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Mathieu Cafaro

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Mathieu Cafaro
Cafaro warming up for Saint-Étienne in 2024
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 46 (5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 December 2024

Mathieu Cafaro (born 25 March 1997) is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club Saint-Étienne.[1]

Club career

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Toulouse

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Cafaro is a youth product of Toulouse. He made his Ligue 1 debut on 10 September 2015 against Bastia.[2] On 3 April 2017, he was released from the club, along with Odsonne Édouard, due to inappropriate behavior outside the club involving the shooting of a passer-by with an airsoft gun.[3] Cafaro later admitted that he was the one who shot the gun.[4] On 13 June, the Toulouse Prosecutor requested a four-month suspended prison sentence and a €6,000 fine for Édouard's involvement. Édouard claimed that Cafaro was the shooter while Cafaro stated he was not in the car at the time of the incident.[5]

Reims

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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

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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

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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]

Personal life

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Cafaro is of Italian descent through his paternal grandfather.[11]

Honours

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Reims

References

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  1. ^ a b c Mathieu Cafaro at Soccerway
  2. ^ "Bastia vs. Toulouse- 10 September 2015 - Soccerway". soccerway.com. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  3. ^ Dufy, Guillaume. "Toulouse licencie aussi Mathieu Cafaro". L'Equipe.fr (in French). Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  4. ^ "Toulouse: Mathieu Cafaro reconnait être l'auteur du tir et innocente Odsonne Édouard". Le Figaro.fr (in French). Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  5. ^ "Quatre mois de prison avec sursis requis contre Odsonne Edouard" (in French). L'Équipe. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
  6. ^ a b "Ensemble, fêtons nos champions ! - Stade de Reims". 7 May 2018. Archived from the original on 12 May 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
  7. ^ "Mathieu CAFARO rejoint les Rouches" [Mathieu CAFARO joins the Reds] (in French). Standard Liège. 11 January 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  8. ^ "Official | Reims midfielder Mathieu Cafaro joins Standard Liege". Get French Football News. 11 January 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  9. ^ "Mathieu Cafaro rejoint les Verts !" (in French). Saint-Étienne. 20 July 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  10. ^ "Mathieu Cafaro quitte le Standard: le Français rejoint définitivement Saint-Etienne". Le Soir (in French). 2 June 2023. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
  11. ^ "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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