Thomas Touré (born 27 December 1993) is an Ivorian professional

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who plays as a winger for

RC Grasse Racing Club Pays de Grasse is a French association football club founded in 1959. Until 2022 they were known as Racing Club de Grasse. They are based in the town of Grasse and their home stadium is the Stade Jean Girard. Since the 2017–18 season ...

. He made one international appearance for the Ivory Coast national team in 2016.

Club career

Touré made his

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debut on 4 May 2014 in a 0–1 away win against

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replacing Diego Rolán after 88 minutes in

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. In January 2019, he was loaned to

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from

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until the end of the season. On 2 September 2021, he signed a two-year contract with

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in Belgium. However, on 29 August 2022 it was reported, that Touré officially had left the club. In January 2023, it emerged that Touré was training with Maltese club

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. However, no contract was ever signed.

International career

Touré was born in

Grasse Grasse (; Provençal dialect, Provençal in classical norm or in Mistralian norm ; traditional ) is the only Subprefectures in France, subprefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes Departments of France, department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur Re ...

, France to an Ivorian father and a French mother. He made two appearances for France U18 in friendlies against the Swiss U18s. He switched to the

Ivory Coast national football team The Ivory Coast national football team ( French: ''Équipe de football de Côte d'Ivoire'', recognized as the Côte d'Ivoire by FIFA) represents Ivory Coast in men's international football. Nicknamed ''the Elephants'', the team is managed by t ...

and made his debut in a 0–0 friendly tie with

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on 20 May 2016.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Toure, Thomas 1993 births French sportspeople of Ivorian descent Footballers from Grasse Living people Men's association football wingers Men's association football forwards Ivorian men's footballers Ivory Coast men's international footballers French men's footballers France men's youth international footballers Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players Championnat National 2 players Championnat National 3 players FC Girondins de Bordeaux players Angers SCO players Paris FC players FC Sochaux-Montbéliard players R.E. Virton players Ivorian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium 21st-century French sportsmen