Adama Guira (born 24 April 1988) is a Burkinabé professional

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who plays as a

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for Chinese club Qingdao Hainiu and the Burkina Faso national team.

Club career

Born in

Bobo-Dioulasso Bobo-Dioulasso is a city in Burkina Faso with a population of 904,920 (); it is the second-largest city in the country, after Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital. The name means "home of the Bobo-Dioula". The local Bobo-speaking population (re ...

, Guira has played club football in Burkina Faso, Spain, Sweden, Moldova and Denmark for RC Bobo Dioulasso,

Gavà Gavà () is a municipality in the Baix Llobregat comarca, in the province of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. It borders the coast of the Mediterranean Sea between Viladecans and Castelldefels. Gavà has a beach and two population centers: the cit ...

Alicante Alicante ( ca-valencia, Alacant) is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city was 337,482 , the second-largest in t ...

, Logroñés, Djurgården,

Dacia Chișinău Dacia (, ; ) was the land inhabited by the Dacians, its core in Transylvania, stretching to the Danube in the south, the Black Sea in the east, and the Tisza in the west. The Carpathian Mountains were located in the middle of Dacia. It thus r ...

and

SønderjyskE SønderjyskE is a Danish sport corporation. They have a football team (SønderjyskE Fodbold, based in Haderslev), two handball teams (SønderjyskE Håndbold, one male based in Sønderborg, one female based in Aabenraa) and an ice hockey team (S ...

. In July 2017, Guira returned to Denmark and joined AGF. He left the club two years later, to join Hong Kong Premier League club R&F. On 14 October 2020, Guira left the club after his club's withdrawal from the HKPL in the new season. On 6 February 2021, Guira returned to

in Denmark, on a deal for the rest of the season. He left the club again at the end of the contract. He then signed for Racing Rioja.

International career

Guira made his international debut for

Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the ...

in 2010. He was selected as part of Burkina Faso's preliminary squad for the

2015 Africa Cup of Nations The 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, known as the Orange Africa Cup of Nations, Equatorial Guinea 2015 for sponsorship reasons, was the 30th staging of the Africa Cup of Nations, the international men's football championship of Africa. It was orga ...

Honors

Burkina Faso *

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bronze:

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References

1988 births Living people Sportspeople from Bobo-Dioulasso Burkinabé men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Burkina Faso men's international footballers 2015 Africa Cup of Nations players 2017 Africa Cup of Nations players 2021 Africa Cup of Nations players Segunda División B players Allsvenskan players Danish Superliga players Ligue 2 players Hong Kong Premier League players RC Bobo Dioulasso players CF Gavà players Alicante CF footballers UD Logroñés players Djurgårdens IF Fotboll players FC Dacia Chișinău players Sønderjyske Fodbold players RC Lens players Aarhus Gymnastikforening players R&F (Hong Kong) players Racing Rioja CF players Burkinabé expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden Expatriate men's footballers in Moldova Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark Expatriate men's footballers in Hong Kong Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in Spain Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in Moldova Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in Denmark Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in Hong Kong Moldovan Super Liga players 21st-century Burkinabé people Qingdao Hainiu F.C. (1990) players Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in China Expatriate men's footballers in China {{BurkinaFaso-footy-bio-stub