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Full name | Boubacar Traoré [1] | |||||||||||||
Date of birth | [2] | 20 August 2001|||||||||||||
Place of birth | Bamako, Mali | |||||||||||||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) [3] | |||||||||||||
Position(s) | Defensive midfielder | |||||||||||||
Team information | ||||||||||||||
Current team | Wolverhampton Wanderers | |||||||||||||
Number | 6 | |||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||
–2019 | AS de Bamako | |||||||||||||
2019–2020 | Metz | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) | |||||||||||
2019–2023 | Metz II | 6 | (0) | |||||||||||
2021–2023 | Metz | 32 | (2) | |||||||||||
2022–2023 | → Wolverhampton Wanderers (loan) | 10 | (0) | |||||||||||
2023– | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 22 | (0) | |||||||||||
International career‡ | ||||||||||||||
2019 | Mali U20 | 9 | (2) | |||||||||||
2019 | Mali U23 | 3 | (0) | |||||||||||
2022– | Mali | 4 | (0) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19 May 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 3 February 2024 |
Boubacar Traoré (born 20 August 2001) is a Malian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers and the Mali national team. [4]
Boubacar Traoré made his professional debut for FC Metz on the 10 May 2021, coming as a substitute of Kévin N'Doram in a Ligue 1 home game against Nîmes. [5]
Traoré made a deadline day move to Wolverhampton Wanderers on 1 September 2022, on a season-long loan deal with an option to buy in the summer of 2023. [6]
Traoré made his Wolves debut in a 3–0 home defeat to Manchester City in the Premier League on 17 September 2022. [7]
Traoré scored his first goal for Wolves in a home EFL Cup game against Premier League rivals Leeds United to win the game 1–0 on 9 November 2022. [8]
On 1 February 2023, Wolves announced that Traoré's performances for the club had triggered a clause in his loan agreement that would make his move to Wolves permanent, effective 1 July 2023. [9]
Traoré made his debut for the Mali senior national team in a friendly 1–1 tie with Algeria on 16 November 2022. [10]
In June 2023, he was included in the final squad of the Malian under-23 national team for the 2023 U-23 Africa Cup of Nations, hosted in Morocco, [11] [12] where the Eagles finished in third place and qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. [13] [14]
Club | Season | League | National cup | League cup | Continental | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Metz II | 2019–20 | Championnat National 3 | 6 | 0 | — | — | — | 6 | 0 | |||
Metz | 2020–21 | Ligue 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 2 | 1 | ||
2021–22 | Ligue 1 | 27 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 28 | 1 | |||
2022–23 | Ligue 2 | 3 | 0 | — | — | — | 3 | 0 | ||||
Total | 32 | 2 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 33 | 2 | ||||
Wolverhampton Wanderers (loan) | 2022–23 | Premier League | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | — | 11 | 1 | |
Wolverhampton Wanderers | 2023–24 | Premier League | 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 25 | 0 | |
Career total | 70 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 3 |
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Mali | 2022 | 1 | 0 |
2024 | 3 | 0 | |
Total | 4 | 0 |
Mali U23