Issoufou Sellsavon Dayo (born 6 August 1991) is a Burkinabé professional

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who plays as a

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for

RS Berkane Renaissance Sportive de Berkane ( ar, نادي النهضة البركانية) commonly referred to as Nahdat Berkane or RS Berkane for short, is a professional football club based in Berkane, Morocco, that competes in Botola, the top flight o ...

and the Burkina Faso national team. Issoufou Dayo featured in the

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third place game against

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Club career

Dayo played for

RC Bobo Dioulasso Racing Club de Bobo Dioulasso also known as RC Bobo Dioulasso is a Burkinabé football club based in Bobo-Dioulasso. They play their home games at the Stade Municipal. The club colours are black and white. The club was founded in 1949. Current ...

and

Étoile Filante de Ouagadougou Étoile Filante de Ouagadougou is a Burkinabé football club based in Ouagadougou. They play their home games at the Stade du 4 Août. The club's colors are blue and white. Honours *Burkinabé Premier League: 13 :: 1965, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, ...

in Benin, then for

AS Vita Club Association Sportive Vita Club, more commonly known as AS Vita Club, AS V. Club or simply Vita Club, is a Congolese football club based in Kinshasa. History AS Vita Club was founded in 1935 by Honoré Essabe under the name of ''Renaissance'' in ...

in Congo DR, before joining

in Morocco. On 25 October 2020, he scored the winning goal for RS Berkane in a 1–0 victory over Egyptian club

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in the 2020 CAF Confederation Cup Final.

International career

In January 2014, coach Brama Traore, invited him to be a part of the

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 ...

squad for the

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. The team was eliminated in the group stages after losing to

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and

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and then drawing with

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. He was part of the squad in the

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which is his first African cup. In the team's first game he scored a 75th-minute equalizer to gain a point for his nation. This is to date his only goal for his country.

Career statistics

:''Scores and results list Burkina Faso's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Dayo goal.''

Honours

Étoile Filante de Ouagadougou *

Burkinabé Premier League The Fasofoot D1 is the top division of the Burkinabé Football Federation. It was created in 1961. Burkinabé Premier League clubs – 2021-22 * AS Koupéla (Koupéla) * AS Douanes (Ouagadougou) * ASEC Koudougou (Koudougou) *ASFA Yennenga (Ouagad ...

: 2013–14 AS Vita Club *

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: 2014–15 RS Berkane *

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: 2017–18,

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, 2021–22 *

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: 2019–20, 2021–22; runner-up: 2018–19 *

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Individual * Best Botola Foreign Player of the Season: 2021–22]

References

1991 births Living people Burkinabé men's footballers Sportspeople from Bobo-Dioulasso 21st-century Burkinabé people Burkina Faso men's international footballers Men's association football central defenders Burkina Faso men's A' international footballers 2014 African Nations Championship players 2017 Africa Cup of Nations players 2021 Africa Cup of Nations players Étoile Filante de Ouagadougou players RS Berkane players Burkinabé expatriate men's footballers Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Expatriate men's footballers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in Morocco Expatriate men's footballers in Morocco {{BurkinaFaso-footy-bio-stub