Season #2 | 1880-81 | Games #3 - #6
133 Seasons, 33 Managers, 980 Players, 5,654 Matches, Only One Aston Villa
Player #963
Appearances:
1
Starts:
1
Goals:
0
Seasons:
1
Source: AVFC.co.uk/players/u18/mamadoudiallasylla
Source: AVFC.co.uk/players/u18/mamadoudiallasylla
Mamadou Dialla Sylla
Position
Midfielder
From
2020-21
To
2021-22
IMAGE CREDIT
Mamadou Dialla Sylla
Birth Date
Sunday, 26 January 2003
Birth Place
Granollers, Catalonia
Birth Country
Guinea
Villa Youth
2018- Aston Villa Under 18s |
From
Transfer in
UE Canovelles
From
For
Free
On
Friday, 30 November 2018
Previous Clubs
E.C. Granollers |
UE Canovelles |
Loans Out
None
Transfer Out
To
Unión Deportiva Almería
For
Undisclosed
On
Monday, 23 August 2021
Subsequent Clubs
2021- Unión Deportiva Almería |
Source: AVFC.co.uk/players/u18/mamadoudiallasylla
Source: AVFC.co.uk/players/u18/mamadoudiallasylla
Villa Career
Seasons Active, Fee, Starts (Sub) | Goals |
2021 Aston Villa, Free, 1 (0) | 0 |
STARTS
SUBS
GOALS
Played Under
Mark Delaney |
First Squad Appearance
Friday, 8 January 2021
Debut Appearance
Friday, 8 January 2021
Liverpool (h), FA Cup
DEBUT
First Goal
Did not score
Final Appearance
Friday, 8 January 2021
Liverpool (h), FA Cup
FINAL
Final Squad Appearance
Friday, 8 January 2021
Honours
Played for the Villa
Height
(5 ft 9 in) 1.79 m
Foot
International Team
Not selected
Mamadou Dialla Sylla
Player #963 for Aston Villa, Mamadou Dialla Sylla has played as a midfielder for the club since the 2020-21 season.
Sylla was born on 26 January 2003 and grew up in Granollers, Catalonia before signed with Villa as a 15 year old from UE Canovelles in November 2018.
Sylla was appointed to Sean Verity’s Under 18 squad on arrival before Mark Delaney promoted Sylla to the first team squad and giving him his first team debut in the 2020-21 season aged 17 in the 1-4 FA Cup defeat to Liverpool on Friday, 8 January 2021.
Sylla was part of the youngest ever team to ever take the field for Villa in a professional game - aged 18.8 years on average - after the first team squad was forced into isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic which had seen a raft of players and staff testing positive for the virus in the week preceding the game.
Sylla was also one of 16 debutants in the game - the most in a single game in Villa’s history and was also part of the starting XI made up of 11 debutants, the first time this had happened since Villa’s first professional fixture - also in the FA Cup - on Saturday, 13 December 1879 against Stafford Road. Sylla made his debut appearance under caretaker manager Mark Delaney following Dean Smith having to join the first team in isolation.
The Birmingham Mail described Sylla’s debut thus:
“Villa’s dogged defensive midfielder was superb. The Barcelona-born Guinea native put himself about and launched into challenges for the claret and blue cause. His positioning was text-book as well as he refused to get dragged out of position.”