Salimata Simporé

Salimata Simporé
Personal information
Date of birth	29 January 1987 (age 38)
Place of birth	Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	FC Minsk
Senior career*
Years	Team
2005	Princesses
2006	Las Vegas
2015	Princesses
2016	USFA
2019	Etincelles
2020	Dinamo Minsk
2021	Malabo Kings
2022-	FC Minsk
International career
2006–2010	Equatorial Guinea
2007–	Burkina Faso
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 8 November 2020.

Salimata Simporé (born 29 January 1987) is a Burkinabé footballer who plays as a forward for Belarusian Premier League club FC Minsk and the Burkina Faso women's national team.

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, that Simporé was male.^[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.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	18 November 2008	Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea	Congo	1–0	5–2	2008 African Women's Championship
2	23 May 2010	Sam Nujoma Stadium, Windhoek, Namibia	Namibia	4–1	5–1	2010 African Women's Championship qualification
3	8 November 2010	Sinaba Stadium, Daveyton, South Africa	Ghana	2–1	3–1	2010 African Women's Championship
4	11 November 2010		South Africa	1–0
5	11 November 2010		South Africa	3–0

Scores and results list Burkina Faso's goal tally first

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

Africa Women Cup of Nations: 2008

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Salimata Simporé". FC Dinamo Minsk (in Russian). Retrieved 29 May 2020.
^ Salimata Simporé at Soccerway. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
^ "Tournoi des 5 nations" (in French). Archived from the original on 19 May 2007. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ Compaoré, Alain Didier (8 August 2016). "Fasofoot: La nuit des lauréats ou la razzia du RCK" (in French). RTB. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
^ "Football : les soeurs Simporé entre prouesses et soupçons". Studio Yafa (in French). 19 July 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
^ "5e CAN féminine: la sélection equato-guinéenne" (in French). RFI. 30 October 2006. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
^ ^a ^b 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.
^ Kabore, Barthélemy (8 September 2007). "Burkina Faso: Finale tournoi international féminin - Etalons # Aiglettes, qui l'emportera ?" (in French). Retrieved 3 May 2018.
^ Gnamesso, Ablam (7 April 2018). "Can féminine 2018: Salimata Simporé fait gagner le Burkina" (in French). SPORTDROME. Archived from the original on 22 November 2018. Retrieved 30 April 2018.

External links

Salimata Simporé at CAF official website
Salimata Simporé – FIFA competition record (archived)

[FCDM-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). Archived from the original on 19 May 2007. 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.

[Uol-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.

[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. Archived from the original on 22 November 2018. Retrieved 30 April 2018.

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