Boureima Maïga (born November 15, 1983 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 (r ...

) is a Burkinabé

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player who currently plays for Lance FC de Réo.

Career

Maïga began his career with Planète Champion. In July 2002 he signed a contract with

KSC Lokeren Koninklijke Sporting Club Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen (; often simply called Sporting Lokeren or Lokeren) was a Belgian professional football club based in the city of Lokeren, in the province of East Flanders. The club was founded in 1923 but ce ...

. He spent two years with

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, and left in the summer of 2004 to go back to Planète Champion. After only one year with his youth club Planète Champion, he signed in summer 2006 with KRC Waregem. He played 20 games for K. Racing Waregem, then left the club to sign with

K.V. Oostende Koninklijke Voetbalclub Oostende, also called KV Oostende () or KVO, is a Belgian football club from the city of Ostend, West Flanders in Belgium. The team was founded in 1904 as ''VG Oostende'' and has the matricule No. 31. History In 1911, an ...

on 6 August 2007. Maïga left after one year and nineteen games, who scores one goal Oostende and moved to KMSK Deinze.

International career

He was a member of the Burkinabé

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team in

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and

1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship The 1999 FIFA U-16 World Championship, the eighth edition of the tournament, was held in the cities of Auckland, Christchurch, Napier, and Dunedin in New Zealand between 10 and 27 November 1999. Players born after 1 January 1982 could participate ...

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. Maïga is member for the Les Etalons and holds three games there.

Personal life

Maïga, who was born

in Burkina Faso, holds a

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passport.Bureima Maiga knokte zich naar een stek in de basisploeg.
on www.kvo.be

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maiga, Boureima 1983 births Living people Burkinabé footballers Men's association football midfielders Burkina Faso men's international footballers K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen players K.V. Oostende players K.M.S.K. Deinze players Belgian Pro League players Challenger Pro League players Burkinabé expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Belgium People from Bobo-Dioulasso 21st-century Burkinabé people