Salimata Simporé
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 29 January 1987[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso[1] | ||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Forward[1] | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | FC Minsk | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2005 | Princesses | ||
| 2006 | Las Vegas | ||
| 2015 | Princesses | ||
| 2016 | USFA | ||
| 2019 | Etincelles | ||
| 2020 | Dinamo Minsk | 17 | (19) |
| 2021 | Malabo Kings | 1 | (0) |
| 2022- | FC Minsk | 10 | (14) |
| International career | |||
| 2006–2010 | Equatorial Guinea | (5) | |
| 2007– | Burkina Faso | (13) | |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 8 November 2020.[2] | |||
Salimata Simporé (born 29 January 1987) is a Burkinabé footballer who plays as a forward for Belarusian Premier League club FC Minsk and the Burkina Faso women's national team.
Club career[edit]
Simporé played in Burkina Faso for Princesses in 2005 and 2015, for USFA in 2016 and for Etincelles in 2019.[3][4][5][6][7] In October 2006, Simporé was registered as a player for Equatorial Guinean club Las Vegas.[8]
International career[edit]
Between 2006 and 2010, Burkinabé-born Simporé used to play for Equatorial Guinea as a naturalized player, having integrated the Equatorial Guinea's squads that won the 2008 African Women's Championship and reached the second place in the 2010 African Women's Championship, which allowed Equatorial Guinea to qualify for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. Around April 2011, Simporé was removed from national team by the Italian-born Brazilian coach Marcelo Frigerio, who had recently assumed, just a few months before participating in the World Cup, that Simporé was male.[9] Since then, Simporé was never called-up by Equatorial Guinea.
Simporé was a member of the Burkina Faso women's national football team in 2007 (as their captain), scoring 8 goals,[10] and 2018.[11]
International goals[edit]
Scores and results list Equatorial Guinea's goal tally first
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 November 2008 | Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea |  Congo |
1–0 | 5–2 | 2008 African Women's Championship |
| 2 | 23 May 2010 | Sam Nujoma Stadium, Windhoek, Namibia |  Namibia |
4–1 | 5–1 | 2010 African Women's Championship qualification |
| 3 | 8 November 2010 | Sinaba Stadium, Daveyton, South Africa |  Ghana |
2–1 | 3–1 | 2010 African Women's Championship |
| 4 | 11 November 2010 |  South Africa |
1–0 | |||
| 5 | 3–0 |
Scores and results list Burkina Faso's goal tally first
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 February 2018 | Stade Robert Champroux, Abidjan, Ivory Coast |  Niger |
1–0 | 5–1 | 2018 WAFU Women's Cup |
| 2 | 16 February 2018 | Parc des sports de Treichville, Abidjan, Ivory Coast |  Ivory Coast |
1–1 | 1–1 | |
| 3 | 7 April 2018 | Stade du 4 Août, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso |  Gambia |
2–1 | 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification | |
| 4 | 2–1 | |||||
| 5 | 10 April 2018 | Independence Stadium, Bakau, Gambia | 1–2 | 1–2 |
Gender controversy[edit]
Beyond the mechanism by which Simporé was naturalized by Equatorial Guinea, the main controversy arose regarding whether Simporé was actually a man. In 2015, Frigerio, now a former national team coach for Equatorial Guinea, told the Brazilian press Simporé is in fact a man.[9]
Honors and awards[edit]
National team[edit]
- Equatorial Guinea
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d "Salimata Simporé". FC Dinamo Minsk (in Russian). Retrieved 29 May 2020.
- ^ Salimata Simporé at Soccerway. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
- ^ "Tournoi des 5 nations" (in French). Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ Hien, Ollo Aimé Césaire (1 September 2015). "3e édition du tournoi international de football féminin de Ouagadougou : Entrée triomphale des Princesses" (in French). Sidwaya. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ Hien, Ollo Aimé Césaire (9 September 2015). "3e édition du TIFFO : Princesses, 1re équipe burkinabé dans le palmarès" (in French). Sidwaya. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ Compaoré, Alain Didier (8 August 2016). "Fasofoot: La nuit des lauréats ou la razzia du RCK" (in French). RTB. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ "Football : les soeurs Simporé entre prouesses et soupçons". Studio Yafa (in French). 19 July 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
- ^ "5e CAN féminine: la sélection equato-guinéenne" (in French). RFI. 30 October 2006. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ a b De Matos, José Edgar; Bianchini, Vladimir (11 September 2015). "Técnico do São Paulo conta como barrou dois homens em seleção feminina às vésperas de Copa" [São Paulo coach tells how he banned two men in women's national team on the World Cup eve] (in Portuguese). ESPN. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
- ^ Kabore, Barthélemy (8 September 2007). "Burkina Faso: Finale tournoi international féminin - Etalons # Aiglettes, qui l'emportera ?" (in French). Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ^ Gnamesso, Ablam (7 April 2018). "Can féminine 2018: Salimata Simporé fait gagner le Burkina" (in French). SPORTDROME. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
External links[edit]
- Salimata Simporé at CAF official website
- Salimata Simporé – FIFA competition record (archived)
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- 1987 births
- Living people
- Sex verification in sports
- Burkinabé women's footballers
- Footballers from Ouagadougou
- Women's association football forwards
- Dual internationalists (women's football)
- Burkina Faso women's international footballers
- Equatorial Guinea women's international footballers
- Burkinabé expatriate women's footballers
- Burkinabé expatriates in Belarus
- Expatriate women's footballers in Belarus
- Burkinabé expatriates in Equatorial Guinea
- Expatriate women's footballers in Equatorial Guinea
- 20th-century Burkinabé people
- 21st-century Burkinabé people