Dame N'Doye

Dame N'Doye was born February 21, 1985 in Thiès, Senegal. Currently plays a striker for FC Lokomotiv Moscow.

At the age of 18, Dame started his football career at the local Jeanne d'Arc. In 2006 left for Qatar to join Al-Saad. There N'Doye played for one season whereupon signed for Académica de Coimbra. Altogether for the club Dame appeared 29 times and scored 6 goals. Yet, the striker did not stay in Portugal long and in 2007 transferred to the Greek club Panathinaikos. In Athens Dame netted 2 goals in 19 matches and in August 2008, he made a move to OFI Crete. Dame’s next squad was F.C. Copenhagen he signed a contract with at the very beginning of 2009. On January 12, 2009 N’Doye was officially presented as a new player of the team and on March 7, 2009 he scored his first goal for it. During the 2008/12 period Dame featured in 150 matches for the Danish club and scored 82 goals. In Copenhagen N’Doye won two Danish Superliga champion’s titles and moreover was twice named the tournament top-scorer in 2011 and 2012.

On July 28, 2012 Dame N’Doye signed for Lokomotiv Moscow. He made his debut on August 11, 2012 in the Russian Premier League match against FC Alania Vladikavkaz and on August 25, the Senegalese striker made his first goal.

In February 2011, N’Doye made his international debut for the Senegal national football team in a friendly against Guinea. He also appeared in 4 matches of the 2012 African Cup of Nations qualification round and scored 2 goals there, whereat netted one more goal during the main tournament. In 2012 Dame was included in the Senegal national squad for the 2012 Olympic Football tournament, but didn’t feature in the Games.