Rahim Ouédraogo
Burkinabé footballer (born 1980)
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Mamy Rahim Assane Ouédraogo (born 8 October 1980) is a Burkinabé former professional footballer who played as a defender.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mamy Rahim Assane Ouédraogo[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 8 October 1980 | ||
| Place of birth | Bobo-Dioulasso, Upper Volta | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position | Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| ASF Bobo | |||
| 1996–1998 | Twente | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1998–2007 | Twente | 141 | (0) |
| 2001–2002 | → Zwolle (loan) | 14 | (1) |
| 2007 | Skoda Xanthi | 5 | (0) |
| 2007–2008 | Heracles Almelo | 19 | (0) |
| 2009 | Emmen | 13 | (1) |
| 2009 | Manisaspor | 4 | (0) |
| 2010 | Emmen | 9 | (0) |
| Total | 205 | (2) | |
| International career | |||
| 1999–2007 | Burkina Faso | 21 | (4) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Club career
Ouédraogo, whose preferred position on the field was as a defender, joined Twente at the age of 16, accompanying his brother-in-law to Enschede who was going to study.[2] He played for Twente until 2007. In the 2000–01 season, he had a brief stint at Zwolle on loan.
On 5 August 2009, he joined Manisaspor, signing a two-year contract with the Turkish club.[3] However, on 23 December 2009, his contract was mutually terminated.[4] In January 2010, he returned to Emmen, where he had played before joining Manisaspor, signing until the end of the season.[5]
International career
Ouédraogo was a member of the Burkinabé 2004 African Cup of Nations team, which finished at the bottom of their group in the first round, failing to secure qualification for the quarter-finals.
After football
In February 2011, Ouédraogo started a bus route between the two largest cities in the country: the capital Ouagadougou and his hometown Bobo-Dioulasso. These buses serve the transportation needs of both goods and people.[2] In December 2011, he revealed plans to establish a football school in Bama in 2012, alongside Mamadou Zongo and Ousmane Sanou.[6] In 2012, he established Rahimo FC, and two of his players, Lassina Traoré and Issa Kaboré, subsequently achieved success for Ajax and Manchester City, respectively.[7]