Abdoulaye Traoré (football player, 1967)

Ben Badi
Personnel
Surname	Abdoulaye Traoré
birthday	March 4, 1967 or February 21, 1967
place of birth	Treichville , Abidjan ,  Ivory Coast
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1980-1984	Stella Club Adjamé
1985	ASEC Abidjan
1985-1986	FC Metz
1986-1987	Sporting Braga	6 (0)
1987-1988	FC Sète
1988-1989	Sporting Toulon
1989-1995	ASEC Abidjan
1995-2001	Al-Urooba Jof
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1984-1996	Ivory Coast
1 Only league games are given.

Abdoulaye Traoré (born March 4, 1967 or February 21, 1967 in Treichville , Abidjan ), called Ben Badi , is a former soccer player from the Ivory Coast.

Career

society

In his home country he played street football, where he was noticed by the talent scouts of the Stella Club Adjamé , where he played from 1980 to 1984. In 1985 he moved to ASEC Abidjan , but that period lasted only six months before he moved to one of the strongest European leagues at FC Metz in France . Two years later he moved to Portugal to Sporting Braga . Traoré made his debut in the Primeira Divisão on September 7, 1986 against Rio Ave FC . The then Braga coach Humberto Coelho changed his new signing in the half-time break for Sérgio Saucedo . In total, he came to six appearances for the Portuguese club in the first half of the season. In the second half of the season, Traoré was no longer considered. After a year he returned to France and signed with FC Sète , a year later Traoré then transferred to Sporting Toulon . But Traoré struggled to assert himself, so in 1989 he returned to the Ivory Coast to join ASEC Abidjan. Here he shone and very quickly became the crowd favorite of the yellow and black. He describes his fondest memory of that time as follows: " Asante Kotoko beat us 2-1 in Abidjan. And to qualify for the semi-finals of the African Champions League, we had to beat them, whatever the cost. And On that day I scored two decisive goals that secured ASEC victory. We defeated Kotoko 3-2. On that day, Philippe Troussier carried me around in triumph. I will never forget this picture. "

Before Traoré ended his active career in 2001, he moved to Saudi Arabia in 1995 .

National team

Traoré has been appointed to the squad of the Ivorian national team several times . As early as 1984 he took part in qualifying games for the World Cup. In 1986 the offensive player went to a soccer tournament for the first time and was in the Ivorian team at the Africa Cup . There the team secured third place, with Traoré being the second best shooter of the competition behind Roger Milla with three goals. In 1988, coach Jean-Pierre Guédé appointed him to the squad for the 1988 African Cup of Nations . The Ivory Coast was eliminated from the tournament after the preliminary round. The attacker never missed a minute of his team, with one goal each in the first game against Algeria and in the second game against Zaire . The Ivory Coast didn't lose a game, but they couldn't win any. Traoré was the only player on his team to score goals. With his two goals he was next to Lakhdar Belloumi , Gamal Abdel El Hamid and Roger Milla top scorer of the competition. Two years later he was part of the squad that took part in the 1990 African Cup of Nations. Weider missed the team to survive the group stage. Although they won the opening game against Egypt 3-1, with Traoré contributing two goals, further goals or points could not be booked. In the second game against Algeria , the striker received the red card and thus missed his team's last group game. In 1992 he was in the squad of the team that took part in the 1992 King Fahd Cup , the forerunner of the Confederations Cup . Out of four teams, in addition to the Ivory Coast, the USA , Argentina and host Saudi Arabia also took part, the African team came in last. In the 2: 5 in the game for third place against the USA, Traoré managed to score a 1: 1 equalizer. Overall, the attacker did not miss a minute of the tournament. Previously, in the same year, Traoré was nominated for the third time for the African Championship in Senegal . After a win and a draw in Group C of the competition, Ivory Coast managed to qualify for the knockout phase. The Ivorian team then reached the final of the tournament via Zambia and Cameroon . There the Ivory Coast prevailed after a 0-0 with 11:10 on penalties against Ghana . Traoré never missed a game of his team. In the final match against Ghana, the striker was substituted for Lucien Kouadio in extra time in the 101st minute . In 1994 Traoré was also nominated for the defending champion's team. The attacker gets a hit in four out of five possible games. Two years later, Traoré was nominated for an AM for the last time. In the team of the French coach Pierre Pleimelding , he was used in all three preliminary round matches after being substituted on. However, this time he did not manage to hit one.

successes

society

• Ivorian championship with ASEC Abidjan: 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995
• Ivorian Cup Winner: 1990, 1995

National team

• 3rd place in the African Championship: 1986
• African champions : 1992

Individually

• Top scorer of the African Cup of Nations 1988 (2nd goals)

Trivia

In 2000, Traoré was part of an African team that played against a European team with former players such as Thomas Ravelli , Guido Buchwald , Frank Rijkaard and Michael Laudrup . Traoré played alongside African football personalities such as Thomas N'Kono , Abédi Pelé , Roger Milla and Abdul Razak . The match ended 4-0 for the European selection.

Web links

• Abdoulaye Traoré in the database of weltfussball.de
• Abdoulaye Traore in the database of FIFA (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview with Abdoulaye Traoré ( memento from October 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on babifoot.net
2. ^ Abdoulaye Traoré in the database of weltfussball.de
3. ↑ Match report: Sporting Braga - Rio Ave FC 2: 1 on foradejogo.net
4. ↑ Deployments 1986/87: Abdoulaye Traoré on foradejogo.net
5. ↑ Tournament statistics of the African Championship 1988 on rsssf.com
6. ↑ Tournament statistics of the 1990 African Cup of Nations on rsssf.com
7. ↑ Ivorian contingent for the King Fahd Cup 1992 ( Memento from August 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on fifa.com
8. ↑ Match report: Argentina - Ivory Coast 4: 0 (2: 0) ( Memento from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on fifa.com
9. ↑ Match report: USA - Ivory Coast 5: 2 (2: 1) ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on fifa.com
10. ↑ Squad of the Ivorian national soccer team at the 1992 African Cup of Nations on rsssf.com
11. ↑ Squad of the Ivorian national football team at the 1994 African Championship on weltfussball.de
12. ↑ Squad of the Ivorian national football team at the 1996 African Cup of Nations on weltfussball.de
13. ↑ Abdoulaye Traoré: Appearances at the 1996 African Cup of Nations on weltfussball.de
14. ↑ The 3rd Meridian Cup 2001. January 27th - February 2nd 2001, Bari Italy. The SportScheduler, 2003, archived from the original on August 15, 2004 ; accessed on September 28, 2013 (English).