Mustapha Carayol
Gambian association football player
Mustapha Soon Carayol (born 4 September 1988) is a Gambian professional footballer who plays as a winger for National League North club Peterborough Sports. He also represented the Gambia national team.
He has notably played in the EFL Championship for Middlesbrough, Brighton & Hove Albion, Huddersfield Town, Leeds United, Nottingham Forest and Ipswich Town. He also played in Cyprus and Turkey for Apollon Limassol and Adana Demirspor and in the Football League for Milton Keynes Dons, Torquay United, Lincoln City, Bristol Rovers, Gillingham and Burton Albion, as well as several spells with non-league clubs Crawley Town and Kettering Town.
Club career
Early career
Born in Banjul, Carayol began his career as a youth player with Swindon Town and when Paul Ince moved from Swindon to become manager of Macclesfield Town in 2006 he took Carayol with him as a trainee. At the time he was quoted as saying "I'm happy to clean the whole first team's boots all season for this opportunity".
When Ince became manager of Milton Keynes Dons in 2007, he signed Carayol again, offering him his first professional contract. He made his first team debut for MK Dons against Sheffield United in the League Cup on 28 August 2007 and went on to appear in one further cup game.
In October 2007, Carayol joined Crawley Town on loan to gain further first team experience. It came after Carayol played against them at the Crawley training ground the week before.
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