Yacouba Coulibaly (born 2 October 1994) is a Burkinabé professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays as a

left-back In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either s ...

for French club

Wasquehal Wasquehal (traditional pronunciation ; currently common pronunciation ) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. The town originally had a Flemish name; it was written as ''Waskenhal'' in the 11th century. Geography Wasquehal ha ...

and the Burkina Faso national team.

Career

Born in

Bobo-Dioulasso Bobo-Dioulasso is a city in Burkina Faso with a population of 904,920 (); it is the second-largest city in the country, after Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital. The name means "home of the Bobo-Dioula". The local Bobo-speaking population (re ...

, Coulibaly has played for

RC Bobo Dioulasso Racing Club de Bobo Dioulasso also known as RC Bobo Dioulasso is a Burkinabé football club based in Bobo-Dioulasso. They play their home games at the Stade Municipal. The club colours are black and white. The club was founded in 1949. Current ...

Le Havre Le Havre (, ; nrf, Lé Hâvre ) is a port city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the right bank of the estuary of the river Seine on the Channel southwest of the Pays de Caux, very cl ...

and Paris FC. He left Le Havre in January 2021, signing for Spanish club FC Cartagena on 8 March 2021. He later played for

in 2023. He made his international debut in 2015, and was named in their squad for the

2017 Africa Cup of Nations The 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (abbreviated as AFCON 2017 or CAN 2017), known as the Total 2017 Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons, was the 31st edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the biennial international men's football champions ...

References

External links

* 1994 births Living people Burkinabé men's footballers Burkina Faso men's international footballers RC Bobo Dioulasso players Le Havre AC players Paris FC players FC Cartagena footballers Wasquehal Football players Ligue 2 players Championnat National 2 players Championnat National 3 players Men's association football fullbacks 2017 Africa Cup of Nations players Burkinabé expatriate men's footballers Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate men's footballers in France Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Segunda División players 21st-century Burkinabé people {{BurkinaFaso-footy-bio-stub