Mohamed Kader

Mohamed Abdel-Kader Coubadja-Touré (born 8 April 1979) is a Togolese former professional footballer who played as a forward.

Mohamed Kader Touré

Kader with Togo in 2006
Personal information
Full name	Mohamed Abdel-Kader Coubadja-Touré[1]
Date of birth	(1979-04-08) 8 April 1979 (age 46)
Place of birth	Sokodé, Togo
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1995–1997	Étoile Filante de Lomé	23	(27)
1997–1998	CA Bizertin	24	(16)
1998–2002	Parma	0	(0)
1999–2000	→ Lugano (loan)	8	(0)
2000–2001	→ Al Ahli Tripoli (loan)	29	(17)
2002	Vicenza	4	(0)
2002–2004	Servette	73	(29)
2004–2005	Sochaux	20	(1)
2005–2008	Guingamp	38	(1)
2006–2007	→ Al Jazira (loan)	9	(7)
2008–2009	Al Dhafra	10	(13)
2010–2011	Ajman	13	(9)
2012–2014	Sochaux B	71	(18)
Total		322	(138)
International career
1995–2009	Togo[2]	61	(13)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

After starting with Étoile Filante de Lomé, he left Togo for CA Bizertin (Tunisia) before landing at AC Parma in Italy in 1998, from where he had loan spells at clubs in Switzerland, Egypt and Italy. In 2003–04 he scored 19 goals in 35 matches for Swiss outfit Servette FC and was elected best Togolese player abroad. Kader also played for En Avant Guingamp in France but left the club in the summer of 2008.

International career

Kader's star rose in his home country after he scored the late winner in the 1998 African Cup of Nations match against Ghana, thus securing the Togo national team's first ever win at the tournament. The forward later played in the 2000 and 2002 editions, as well as featuring in Togo's disappointing campaign in Egypt in 2006.

He helped Togo reach the 2006 World Cup, their first World Cup ever. He further scored the team's first and only World Cup goal in a loss to South Korea.^[3]