Boubacar Traoré (born 24 May 1998) is a Malian

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who plays as a

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for DR Congolese club

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Club career

On the last day of the January transfer market 2019, Traoré was one of 22 players on two hours, that signed for Turkish club

Elazığspor Elazığspor is a Turkish professional football club located in Elazığ and currently competes in the TFF Second League. They play their home games at Elazığ Atatürk Stadium in Elazığ, which has a maximum capacity of 18,423. The club was ...

. The club had been placed under a transfer embargo but managed to negotiate it with the Turkish FA, leading to them going on a mad spree of signing and registering a load of players despite not even having a permanent manager in place. In just two hours, they managed to snap up a record 22 players - 12 coming in on permanent contracts and a further 10 joining on loan deals until the end of the season. He arrived on loan for the rest of the season. In August 2019, Traoré signed for

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club

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. In March 2021, he signed for

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club Naft Maysan.

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* * 1998 births Living people Malian men's footballers Malian expatriate men's footballers Men's association football forwards TFF 1. Lig players Moldovan Super Liga players Iraq Stars League players Pyramids FC players Wadi Degla SC players Adana Demirspor footballers Elazığspor footballers FC Zimbru Chișinău players Naft Maysan SC players Malian expatriate sportspeople in Egypt Expatriate men's footballers in Egypt Malian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey Malian expatriate sportspeople in Moldova Expatriate men's footballers in Moldova Malian expatriate sportspeople in Iraq Expatriate men's footballers in Iraq Mali men's youth international footballers Mali men's under-20 international footballers 21st-century Malian sportsmen {{Mali-footy-bio-stub