Souleymane Sawadogo (born 9 January 1993) is a Burkinabé professional

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player, who plays for French Championnat National 2 club US Granville.

Club career

Sawadogo made his

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debut with AJ Auxerre at 9 August 2013 against Nîmes Olympique. In 2014, he joined

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. On 22 December he signed a -year contract with Greek Superleague club

Levadiakos Levadiakos Football Club ( el, ΠΑΕ Λεβαδειακός) is a Greek professional football club that plays in the Super League Greece. Based in Livadeia, Greece, the club was promoted to the Alpha Ethniki, forerunner of the Super League, afte ...

for an undisclosed fee. It was his first time in his career that will play in the highest level. On 14 April 2018, he scored with an astonishing effort helping his club to win 1-0 rivals

Asteras Tripoli Asteras Tripolis Football Club ( el, ΠΑΕ Αστέρας Τρίπολης), commonly referred to as Asteras Tripolis (meaning "Star of Tripoli"), is a Greek professional football club based in the city of Tripoli in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greec ...

. It was his first goal with the club. Sawadogo returned to France with Gazélec Ajaccio in January 2020, and then moved to

US Créteil-Lusitanos Union Sportive Créteil-Lusitanos (commonly referred to as US Créteil, USC, or simply Créteil) is a French football club based in Créteil, a southeastern suburb of Paris. The club was founded in 1936 and currently play in the Championnat Nati ...

in June 2020. He was released at the end of the season, and spent six months without a club, before signing for US Granville in early February 2022.

International career

Sawadogo made his debut for the Burkina Faso national football team in a 1-0 friendly win over Cameroon national football team on 27 May 2018.

Career statistics

References

1993 births Living people Burkinabé men's footballers Burkinabé expatriate men's footballers Burkina Faso men's international footballers AJ Auxerre players Clermont Foot players LB Châteauroux players Levadiakos F.C. players Gazélec Ajaccio players US Créteil-Lusitanos players US Granville players Ligue 2 players Championnat National players Championnat National 2 players Championnat National 3 players Super League Greece players Footballers from Ouagadougou Men's association football defenders Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in France Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in Greece Expatriate men's footballers in France Expatriate men's footballers in Greece 21st-century Burkinabé people {{france-footy-defender-1990s-stub