Eric Traoré (born 21 May 1996) 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 lea ...

who plays as a winger for

Egyptian Premier League The Egyptian Premier League (), also known as the Nile League () for sponsorship reasons, after the addition of title sponsor Nile Developments, is a professional association football league in Egypt and the highest level of the Egyptian football ...

club

Ismaily Ismaily Sporting Club () is an Egyptian football club, established on 20 March 1921 as El Nahda Sporting Club () ( Egyptian pronunciation: Nady El Nahda), based in Ismaïlia, Egypt. The club is best known for its football team. Also it's consi ...

and the Burkina Faso national team.

International career

In January 2014, coach Brama Traoré, invited him to be a part of the

Burkina Faso Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Ivory Coast to the southwest. It covers an area of 274,223 km2 (105,87 ...

squad for the

2014 African Nations Championship The 2014 African Nations Championship, known as the 2014 CHAN for short and as the Orange S.A., Orange African Nations Championship for sponsorship purposes, was the 3rd edition of the biennial association football tournament organized by Confed ...

. The team was eliminated in the group stages after losing to

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and

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and then drawing with

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Career statistics

International

:''Scores and results list Burkina Faso's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Traoré goal.''

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Traoré, Eric 1996 births Living people Burkinabe men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Burkina Faso men's international footballers Burkina Faso men's A' international footballers 2021 Africa Cup of Nations players 2014 African Nations Championship players US Ouagadougou players Egyptian Premier League players Aswan SC players Misr Lel Makkasa SC players Burkinabe expatriate men's footballers Burkinabe expatriate sportspeople in Egypt Expatriate men's footballers in Egypt 21st-century Burkinabe sportsmen