Dia also discovered that not only did this invention get him a game, it also got him a good deal. He is constantly swamped with CVs of African players of dubious provenance. Unabashed, Dia played for Gateshead six days later with the customary smile recalled by all who knew him. Season Date Left Joined MV Fee ; 97/98: Jul 1, 1997: Gateshead FC: Retired--96/97: Dec 1, 1996: Southampton: Gateshead FC-? "Weah" told Souness that Dia was his cousin, had played for Paris Saint-Germain, and had played 13 times for his country. Did he know about the Mirror story? When he was exposed, Dia had sufficient balls to play on—albeit not very well. But if things go well, who knows, I could stay longer.". Weah was a good man to invent connections with. So he contacted Harrison, who ran a business called Activity Sportswear and worked as an agent. ", In early July, FinnPa's manager Heikki Suhonen had just 13 fit players at training before an important game at Mikkelin Palloilijat. Joined Apr 10, 2016 Messages 3,421 Location Manchester. [11], Dia studied business at Northumbria University in Newcastle, graduating in 2001. A brief, fruitless spell ensued at Spennymoor United. With the outside of his right foot, he could go round a defender," former team-mate Simo Valakari told Bleacher Report. Dia was through on goal. Having a French wife secured his work permit, but throughout his travels in Europe, there were no confirmed sightings or meetings of her. 95/96: Jan 1, 1996: VfB Lübeck: Blyth Spartans-? On June 21, he made his fifth and final appearance in the 10th round against Jaro. Ali Dia hampir selalu masuk dalam daftar pemain terburuk atau transfer terburuk. The well-worn story goes that he claimed to have played 13 internationals for Senegal and to be the cousin of former FIFA World Player of the Year George Weah. Ali Dia is infamous. Much of the information would typically come through a third party. Ultimately, Ali Dia may well have been one of the Premier League’s worst players. Dia was not even on the bench. After moving to Lubeck, Lorkowski's success continued with promotion to the second tier of German football. And he had enough front to convince football people in at least three countries that he was related to Weah. Days later, Dia was signed by Southampton manager Graeme Souness, after Souness received a phone call purporting to be from Liberian international and then-FIFA World Player of the Year, George Weah. Dia made his FinnPa debut in the first round of Veikkausliiga matches at Haka on April 30, 1995. Ali Dia is a mystery, a man seemingly happy to let fiction blend with fact. The last of his two brief appearances for the German side was 10 months earlier. "I bumped into him out socialising in Newcastle, but I never met his wife," Harrison told Bleacher Report. Despite his inability to score or even stay onside, Dia played the entire match. Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. With just the Ilves goalkeeper to beat, he sent his header tamely into Tommi Kainulainen's hands. In his fourth match, Dia played the full 90 minutes and had two good chances to score but missed. Back on the bench, Dia got on after 81 minutes but again to little effect. FinnPa's situation became uglier. Even when I took him off, he just smiled. But if you had any belief in yourself, you would react badly. Given the number of times he was subsequently released, this could have been cause for regret, but Dia had bigger ambitions. Dia bullishly told the Post: "I have been portrayed as a con man and a poor player, but I am neither and intend to prove people wrong. On arriving in Helsinki, he was picked up at the airport by Valakari, who worked part-time in the FinnPa back office. 9 ↗ 13 Crossing. FIFA 11 Feb 22, 2011. Dia was substituted. His name is plastered across the Internet. Aly Dia, commonly known as Ali Dia, is a Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a striker. That he was an international. In 1993, FinnPa won promotion to the Veikkausliiga, the top flight of Finnish football, for the first time. Ali Dia posted a topic in Tactics, Training & Strategies Discussion. Dia scored once in three matches, then left. Naqi's report says: "FA records confirm Southampton finalised its contract with a player named Aly Dia on Nov. 22, 1996." Nor did he ever play internationally for Senegal or at club level for Bologna or Paris Saint-Germain. Dia missed Matchday 6, but he got a second chance on Matchday 7 as Lubeck hosted VfB Leipzig. No offer followed. Then on Aug. 1, 1994, Dia resigned. Like Dia's team-mates, Harrison recalls a personable guy who gave little away. He was supposed to return on Tuesday and according to my calendar it is Tuesday," Suhonen told the paper. Richardson needed a hero. Firstly: his name is not Ali Dia at all, but rather Aly Dia, with a 'y'. In the all-pervasive world of social media, he has succeeded in vanishing without a trace. pic.twitter.com/LE7fUUrPHW These come from unknown agents, who are, due to recent FIFA changes, also unregulated. 96/97: Nov 1, 1996: Blyth Spartans: Southampton-? He reportedly graduated from Northumbria University, as per the Scotsman, with a degree in business or finance in 2001, but he has since achieved the almost impossible feat of completely vanishing. With one of football's most mysterious figures celebrating his 50th birthday this year, Bleacher Report went in search of the Ali Dia legend, and in search of the truth... Ali Dia. The Senegalese Football Federation did not respond to questions about Dia or Alassana. Aly Dia[1][2] (born 20 August 1965), commonly known as Ali Dia, is a Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a striker. The next day, the Sunday Mirror exposed Dia's long con and how he had tried the Weah trick on Bournemouth, Gillingham and Port Vale. Le Tissier said: "He ran around the pitch like Bambi on ice; it was very embarrassing to watch. [3] Dia only played eight games for the North East outfit, including scoring on his debut in a 5–0 win over Bath City. Three backroom staff—Dave Clarke, Jeff Wrightson and Kenny Lowe—took charge for the next game in the FA Trophy at home to Runcorn. Alleging to be a cousin of FIFA World Player of the Year, George Weah, and Senegalese international Ali Dia managed to work his way into a one month contract with the South Coast side. Dia also made money out of the game. On Dec. 13, 1996, Dia signed until the end of that season. [1] He has a son, named Simon, who plays football for Ratchaburi Mitr Phol. ... Ali Dia. In the 1997/98 season, Gateshead's reserve team manager Alan Shoulder told Gibson that a player approached him in the club car park asking to join in training with a view to a possible trial. RF 75 ; All Years Sports journalists in Dakar have never heard of a Senegalese international called Ali/Aly Dia. He was released at the end of the season. After two matches, Dia's time in Germany was over. A day later, Dia made that solitary Premier League appearance for the Saints as a surprising replacement for Matt Le Tissier at the Dell against Leeds United. Mystery. "@unibet: #HappyBirthday to the #BPL legend that is Ali Dia! Gateshead had recently won promotion to the GM Vauxhall Conference, but despite the presence of Gary and Justin Robson, the two younger brothers of England legend, Bryan Robson, life in the top tier of the English non-league game was difficult. What was, by Dia's standards, the halcyon period of his career was nearly over. RF 74 ; FIFA 10. Dia was rated 7/10 by the Post. Athletic Club de Bilbao. That proved rare, but Dia did start FinnPa's next match away to FC Jazz. Was he a delusional fantasist or a cynical fabricator? Dia played the whole next match at home to Telford and at one point humiliatingly lost the ball straight from the restart. Worse followed. None of this was true, and the phone call to Souness was made by a fellow university student of Dia's, suggesting that he should give Dia a chance with Southampton. "He just showed up and was telling people those stories," former team-mate Toni Korkeakunnas told Bleacher Report. He didn't say a lot of words, but he was always smiling. "He was a very humble player in the dressing room. On 66 minutes, Platt introduced his overseas "star" as a replacement for Justin Robson. Instead, former Middlesbrough and Northern Ireland goalkeeper Jim Platt got the job. What Gateshead and their ebullient chairman John Gibson needed was a marquee signing. George had played with Ali at Paris Read full article » Citing Data Protection, FIFA will not confirm if an agent has ever been licensed with this name. After paying a visit to the semi-rural location of Eighton Banks, the idea of the Dias walking in the surrounding fields or dropping into the local pub, The Ship, for a post-match beer appears nice. Two decades after perpetrating one of football’s most brazen stunts by persuading Graeme Souness to let him play in the English Premier League for Southampton, precious little is known about the man who purported to be the cousin of George Weah, the legendary former AC Milan player who won the Ballon d’Or in 1995. "A fan told me he was on the bench, and I could not believe it. [3][13] He was named at Number 1 in a list of "The 50 worst footballers" in The Times newspaper. European clubs were starting to buy into the potency of African players on a larger scale, but checking them out was not easy as the Internet was in its infancy. Then, once again, Dia vanished. "When Ali arrived, he had something. Dia went back up north, leaving a hotel bill unpaid. He lived on the Boulevard Victor Hugo, and club chairman Michel Bonnier told Bleacher Report that Dia played regularly in the A and B teams in 1993/94. At the end of the first half, a chance came to make amends. Perhaps he invented the persona of Ali/Aly Dia to pursue a career in football, then reverted to who he really was. 11 J. Dudek. The latter, at least, was true—to a point. Who better than an African international striker? Anyway, we got all that sorted and decided that on a match-to-match basis we couldn't lose. RM 70 ; FIFA 18. John Gibson said his old signing "seems to have fallen off the world.". Data Protection laws prevent the university from passing on details about Dia or even confirming that he has a degree from there, but in 2012 (before those laws were enacted), the university told FourFourTwo magazine they had lost touch with him. In November 1996, Dia convinced Graeme Souness, then Southampton manager, that he was the cousin of FIFA World Player of the Year and Ballon d'Or winner George Weah, which led to him signing a one-month contract with Southampton days later. Dia played only one match in his short spell at the … Harrison lived in one, and for six months, he rented the other to Dia. In our more linked-up world, the crazy tale of Ali/Aly Dia seems unlikely to occur again in the English Premier League, but maybe it could elsewhere. There is no sign of an Ali or Aly Dia on the UK electoral register, so maybe he never really existed? So is this really a mystery that's impossible to solve? That ignominious position went to the injury-dogged Ian Brady. Amateur Wacky Tactics With A 1% Chance of Working. "I told Gibson that he wasn't for us.". Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. 18 jersey of FinnPa, Dia managed a yellow card but not a single goal. Records show he made a brief appearance for Port Vale's reserves—reportedly scoring both goals in a 3-2 defeat against Sunderland at Roker Park. Dia finds his level … and soon becomes anonymous. RM 73 ; FIFA 11. With a minute to go, Dia and the Gateshead forward line pressured Bromsgrove's Darren Growcutt into turning the ball into his own net, which resulted in a vital 1-0 win. VfB Lubeck were then coached by Michael Lorkowski, who had previously won the DfB Cup with Hannover 96. Alif is the journey of Momin and Momina, where Momin's journey is to rediscover his roots and Momina's journey is to maintain the livelihood of her family by fateful events their paths will join. The club paid for Dia to stay at a hotel, where he ran up a sizeable mini-bar bill, according to Valakari, before he moved into a flat rented by the club. "Obviously I'm disappointed not to have made it in the Premiership, but I've got faith in my own ability and my only concern now is Gateshead. "He was absolutely hopeless.". Just 14 days after arriving, Dia was gone. FinnPa collapsed. After the first two weeks, bam, it was gone. #SaintsFC http://t.co/W3CSBpQlO9" Ali Dia is a liar... Maybe so, as when our protagonist reappeared, he succeeded in making his top-flight debut...in Finland. First name Ali Last name Diab Nationality Egypt Date of birth 17 February 1988 Age 30 Country of birth Egypt Position Midfielder "He simply turned up at Southampton without us knowing," Blyth's veteran media manager Phil Castiaux told Bleacher Report. I felt really bad as I had not even put him in the squad, but then it never occurred to me that I should.". Gateshead stayed up, but no one came in for Dia. Was he an agent, or a friend? When Gateshead manager Colin Richardson called looking to buy some training tops, Harrison threw in an extra. Korkeakunnas, Dia's former team-mate, is now coach of FC Lahti in the Finnish Premier League. About Ali Dia. He came on as a substitute in a league game, but was then himself substituted. He started the next two matches after being unmasked but did not score against Hednesford or Stalybridge. With eight minutes to go, he came on but made no impact in a 0-0 draw. Surely now was not the time to turn to a player whom the club's own manager thought was hopeless? Dia played just one game for Southampton, wearing the number 33 shirt, against Leeds United on 23 November 1996; he had originally been scheduled to play in a reserve team friendly against Arsenal, but the match was cancelled due to a waterlogged pitch. Graham Hiley, then a young reporter at the Southern Daily Echo, recalled: "I watched him in training, and I remember thinking he would not be signed as he did not look good enough and thought no more about him until I got to the ground. Platt told Bleacher Report: "He wasn't a bad fella. Gateshead's first game under Platt was away to Slough. Weah was, after all, Liberian. In 1995, he won not only the Ballon d'Or but also the FIFA Player of the Year award. Stockport won 2-1. Perhaps this was when Dia recognised the benefits of moving to a non-French speaking country, where he could create a new CV? Pleasant surprise: nice chat in cafeteria @UniHannover with Michael Lorkowski, coach @Hannover96 cup winner team 1992 http://t.co/WRwjdvmFQF. This isn't FIFA. Now a social worker in Hamburg, Lorkowski recalls general manager Helmut Schulte brought Dia to VfB Lubeck at the start of the 1995/96 season after also being taken in by the Weah connection. There are accounts in his name on Twitter and Facebook, but surely no one who accepts a friend request from Russ Tafari can be real? He was subsequently released, 14 days into his contract. That showing has been written about exhaustively ever since, but Dia's arrival did not merit a mention locally. Let us tell you the tale of a man called Ali Dia.Ali Dia was a footballer. At the time, Harrison owned two houses on the same Mount Lonnen terrace in Eighton Banks. 9 ↗ 13 Marking. "Some of the players are being taped on the physio's table, and slowly FinnPa's situation is being revealed in all of its ugliness," Helsingin Sanomat reported. He did so again on his Gateshead debut. He failed to impress against Stockport County's second string on Oct. 8, 1996. 91 HEA. Other players would have just told me to f--k off.". The club's debts were unsustainable. He shrugged it off in an interview with the Post, which loyally called the expose "false allegations" and noted Dia had recently scored for Senegal in a 3-1 World Cup qualifying win over Guinea. Date of birth/Age: Aug 20, 1965 (55) Place of birth: Dakar Citizenship: Senegal Height: N/A Position: Centre-Forward Dia missed Matchday 6, but he got a second chance on Matchday 7 as Lubeck hosted VfB Leipzig. This whole ruse started earlier in 1996, when Dia played for lower league team Blyth Spartans and was studying at university in the UK. They are one of the FIFA esports teams in the Now you can chall... enge Teamduxgaming's squad as a Featured Squad Battle. Dia was on the bench. Well...in a manner of speaking, anyway.Ali Dia had a famous cousin. Like FinnPa, Lubeck had recently won promotion and were then at their highest level in the second Bundesliga. In a 2014 column, he recalled: I spoke with my manager and a couple of other directors, then—deciding no one could take Dia at his word—I phoned the police on the south coast and the hotel where our intrepid international footballer had hung his hat. The man who called up and fooled Souness was called Sidiba Alassana. Maybe, however, it’s time we stopped taking such reports as fact — at least until Dia, now in his fifties, gets to computer-generate his own memories of that Leeds match. The deal was not for playing but for spending 87 hours a month working with the club's youth teams, and worth 3,030 French francs a month (around £343 today). Transfer history . The Facebook account says he runs a sports agency called GO2 Football Representation, but no such company has been registered at Companies House. Dia played only one match in his short spell at the club. There had been a whisper Ali had made a quick getaway in his car and that his hotel bill had remained unpaid. He was quite personable. Briefly in Finland and Germany, Dia had shown signs of talent. Dia came on after 73 minutes of a game at Hannover 96 but made no impression in a 0-0 draw. Profile page for football player Ali Dia (Unknown). After an opening 45 minutes in which he was described by Helsingin Sanomat as "invisible," Dia was subbed a minute into the second half. Dia told Rotherham that he was a Senegalese international and had been with Lubeck the previous season. Information presented from newspaper reports, along with accounts of matches Dia played in, was gathered during research by the author. The tall tales continued. In the short spell from joining Saints to playing for Gateshead, he pocketed £3,500 in signing-on fees. He made amends by scoring with a header, but Gateshead lost 3-2, and Richardson was fired. Gateshead slumped to a disastrous home defeat against Halifax. Dia was a substitute in Platt's second game against Kettering, but he stayed on the bench. But his ambitions were undimmed as, armed with an imaginary CV that seemed to work, he set off for the UK and the most infamous period of his peripatetic footballing career. That is certainly possible. 6.3 Season Average Rating. Dia was introduced after 74 minutes in the sixth round away at VPS with FinnPa leading 2-0 but did nothing of note as his team won 3-1. Ali Dia real name: Aly Dia Height: 5'10''(in feet & inches) 1.778(m) 177.8(cm) , Birthdate(Birthday): August 20, 1965 , Age as on 2021: 55 Years 7 Months 19 Days Profession: Sports Persons (Football Player), College: Northumbria University, Newcastle, San Francisco State University, Married: No, Children: No VIDEO: Spurs star Alli reveals his preferred FIFA 18 rating to Ferdinand. My contract is just until the end of the season. "He was a bit of a mystery," said Harrison, who has moved from Eighton Banks. [3], After a playing career at the lower levels in France and Germany,[4] and having already failed trials at Gillingham and Bournemouth,[5] Dia joined non-league club Blyth Spartans, where he made only one substitute appearance – on 9 November 1996 in a Northern Premier League game against Boston United. Not a fortune, but Dia was a semi-professional footballer. After being relegated in 1998, Aero pulled the plug. All quotes were gathered firsthand unless otherwise stated. Gary Robson was reputed to be on £400 a week at the Tyneside club, but he had made nearly 300 Football League appearances. Again a sub, Dia was introduced on 62 minutes with Lubeck a goal down but made no mark as Leipzig won 2-0. Dia's story has been copied and pasted ad infinitum online, but the real story of the Don Quixote of modern football is harder to pin down. What is certain is that Dia was not, as his agent claimed, Weah's cousin. 53 - On this day in 1996, Ali Dia played 53 minutes for Southampton against Leeds United; marking his one and only PL appearance. "Yes, he was telling those stories [about George Weah] then," former FinnPa team-mate Kalle Lehtinen said. But he never gave up. His Wikipedia profile suggests between 1988 and 1992 he was linked to French clubs Beauvais, Dijon, La Rochelle and Saint Quentin, but the French Football Federation told Bleacher Report there is no record of Ali/Aly Dia playing professional football as an overseas player in France. But like his claims to have played for Bologna, Paris Saint-Germain or Senegal, this was all a fantasy. After serving a three-month notice period, he left for Avignon, where he holed up at 13 Rue Saint Michel. "One wonders where is French striker Aly Dia?". And what of Mrs. Dia? Inevitably, the worst Premier League player of all time is Ali Dia. View the profiles of professionals named "Ali Dia" on LinkedIn. See more His moment had arrived, and Dia certainly made his mark. FinnPa's roster started with youth academy players on £50 a week, but as an overseas player with a pedigree—albeit an imaginary one—Dia's former FinnPa team-mates believe he was among the top earners on £250 a week. Perhaps Dia is out there somewhere combining his business degree with one of football's more fantastical playing careers and telling young players: "Yes, you too can play in the Premier League, just like me...". The former Bayern Munich forward, who turned 38 on 29 March, scored a unmatched 109 international goals in 148 appearances, an achievement that many believe places him among the … But this, too, is a fantasy. Dia told the Post in early 1997 that his wife was moving to Tyneside. He never talked of himself or his life, just that he had a wife in France," Valakari said. In Dia's absence, Platt had revived Gateshead. Hammondo said: ... Ali Dia Full Member. [3] [12] Ia masuk sebagai nomor 1 pemain terburuk dalam daftar "50 Pemain Sepakbola Terburuk" dalam koran The Times [13] dan didaulat sebagai nomor 4 striker terburuk oleh Daily Mail . Joined May 10, 2013 Messages 5,142 Location Constant repetition online tells us he was Ali Dia, but after a trawl through club records and newspaper archives and speaking to former playing colleagues, it appears when he first surfaced in France and at all his subsequent clubs he was known as Aly Dia. Feb 27, 2021 #2,325 The holy trinity 68 The disparager. With Hadi Bin Arshad, Hamza Ali Abbasi, Sajjal Ali, Sadaf Kanwal. 8 ↗ 12 Finishing. Or can they? He might even be worse than Nigel Martyn, who’s so crap he couldn’t catch a shot from Ali Dia. Those four clubs did not respond to questions about Dia, but in December 1993, Aly Dia did sign a contract with AL Chateaubriant to play in National League Three, which is equivalent to the fifth tier of French football. In the match against Leeds, he came on as a substitute for the injured Matthew Le Tissier after 32 minutes, but was later substituted himself (for Ken Monkou) in the 85th minute;[7] Leeds won the match 2–0. 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