Mamoutou Coulibaly (born 23 February 1984) is a Malian former professional

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who played as a

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. Coulibaly won two caps for the Mali national team between 2005 and 2006.

Club career

Early career

Born in

Bamako Bamako ( bm, ߓߡߊ߬ߞߐ߬ ''Bàmakɔ̌'', ff, 𞤄𞤢𞤥𞤢𞤳𞤮 ''Bamako'') is the capital and largest city of Mali, with a 2009 population of 1,810,366 and an estimated 2022 population of 2.81 million. It is located on the Niger Rive ...

, Mali, Coulibaly began his career at Centre Salif Keita before earning a move to French club

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in 2003. In three years at Auxerre Coulibaly made two appearances for the first team, once in the domestic league and once in the

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, and in 2006 he was sold to Ligue 2 team

FC Istres Football Club Istres Ouest Provence (; commonly referred to as simply Istres) is a French association football club based in Istres. The club was formed in 1920 and currently play their home matches at the Stade Parsemain in Fos-sur-Mer, a co ...

. Coulibaly became a regular for Istres and in June 2007, after spending one year at the club, it was announced that he would leave the team and join Turkish side Kasımpaşa S.K. In 2008 Coulibaly was part of the Belgian side

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Cherno More

In January 2009 Coulibaly was invited by Bulgarian side

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to join a trial period, which began on 29 January. He made his team debut a few days later, in a 4–0 friendly win against the Bulgaria U19. On 20 February, Cherno More signed Coulibaly on a two-a-half-year deal. He made his competitive debut for Cherno More on 8 March 2009 against

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in the round of 16 of the

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. Until the end of the 2009–10 season he played 35 matches for the club.

Irtysh Pavlodar

In November 2010, Coulibaly signed a contract with

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side

FC Irtysh FC Irtysh Pavlodar ( kk, Ертіс Футбол Клубы, ''Ertis Fýtbol Klýby'') was a Kazakh professional football club based at the Central Stadium in Pavlodar. Irtysh won the Kazakhstan Premier league in 1993 (as ''Ansat''), 1997, 1 ...

. The Malian made his official debut for the team (as a starter) on 6 March 2011, in the 1–0 away win over

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in a

match. On 30 April 2011, Coulibaly scored his first goal for the club in the 3–2 home win against

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in a league game.

Kaisar

In February 2014, Coulibaly moved from Irtysh to fellow Kazakh Premier League side

FC Kaisar FC Kaysar ( kk, Қайсар Футбол Клубы, ''Qaısar Fýtbol Klýby'') is a Kazakh professional football club based in the Gany Muratbayev Stadium in Kyzylorda. They are founding members of the Kazakhstan Premier League and have mis ...

Cherno More Return

On 3 February 2015, Coulibaly returned to Cherno More.

Kyzylzhar

In early 2017, Coulibaly returned to Kazakhstan, signing for

FC Kyzylzhar FC Kyzylzhar ( kk, Қызылжар футбол клубы, Qyzylzhar fytbol kluby) is a Kazakhstani football club, playing in the north Kazakh city of Petropavl at the Karasai Stadium. They are founding members of the Kazakhstan Premier League ...

International career

Coulibaly played for the Mali under-20 side and captained the team at the

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in the

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, where he played two matches. He also played four matches at 2001 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Argentina.

Honours

Cherno More *

Bulgarian Cup The Bulgarian Cup ( bg, Купа на България, Kupa na Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian annual football competition. It is the country's main cup competition and all officially registered Bulgarian football teams take part in it. The tournamen ...

: 2014–15 *

Bulgarian Supercup The Bulgarian Supercup ( bg, Суперкупа на България) is the trophy won in a football match held between the football club that has won the Bulgarian first football division in the season that ended in the year of the match an ...

: 2015

References

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