Kouakou Hervé Koffi (born 16 October 1996) is a Burkinabé professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Ligue 1 club Lens and the Burkina Faso national team.[2]
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| Full name | Kouakou Hervé Koffi | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 16 October 1996 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso | |||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | |||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Lens | |||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 16 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Rahimo FC | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||
| ASF Bobo Dioulasso | ||||||||||||||||||||
| RC Bobo Dioulasso | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2017 | ASEC Mimosas | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2021 | Lille | 4 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | → Belenenses SAD (loan) | 20 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2021 | → Mouscron (loan) | 34 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2021–2024 | Charleroi | 86 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2024– | Lens | 0 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Burkina Faso U23 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2016– | Burkina Faso | 48 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 28 March 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 8 June 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Club career
editKoffi joined ASEC Mimosas of Abidjan in November 2015.[3]
On 21 June 2017, Koffi joined Lille on a five-year deal.[4] He made his debut for Lille in a 2–0 Ligue 1 loss to Caen on 20 August 2017.[5]
In the 2019–20 season, Koffi moved to Belenenses SAD on loan, where he played 20 league games despite suffering some minor injuries.[6] The following season, he joined Lille's partner club Mouscron on another loan, where he replaced Jean Butez who had left for Antwerp.[7][8]
On 6 July 2021, Koffi joined Charleroi in Belgium on a three-year contract.[9]
International career
editIn 2015, Koffi represented the Burkina Faso national team at the African Games football tournament. In 2017, he represented Burkina Faso in the Africa Cup of Nations. Koffi also featured in the 2021 AFCON tournament in Cameroon.[10]
Personal life
editHe is the son of former Burkinabe international footballer Hyacinthe Koffi who played in the 2000 African Cup of Nations qualification campaign.[11]
Honours
editBurkina Faso
- Africa Cup of Nations third place: 2017[12][13]
References
edit- ^ "KOFFI Kouakou Hervé, au-dessus du lot | ASEC Mimosas". Archived from the original on 17 May 2022. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
- ^ "Hervé Koffi - Player Profile - Football". Eurosport. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
- ^ "African clubs line up for final eight". FIFA.com. 17 April 2016. Archived from the original on 19 April 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
- ^ "Hervé Koffi s'engage pour 5 ans avec le LOSC". www.losc.fr (in French).
- ^ "LFP.fr - Ligue de Football Professionnel - Ligue 1 Conforama - Saison 2017/2018 - 3ème journée - LOSC / SM Caen". www.lfp.fr.
- ^ Atiso, Kofi (23 December 2019). "Belenenses veut définitivement recruter Hervé Koffi". Afrique Sports (in French).
- ^ "Hervé Koffi dans le groupe de Mouscron". Royal Excel Mouscron (in French). 1 August 2020.
- ^ Claerebout, Louis (9 April 2021). "L'ancien Lillois Jean Butez complimente Hervé Koffi". Le petit Lillois (in French).
- ^ "BIENVENUE, HERVÉ !" (in French). Sporting Charleroi. 6 July 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
- ^ "Africa Cup of Nations (Sky Sports)". Sky Sports. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
- ^ "Kouakou Koffi à l'ASEC d'Abidjan : Une inquiétude pour le Burkina – Football 226". Football 226 (in French). 7 December 2015. Archived from the original on 15 July 2023. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
- ^ "2017 Africa Cup of Nations squads". newvision.co. New Vision. 13 January 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
- ^ "Africa Cup of Nations 2017 schedule, scores and what you need to know". 14 January 2017.
External links
edit- Kouakou Koffi – French league stats at Ligue 1 – also available in French
- H. Koffi at Soccerway
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