Abdoulaye Kaloga (born 19 December 1959) is a Malian former professional
footballer
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who played as a
midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
.
Career
Kaloga was a left-footed central midfielder. He spent most of his playing career with
Stade Malien, and finished his career with
S.C. Covilhã
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in the
Primeira Divisão
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.
Kaloga played for the
Mali national team, scoring the winning goal in a
1986 African Cup of Nations qualifier against Benin on 18 November 1984. He also played in an unofficial Mali international squad in 1989.
References
External links
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Article on Malian football*
1959 births
Living people
Malian footballers
Association football midfielders
Mali international footballers
Primeira Liga players
Stade Malien players
S.C. Covilhã players
Malian expatriate footballers
Malian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Expatriate footballers in Portugal
21st-century Malian people
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