Antoine Conte
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 Conte with Guinea in 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 29 January 1994 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Paris, France | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Right-back | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Botev Plovdiv | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 19 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2002–2006 | AS Val de Fontenay | ||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2007 | CO Vincennois | ||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2013 | Paris Saint-Germain | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Paris Saint-Germain | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | → Reims (loan) | 9 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2017 | Reims | 49 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017 | → Beitar Jerusalem (loan) | 14 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2021 | Beitar Jerusalem | 69 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | Universitatea Craiova | 10 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | 16 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023–2025 | Botev Plovdiv | 30 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025–2026 | Iğdır FK | 27 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2026– | Botev Plovdiv | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | France U17 | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | France U18 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013 | France U19 | 10 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | France U20 | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2016 | France U21 | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Guinea | 16 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 26 February 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 23:22, 2 February 2024 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Antoine Conte (born 29 January 1994) is a professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Bulgarian First League club Botev Plovdiv.[1] Born in France, he represents the Guinea national team.
Conte made his debut in the Ligue 1 on 1 February 2013 against Toulouse replacing Mamadou Sakho after 76 minutes.[2]
On 31 January 2017, Conte joined Beitar Jerusalem on loan until the end of the season with an option given to Beitar Jerusalem to sign him permanently.[3]
On 15 June 2017, signed permanently with Beitar agreeing to a three-year contract.[4]
In February 2021, after being sentenced to a one-year prison sentence by the court in France, Beitar released Conte.[5]
International career
Born in France, Conte is Guinean by descent.[6] He has represented France at numerous youth levels all the way up to under-21 level. He debuted with the Guinea national team in a friendly 0–0 tie with South Africa on 25 March 2022.[7]
On 23 December 2023, he was selected from the list of 25 Guinean players selected by Kaba Diawara to compete in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.[8]
Personal life
On 8 December 2016, Conte was held by French Police for assaulting his girlfriend and attacking a 19-year-old man, who tried to help, with a baseball bat, inflicting leg, arm and head injuries, including a brain haemorrhage.[9] In January 2021, he was sentenced to three years of prison.[10] In May he filed an appeal for the reduction of his sentence.[11]
