Ibrahima Dieng, a tall center forward on loan from CD Vitoria to SD Leioa two years ago, after training in the SD Amorebieta quarry and playing with his first team in Urritxe, rescinded his contract with the Eibar subsidiary and last summer he Enrolled in the Haro piloted by Aitor Calle. In the Rioja team he scored 7 goals without being a permanent starter. The Senegalese striker trained in Bizkaia has just signed for the Swiss Super League team of FC Lucerna, to be loaned to SC Kriens of the Challenge League, the Second Helvetic Division that make up ten sets.
Despite his youth, 22 years old, he has already performed in 88 Second B matches and five in the Copa del Rey. In Haro, 23 league games, with 962 minutes, 7 goals and one assist before the confinement due to the pandemic cut off all competitions. The idea of Ibra Dieng, who shared a flat in Haro with Facu Ballardo, a midfielder of Argentine origin, one of the revelations of the Second B championship, was about going abroad, although he had been surveyed from some Spanish Group IV clubs. Dieng, a strong and very fast forward, was subjected to a test three years ago in Lezama, in a test of 11 against 11 in Field 5. However, he did not make the cut and they finally recruited Diarra, now promoted from Basconia Bilbao Athletic with its 13 goals in the League, from La Txantrea. «Yes, it couldn’t be after that little game in Lezama, although you can’t look at the past, I only look at the now. I only live in the present ”, underlined the tall forward, from 1’92, who lacked technique to fully convince in the rojiblanco club and now he is heading to Switzerland to meet a new challenge as a professional footballer.
Dieng (11-18-97) is the youngest of eight children, who lived on the outskirts of Dakar, in Leona Thiaroye, a Senegalese fishing village where he kicked the ball for the first time between the nooks and crannies allowed by the boats moored in its port. One day he stowed away on a boat bound for Tenerife. From there to Bilbao through the intermediation of his mother’s friend to later settle in a reception center in the San Antonio de Amorebieta neighborhood. José Félix Gallastegi, then sports director of the Blues, recruited him for the SD Amorebieta Youth when he was alerted by the innate conditions of the boy. Ibrahima was promoted quickly to his Second B team, where Eibar settled for its subsidiary, CD Vitoria. After his stopover in Haro, he continues his career in the heart of Europe, the dream of any Senegalese boy with the desire to succeed as a soccer player.
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