Aïssatou Tounkara

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Aïssatou Tounkara (born March 16, 1995 in Paris ) is a French soccer player . The national team player is currently under contract with Atlético Madrid .

In their clubs

Aïssatou Tounkara began as a young girl at SC Buttes-Chaumont , an amateur club from the 19th arrondissement in the far north-east of the capital, with club football. At 13, she moved to the youth department of FF Issy and two years later to Juvisy FCF , for which she played for seven years. As a 15-year-old Tounkara played regularly in the club's U-19s (A youth), and in summer 2011 she also became a B youth national player (see below) . The soccer player, who has since been used in midfield as well as in defense , played her first first division match in November 2011 . In this win against Paris Saint-Germain , trainer Sandrine Mathivet used the talent in the starting line-up and gave her over 70 minutes of match practice. In this season the 16-year-old was two more times in the starting line-up, thus contributing to Juvisys runner. The following year she played ten point games in the women's team; there were even two short appearances in the two semi-finals in the European Cup , in which Juvisy, however, failed at Olympique Lyon .

Aïssatou Tounkara, who is 1.74 m tall and strong in two fights, became the undisputed regular player in the 2014/15 season . By the end of the 2016/17 season, she had made 81 appearances in the first French division, in which she scored three goals. It was contractually bound to Juvisy FCF or, due to the merger, to Paris FC until June 2018 . However, Tounkara's serious injury to the national team in March 2018 (see the section below) forced her to take a break of several months, at the end of which she joined Atlético Madrid , her first club outside of the greater Paris area . At the end of her first year there, she immediately became Spanish champion with the Madrilenians .

Stations

  • SC Buttes-Chaumont (until 2008)
  • FF Issy (2008-2010)
  • Juvisy FCF (2010-2017)
  • Paris FC (2017/18)
  • Atlético Madrid (since 2018)

The national player

Aïssatou Tounkara has been regularly on the pitch for the French junior teams since 2011. She wore the blue national dress in 17 matches of the U-16 / U-17, in 18 games of the U-19 and seven times for the U-20. With these teams, she won the U-17 World Championship in 2012 and the U-19 European Championship the following year . In 2014 Tounkara was third in the U-20 World Championship ; there she also scored her only goal for France in the game for third place against North Korea. However, this was a particularly important one, namely the one that made it 3-2. In 2015 at the Istria Cup and in 2016 she played four games in the B national team, before the new national coach Olivier Echouafni helped her make her debut in France's A national team in the European championship qualifying match against Albania in September 2016 . Almost six months later, Aïssatou Tounkara played her second international match in this circle, in which the French defeated the USA 3-0 at the SheBelieves Cup 2017 .

Echouafni had called up Tounkara in France's 2017 European Championship squad, which also includes other players from the 1994/1995 double year, which is considered particularly promising in France, with whom she has already played regularly in the junior teams , such as Kadidiatou Diani , Claire Lavogez , Clarisse Le Bihan , Griedge Mbock Bathy , Eve Périsset and Sandie Toletti . Under Echouafni's successor Corinne Diacre , it took a good six months before she wore the blue national dress again for the SheBelieves Cup 2018 . There she was in the starting line-up against both the USA and Germany. However, an overly tough commitment by Dzsenifer Marozsán meant that Tounkara had to be carried off the field with a double open tibia and had to be operated on that same night. It wasn't until eight months later that she was back in the A-Eleven; then Aïssatou Tounkara was also appointed to the French 23-man squad for the 2019 World Cup in his own country .

So far she has played a total of 16 full international matches for France. (As of March 10, 2020)

Palmarès

  • U-17 world champion 2012
  • U-19 European Champion 2013
  • U-20 World Cup third in 2014
  • French runner-up 2012
  • Spanish champion 2019

Web links

  • Data sheet on the website of the French Football Association FFF
  • Datasheet at footofeminin.fr

Evidence and Notes

  1. ↑ see the match report from November 6, 2011 at footofeminin.fr
  2. ↑ Article “ Tounkara extended at FCF Juvisy ” from July 5, 2016 at le-republicain.fr
  3. ↑ Match report of the victory over the North Korean U-20 on August 24, 2014 at footofeminin.fr
  4. ↑ compare, for example, the article " Another Finistérienne in blue " from April 1, 2015 at brest.maville.com
  5. ↑ Article “ Historical success against Germany ” from the 8th and “ Aïssatou Tounkara was able to fly back with the team ” from March 9th, 2018, both at footofeminin.fr
personal data
SURNAME Tounkara, Aïssatou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France