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According to unanimous press reports and the player’s former club and the International Football Association, Papa Bouba Diop, the first world scorer in the history of Senegalese football, passed away on Sunday after a long and serious illness at the age of just 42 years.
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| Papa Bouba Diop (1978-2020) (Photo: AFP) |
Bouba Diop, who has long struggled with a serious illness, has appeared on Swiss, Greek, French and English club teams, among others. In addition to Birmingham City, Fulham and West Ham United, he was also a Portsmouth player in the island nation, winning the FA Cup with the latter club in 2008, while the AEK Athens footballer managed to elevate the Greece Cup in 2011.
His home team scored 11 goals in 63 games between 2001 and 2008, the second of which was undoubtedly the most famous: at the 2002 World Cup in South Korea, Japan scored the first goal of the tournament, the first at the time. rookie of the World Cup in Africa. had a goal in the World Cup and with that blow Senegal defeated the then world champion, current champion, France, contributing greatly to the elimination of the French group.
Diop participated in Senegal’s march to the quarterfinals with three hits.
SENEGAL – AND BOUBA DIOP – FIRST WORLD GOAL
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