Kor Sarr

Kor Daba Arfang Sarr (13 December 1975 – 18 February 2019) was a Senegalese professional football player and manager who played as a forward.^[1]

Kor Sarr

Personal information
Full name	Kor Daba Arfang Sarr[1]
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)[2]
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

Career

Born in Pikine, Sarr began his career in France with Beauvais, where he played from 1994 to 1999.^[3] 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.^[4] He signed with Angoulême in summer 2000^[4] and became top scorer of the 2001–02 Championnat National before joining Ligue 2 club Caen.^[3] He played for Caen from 2002 to 2005, scoring 20 goals in 80 appearances.^[1] 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.^[1] In the 2004–05 Ligue 1 he scored one goal in eleven appearances and injury problems made him end his professional career.^[1] He briefly returned to playing with Ouistreham, appearing in the CFA2 for one season.^[1]

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.^[3]

Later life and death

After retirement from playing, Sarr returned to Senegal and opened a training centre in his hometown Pikine, called "Malherbe Pikine".^[1]

He died on 18 February 2019 in Paris at the age of 43.^[5]