Bassala Touré (born 21 February 1976) is a Malian former footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a midfielder.

Career

Born in Bamako, Touré began his career with hometown club

Stade Malien Stade Malien is a Malian professional football and sports club based in Bamako. One of the two dominant clubs of Malian football, their eastern Bamako training grounds host other sports as well, including a successful basketball club. Football ...

, before moving to Morocco to play with Kawkab Marrakech. After a spell in Kuwait with

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, Touré spent twelve seasons in Greece, playing for Athinaikos,

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Levadiakos Levadiakos Football Club ( el, ΠΑΕ Λεβαδειακός) is a Greek professional football club that plays in the Super League Greece. Based in Livadeia, Greece, the club was promoted to the Alpha Ethniki, forerunner of the Super League, afte ...

and Ilioupoli. Touré earned 69 caps for Mali between 1994 and 2008, including in seven FIFA World Cup qualifying games. He was also a squad member for the

Africa Cup of Nations The Africa Cup of Nations referred to as AFCON (french: Coupe d'Afrique des Nations, sometimes referred to as CAN, or TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons), and sometimes as African Cup of Nations, is the main internati ...

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2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

and

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

References

1976 births Living people Sportspeople from Bamako Malian footballers Mali international footballers Stade Malien players Kawkab Marrakech players Al-Arabi SC (Kuwait) players Athinaikos F.C. players A.O. Kerkyra players Levadiakos F.C. players Kuwait Premier League players Association football midfielders Malian expatriate footballers Malian expatriate sportspeople in Morocco Expatriate footballers in Morocco Malian expatriate sportspeople in Kuwait Expatriate footballers in Kuwait Malian expatriate sportspeople in Greece Expatriate footballers in Greece 1994 African Cup of Nations players 2002 African Cup of Nations players 2004 African Cup of Nations players 2008 Africa Cup of Nations players 21st-century Malian people {{Mali-footy-bio-stub