Carl Sainté
Squad number 6 · El Paso Locomotive FC
Their 2026 World Cup
Carl Sainté travelled to the 2026 World Cup with Haiti, wearing number 6, without ever getting on the pitch. His side played 3 matches (3 defeats) and bowed out in the group stage (Group C), beaten by Morocco 4-2.
Midfield went to J. Bellegarde (3 matches, 261′) and D. Jean-Jacques (3 matches, 260′).
Another 6 players in the Haiti squad ended up the same way, without a single minute. The full run is on the Haiti team page.
Biography
Carl Fred Sainté (born 9 August 2002) is a Haitian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for USL Championship club El Paso Locomotive and the Haiti national team.
Club career Sainté is a youth product of the Haitian clubs AGE-Foot, ASGG, and finally Violette who he joined in 2019. He began his senior career with Violette and helped them win the 2020–21 Ligue Haïtienne. He transferred to the American club New Mexico United on 22 December 2021. He debuted with New Mexico United in a 2–0 USL Championship win over Las Vegas Lights on 14 March 2022, coming on as a late sub in the 87th minute. FC Dallas loaned Sainté to Phoenix Rising FC until the end of the season on 3 January 2025. On 20 November, after his return to FC Dallas, the team announced that they had declined his contract option. On 19 December 2025, Sainté signed with El Paso Locomotive.
International career Sainté represented the Haiti U17s at the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup. He was called up to represent the senior Haiti national team in March 2022.
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · text adapted from the article.
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