Silas Gnaka
Ivorian footballer
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Silas Gnaka (born 18 December 1998) is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as left-back for German 2. Bundesliga club Magdeburg.[1]
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 18 December 1998 | ||
| Place of birth | Ouragahio, Ivory Coast | ||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position | Left back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Magdeburg | ||
| Number | 25 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Aspire Academy | |||
| Eupen | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2017–2022 | Eupen | 63 | (0) |
| 2022– | Magdeburg | 109 | (5) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2019 | Ivory Coast U23 | 5 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 28 December 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 05:05, 3 May 2022 (UTC) | |||
Club career
A product of Aspire Academy in Senegal, Gnaka signed a professional football contract with Belgian club Eupen in January 2017.[2][3] He became a regular left-sided defender for the club under manager Claude Makélélé.[4]
In June 2022, German club 1. FC Magdeburg, newly promoted to the 2. Bundesliga, announced that Gnaka would join the club for the 2022–23 season.[5][6]
International career
In March 2019, Gnaka earned his first call-up to the Ivory Coast under-23 team for a pair of 2019 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations qualification matches against Niger.[7][8] He was named in the squad for the Africa U-23 Cup of Nations finals, which took place in November 2019 in Egypt.[9] He played every minute of the five tournament games, as the team finished runners-up after a 2–1 defeat in the final against Egypt.[10]
In 2021, Gnaka was named in the Ivory Coast squad for the Olympic football tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[11] He did not make an appearance during the competition, while the team got eliminated in the quarter-final against Spain.
Honours
Ivory Coast U23
- Africa U-23 Cup of Nations: runner-up 2019[12]
