Kor Sarr

Kor Sarr
Personal information
Full name Kor Daba Arfang Sarr
Date of birth (1975-12-13)13 December 1975
Place of birth Pikine, Senegal
Date of death 18 February 2019(2019-02-18) (aged 43)
Place of death Paris, France
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1994–1999 Beauvais
2000 Le Touquet AC
2000–2002 Angoulême
2002–2005 Caen 74 (19)
2006–2007 Ouistreham
Total 74+ (19+)
Managerial career
2010–2011 AS Pikine
2011–2012 RS Yoff
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Kor Daba Arfang Sarr (13 December 1975 – 18 February 2019) was a Senegalese professional football player and manager who played as a forward.

Career

Born in Pikine, Sarr began his career in France with Beauvais, where he played from 1994 to 1999. In January 2000 he moved to Le Touquet AC, which was struggling in Championnat de France Amateur 2 (CFA2), where he scored a number of goals. He signed with Angoulême in summer 2000 and became top scorer of the 2001–02 Championnat National before joining Ligue 2 club Caen. He played for Caen from 2002 to 2005, scoring 20 goals in 80 appearances. He was a key player in the 2002–03 and 2003–04 seasons, scoring nine goals in 30 and 33 appearances respectively, and helped Caen achieve promotion to Ligue 1. In the 2004–05 Ligue 1 he scored one goal in eleven appearances and injury problems made him end his professional career. He briefly returned to playing with Ouistreham, appearing in the CFA2 for one season.

After retiring as a player, Sarr managed Senegalese clubs AS Pikine and RS Yoff.[citation needed] As manager of ASC Jaraaf, he won the Senegal FA Cup.

Later life and death

After retirement from playing, Sarr returned to Senegal and opened a training centre in his hometown Pikine, called "Malherbe Pikine".

He died on 18 February 2019 in Paris at the age of 43.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Letondeur, Boris (18 February 2019). "SM Caen : l'ancien attaquant Kor Sarr est décédé à 43 ans" [SM Caen: former striker Kor Sarr dies at the age of 43]. France Bleu (in French). Retrieved 17 October 2025.
  2. ↑ Kor Sarr at WorldFootball.net
  3. 1 2 3 "Décès de Kor Sarr" [Death of Kor Sarr]. UNFP (in French). 19 February 2019. Retrieved 17 October 2025.
  4. 1 2 "Le Touquet: Kordaba Sarr, ancien joueur du TACFCO, est décédé" [Le Touquet: Kordaba Sarr, former TACFCO player, has passed away]. Nord Littoral [fr] (in French). 19 February 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
  5. ↑ "Disparition : Kor Sarr, l'ancien joueur de Caen, est mort" (in French). L'Equipe. 18 February 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2019.