A year ago, on December 20, 2023, Kamory Doumbia achieved a rare performance in Ligue 1 by scoring four goals in a match with Brest. Then, almost nothing more during the twelve months that followed for the Malian player who struggled to stay on the beautiful wave triggered by his resounding quadruplet.
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His performance had gone around the world of the web and the superlatives had not stopped raining down on him for a long time. Four goals in 25 minutes during Brest-Lorient (4-0) on December 21, 2023 had propelled in a resounding manner Kamory Doumbia in the light. The 20-year-old Malian, a pocket player of 170 cm, 53 kg on the scale, with suave technique, delighted during this evening with goals which showed off his palette: address, vision, spontaneity. One of the achievements, a volley, was voted the best goal of the season during the UNFP Trophies of French football.
This demonstration, on the eve of the CAN 2024also allowed the Malian international to build up his confidence before arriving in Ivory Coast. And despite elimination in the quarter-finals against the host country during a meeting that the Malians “ everything done to lose », Kamory Doumbia was one of the key elements of the Eagles during the tournament.
But this CAN defeat, with a very bitter taste for him, seemed to clip the wings of the Aigle de Brest, who would slide over the following months into the category of players with ordinary performances.
Today, after having decided to extend his romance with the Breton club, by signing for five years at the end of his loan, the former Rémois had difficulty rediscovering the taste of the honeymoon between him and Brest.
For four months and 18 matches in Ligue 1 and the Champions League combined, Kamory Doumbia struggled, between injuries, poor form, and low confidence, to (re)find offensive efficiency.
“ He had a truncated preparation and was injured for a long time, hampered by his ankle at the end of the seasonjustified his trainer Éric Roy. He was one of the players who was the furthest behind in terms of work when he arrived with us. “.
Tom Saintfiet: “ a great future »
However, the Finistère coach who had made the Malian a priority during the transfer window, expects more from his “Kamo” as the Malian is nicknamed at the Francis-Le Blé stadium. “ We know his qualities, I’m a big fan. Now, I tell him: we’re going to have to stop scoring goals with the selection, we have to score some with us (laughs). »
The little dig was sent just after the Mozambique-Mali match 1-0) which saw Kamory Doumbia score the only goal of the match counting for the qualifiers of the CAN 2025. Because with the selection, the player born in Sébénikoro, a district of Bamako where he was born, knows how to be effective. In nineteen matches, Kamory Doumbia scored 9 goals and provided 4 assists. Statistics which show the full dimension taken by the midfielder since his debut with the Eagles on September 23, 2022. “ He is a very important player for usconfirms Mali coach, Tom Saintfiet. He is young, very intelligent, very good technically and has very big room for improvement. He needs to string together matches like now with Brest who are competing in the Champions League. With his good mentality, I see him as a future great “.
In the meantime, on December 15, Kamory Doumbia found the net again during Brest-Nantes (4-1) after eight months without scoring, one week before the first anniversary of his quadruplet. It looks very much like a click…