Jackson Mendy

Jackson Mendy
Mendy playing for Litex Lovech in 2014
Personal information
Date of birth (1987-05-25) 25 May 1987 (age 37)
Place of birth Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
Height 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s) Centre back, left back
Youth career
Auxerre
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2006 US Quevilly 14 (0)
2006–2007 Rennes B 23 (0)
2007 Paris FC 10 (0)
2008–2009 Hansa Rostock II 27 (0)
2009 SC Freiburg II 27 (1)
2009–2010 SC Freiburg 6 (0)
2010–2011 Grenoble 28 (2)
2011 AC Ajaccio 4 (0)
2012–2013 Levadiakos 43 (1)
2013–2014 CSKA Sofia 38 (0)
2014–2015 Litex Lovech 15 (1)
2015 Omonia 2 (0)
2016–2018 Levadiakos 47 (1)
2018–2019 Schaffhausen 26 (0)
2019–2021 Boulogne 22 (1)
International career
2010 Senegal 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22 January 2021

Jackson Mendy (born 25 May 1987) is a professional footballer who plays as a defender. Born in France, he played for the Senegal national team internationally.

Club career

Mendy was born in Mont-Saint-Aignan, France. He started his career in the training centre of Auxerre, moving first to Quevilly, before signing a one-season professional trainee contract with Rennes in June 2006. A year later, having not imposed himself, he left Rennes for Paris FC.[1]

After one season at Paris FC, Mendy moved to Germany, first with Hansa Rostock, where he played for the B team, and then with SC Freiburg.[2] He left the club in July 2010, having a trial at English Championship team Middlesbrough before signing a two-year deal with French side Grenoble Foot 38.[3] He stayed just one season, due to Grenoble filing for bankruptcy at the end of the 2010–11 Ligue 2 campaign. On 31 July 2011, he signed a one-year contract with Ligue 1 side AC Ajaccio.[4]

Mendy made his Ligue 1 debut on 17 September 2011, as a second half substitute in the match at Nice.[1] After making just three Ligue 1 appearances, he moved to Superleague Greece side Levadiakos in January 2012, signing a two-year deal.[5] He was released from his contract at the end of the 2012–13 season, and joined Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia.[6] He spent a second season in Bulgaria with Litex Lovech in 2014–15 before a six-month spell in Cyprus with Omonia.[1]

In January 2016 Mendy returned to Levadiakos for a second spell, spending two-and-a-half seasons with the club.[7] In July 2018 he signed a two-year deal with Swiss side FC Schaffhausen.[8] Having been used most often as a substitute in the second half of the 2018–19 season, he signed for US Boulogne.[9]

International career

On 11 May 2010, he earned his first call-up for the Senegal national football team for a friendly match against Denmark on 27 May 2010.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Jackson Mendy" (in French). Stade Rennais Online. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  2. ^ "Jackson Mendy im Gespräch" (in German). scfreiburg.com. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  3. ^ "Mendy makes French move". Sky Sports. 18 August 2010.
  4. ^ "Grenoble : Jackson Mendy à Ajaccio, c'est fait" (in French). foot-national.com. 1 August 2011.
  5. ^ "Football (Ligue 1) - Jackson Mendy quitte l'AC Ajaccio pour la Grèce" (in French). Alta Frequenza Corse. 7 January 2012.
  6. ^ "CSKA Sofia : Jackson Mendy a signé" (in French). afrik-foot.com. 19 July 2013.
  7. ^ "Jackson Mendy". Superleague Greece. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  8. ^ "Zwei Neuzugänge Beim FC Schaffhausen" (in German). FC Schaffhausen. 9 July 2018.[permanent dead link‍]
  9. ^ "Foot: Greece, Switzerland, Bulgaria, the adventurer Jackson Mendy arrives in Boulogne" (in French). La Voix du Nord. 16 July 2019.
  10. ^ "Denmark vs Senegal 2–0". Soccerway. Retrieved 4 March 2020.