Football in Burkina Faso

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Football is a national sport in Burkina Faso , the former Upper Volta ,and has been played there since 1935. The game is organized by the Fédération Burkinabè de Football (FBF), which was founded in 1960 for the independence of the former French colony. With the second place at the African Cup of Nations 2013 , the senior national team achieved their greatest success so far; At the 2017 tournament , the team reached 3rd place. In addition, some youth national teams qualified for world championship tournaments. Each year 16 clubs compete for the national championship, of whichÉtoile Filante Ouagadougou and ASFA-Yennenga Ouagadougou have won the most titles so far. The players who have attracted international attention include Moumouni Dagano , one of the world's two most successful goal scorers in the 2010 World Cup qualifying , Charles Kaboré , who played at Olympique Marseille , Alain Traoré (formerly AS Monaco ) and his brother Bertrand Traoré from Olympique Lyon .

History up to independence in 1960

Flag of Upper Volta

Although soccer was already practiced in the British colony of Gold Coast (present-day Ghana ) at the turn of the century , this sport did not emerge until the mid-1930s in what is now Burkina Faso. In 1932, the French colony of Upper Volta was divided among the neighboring colonies , so that the two most important cities, Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso, belonged to the Ivory Coast colony at that time . Bobo-Dioulasso, as a centrally located trading town, meeting point for cultures and new ideas, was the starting point for the development of football in the country; the teams consisted mainly of French military personnel, missionaries, officials of the colonial administration and merchants, workers and employees from the neighboring colonies of the Gold Coast, Guinea , Senegal or French Sudan (today's Mali ). The latter group in particular was not only an important factor in the early development of football in Bobo-Dioulasso - especially those from French Sudan - but also throughout French Africa. In 1935, the Togo-Daho team , which later merged to become Racing Club Bobo-Dioulasso , was founded by the director of the French trading company Compagnie française de la Côte d'Ivoire (CFCI), which on special occasions up to the war mobilization in 1939 against the team the French military base. A Catholic mission team founded by Father Germain Nadal became Joan of Arc Bobo-Dioulasso in 1946. In Ouagadougou and the areas that were added to the division of Upper Volta, Niger and French Sudan, football was practically unknown until the 1940s, even if in Ouagadougou there were occasional games by members of the Association sportive voltaïque (ASV) and a French military team were carried out.

Only after the Second World War and the restoration of Obervolta as a colony in 1947 were associations founded in the capital that had their origins in various cultural, ethnic, religious groups or other organizations of society. Newcomers from Dahome, today's Benin , founded Klub Modèle Sport (later AS Ouagadougou) and the Christian clergyman Ambroise Ouédraogo the team Charles Lwanga , the predecessor of ASFA-Yennenga Ouagadougou . This rapid development of football required the creation of organizational structures; the Frenchman Lucien Sangan founded a football district as part of the sporting administration of French West Africa . For the first time, official games took place on a sports field surrounded by seccos (a kind of straw wall) on the site of today's Ciné Sanyon cinema . The only officially registered club in Ouagadougou at that time was the Modèle Sport team , which had to travel to games in Bobo-Dioulasso, which in turn sent a selection team to a tournament in Abidjan (Ivory Coast) in 1949 , in which the players sometimes had to compete barefoot.

From 1950 on, football in Upper Volta changed from being an elitist pleasure for a few townspeople to becoming a popular sport practiced throughout the country. New clubs were founded in many cities in the territory and in 1950 the football district, based in Bobo-Dioulasso , decided to join the French West African Union, the Ligue d'AOF de Football , the Fédération Française de Football (FFF), the federation of the mother country Belonged to France. Numerous clubs sprang up across the country. The infrastructure developed slowly, however, the opening of the municipal stadiums in Bobo-Dioulasso (1952) and Ouagadougou (depending on the source in 1953 or 1958). While games were mainly played at the local level in the 1940s, there were more intercolonial encounters in the 1950s as part of friendly games or competitions organized by the large trading houses operating in West Africa. In addition, Upper Voltaic clubs took part in the Coupe d'AOF , the cup competition of French West Africa, from 1952 , where they were mostly clearly inferior. It was not until 1958 that ASF Bobo-Dioulasso was able to celebrate some successes at this tournament. One of the great ASF players at the time was Seydou Bamba . In the mid-1950s, Ouagadougou also founded its own district.

With the independence of Upper Volta in 1960, a new era of football began in the country. With the Fédération voltaïque de football (FVF) the country got its own football association, a national team was put together and a national championship and a cup competition were introduced.

Association

→ Main article: Fédération Burkinabè de Football

The Fédération Burkinabè de Football (FBF), founded in 1960 under the name Fédération voltaïque de football (FVF), has been a member of the world association FIFA and the African association CAF since 1964 .

According to the statutes adopted in 2002, the FBF is subordinate to the Ministry of Sports and Leisure ( Ministère des Sports et des Loisirs ) . The highest body is the General Assembly (Assemblée Générale) , which meets once a year and is composed of representatives of the leagues and clubs, honorary members and members of the Executive Office (Bureau Exécutif) . The executive office is elected for a period of four years and consists of the president and three vice-presidents and a general secretary.

The first president of the FVF after independence was Maxime Ouédraogo until his imprisonment in 1963 in connection with his work as labor minister. Under his successor Adrien Tapsoba , the association adopted new statutes and became a member of FIFA and CAF, but after conflicts over the creation of new regional leagues, the association was politically dissolved in 1965 and an interim leadership under Naon Charles Somé was set up, which continued until the overthrow of the President Maurice Yaméogo was in office a year later. For another 14 years, Adrien Tapsoba headed the association again, until it was replaced by a Comité national chargé du football (CNCF) under the leadership of Michel Ilboudo after the coup by Saye Zerbo . Another coup in 1982, which brought Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo to power, put the committee to a quick end. This turbulent phase in the country's history culminated in the 1983 revolution of Thomas Sankara , whose vision of a new society did not want to exclude football and its structures. But a planned tribunal populaire de la révolution , before which the former leaders of the association were supposed to answer, never took place. Under Sankara the name of the country was changed to Burkina Faso , and the presidents of the association at the time of the revolution were Nurukyor Claude Somda and Pierre Guigma . Under Blaise Compaoré , who came to power in 1987, the association, now known as the Fédération Burkinabè de Football , was successively led by Félix Tiemtarboum , Souley Mohamed and Boureima Badini , who resigned voluntarily in 1997, a unique event in the association's history. The reason was the poor performance during qualifying for the 1998 World Cup . His successor Honoré Traoré also announced his resignation in 2002, as did Seydou Diakité in July 2007, who wanted to give the association a fresh start after the national team disappointed in qualifying for the 2008 African Championship . There had also been conflicts with the Ministry of Sport regarding the hosting of international games and budget overdrafts after international travel.

After a transition phase under Didier Ouédraogo, Zambendé Théodore Sawadogo was elected the new association president on January 12, 2008 with 84 to 60 votes against Lieutenant Colonel Yacouba Ouédraogo.

On April 20, 2010, the association announced that the accounts had been blocked and the premises had been confiscated due to high debts, which the local media put at 400 million CFA francs (about 610,000 euros).

Since March 10, 2012, Colonel Sita Sangaré has been Sawadogo's successor. He was elected president of the association with 95.9% of the votes - 203 out of 213 cast. He was re-elected on November 10, 2016 with 221 votes against Bertrand Kaboré, who won 75 votes.

National team

The national team in a qualifying match against Gambia
National team supporter
Otto Pfister was a trainer in Upper Volta at the end of the 1970s

→ Main article: Burkinabe national soccer team

history

The first international match of the Upper Voltaic selection, first put together in 1959, was played on April 13, 1960 as part of the Jeux de la Communauté in Madagascar and ended with a 5-4 victory over Gabon . There were 15 players from six different clubs. In the following years the team took part in tournaments of the Jeux de l'Amitié in Abidjan ( 1961 ) and Dakar ( 1963 ). Upper Volta failed to qualify for the Pan-African Games in 1965 and 1967, took first in the qualifying matches for the African Cup of part, but had to Algeria and Mali concede defeat. In 1966, the French Guy Fabre was the first foreign professional coach to be hired. Under Fabre, the talent search was expanded to the whole country, as the national players had previously only been recruited from the two major cities. For training camps abroad financial efforts have been made, so there was a match in Marseille against Olympique Marseille . The performances were fluctuating, because there was a lack of will to improve the football in the country structurally. Participation, that is, holding friendly matches under the Upper Voltaic flag, was enough for those responsible. Especially in the early years of the reign of President Sangoulé Lamizana (in office from 1966 to 1980), football was rated as subordinate.

In the 1970s, the rise in private entrepreneurship in the country led to increased involvement in football, and politics also set an example with the establishment of a sports ministry in 1971. When they took part in the 1973 Pan-African Games in Lagos ( Nigeria ), Upper Volta lost all three games under coach Bernard Bayala , but according to observers it was considered one of the great revelations of the tournament. During the engagement of the German Otto Pfister , Obervolta was able to take part in an African Championship for the first time in 1978 as a replacement for Ivory Coast and, despite three defeats in the preliminary round, attracted international attention.

It was only with the revolution of Thomas Sankara in 1983 that football began to be massively promoted, which was supposed to serve public health and help the country gain reputation abroad. A new national stadium ( Stade du 4-Août ) for the country now called Burkina Faso was opened in 1984. After Sankara's fall, the national team - in the meantime trained by the German Heinz-Peter Überjahn - was not able to reap the fruits of this support, which was continued under President Blaise Compaoré since 1987 . It was not until 1996 that the qualification for the African Championship was achieved for the first time on its own. National coach Idrissa Traoré (called Saboteur ) became in 1993 , who subsequently rejuvenated the team and professionalized the environment. The poor performance at the tournament in South Africa led to the dismissal of Traoré. Under the Bulgarian Iwan Wutow and the Ghanaian Malik Jabir , the team disappointed during the qualification for the 1998 World Cup, which was also seen as preparation for the 1998 African Cup in their own country. Alarmed by the results, the association signed the French Philippe Troussier , who received great support, to make the home tournament a sporting success.

The tournament turned out to be the team’s greatest success to date, when it was not until the semi-finals that it ended against eventual tournament winner Egypt . Supported by the frenetic audience, the team was able to surpass itself. This success could not be repeated afterwards; 2000 (under the Belgian René Taelman ), 2002 (under Jacques Yaméogo and Pihouri Webonga , who replaced the Argentine Oscar Fulloné shortly before the start of the tournament ) and 2004 (under the French Jean-Paul Rabier ) Burkina Faso was eliminated in the preliminary round and even missed participation in the 2006 and 2008 tournaments .

The team's nickname is Les Étalons ( French "the stallions"), in memory of the stallion of the mythical Mossi princess Yennenga .

Only a few times did the team play against non-African opponents; some test matches against other African teams took place on European soil.

present

National player Jonathan Pitroipa ( Stade Rennes )
Paulo Duarte, national coach for the second time since January 2016

After missing the qualification for the African Cup of Nations in 2006, the team also failed to qualify for the 2008 tournament in Ghana. The recruited coach Idrissa Traoré was dismissed in April 2007 because, in addition to the poor sporting results, there should have been problems between him, the team and the association management, as the association announced at a press conference on June 19, 2007. The association's management decided to appoint Didier Notheaux from France as national coach for the second time since 1998. Nevertheless, the remaining games in qualification could not be won. After Notheaux was released in October 2007, the association only presented the Portuguese Paulo Duarte as his successor in March . After eight wins in eleven games in qualifying for the 2010 African Cup of Nations and the 2010 World Cup , Burkina Faso was sure to take part in the 2010 tournament in Angola , which, like in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea in 2012 , was out after the preliminary round. Duarte was then dismissed from the association. His successor was the Belgian Paul Put , who made it into the finals at the AM 2013 in South Africa. After the poor performance at the 2015 tournament , he was dismissed and replaced by the German Gernot Rohr . Rohr resigned in December of the same year due to the political situation, not for sporting reasons. Paulo Duarte then became national coach of Burkina Faso for the second time and was able to celebrate the country's second greatest success with third place at the 2017 African Cup of Nations in Gabon,

The national team ranks 56th in the current FIFA world rankings (March 2018) and is ninth among the African teams.

The official outfitter of the national team has been the sporting goods manufacturer Kappa since 2015 ; Puma was an outfitter from 2010, Airness from 2006. The training ground is the Center omnisport des Étalons (COMET) in the Ouaga 2000 district .

Current national players

The following players were in the squad for the friendly against Kosovo on March 27, 2018: Bakary Koné , Steeve Yago , Préjuce Nakoulma , Charles Kaboré , Bertrand Traoré , Adama Guira , Jonathan Pitroipa , Aristide Bancé , Patrick Malo , Daouda Diakité , Hervé Koffi , Dylan Ouédraogo , Issoufou Dayo , Edmond Tapsoba , Yacouba Coulibaly , Jean-Noël Lingani , Valentin Zoungrana , Ousmane Junior Sylla , Bryan Dabo , Zakaria Sanogo , Cyrille Bayala , Hassan Bandé , Banou Diawara , Bassirou Ouédraogo

Étalons locaux

The Étalons locaux were created as part of the African Nations Cup , which has been held since 2009 , a tournament for national teams that only consist of players active in the respective local leagues . Her trainer has been Idrissa Traoré since 2015. Your games have been rated as A internationals for some time.

Club competitions

Derby between EFO and ASFA-Y
Stade Omnisports de Bobo-Dioulasso

In contrast to the national team, whose games are well attended and followed with passion, the national club competitions suffer from a loss of importance and a lack of interest from the Burkinabe public, which is mainly due to the poor quality of the club teams. 20 or 30 years ago the great duels - like that of arch rivals Étoile Filante Ouagadougou and ASFA-Yennenga Ouagadougou - were events that occupied the whole country for weeks, today they are hardly noticed and Burkinabe teams are no longer successful in the African Cup. Observers see inadequate training of youth players and a lack of identification with the clubs as the cause of the deterioration in the quality of the championship.

Since the Ouagadougou clubs have their roots in individual districts, the capital city derbies are still perceived as district duels today. Étoile Filante has its roots in the northeast of the city ( Dapoya , Paspanga , Koulouba ), ASFA-Yennenga in the southwest ( Bilbalogho , Gounghin , Cissin ) and US Ouagadougou comes from Larlé . Regarding sporting rivalries, the founder of EFO, Oumar Koanda, said: "If ASFA invites you to have fun, you have to appear with a machete!" ("Si l'ASFA t'invite à s'amuser, il faut aller avec une machette! ») .

The club competitions are organized by the Ligue Nationale de Football (LNF), which is subordinate to the association .

Burkinabe championship

ASF: first champion 1961

→ Main article: Première Division

The first Upper Voltaic champion was ASF Bobo-Dioulasso in 1961 , who were able to repeat this success in the following two years. As a result, teams from Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso made the championship among themselves. In 1974, by decision of the minister Félix Tiemtarboum, a championship based on regional selections was created, which should play for the national title in place of club teams. The aim was to join forces in order to be more successful in the continental club competitions. This decision sparked polemics and divided public opinion. With seven titles in a row, the Silures Bobo-Dioulasso were more successful than the rival selection Kadiogo Club Ouagadougou . With some successes, this system also led to frustration among those responsible for the individual clubs and had no future. In 1981 and 1982 there were no games due to political turbulence. The dominant clubs in the following years were first Étoile Filante Ouagadougou and later ASFA-Yennenga Ouagadougou. The record champion is Étoile Filante with twelve titles, the current title holder in 2017 is RC Kadiogo Ouagadougou .

Problems

Game operations are in deficit and are subsidized by the Ministry of Sports, for example the costs of traveling to games are covered. Since sponsorship by tobacco companies was banned in Burkina Faso , the financial situation has worsened. The Manufacture burkinabè de cigarettes (MABUCIG) with the Excellence cigarette brand , as a sponsor, paid the association 200 million CFA francs (around 300,000 euros) annually from 1999. While the players of Étoile Filante earn between 75,000 and 250,000 CFA francs (between 115 and 380 euros), others only get 30,000 CFA francs (about 46 euros) and still others are pure amateurs. Since the clubs have no sponsors, the club officials pay the costs out of their own pocket. The game was interrupted on April 25, 2010 after the association had reported its insolvency and debts a few days earlier, which the local media put at around 610,000 euros. After the state agreed to finance the game, the association announced the continuation of the championship.

CF Ouagadougou versus ASF Bobo-Dioulasso

The cup quarter-final match between Racing Club Bobo-Dioulasso and RC Kadiogo Ouagadougou on July 18, 2007 highlighted the problem of age information for Burkinabe players. As a player from RCK had given his age incorrectly, the athletic loser RCB won the game at the green table. According to Amado Traoré (President of RC Kadiogo) "99.99% of the players give a fake age". A complicating factor is that in Burkina Faso the date of birth is often unknown, as the organized reporting system does not record all residents and dates of birth traditionally have little meaning for the population.

At the end of the 2006/07 season there were violent incidents when, during the game between US Yatenga Ouahigouya and US Ouagadougou, supporters of the home team provoked the interruption of the game by throwing objects. Security forces used tear gas to deal with the situation. Several people were injured, including one seriously. On the last day of the match, fans and officials of Santos FC Ouagadougou physically attacked the referee. After a 15-minute break, during which the referee received medical attention, the game was able to continue. With the 1: 2 defeat the relegation of Santos was sealed.

On the last day of the 2001/02 season , the result of the game between Olympic Nahouri from Pô and Santos FC was agreed in favor of Pô . The association rated the game as a defeat for both clubs and the general secretaries of the clubs involved were suspended for a year. Pô was also involved in forged player passport affairs.

In order to level the gap between clubs from the two dominant cities and the rest of the country (in 2005/06 , eight of the 14 top division clubs came from Ouagadougou and four from Bobo-Dioulasso), the association decided to reduce the number of clubs from Ouagadougou to five and that of the To limit clubs from Bobo-Dioulasso to three; since 2007, in addition to the regular relegated teams at the bottom of the table, the worst-placed club from Ouagadougou has also been relegated. The first club to be affected by this new rule was Santos FC in tenth place in the 2006/07 season, and AS-SONABEL Ouagadougou fell victim to this rule the following year . The regulation has been criticized many times, led to controversy regarding the promotion and participation in relegation games of successors from the second division, but should be maintained at least until 2011 and then checked. With the reforms for the 2011/12 season, this regulation was lifted. Unclear eligibility of players in the Deuxième Division and thus the ratings of individual games led to controversies which were resolved by a compromise; all six participants in the promotion round were automatically promoted to the first division.

Première Division 2017/18

Player from RC Kadiogo (2007/08)

16 teams play for the championship title.

societies
ASFA-Yennenga Ouagadougou
Santos FC Ouagadougou
Salitas FC (Ouagadougou)
USFA Ouagadougou
RC Kadiogo Ouagadougou
US Ouagadougou
Étoile Filante Ouagadougou
AS-SONABEL Ouagadougou
Rahimo FC (Ouagadougou)
AS Police (Ouagadougou)
AJE Bobo-Dioulasso
ASF Bobo-Dioulasso
Racing Club Bobo-Dioulasso
Bobo Sports Bobo Dioulasso
USCO Banfora
SC Majestic ( Saponé )

Deuxième Division 2017/18

24 teams play in two groups of twelve participants each.

Participants in the Deuxiéme Division in the 2017/18 season are:

Group A Group B
FAC (Ouagadougou) Jeunesse Club Bobo-Dioulasso
KOZAF (Ouagadougou) Royal FC (Bobo Dioulasso)
CFFEB (Ouagadougou) AFAC (Bobo Dioulasso)
Léopards Saint-Camille (Ouagadougou) AS-Maya Bobo-Dioulasso
9 Athletic (Ouagadougou) Kiko FC Bobo-Dioulasso
Canon du Sud (Ouagadougou) FALEM (Ouahigouya)
AS Ouagadougou US Yatenga Ouahigouya
FABAO Espoir (Ouagadougou) AS Eco (Ouahigouya)
AS Douanes (Ouagadougou) BPS Koudougou
AS Koupéla ASEC Koudougou
Étoile Africaine Ziniaré IFFA ( Matourkou )
Téma-Bokin Bafudji FC ( Gaoua )

Regional leagues

The base is formed by the leagues of the eleven regional associations Center, Center-Est, Center-Ouest, Center-Nord, Nord, Est, Nazinon, Ouest, Boucle du Mouhoun, Sud-Ouest and Sahel. The regional leagues are in turn divided into districts. In 2008 there were a total of 118 football clubs, 31 in the Center administrative region and 27 in Sud-Ouest .

Burkinabe Cup competitions

There is a cup competition ( Coupe du Faso ) , in which lower-class teams and teams not affiliated with the association also take part. 32 qualified teams compete for the title every year. The first cup winner was Racing Club Bobo-Dioulasso in 1961 . After winning in 2017 , Étoile Filante is the reigning title holder.

Masters and cup winners hold a Supercup ( Super Coupe , Coupe de l'AJSB ) every year .

The Coupe des Leaders was held before each season from 1989 to 2002 ; The first four teams of the championship and the semi-finals of the cup competition of the previous season were eligible to participate. This competition, sponsored by the Excellence cigarette brand , had to be discontinued when the sponsorship of sporting events by tobacco companies was banned in Burkina Faso.

International club competitions

Burkinabe teams rarely achieve success in the African Cup. Outstanding is the entry of Kadiogo Club Ouagadougou into the semi-finals of the 1978 African Cup Winners' Cup , when Kadiogo was able to eliminate Zamalek Cairo from Egypt in the quarter-finals and failed in the semi-finals at the eventual tournament winner Horoya AC ( Conakry , Guinea ). Kadiogo was trained by Otto Pfister at the time. In the same year , Master Silures Bobo-Dioulasso made it to the quarter-finals of the African Cup of National Champions , losing to the Guinean representative Hafia FC (Conakry). According to sports journalists and inferior coaches, the team deserved to be in the finals this year.

Youth football

In the 1960s, the games enjoyed great interest from student teams. The teams of the two high schools Lycée Philippe Zinda Kaboré (Ouagadougou) and Lycée Ouezzin Coulibaly (Bobo-Dioulasso) fought “legendary” duels and were the source of young players for the clubs.

The Union des sports scolaires et universitaires du Burkina Faso (USSU-BF) annually organizes championships for schoolchildren and students in different age groups.

The first success of a Burkinabe national youth team was when the U-17 juniors ( Étalons cadets ) qualified for the 1999 World Cup in New Zealand . But the team did not get beyond the group stage. At the next tournament in 2001 in Trinidad and Tobago , however, there was a great success when Argentina could be defeated in the game for 3rd place. Outstanding players were Wilfried Sanou and Madi Panandétiguiri . The U-20 national team ( Étalons juniors ) qualified two years later for the 2003 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates and made it to the round of 16 there. The greatest success of a youth team from Burkina Faso came under coach Rui Vieira with winning the title at the 2011 U-17 African Cup in Rwanda .

The general assembly of the national football federation forms a committee dedicated to youth football. There are four age groups in the youth teams: pupilles (0–13), minimes (13–15), cadets (15–17) and juniors (17–20).

The trainer of the U-20 team until 2010 was the German Rainer Willfeld .

Since the association had failed to register the actually athletically qualified Olympic team (U 23) in time for the 2015 African Games , it was disqualified by the African association. The African Games count as a qualifying tournament for the 2016 Summer Olympics .

From 2003 national championships in youth football were held.

The Planète Champion International youth academy , which opened in 1998 with a charity game in which, among others, President Blaise Compaoré and former stars Roger Milla ( Cameroon ) and Abédi Pelé ( Ghana ) took part, was closed in 2006. Some of today's national players were trained by Planète Champion. The Academy's problems had various causes; too few talents could be lucratively placed abroad and some players secretly left without the academy being able to benefit from them. In addition, the Planète Champion team, which had participated in Division 2 play, was prohibited from being promoted to Division 1 despite athletic qualifications. The French founder Philippe Ezri ruled out a reopening on August 22, 2007.

Other football schools include the Center de formation de football Naaba-Kango in Ouahigouya founded by Noufou Ouédraogo , the Kada School International by Jonathan Pitroipa, the Kassoum Ouédraogo Zico Académie Football (KOZAF) and the Center de formation de football Saint-Étienne in Bobo- Dioulasso.

Women's soccer

In 2003 a national championship for women was held for the first time . Of the ten clubs, Princesses FC Kadiogo from Ouagadougou was able to prevail and win the title. Game operations had to be suspended at the end of 2006 due to financial problems. The association plans to continue to support women's football.

Gazelles FC from Ouagadougou won the first edition of the national cup competition Coupe du Faso on December 11, 2011 2-0 against Princesses FC Kadiogo.

A national team for women has existed since 2007. They played their first competitive games in 2014 when they qualified for the 2014 African Championship . Burkina Faso defeated Ghana twice with 0: 3.

The U-20 team takes part in qualifying for the 2016 World Cup.

Other aspects

National stadium Stade du 4-Août
The Stade Dr Issoufou Joseph Conombo

The first stadiums of Ouagadougou ( Stade Dr Issoufou Joseph Conombo , formerly Stade Municipal de Ouagadougou ) and Bobo-Dioulasso ( Stade Wobi ) were built in the 1950s. The Stade du 4-Août national stadium opened in 1984 and is now the home of the national team. The Stade Omnisports de Bobo-Dioulasso was built for the 1998 African Cup of Nations . There are a number of smaller stages.

Television has been reporting on national football since its early days; Sports Volta on the state broadcaster Volta-vision was the first broadcast. Today the 30-minute magazine des sports of RTB reports on football events, among other things. After independence, the football magazine Volta Foot appeared , today there are the sports magazines Sidwaya Sport , Sport 2000 and Sport Plus . For the 2009/10 season, RTB began broadcasting first division games that will be played in Ouagadougou. This is done in cooperation with the French football marketing company IFAP Sports .

As part of the FIFA Goal Program , a new association building, a training center for the various national teams and a headquarters for the regional leagues were built in five projects (2001, 2006, 2009, 2010 and 2013). The Stade Wobi in Bobo-Dioulasso was also equipped with an artificial turf field and floodlights. With the support of FIFA, the Stade Municipal de Ouagadougou was also equipped with artificial turf.

After disagreements concerning the Comité nationale de soutien aux Étalons (CNSE), the “fan club” of the national team, the Union nationale des supporters des Étalons (UNSE) was founded in 2006 by Sports Minister Jean-Pierre Palm . It should support the national teams of all sports in the country. Involved in the Union and committed, among others, large entrepreneurs such as Oumarou Kanazoé (†), Georges Fadoul and Joseph Hage.

literature

  • Bassirou Sanogo: La Longue Marche du football burkinabè. Survol historique 1935–1998. Sidwaya, Ouagadougou 1998

Web links

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