Abdou Doumbia

Abdou Doumbia (born 7 June 1990) is a French footballer who plays as a forward.
Career
Born in France with French father and Malian mother, Doumbia spent most of his youth career in a suburb of Paris. He started his career with a club in Le Blanc-Mesnil aged eight, and spent a year each in Paris FC and Noisy-le-Sec.
Doumbia left for Lega Pro Prima Divisione side Pescara in 2008-09 season. Mainly a player of Berretti team, he made his first team debut on 8 October 2008, a Coppa Italia Lega Pro match that won Celano 4–0. He also played the second match that 3–5 lost to Foggia.
With Pescara, he scored 14 goals for the youth team.
Doumbia played for Serie D side Santegidiese in 2009–10 season, scoring 8 goals, his performance made Serie A side Parma offered him a contract near the end of season.
Parma
Doumbia formally under contract with Parma on 1 July 2010. In July 2010 he left for Lega Pro Prima Divisione side Atletico Roma on loan for €1,000, along with Gianluca Lapadula (loan), Abel Gigli (co-ownership deal for €500) and Alessio Tombesi (co-ownership deal for €50,000); as part of the deal that Lega Pro Seconda Divisione top-scorer Daniel Ciofani moved to opposite direction in another co-ownership deal for €300,000.
Doumbia made his club debut on 8 August 2010, the opening match of the season. He replaced Francesco Mazzarani at extra time, which Atletico Roma lost 1–2 to Cremonese in the Coppa Italia match.
On 11 January 2011 he was signed by Ascoli on loan for the remainder of the season.
In July 2011, he joined Lega Pro Prima Divisione side Como Calcio on a season-long loan deal.
Siena & San Marino
In June–July 2012 Parma and Siena made cashless player swap, which saw Parma signed Gonçalo Brandão, Giuseppe Pacini, Andrea Rossi and Alessandro Iacobucci; while Siena signed Doumbia, Alberto Galuppo, Manuel Coppola and Paolo Hernán Dellafiore; both clubs also retained 50% registration rights on their players. 50% registration rights of both Doumbia and Pacini were tagged for €500,000; Doumbia left for San Marino Calcio in temporary deal soon after. In June 2013, the 8 co-ownership deals were renewed.
Lecce
In July 2013 Doumbia returned to Siena for the pre-season camp. On 30 July he left the camp in order to finalize a new transfer. On 20 August 2013 Doumbia returned to Parma outright for €100,000 (equal to the revenue received by Parma from Iacobucci). On 27 August 2013 Lecce announced the temporary deal of Doumbia, which Lecce also received €260,000 from Parma as premi di valorizzazione. On 30 June 2014 Lecce signed Doumbia outright for €1 million; Parma signed Daniele Casiraghi in the same deal also for €1 million. On 29 August 2016 Doumbia signed a new 2-year contract.
Doumbia spent four seasons at U.S. Lecce, amassing a total of 111 league appearances and 17 league goals.
Livorno
In July 2017 he moved to Livorno, in the Serie C, on loan.
He returned to Lecce for the 2018-19 season, but was not included in the squad for the Serie B campaign. In January 2019 he moved to Serie C side Reggina on a permanent basis.
Carrarese
On 21 September 2020, he signed with Carrarese.
Entella
On 1 September 2022, Doumbia moved to Virtus Entella.
Pergolettese
On 31 January 2023, Doumbia joined Pergolettese.
References
External links
AIC profile (data by football.it)
1990 births
Living people
People from Le Blanc-Mesnil
Footballers from Seine-Saint-Denis
French sportspeople of Malian descent
French men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Paris FC players
Serie B players
Serie C players
Delfino Pescara 1936 players
Parma Calcio 1913 players
Atletico Roma FC players
Ascoli Calcio 1898 FC players
Como 1907 players
ACR Siena 1904 players
ASD Victor San Marino players
Expatriate men's footballers in San Marino
US Lecce players
US Livorno 1915 players
LFA Reggio Calabria players
Carrarese Calcio players
Virtus Entella players
US Pergolettese 1932 players
French expatriate men's footballers
French expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
French expatriate sportspeople in San Marino