Mathieu_Cafaro
Mathieu Cafaro
French footballer (born 1997)
Mathieu Cafaro (born 25 March 1997) is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 2 club Saint-Étienne.[1]
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1997-03-25) 25 March 1997 (age 27) | ||
| Place of birth | Saint-Doulchard, France | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Saint-Étienne | ||
| Number | 18 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 0000–2016 | Toulouse | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2015–2017 | Toulouse B | 28 | (11) |
| 2016 | Toulouse | 4 | (0) |
| 2017–2018 | Reims B | 17 | (3) |
| 2017–2022 | Reims | 83 | (12) |
| 2022–2023 | Standard Liège | 12 | (2) |
| 2022–2023 | → Saint-Étienne (loan) | 33 | (5) |
| 2023– | Saint-Étienne | 18 | (3) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16:15, 16 January 2024 (UTC) | |||
Toulouse
Cafaro is a youth exponent from Toulouse. He made his Ligue 1 debut on 10 September 2015 against Bastia.[2] He was released from the club on 3 April 2017 with Odsonne Édouard due to inappropriate behavior outside the club which consisted of shooting a passer-by with an airsoft gun.[3] He later admitted that he was the one that shot the gun.[4] On 13 June, the Toulouse Prosecutor asked that Édouard be charged with a four months suspended prison sentence and a €6,000 fine for his involvement in the incident. Édouard assured that Cafaro was the author of the shot while Cafaro then claimed to have not been in the car at the time of the shooting.[5]
Reims
Cafaro helped Reims win the 2017–18 Ligue 2, which earned them promotion to the Ligue 1 for the 2018–19 season.[6] He participated in one league match during the campaign, a 3–1 win over Niort on 27 April 2018.[1] Cafaro would go on to score twelve goals in eighty-two Ligue 1 matches for Reims before leaving the club in January 2022.[1]
Standard Liège
On 11 January 2022, Cafaro signed for Belgian club Standard Liège.[7] The deal reportedly involved no transfer fee, although Reims were given a "considerable" sell-on percentage fee.[8]
Saint-Étienne
On 20 July 2022, Cafaro joined Ligue 2 club Saint-Étienne on a season-long loan with an option-to-buy.[9] He eventually joined the club permanently in June 2023.[10]
Cafaro is of Italian descent through his paternal grandfather.[11]
Reims
- Mathieu Cafaro at Soccerway
- "Bastia vs. Toulouse- 10 September 2015 - Soccerway". soccerway.com. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
- Dufy, Guillaume. "Toulouse licencie aussi Mathieu Cafaro". L'Equipe.fr (in French). Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- "Toulouse: Mathieu Cafaro reconnait être l'auteur du tir et innocente Odsonne Édouard". Le Figaro.fr (in French). Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- "Quatre mois de prison avec sursis requis contre Odsonne Edouard" (in French). L'Équipe. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
- "Ensemble, fêtons nos champions ! - Stade de Reims". 7 May 2018. Archived from the original on 12 May 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
- "Mathieu CAFARO rejoint les Rouches" [Mathieu CAFARO joins the Reds] (in French). Standard Liège. 11 January 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
- "Official | Reims midfielder Mathieu Cafaro joins Standard Liege". Get French Football News. 11 January 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
- "Mathieu Cafaro rejoint les Verts !" (in French). Saint-Étienne. 20 July 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
- "Mathieu Cafaro quitte le Standard: le Français rejoint définitivement Saint-Etienne". Le Soir (in French). 2 June 2023. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
- "Mathieu Cafaro, un jeune milieu relayeur à la relance ! - Stade de Reims". 30 June 2017. Archived from the original on 26 August 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
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