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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Kor Daba Arfang Sarr[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 13 December 1975 | ||
| Place of birth | Pikine, Senegal | ||
| Date of death | 18 February 2019 (aged 43) | ||
| Place of death | Paris, France | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2] | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1994–1999 | Beauvais | ||
| 2000 | Le Touquet AC | ||
| 2000–2002 | Angoulême | ||
| 2002–2005 | Caen | 74 | (19) |
| 2006–2007 | Ouistreham | ||
| Total | 74+ | (19+) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2010–2011 | AS Pikine | ||
| 2011–2012 | RS Yoff | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Kor Daba Arfang Sarr (13 December 1975 – 18 February 2019) was a Senegalese professional football player and manager who played as a forward.[1]
Career
[edit]Born in Pikine, Sarr began his career in France with Beauvais, where he played from 1994 to 1999.[3] In January 2000 he moved to Le Touquet AC, which was struggling in Championnat de France Amateur 2 (CFA2), where he scored a number of goals.[4] He signed with Angoulême in summer 2000[4] and became top scorer of the 2001–02 Championnat National before joining Ligue 2 club Caen.[3] He played for Caen from 2002 to 2005, scoring 20 goals in 80 appearances.[1] He was a key player in the 2002–03 and 2003–04 seasons, scoring nine goals in 30 and 33 appearances respectively, and helped Caen achieve promotion to Ligue 1.[1] In the 2004–05 Ligue 1 he scored one goal in eleven appearances and injury problems made him end his professional career.[1] He briefly returned to playing with Ouistreham, appearing in the CFA2 for one season.[1]
After retiring as a player, Sarr managed Senegalese clubs AS Pikine and RS Yoff.[citation needed] As manager of ASC Jaraaf, he won the Senegal FA Cup.[3]
Later life and death
[edit]After retirement from playing, Sarr returned to Senegal and opened a training centre in his hometown Pikine, called "Malherbe Pikine".[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Letondeur, Boris (18 February 2019). "SM Caen : l'ancien attaquant Kor Sarr est décédé à 43 ans" [SM Caen: former striker Kor Sarr dies at the age of 43]. France Bleu (in French). Retrieved 17 October 2025.
- ↑ Kor Sarr at WorldFootball.net
- 1 2 3 "Décès de Kor Sarr" [Death of Kor Sarr]. UNFP (in French). 19 February 2019. Retrieved 17 October 2025.
- 1 2 "Le Touquet: Kordaba Sarr, ancien joueur du TACFCO, est décédé" [Le Touquet: Kordaba Sarr, former TACFCO player, has passed away]. Nord Littoral (in French). 19 February 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
- ↑ "Disparition : Kor Sarr, l'ancien joueur de Caen, est mort" (in French). L'Equipe. 18 February 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
- 1975 births
- 2019 deaths
- Senegalese men's footballers
- Men's association football forwards
- Ligue 1 players
- Ligue 2 players
- Ligue 3 players
- Championnat National 3 players
- AS Beauvais Oise players
- Le Touquet AC players
- Angoulême Charente FC players
- Stade Malherbe Caen players
- Senegalese football managers
- AS Pikine managers
- Senegalese expatriate men's footballers
- Senegalese expatriate sportspeople in France
- Expatriate men's footballers in France
- Naturalized citizens of France
- Senegalese football biography stubs