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Senegal · 2002–08Pape Bouba Diop
Rating
Caps
63
Goals
11
Life
1978–2020
Clubs
Neuchâtel Xamax FCS, Fulham, Portsmouth
#9
Editorial rank of 33 for Senegal
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The people's rank, live from duel votes
Thirty minutes into the 2002 World Cup opener in Seoul, he forced the loose ball past France after Diouf's low cross, then laid his number 19 shirt by the corner flag and danced around it. Three goals made him Senegal's top scorer at a World Cup that ended in the quarter-finals, and he was an Africa Cup of Nations runner-up months earlier; he later came off the bench in Portsmouth's 2008 FA Cup final win. Career record: 63 caps and 11 goals for Senegal; club career at Neuchâtel Xamax FCS, Fulham, Portsmouth.
Career record
| 1997–1999 | ASC Jaraaf |
| 1999–2000 | FC Vevey-Sports 05 |
| 2000–2001 | Neuchâtel Xamax FCS |
| 2000–2002 | Grasshopper Club Zürich |
| 2001–2004 | R.C. Lens |
| 2004–2007 | Fulham |
| 2007–2010 | Portsmouth |
| 2010–2011 | AEK Athens |
| 2011–2012 | West Ham United |
| 2012–2013 | Birmingham City |
| Senegal | 63 caps, 11 goals |
Shared the era
Senegal legends whose careers overlapped Diop's