Rio Sport d'Anyama is an
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
club based in the town of
Anyama
Anyama is a city in south-eastern Ivory Coast. It is a suburb of Abidjan and is one of four sub-prefectures of Abidjan Autonomous District. Anyama is also a commune. The city is located about 20 kilometres north of Abidjan.
Villages in the sub-p ...
,
Côte d'Ivoire
Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital is Yamoussoukro, in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre is ...
.
History
The club stadium is Stade de Rio Sports, seating 3,000 people.
The club's president is Amidou Sylla, credited with exercising a formative influence on
Arouna Koné
Arouna Koné (born 11 November 1983) is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Belgian club VK Weerde.
After making a name for himself in the Eredivisie, with Roda JC and PSV, he signed with Sevilla in 2007, where he ra ...
when Koné was at Rio Sport, before he went on to play professionally in Europe and represent Côte d'Ivoire internationally.
References
Football clubs in Abidjan
Association football clubs established in 1990
1990 establishments in Ivory Coast
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