Idrissa Gueye

Idrissa Gueye is the kind of footballer I instinctively root for: a 174-centimeter defensive midfielder who wins his duels through anticipation rather than size. His tackle and interception numbers have ranked among Europe's best for years, yet he rarely makes highlight reels, because his job is to erase other people's highlights. I respect the arc of his career too, from Dakar's academy system through France to the Premier League, two spells at Everton, and now Al-Diriyah in Saudi Arabia, still doing the unglamorous running deep into his thirties. He has been Senegal's midfield heartbeat through a golden generation. Players like Gueye are the reason I watch what happens away from the ball.

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Name (English)

Idrissa Gueye

Name (Japanese)

イドリッサ・ゲイェ

Reading

いどりっさ・げいぇ

Born

September 26, 1989 (age 37)

Origin

Dakar, Dakar Department, Senegal

Height

174 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Snake

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/iganagueye/
• Xhttps://x.com/IGanaGueye
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idrissa%20Gueye
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B2%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A7
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46679

Tags

• Dakar Department
• association football player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.