Niguimbe Préjuce Nakoulma (born 21 April 1987) is a Burkinabé professional

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who most recently played as a striker for

US Orléans Union Sportive Orléans Loiret Football (; commonly referred to as US Orléans or simply Orléans) is a French association football club based in Orléans. The club was founded in 1976 and currently play in Championnat National after being relega ...

and the Burkina Faso national team.

Club career

Nakoulma's former clubs were

Stal Stalowa Wola Stal Stalowa Wola Piłkarska Spółka Akcyjna, commonly referred to as Stal Stalowa Wola (), is a Polish professional Association football, football club based in Stalowa Wola, Subcarpathian Voivodeship. Founded in 1938, the club competes in th ...

and Hetman Zamość. In July 2010, he was loaned to

Widzew Łódź RTS Widzew Łódź () is a Polish football club based in Łódź. The club was founded in 1910. Its official colours are red and white, hence their nicknames ''Czerwona Armia'' (Red Army) and ''Czerwono-biało-czerwoni'' (Red-white-reds). Histor ...

on a one-year deal. He returned to Łęczna one-year later, only to be immediately loaned to

Górnik Zabrze Górnik Zabrze Spółka Akcyjna, commonly referred to as Górnik Zabrze S.A. or simply Górnik Zabrze (), is a Polish football club from Zabrze. Górnik is one of the most successful Polish football clubs in history, winning the second-most Po ...

, again on a one-year contract. After having scored 9 goals in the 2011–12 campaign while on loan, Nakoulma signed a permanent contract with

in July 2012. On 17 July 2014, Nakoulma signed two-year contract with Turkish club

Mersin İdman Yurdu Mersin Talim Yurdu, formerly Mersin İdman Yurdu, is a Turkish sports club from Mersin, Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean Region. The team played in the Turkish first division for 15 seasons, and after the 1983–84 season the football team p ...

. After being released by

Kayserispor Kayseri Spor Kulübü, commonly known as Kayserispor, is a Turkish professional football club based in Kayseri. They play their home matches at the Kadir Has Stadium in red and yellow kits. The team has won one Turkish Cup in 2008 and also fi ...

Nakoulma signed for

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side

FC Nantes Football Club de Nantes (; Gallo: ''Naunnt''), commonly referred to as FC Nantes or simply Nantes (), is a French professional football club based in Nantes in Pays de la Loire. The club was founded on 21 April 1943, during World War II, as ...

on 31 January 2017. In August 2018, he was released from his contract. In January 2019, Nakoulma signed for

Çaykur Rizespor Çaykur Rizespor Kulübü is a Turkish professional football club based in Rize. The club play in the TFF First League. The club was founded on May 19, 1953, with green-yellow as club colours, but later changed to blue-green. Since 1990, the team ...

on a free transfer. He made his first appearance for Rizespor on 21 January as a substitute against Kasımpaşa. His first goal for Rizespor was scored on 27 January against

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. Nakoulma left Rizespor in the summer of 2019, and after six months without a club he signed for

in December 2019, on a contract until the end of the 2019–20. He left at the end of the contract.

Career statistics

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

Honors

Burkina Faso *

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 internat ...

silver:

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bronze:

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a s ...

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* * Living people 1987 births Sportspeople from Ouagadougou Association football forwards Burkinabé footballers Burkinabé expatriate footballers Burkina Faso international footballers Süper Lig players Ekstraklasa players I liga players Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players Stal Stalowa Wola players Commune FC players Górnik Łęczna players Widzew Łódź players Górnik Zabrze players Mersin İdman Yurdu footballers Kayserispor footballers FC Nantes players Çaykur Rizespor footballers US Orléans players Expatriate footballers in Poland Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in Poland Expatriate footballers in Turkey Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Expatriate footballers in France Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in France 2012 Africa Cup of Nations players 2013 Africa Cup of Nations players 2015 Africa Cup of Nations players 2017 Africa Cup of Nations players Hetman Zamość players {{BurkinaFaso-footy-bio-stub