Boubacar Barry (soccer player, 1979)

Copa
Copa, 2012
Personnel
Surname	Boubacar Barry
birthday	December 30, 1979
place of birth	Marcory ,  Ivory Coast
size	181 cm
position	goal
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1999	ASEC Mimosas	17 (1)
2000-2003	Rennes stadium	67 (1)
2003-2007	KSK Beveren	102 (0)
2007-2017	Sporting Lokeren	214 (1)
2017-2019	Oud-Heverlee lions	0 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2000-2015	Ivory Coast	87 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2018-2019	Oud-Heverlee Löwen (Goalkeeping Coach)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of career

Boubacar Barry , also known as Copa , (born December 30, 1979 in Marcory , Abidjan ) is an Ivorian football goalkeeper who is under contract with Sporting Lokeren . He is considered one of the best goalkeepers in Africa.

Career

The goalkeeper began his career at ASEC Mimosas before moving to France for the Stade Rennes in 2000 . There he could n't get past Petr Čech . In 2003 he therefore moved - initially on loan, later as a permanent commitment - to the Belgian club KSK Beveren , where many Ivorians were under contract at the time. Barry's teammates in Beveren included Emmanuel Eboué , Romaric and Gervinho .

In 2007, Barry moved to SC Lokeren within Belgium . There he was voted the best goalkeeper in the league in the 2008/09 season. In 2012 and 2014 he won the Belgian Cup with Lokeren, qualifying for the UEFA Europa League .

In 2017 Barry moved back to Division 1B at Oud-Heverlee Löwen within Belgium . However, it was never used there.

International career

Barry made his debut as an international on June 18, 2000. The qualifying game for the 2002 World Cup against Tunisia ended 2-2.

By June 10, 2006, he played six international matches for the Ivory Coast national team and was also a substitute goalkeeper in the squad for the 2006 World Cup in Germany. In the last group game, the only victory of the Ivorian team, he was in goal instead of Jean-Jacques Tizié . Soon after, he became the national team's first goalkeeper and took part in the 2008 African Cup , the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and the 2012 African Cup. In the latter tournament, he did not concede a goal from the game - in the final, the team Zambia lost on penalties.

Barry also took part in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil with Ivory Coast. At the African Cup of Nations 2015 , he prevented three goals in the shoot-out in the final against Ghana and converted the decisive penalty himself. On March 2, 2015, he announced his retirement from the national team.

Career as a coach

In 2018, while he was officially part of the Oud-Heverlee Löwen squad , he was appointed goalkeeping coach for the Belgians for one year.

successes

society

• Belgian Cup Winner : 2012, 2014

National team

• African champions : 2015

useful information

In the spring of 2009, Copa founded the Académie Copa Football Club in Abidjan and has been the club's president since March 14, 2009.

Web links

Commons : Copa  - collection of images

• Boubacar Barry in the database of weltfussball.de
• Boubacar Barry in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Boubacar Barry in the database of FIFA (English)
• Copa in the database of footballdatabase.eu
• Boubacar Barry in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Boubacar Barry's Facebook profile. February 3, 2015, accessed March 3, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Ivory Coast hero Boubacar Barry retires from internationals. BBC Sport, March 3, 2015, accessed March 3, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Académie Copa Football Club: Aidez Copa dans sa mission ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Footgoal.net (accessed September 21, 2010)