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Mamadou Zongo
Burkinabe footballer (born 1980) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mamadou "Bebeto" Zongo (born 8 October 1980) is a Burkinabé football coach and former player who played as a striker.
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Club career
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Early career
Zongo was born in Bobo-Dioulasso, Upper Volta (today Burkina Faso).[1][2] He started to play football in 1996 at RC Bobo, winning the Burkinabé Premier League championship at the end of his first season, netting a personal record of 22 goals in 25 matches.[1][2][3] In the next season he went to play for ASEC Mimosas for which he scored 18 goals in 22 Côte d'Ivoire Premier Division games, as the team won The Double.[1][2][3]
Career in Netherlands
Afterwards he went to play for Dutch side Vitesse, making his Eredivisie debut on 31 October 1998 when coach Herbert Neumann sent him on the field in the 62nd to replace Marko Perović in a 2–1 away loss to Heerenveen.[1][2][3][4][5] On 3 December, he netted his first goals when he managed a double in a 5–3 away win over Willem II, then in the following round he scored another brace in a 2–0 victory against NAC Breda.[4] In the same season he made his debut in European competitions, helping his side get past AEK Athens in the first round of the 1998–99 UEFA Cup, being eliminated in the second round by Bordeaux.[1][6] In the following season he netted a brace in a 2–1 win over RKC Waalwijk in the league and helped his side once again get past the first round of the UEFA Cup by eliminating Beira-Mar but they got defeated in the following one by Lens.[1][7] In the second round of the 2000–01 UEFA Cup, Zongo made his last two appearances from the total of seven in the competition as he played in both legs of the loss to Inter Milan on the away goal rule after 1–1 on aggregate.[1][8] From 2001 until 2003 he missed two seasons, being unable to play because he suffered a ligament injury on his right knee, being operated five times.[3][9][10]
In 2004 he went to play for De Graafschap, making his league debut under coach Gert Kruys on 22 August in a 1–1 draw against Den Bosch.[1][3][11][12] In the following round he opened the score in a 2–1 loss to Roda JC.[11][13] On 22 May 2005, he made his last Eredivisie appearance, playing in a 2–1 home loss to his former team, Vitesse, having a total of 101 matches with 16 goals scored in the competition.[1][11] De Graafschap relegated at the end of the season.[1] Zongo stayed with the club for one more season in which he did not play.[1] In 2005 he moved to VVV-Venlo, also in the second league but again did not play.[1][3]
Late career
In 2006, Zongo went to play for Ethnikos in the Greek second league.[1][2] Afterwards he signed on a free transfer for Romanian club, Universitatea Cluj in November 2007 and had a salary of $9,000 per month.[1][2][3][10][14] He made his Liga I debut on 24 November, being used by coach Gheorghe Mulțescu as a starter in a 1–1 draw against Politehnica Iași.[1][9] After only two matches, he was released by the club board in December 2007, on account of his recurring knee injury.[1][2][10] In October 2010, he signed a contract for ASFA Yennega of Burkina Faso and spent the last two years of his playing career with the club.[15]
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International career
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Zongo played 24 games in which he scored 14 goals at international level for Burkina Faso, making his debut on 9 November 1996 under coach Ivan Vutov in a 2–0 away loss to Nigeria at the 1998 World Cup qualifiers.[2][16] His following four games were also at the World Cup qualifiers, Zongo scoring in all of them, starting with a brace against Kenya and one goal against each of Guinea, Nigeria and Kenya again, however all the matches ended up with losses.[2] Afterwards he played in three games at the successful 2000 African Cup of Nations qualifiers, scoring two goals in two wins over Burundi.[2] Then coach René Taelman used him in all three group stage matches from the final tournament which were losses to Senegal and Egypt and a draw against Zambia.[2][17] In the following years, Zongo made two appearances in which he netted three goals at the 2002 World Cup qualifiers and played four games and scored once in a 1–0 win over Angola at the 2002 African Cup of Nations qualifiers.[2] His last four games for The Stallions were at the 2006 World Cup qualifiers, netting one goal in a 1–0 victory against Ghana, his last match being a 2–1 home loss to Cape Verde, played on 26 March 2005.[2]
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Coaching career
In April 2013, Zongo became a head coach of the Burkinabé side Santos.[18]
Career Statistics
International
- Scores and results list Burkina Faso's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Zongo goal.
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Honours
RC Bobo
ASEC Mimosas
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