About Keita Amadou “Baba”

Amadou KEITA, is certainly the first player whose tenacity jumped in the eyes of JMG and his whole team, from the first trips to the districts of Bamako to try to find the first players of the promotion 1.
An artist at heart, Baba, who obviously had talent, was doing a little too much to impress, to the point where efficiency was sacrificed for the sake of fantasy. The boy who every day left a note on the portal of the coach’s residence in the ICA: “Coach it is Baba, please remind me” written in charcoal, will end up integrating the JMG Mali Academy into class 2, too young finally for class 1, and the time to strip his game to get to the essential, with his artistic temperament to use with opportunity. Having become friends with the first Ghanaians who, while waiting for the end of the work of their Academy in Ghana, had come to Mali, it was frequent and curious, before he entered the Academy, to find “Baba” in the corridors of the boarding school, to eat together with some of them a piece, and to exchange at length. The highlight of the case is that Baba didn’t speak a word of English and the young Ghanaians at the time, no word of French… Later, with the ties forged over the years, it was not uncommon to see Charles Ankomah, Amponsah Bernard “Tonaldo” and others spending weekends with their families at Baba’s….