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The 19-year-old full-back signed a 2-year contract with RC LENS. Playing with FC Guidars in the Malian championship and originally formed at JMG Academy in Bamako, Mamadou Thiam is a lively, dynamic player with a lot of offensive flair. Mamadou Thiam is physically small but endowed with power and momentum that will strengthen the Lens National 2 team coached by Yohan Demont. Just like Cheik Doucouré who has followed the same path, the Malian U17 international Thiam hopes to take the stages one by one and follow in his elder’s footsteps.
"The JMG Academy has already proven its know-how in terms of developing talented players, we have also been attentive to their policy of educating people who are humanly flawless, this is the case with Mamadou. I was able to realize this during my visit to the site. We are happy to be able to offer him a second chance, him who was supposed to be the first of his generation to come to Europe and for whom it was a little bit retarted. "
