The pictures above show Sol Bamba during his Leicester City debut - a 2-2 draw with
Manchester City in the F.A. Cup 3rd round.
48 League Appearances (+ 4 as sub), 3 goals
| Paris-St-Germain: |
2004-2006 |
Played |
1
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Scored |
0
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goals |
(Ligue 1) |
Free transfer on 1/7/2006.
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| Dunfermline: |
2006-2007 |
Played |
24 |
Scored |
0
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goals |
(Scottish Premier) |
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2007-2008 |
Played |
15 |
Scored |
0
|
goals |
(Scottish Division 1) |
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| Hibernian: |
2008-2009 |
Played |
29 |
Scored |
0
|
goals |
(Scottish Premier) |
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2009-2010 |
Played |
30 |
Scored |
2 |
goals |
(Scottish Premier) |
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2010-2011 |
Played |
16 |
Scored |
2 |
goals |
(Scottish Premier) |
Leicester City:
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2010-2011 |
Played |
16 |
Scored |
2 |
goals |
(Championship) |
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2011-2012 |
Played |
36 |
Scored |
1 |
goal |
(Championship) |
Signed for Trabzonspor on 8/6/2012.
Sol Bamba died on Saturday 31st August 2024 aged 39 in Turkey.
Bamba, who had been working as technical director with Adanaspor in Turkey, died after falling
ill ahead of a match on Friday.
Bamba met his English wife Chloe while playing for Leicester City. They had three children together.
He also had a son called from a previous relationship with a Scottish woman.
Bamba was multilingual, being able to speak English, French, Italian, Turkish and "the Ivorian dialect
that his father used at home". In 2021, he was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and began
undergoing chemotherapy treatment. Four months later in May 2021, he announced that he was cancer-free.