Amido Baldé
Amido Baldé CvIH (born 16 May 1991) is a Guinea-Bissauan professional footballer who plays as a forward.
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Amido Baldé | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 16 May 1991 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Bissau, Guinea-Bissau | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Sporting Bissau | |||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2010 | Sporting CP | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2012 | Sporting CP | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010 | → Santa Clara (loan) | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | → Badajoz (loan) | 13 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | → Cercle Brugge (loan) | 22 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Vitória Guimarães | 27 | (9) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2015 | Celtic | 20 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | → Waasland-Beveren (loan) | 14 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015 | → Hapoel Tel Aviv (loan) | 9 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Metz | 8 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Benfica Luanda | 12 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Marítimo | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017 | → Tondela (loan) | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Kukësi | 8 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Al-Nasr | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Persebaya | 9 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019 | PSM | 14 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
| 2020 | Ho Chi Minh City | 9 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Portugal U19 | 16 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Portugal U20 | 10 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Guinea-Bissau | 4 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 24 July 2020 | |||||||||||||||||
He started his career with Sporting CP, being loaned several times over the duration of his contract and winning the 2013 Portuguese Cup with Vitória de Guimarães. In 2013 he signed with Celtic, who also loaned him twice before he left for Metz two years later. After playing for Benfica Luanda in Angola, he returned to Portugal in the summer of 2016, when he joined Marítimo. In subsequent years he had a nomadic career, having brief spells at clubs in Albania, Libya, Indonesia and Vietnam.
Internationally, Baldé represented Portugal at youth level, helping the under-20 team finish second at the 2011 World Cup. In 2014, he decided to switch to playing for the country of his birth, Guinea-Bissau.