Moussa Yahaya (born 4 January 1975) is a

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who played as a

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. He represented the Niger national team on sixteen occasions.

Football career

Born in

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, Yahaya began playing with

JS du Ténéré JS du Ténéré is a Nigerien football club based in Niamey. Their home games are played at the Stade Général Seyni Kountché. Achievements *Niger Premier League: 2 :: 2000, 2001 *Niger Cup: 4 :: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Performance in CAF com ...

. In 1995, he started an abroad adventure that would last more than a decade, first with Sokół Tychy then with

Hutnik Kraków Hutnik Kraków (Polish pronunciation: ) is a Polish football club based in Kraków, Poland. History The club was founded in 1950. Hutnik have played seven seasons in the Polish Ekstraklasa (Polish first division). The team's greatest success is ...

– he spent most of his career in

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, amassing

Ekstraklasa Poland Ekstraklasa (), meaning "Extra Class" in Polish, named PKO Ekstraklasa since the 2019–20 season due to its sponsorship by PKO Bank Polski, is the top Polish professional league for men's association football teams. Contested by 18 cl ...

totals of 77 games and 17 goals over the course of six seasons. After two-and-a-half years with relative impact with

Albacete Balompié Albacete Balompié is a Spanish football team based in Albacete, in the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha. Founded on 2 August 1940, it currently plays in Segunda División, the second tier of Spanish football, holding home matches ...

(Spanish

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), scoring 13 times from 72 competitive matches, and a brief spell with

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's Trikala FC, Yahaya returned to Poland, representing

GKS Katowice GKS Katowice (; GKS stands for , "Miners Sporting Club") is a Polish football club based in Katowice, Poland. The club currently plays in the I liga, after having won promotion in 2021. History In 1963 in Katowice a special organizational ...

(2001, 2003–05) and

Legia Warsaw Legia Warszawa (), commonly referred to as Legia Warsaw or simply Legia, is a professional football club based in Warsaw, Poland. Legia is the most successful Polish football club in history, winning record 15 Ekstraklasa champions titles, a ...

(2001–02). From 2005 onwards he continued in the latter country, but in an amateur level (fourth division), with Rega-Merida Trzebiatów (one season) and

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. Yahaya was also a full Nigerien international in the 90s.

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