Souleymane Doukara is battling for a chew at Africa Cup of Nations historical past within the Ivory Coast.
And it will be the primary time the Mauritania ahead has sunk his fangs into the competitors. That’s after he was beforehand banned for eight video games after biting a Championship opponent again when he was on the books at Leeds.
France-born Doukara moved to Elland Road in 2014 and went on to make 82 appearances for Leeds, scoring 14 targets within the course of. However, probably the most memorable second of his profession so far got here when he bit Fulham‘s Fernando Amorebieta throughout a Championship fixture in February 2016.
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An unlucky tussle ended with former Athletic Bilbao and Venezuela defender Amorebieta checking his chest for tooth marks after dancing with Doukara. And though the Leeds attacker acquired away with it on the time, he was retroactively handed an eight-game suspension for violent conduct.
Doukara was additionally fined £5,000 for his transgression, which was awarded when Leeds solely had 9 video games left to play that season. And though he was eligible to function in Leeds’ closing fixture towards Preston, he remained an unused substitute because the Whites completed that marketing campaign thirteenth within the desk.
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Fast-forward to right this moment and the veteran attacker has one other likelihood at silverware, albeit a small one with AFCON knockout debutants Mauritania. The nation certified for its first AFCON competitors in 2019 however made group-stage exits in every of its first two appearances.
Doukara hasn’t performed a serious position in that run and solely got here off the bench in one of many nation’s three group video games, a 3-2 defeat to Angola. The Lions of Chinguetti face Cape Verde on Monday hoping to increase what’s already been a report run by way of the sphere.
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Doukara will not be the one one amongst his squad champing on the bit to get going within the hopes of creating extra historical past for his nation. And hopefully, he could have fun a profession second worthy of overshadowing one among his darker days so far.