Abdoulaye Traoré (Ivorian footballer)

Abdoulaye Traoré (* March 4, 1967 or February 21, 1967 in Treichville, Abidjan ), known as Ben Badi, is a former football player of Ivory Coast.

  • 2.1 club
  • 2.2 national team
  • 2.3 Custom

Career

Association

In his home, he played street football, in which he noticed the talent scouts of the Stella Club Adjamé, in which he played from 1980 to 1984. In 1985 he moved to ASEC Abidjan, but this period lasted only six months until he moved to one of the strongest leagues in Europe to FC Metz in France. Two years later he moved to Portugal for Sporting Braga. His debut in the Primeira Divisão gave Traoré on September 7, 1986 game against Rio Ave FC. The then - coach Humberto Coelho Braga changed his signing into the half time break for Sergio Saucedo. Overall, he came into the first round to six appearances for the Portuguese club. In the second half Traoré is no longer included. After a year he returned to France and signed for FC Sète, a year later Traoré transferred then to Sporting Toulon. Yet Traore struggled to assert themselves, and so in 1989 he went back to the Ivory Coast to ASEC Abidjan. Here he excelled and quickly became a crowd favorite of yellow and black. His best memory of this time he describes as follows:. " Asante Kotoko had beaten us in Abidjan with 2:1 And to qualify for the semi-finals of the African Champions League, we had to beat, no matter what the cost And. on that day I scored two crucial goals that have ASEC secured the victory. Kotoko We have defeated 3-2. on this day Philippe Troussier has carried around me in triumph., I 'll forget this ever again. "

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

National

Traoré was called several times in the squad of the Ivorian national team. In 1984 he took part in qualifying matches for the World Cup. In 1986, the offensive player the first time in a football tournament and was at the African Nations Cup in the Ivorian team. There, the team secured the third place, with Traoré behind Roger Milla with three hits second best scorer of the competition. 1988 he was appointed coach Jean -Pierre Guédé in the squad for the African Cup of Nations 1988. Ivory Coast already retired from after the first round of the tournament. The attacker missed a minute of his team, with him against Zaire each scored a goal in the first match against Algeria, in the second game. Although the Ivory Coast did not lose a game, but also won none. Traoré was the only player of his team, the goals scored. With his two goals, he was next to Lakhdar Belloumi, Gamal Abdel El Hamid and Roger Milla scorer of the competition. Two years later he was part of the contingent of the team that took part in the African Cup of Nations 1990. Weider missed the team to survive the group stage. Although it won the opening match against Egypt 3-1, with Traoré contributed two hits, but more goals or points could not be posted. In the second game against Algeria striker received the red card and thus missed the last group game of his team. In 1992, he was then in the squad of the team at the King Fahd Cup in 1992, the forerunner to the Confederations Cup, also took part. Of the four teams, in addition to the Cote d'Ivoire and the United States, Argentina and hosts Saudi Arabia took part, took the African team the last rank. When 2:5 in the match for third place against the U.S. Traoré scored a goal for the interim it 1-1. Overall, the attacker missed a minute of the tournament. Previously, the same year, Traoré was nominated for the third time for the African Cup of Nations in Senegal. After a win and a draw in Group C of the competition made ​​it the Ivory Coast to qualify for the knockout phase. About Zambia and Cameroon, the Ivory Coast team then moved finally to the final one of the tournament. There, the Ivory Coast began after a 0-0 with 11:10 in the penalty shootout against Ghana. Traoré missed a match of his team. In the final match against Ghana striker was substituted in extra time in the 101st minute, against Lucien Kouadio. In 1994 Traoré was nominated for the Team of the titleholder. Here come the attacker is a hit in four of five games. Two years later, Traoré was last nominated for an AM. In the team from the French coach Pierre Pleimelding he came in all three group games after Substitutes used. A hit not succeed this time, however.

Achievements

Association

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

National

  • 3rd African Cup of Nations: 1986
  • African champions: 1992

Individually

  • Scorer in the African Cup of Nations 1988 ( 2 goals)

Trivia

In 2000, Traoré was the team of Africa - selection that ran against a European team with former players such as Thomas Ravelli, Guido Buchwald, Frank Rijkaard and Michael Laudrup. Traoré played with African Fußballpersönlickeiten like Thomas N'Kono, Abédi Pele, Roger Milla and Abdul Razak. The match ends 4-0 for European selection.

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