Inter's doctors found the heart defect in 2003, and a year later he collapsed at the Reebok before a Carling Cup tie with Tottenham, took an implanted defibrillator and played again by 2005. Runner-up at the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations and a World Cup quarter-finalist that summer, he won the Belgian double with Club Brugge in 1998, the 2003 Coupe de France with Auxerre, and a place in the 2000 AFCON Team of the Tournament. Career record: 37 caps and 4 goals for Senegal; club career at Lommel SK, Club Brugge K.V., AJ Auxerre.
| 1992–1994 | Red Star |
| 1994–1995 | R.F.C. de Liège |
| 1995–1997 | Lommel SK |
| 1995–1997 | K.F.C. Lommel S.K. |
| 1997–2001 | Club Brugge K.V. |
| 2000–2003 | AJ Auxerre |
| 2003–2004 | Inter Milan |
| 2004–2005 | Bolton Wanderers |
| 2005–2006 | Derby County |
| 2005–2006 | Bolton Wanderers |
| 2005–2005 | Derby County |
| 2006–2007 | Coventry City |
| Senegal | 37 caps, 4 goals |
Senegal legends whose careers overlapped Fadiga's
One rank above: Jules Bocandé at #6.
One rank below: Mamadou Niang at #8.
Senegal's editorial top five: Sadio Mané · Kalidou Koulibaly · El Hadji Diouf · Édouard Mendy · Idrissa Gana Gueye.