Salimata Simporé

Salimata Simporé (born 29 January 1987) is a Burkinabé footballer who plays as a forward for Equatorial Guinean women's Liga Nacional club Malabo Kings Femenino and the Burkina Faso women's national team.

Salimata Simporé
Personal information
Date of birth (1987-01-29) 29 January 1987[1]
Place of birth Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso[1]
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s) Forward[1]
Club information
Current team
 Malabo Kings
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005 Princesses
2006 Las Vegas
2015 Princesses
2016 USFA
2019 Etincelles
2020 Dinamo Minsk 17 (19)
2021– Malabo Kings
National team
2006–2010 Equatorial Guinea (5)
2007– Burkina Faso (13)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 8 November 2020.[2]

Club career

Simporé played in Burkina Faso for Princesses in 2005 and 2015, for USFA in 2016 and for Etincelles in 2019.[3][4][5][6][7] In October 2006, Simporé was registered as a player for Equatorial Guinean club Las Vegas.[8]

International career

Between 2006 and 2010, Burkinabé-born Simporé used to play for Equatorial Guinea as a naturalized player, having integrated the Equatorial Guinea's squads that won the 2008 African Women's Championship and reached the second place in the 2010 African Women's Championship, which allowed Equatorial Guinea to qualify for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. Around April 2011, Simporé was removed from national team by the Italian-born Brazilian coach Marcelo Frigerio, who had recently assumed, just a few months before participating in the World Cup.[9] Since then, Simporé was never called-up by Equatorial Guinea.

Simporé was a member of the Burkina Faso women's national football team in 2007 (as their captain), scoring 8 goals,[10] and 2018.[11]

International goals

Scores and results list Equatorial Guinea's goal tally first

No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1
18 November 2008Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea Congo
1–0
5–2
2008 African Women's Championship
2
23 May 2010Sam Nujoma Stadium, Windhoek, Namibia Namibia
4–1
5–1
2010 African Women's Championship qualification
3
8 November 2010Sinaba Stadium, Daveyton, South Africa Ghana
2–1
3–1
2010 African Women's Championship
4
11 November 2010 South Africa
1–0
5
3–0

Scores and results list Burkina Faso's goal tally first

No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1
14 February 2018Stade Robert Champroux, Abidjan, Ivory Coast Niger
1–0
5–1
2018 WAFU Women's Cup
2
16 February 2018Parc des sports de Treichville, Abidjan, Ivory Coast Ivory Coast
1–1
1–1
3
7 April 2018Stade du 4 Août, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Gambia
2–1
2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification
4
2–1
5
10 April 2018Independence Stadium, Bakau, Gambia
1–2
1–2

Gender controversy

Beyond the mechanism by which Simporé was naturalized by Equatorial Guinea, the main controversy arose regarding whether Simporé was actually a man. In 2015, Frigerio, now a former national team coach for Equatorial Guinea, told the Brazilian press Simporé is in fact a man.[9]

Honors and awards

National team
Equatorial Guinea

References
  1. "Salimata Simporé". FC Dinamo Minsk (in Russian). Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  2. Salimata Simporé at Soccerway. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
  3. "Tournoi des 5 nations" (in French). Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  4. Hien, Ollo Aimé Césaire (1 September 2015). "3e édition du tournoi international de football féminin de Ouagadougou : Entrée triomphale des Princesses" (in French). Sidwaya. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  5. Hien, Ollo Aimé Césaire (9 September 2015). "3e édition du TIFFO : Princesses, 1re équipe burkinabé dans le palmarès" (in French). Sidwaya. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  6. Compaoré, Alain Didier (8 August 2016). "Fasofoot: La nuit des lauréats ou la razzia du RCK" (in French). RTB. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  7. "Football : les soeurs Simporé entre prouesses et soupçons". Studio Yafa (in French). 19 July 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  8. "5e CAN féminine: la sélection equato-guinéenne" (in French). RFI. 30 October 2006. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  9. De Matos, José Edgar; Bianchini, Vladimir (11 September 2015). "Técnico do São Paulo conta como barrou dois homens em seleção feminina às vésperas de Copa" [São Paulo coach tells how he banned two men in women's national team on the World Cup eve] (in Portuguese). ESPN. Retrieved 30 April 2018. Before taking the national team, I searched on the internet and I saw there was a charge that, in the African Cup of Nations, two players of the national team would be actually men. It would be a worldwide scandal I had no idea until then. I asked for the two twin sisters, who had not been presented and who were with the men's Olympic team, concentrated in a hotel. Then came two guys and they prodded me: "These are the two sisters". I replied, "You are joking, they are men". Then they trained and I asked the doctor to examine them, because I was sure that they were men. He was there and he found that they were men. Even they had been champions of the African Cup and everything else. At the time, I asked to send them back to Burkina Faso - they were naturalized - and to talk that one of them had hurt the knee and the other sister had gone along because she did not want to stay away. I cut the duo from the national team, as everyone expected their presence. When (this situation) arrived at the time of the interview, I needed to talk about that.
  10. Kabore, Barthélemy (8 September 2007). "Burkina Faso: Finale tournoi international féminin - Etalons # Aiglettes, qui l'emportera ?" (in French). Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  11. Gnamesso, Ablam (7 April 2018). "Can féminine 2018: Salimata Simporé fait gagner le Burkina" (in French). SPORTDROME. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
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