhouse Lens for 2 million euros, which was also a valuable transfer at the time. He grew rapidly in his last season at Lens, 2006–07, when he played for Lens FC 36 times, scoring 11 goals and assisting, 1 in the French Cup and 10 in the UEFA Cup. Cedu Keita finished second behind Florent Maruda in the best player of the French Football League that season.
It is precisely because of this outstanding performance that the team he plays for has once again completed the change and promotion, la Liga powerhouse Sevilla has thrown an olive branch to him, and he has officially become a member of the Pisjuan Stadium. This also allowed him to provide a good premonition to join Barca, in La Liga, his physical quality is crushing against the same players, and his skills are not at all inferior, which allows him to quickly gain a foothold in Sevilla, 29 starters in the league, 5 goals and 2 assists in the Champions League, such data is the best recommendation to the giants. At that time, Barça was in the change of the dream two and three dreams, the midfield needed a glue, Andrwa Showa waved a big hand, and Keita changed from a poor boy when he was a child to a member of the world's strongest football club.