Koko Ange Mariette Christelle N'Guessan (born 18 November 1990) is an Ivorian

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who plays for Primera División club UDG Tenerife. She was part of the Ivory Coast squad for the

2015 FIFA Women's World Cup The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup was the seventh FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international soccer championship contested by the women's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament was hosted by Canada for the ...

. N'Guessan came to notice by scoring against

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in a 3–1 defeat at the World Cup. She joined Lithuanian club

Gintra Universitetas FC Gintra is a Lithuanian women's football club from Šiauliai. It is the team of the local Šiauliai University. History The club plays in the highest Lithuanian league, the A Lyga and has won 13 championships so far. The fourth one in 2005 a ...

for the

2015–16 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round The 2015–16 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round was played on 11, 13 and 16 August 2015. A total of 32 teams competed in the qualifying round to decide eight of the 32 places in the knockout phase of the 2015–16 UEFA Women's Champions ...

, then finished the season in Cyprus with Anorthosis Famagusta, scoring 17 goals in 13 league games. She signed for

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in August 2016.

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at FIF 1990 births Living people Ivorian women's footballers Ivory Coast women's international footballers Place of birth missing (living people) Women's association football forwards 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players Gintra Universitetas players Liga F players FC Barcelona Femení players UD Granadilla Tenerife players Ivorian expatriate women's footballers Ivorian expatriates in Lithuania Expatriate women's footballers in Lithuania Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Expatriate women's footballers in Cyprus Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate women's footballers in Spain {{IvoryCoast-women-footy-bio-stub

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