Youba Diarra

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• First MLS game - vs Sporting Kansas City, 4/7/2021
• First MLS start - vs Sporting Kansas City, 4/7/2021

2021: Made seven appearances during the regular season, making one start... recorded 119 minutes played. Playoffs: Made his MLS Cup Playoffs debut against Philadelphia Union on Nov. 20 coming on as a substitute in the 116th minute.

PRIOR TO NEW YORK

Competed with both FC Liefering, a second-division club affiliated with Red Bull Salzburg, and FC St. Pauli, a 2. Bundesliga club, during the 2019-20 season ... spent the end of the 2019 with St. Pauli, starting in two of the three matches he appeared in ... after recovering from an injury, he finished out the 2019-20 season at Liefering with six total appearances and two goals in 307 minutes played.

Opened up his professional ledger on loan from RB Salzburg with 1. Wiener Neustädter SC, a second-tier Austrian Bundesliga squad prior to relegation, on March 9, 2018 at 19-years-old ... made 14 starts and recorded one assist in 1,185 minutes played ... was then loaned to TSV Hartberg, an Austrian Bundesliga team, and tallied 10 starts with two assists and 887 minutes played.

ACQUIRED

New York Red Bulls loan Youba Diarra from Red Bull Salzburg on February 26, 2021, pending receipt of P-1 Visa and ITC. Diarra will be with New York through the end of 2021 and will occupy an international spot on the Red Bulls roster.