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Name
Sol Bamba
(Souleymane Bamba)

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Deceased

Birth Place

Ivry-sur-Seine, France

Position
Defender

Status
Deceased

Ethnicity
Black

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Height
1.90 m (6 ft 2 in)

Weight
89.34kg

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Player Manager ID
8430572

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Soccer

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_Deceased Soccer

2nd Team

League
_No League Soccer

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Souleymane Bamba (born 13 January 1985) is a former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He was most recently the first team coach/assistant manager at Cardiff City.

Bamba started his career in his native France with Paris Saint-Germain, but failed to establish himself in their first team and moved to Scotland to join Dunfermline Athletic in 2006. Two years later he was transferred to Hibernian, before joining Leicester City in January 2011. Bamba moved to Turkish club Trabzonspor in 2012.

Born in France to Ivorian parents, Bamba represented Ivory Coast in the 2008 Olympic Games and has since become a regular for the full national side.

Bamba met his English wife Chloe while playing for Leicester. They had three children together. He also had a son called Jaxxson Shields from a previous relationship with a Scottish woman. Bamba was multilingual, being able to speak English, French, Italian, Turkish and "the Ivorian dialect that his father used at home". In 2021, he was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and began undergoing chemotherapy treatment. Four months later in May 2021, he announced that he was cancer-free.

On 30 August 2024, Bamba fell ill after the Adanaspor match against Manisa F.K. and was rushed into Manisa Celal Bayar University Hospital. He died at the age of 39 the following day.