Ismaël Koudou (born 27 September 1975) is a Burkinabé former professional

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who played as a

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Club career

Koudou began his career with

ASFA Yennega Association Sportive du Faso-Yennenga is a Burkinabé football club based in Ouagadougou. The club's home games are played at Stade du 4-Août. The club was founded in 1947 and won its first title in 1973 as ''Jeanne d'Arc''. History The club ...

, He joined

WA Tlemcen Widad Athletic Tlemcen (), known as WA Tlemcen or WAT for short, is an Algerian professional football club based in Tlemcen. The club was founded in 1962 and its colours are blue and white. Their home stadium, Colonel Lotfi Stadium, has a capaci ...

on loan in summer 2002. In the

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he played 55 games who scored seven goals before returning to his homeclub ASFA Yennega in 2004. After a half year he was again loaned out to

Kuwaiti Division One The Kuwaiti Division One () is a second-tier professional Kuwaiti football league. Winners of the league are promoted to the Kuwait Premier League. Kuwaiti Division One was introduced for the 2006–07 season, when the bottom 6 clubs in the Pre ...

club

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but returned to ASFA Yennega in January 2006. After his return he played one year with the club and then signed for a second time in Kuwait for Al-Jahra in June 2007.

International career

Koudou was part of the Burkina Faso national team's squad at the 1998 African Nations Cup in his home country, as well as the national squad that participated in the

2000 African Cup of Nations The 2000 African Cup of Nations was the 22nd edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the association football championship of Africa ( CAF). It was co-hosted by Ghana and Nigeria, who jointly replaced Zimbabwe as host. Just like in 1998, the field ...

held in Nigeria and Ghana.Burkina Faso Composition d'Equipe
on www.ghananigeria2000.org

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* 1975 births Living people Footballers from Ouagadougou Burkinabe men's footballers Men's association football forwards Burkina Faso men's international footballers 1998 African Cup of Nations players 2000 African Cup of Nations players Kuwait Premier League players ASFA Yennenga players WA Tlemcen players Al-Jahra SC players Khaitan SC players Burkinabe football managers Burkinabe expatriate men's footballers Burkinabe expatriate sportspeople in Algeria Expatriate men's footballers in Algeria Burkinabe expatriate sportspeople in Kuwait Expatriate men's footballers in Kuwait 21st-century Burkinabe people {{BurkinaFaso-footy-bio-stub