Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 18 December 1998 | ||
Place of birth | Ouragahio, Ivory Coast | ||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Left back | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Magdeburg | ||
Number | 25 | ||
Youth career | |||
Aspire Academy | |||
Eupen | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2017–2022 | Eupen | 63 | (0) |
2022– | Magdeburg | 41 | (3) |
International career‡ | |||
2019 | Ivory Coast U23 | 5 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10 October 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 05:05, 3 May 2022 (UTC) |
Silas Gnaka (born 18 December 1998) is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as left-back for German 2. Bundesliga club Magdeburg.[1]
A product of Aspire Academy in Senegal, Gnaka signed a professional football contract with Belgian club Eupen in January 2017.[2][3] He became a regular left-sided defender for the club under manager Claude Makélélé.[4]
In June 2022, German club 1. FC Magdeburg, newly promoted to the 2. Bundesliga, announced that Gnaka would join the club for the 2022–23 season.[5][6]
In March 2019, Gnaka earned his first call-up to the Ivory Coast under-23 team for a pair of 2019 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations qualification matches against Niger.[7][8] He was named in the squad for the Africa U-23 Cup of Nations finals, which took place in November 2019 in Egypt.[9] He played every minute of the five tournament games, as the team finished runners-up after a 2–1 defeat in the final against Egypt.[10]
In 2021, Gnaka was named in the Ivory Coast squad for the Olympic football tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[11] He did not make an appearance during the competition, while the team got eliminated in the quarter-final against Spain.
Ivory Coast U23