Aly Keita (born 8 December 1986) is a former professional footballer who last played as a goalkeeper for Östersunds FK. Born in Sweden, he accumulated 24 caps for the Guinea national team.
Keita started his career at Skiljebo SK[citation needed], before moving to Syrianska IF in 2007.[2] Just before the 2012 season, Keita left Syrianska IF on a free transfer to Västerås SK.[2] He then joined Östersunds FK ahead of the 2014 season.
Keita played most of the games in his second season with ÖFK, where they finished second in the league, securing an automatic promotion to Allsvenskan.[3]
On 15 August 2016, Keita was attacked by a pitch invader during a game against Jönköpings Södra IF. In the closing of what would have been a 1–1 draw ended with an invader running onto the field and grabbed Keita. He later reported that during the confrontation, he was struck in the temple. After the incident, the 17-year old invader was arrested and the match was abandoned.[4]
On 13 April 2017, Keita played in the 4-1 Swedish Cup final victory against IFK Norrköping.[5] This qualified ÖFK to the second qualifying round of the 2017-18 Europa League. Keita played all qualifier games against Galatasaray and Fola Esch. In the final seconds of the play-off reverse fixture against PAOK, Keita threw himself onto the post, saving a header by the far post to keep the aggregate score at 3-3 and qualify ÖFK to the Europa League on away goals.[6] On 19 October 2017, in a group stage Europa League match against Athletic Bilbao, Keita took a heavy touch on a back pass and slipped upon trying to recover the ball, allowing Aritz Aduriz to score the first goal in a 2-2 match.[7] After finishing second in their group, Östersunds FK were knocked out of the Europa League 4-2 on aggregate in the Round of 32 against Arsenal.[8]
After avoiding the relegation play-offs by one place in 2020, ÖFK finished last in Allsvenskan 2021, 18 points below the relegation play-off spot.
At the end of the 2022 Superettan, Keita played in the relegation play-off reverse fixture against Falkenberg. ÖFK narrowly avoided a double relegation to the third tier by winning 3-1 on aggregate.[9]
On June 20 2024, Aly Keita was indefinitely suspended by Östersunds FK following being suspected of drug-impaired driving and money laundering. Three months later, he was found guilty of drug-impaired driving, and got fired by ÖFK.[10] His money laundering investigation was later dropped.[11]
Keita was born in Sweden to a Guinean father and a Norwegian mother. He opted to represent the Guinea national football team in April 2018,[12] and he received a call-up to the national team in October 2018.[13] Keita made his debut for Guinea in a 2–0 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification win over Rwanda on 12 October 2018.[14]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Syrianska IF | 2010 | Division 1 Norra | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 8 | 0 | |
| 2011 | Division 1 Norra | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 23 | 0 | ||
| Total | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 0 | ||
| Västerås SK | 2012 | Division 1 Norra | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 21 | 0 | |
| 2013 | Division 1 Norra | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 9 | 0 | ||
| Total | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 0 | ||
| Östersunds FK | 2014 | Superettan | 14 | 0 | 1[a] | 0 | – | 15 | 0 | |
| 2015 | Superettan | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 23 | 0 | ||
| 2016 | Allsvenskan | 12 | 0 | 1[a] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | |
| 2017 | Allsvenskan | 21 | 0 | 2[a] | 0 | 14[b] | 0 | 37 | 0 | |
| 2018 | Allsvenskan | 22 | 0 | 3[a] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 0 | |
| 2019 | Allsvenskan | 23 | 0 | 3[a] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 0 | |
| 2020 | Allsvenskan | 29 | 0 | 3[a] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 0 | |
| 2021 | Allsvenskan | 24 | 0 | 4[a] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 0 | |
| 2022 | Superettan | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 18 | 0 | ||
| 2023 | Superettan | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 22 | 0 | ||
| 2024 | Superettan | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 8 | 0 | ||
| Total | 213 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 247 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 274 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 308 | 0 | ||
Appearances and goals by national team and year
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guinea | 2018 | 3 | 0 |
| 2019 | 6 | 0 | |
| 2020 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2021 | 6 | 0 | |
| 2022 | 6 | 0 | |
| Total | 24 | 0 | |
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