The former Ivory Coast defender and international Sol Bambawho continued his career after battling cancer in 2021, has died aged 39, his former clubs announced on Saturday night. “He Leeds United “is saddened to learn of the death of its former captain Sol Bamba at the age of 39,” the English Championship club said in a statement.
“It is with great sadness that we learn this afternoon of the death of club legend Sol Bamba,” the Welsh club wrote. Cardiff on social networks
He became known in Leeds, where he was the club captain, and in Cardiff, where he played more than one hundred games and participated in the team’s return to the Premier League for the 2018-2019 season.
Sol Bamba announced that he was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma in early 2021 while playing for Cardiff. He returned to play a few months later, after his chemotherapy, for the Welsh club and then for Middlesbrough, another English club in the Championship. He worked in the technical team of Adanaspor, of the Turkish second division, before his death.
The centre-back has accumulated around fifty caps with the Ivory Coast Elephants, most notably at the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 and the 2012 African Cup of Nations.
Source: La Verdad
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