Moussa Boureïma Ouattara (born 31 December 1981) is a Burkinabé former professional

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who played as a

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Club career

Ouattara was 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 (r ...

, Upper Volta. He previously played for

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in the Polish Ekstraklasa and then 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the German

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International career

Ouattara was a member of the Burkinabé

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team. They finished bottom of their group in the first round of competition, failing to secure qualification for the quarter-finals.

Honours

Legia Warsaw * Ekstraklasa: 2005–06

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* Living people 1981 births Footballers from Bobo-Dioulasso Burkinabé men's footballers Men's association football central defenders Burkina Faso men's international footballers 2004 African Cup of Nations players 2010 Africa Cup of Nations players Tours FC players US Créteil-Lusitanos players Legia Warsaw players ASFA Yennenga players 1. FC Kaiserslautern players SC Fortuna Köln players SV Schermbeck players DSC Wanne-Eickel players Ligue 2 players Ekstraklasa players 2. Bundesliga players Oberliga (football) players Burkinabé expatriate men's footballers Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate men's footballers in France Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in Poland Expatriate men's footballers in Poland 21st-century Burkinabé people {{BurkinaFaso-footy-bio-stub