Mahamane El Hadji Traoré (born 31 August 1988) is a Malian professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who last played for FK Žalgiris as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

in the A Lyga. Internationally, he represents

Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali ...

Career

Traoré previously played for

Cercle Olympique de Bamako Club Olympique de Bamako is a Malian football club based in Bamako. They play in the top division in Malian football. Their home stadium is Stade 26 Mars. As of the 2010 season, the club's president was Moussa Konaté.

. He earned his first cap with

in June 2005. At the youth level he played in the

2005 African U-17 Championship The 2005 African U-17 Championship was a football competition organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The tournament took place in Gambia. The top three teams qualified for the 2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship. Qualification ...

, scoring two goals. On 17 February 2017, Traoré signed with Lithuanian club Žalgiris of the A Lyga.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Mali's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Traoré goal.''

Honours

Mali *

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 ...

bronze:

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References

External links

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Profile at Frenchleague.com
* 1988 births Living people Association football midfielders Malian footballers Malian expatriate footballers Mali international footballers Mali youth international footballers 2010 Africa Cup of Nations players Expatriate footballers in France Expatriate footballers in Lithuania OGC Nice players FC Metz players FK Žalgiris players Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players A Lyga players CO de Bamako players Sportspeople from Bamako Malian expatriate sportspeople in France Malian expatriate sportspeople in Lithuania 2012 Africa Cup of Nations players 2013 Africa Cup of Nations players 21st-century Malian people {{Mali-footy-bio-stub