Kouakou Hervé Koffi (born 16 October 1996) is a Burkinabe professional

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who plays as a

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for Belgian club

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and the Burkina Faso national team.

Club career

Koffi joined

ASEC Mimosas The Association Sportive des Employés de Commerce Mimosas, literally Mimosas Commerce Employees' Sporting Association, is an Côte d'Ivoire, Ivorian Association football, football club based in Abidjan. The club is also known as ''ASEC Mimosas A ...

of Abidjan in November 2015. On 21 June 2017, Koffi joined

Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Pref ...

on a five-year deal. He made his debut for Lille in a 2–0

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loss to

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on loan, where he played 20 league games despite suffering some minor injuries. The following season, he joined Lille's partner club

Mouscron Mouscron (; Dutch and vls, Moeskroen, ; Picard and Walloon: ''Moucron'') is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Hainaut, along the border with the French city of Tourcoing, which is part of the Lille metropoli ...

on another loan, where he replaced

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who had left for

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. On 6 July 2021, Koffi joined

Charleroi Charleroi ( , , ; wa, Tchålerwè ) is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. By 1 January 2008, the total population of Charleroi was 201,593.

in Belgium on a three-year contract.

International career

In 2015, Koffi represented the Burkina Faso national team at the African Games football tournament. In 2017, he represented Burkina Faso in the

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. Koffi also featured in the 2021 AFCON tournament in

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Personal life

He is the son of former Burkinabe international footballer

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who played in the

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campaign.

Honors

Burkina Faso *

bronze:

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References

External links

* * 1996 births Living people People from Bobo-Dioulasso Burkinabé footballers Association football goalkeepers Burkina Faso international footballers African Games silver medalists for Burkina Faso African Games medalists in football Competitors at the 2015 African Games 2021 Africa Cup of Nations players ASF Bobo Dioulasso players ASEC Mimosas players Lille OSC players Belenenses SAD players Royal Excel Mouscron players R. Charleroi S.C. players Ligue 1 players Primeira Liga players Belgian Pro League players Burkinabé expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in France Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate footballers in Portugal Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Expatriate footballers in Belgium Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in Belgium 21st-century Burkinabé people {{BurkinaFaso-footy-bio-stub