Mali national football team
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| Nickname | Les Aigles (The Eagles) |
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| Association | Fédération Malienne de Football |
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| Confederation | CAF (Africa) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach | Jean Francois Jodar, 2006- | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top scorer | Kanouté(5) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home stadium | Stade 26 mars | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA code | MLI | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA ranking | 35 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest FIFA ranking | 36 (February 2007) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lowest FIFA ranking | 117 (October 2001) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elo ranking | 60 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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First international Mali 4 - 3 Central African Rep.  (Madagascar; 13 April 1960) |
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Biggest win Mali 6 - 0 Mauritania  (Mali; 1 May 1975) |
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Biggest defeat Algeria 7 - 0 Mali (Algeria; 13 November 1988)  Kuwait 8 - 1 Mali (Kuwait City, Kuwait; 5 September 1997) |
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| Appearances | 4 (First in 1972) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | Second place, 1972 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Mali national football team, nicknamed Les Aigles (The Eagles), is the national team of Mali and is controlled by the Fédération Malienne de Football. They have never qualified for the World Cup finals; in fact, although the association was affiliated with FIFA in 1962, Mali's first World Cup qualifier wasn't played until 2000.
In March 2005, riots broke out in Bamako after Mali lost a World Cup qualifier to Togo, 2-1 on a last minute goal.
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[edit] Mali Football Achievements
- Amilcar Cabral Cup :
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- 2 Times Champion (1989, 1997)
- 4 Times Runners-up
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[edit] World Cup record
- 1930 to 1962 - Did not enter
- 1966 - Withdrew
- 1970 to 1990 - Did not enter
- 1994 - Withdrew
- 1998 - Withdrew
- 2002 - Did not qualify
- 2006 - Did not qualify
[edit] African Nations Cup record
- 1957 to 1963 - Did not enter
- 1965 to 1970 - Did not qualify
- 1972 - Second place
- 1974 - Did not qualify
- 1976 - Did not qualify
- 1978 - Disqualified
- 1980 - Did not enter
- 1982 to 1986 - Did not qualify
- 1988 - Withdrew
- 1990 - Did not qualify
- 1992 - Did not qualify
- 1994 - Fourth place
- 1996 - Did not qualify
- 1998 - Did not qualify
- 2000 - Did not qualify
- 2002 - Fourth place
- 2004 - Fourth place
- 2006 - Did not qualify
[edit] Selected players
- Adama Coulibaly
- Dramane Coulibaly
- Soumaila Coilibaly
- Mamadou Diallo
- Souleymane Diamoutene
- Mahamadou Diarra
- Fousseiny Diawara
- Frédéric Kanouté
- Boubacar Koné
- Djibril Sidibé
- Mohamed Sissoko
- Adama Tamboura
- Bassala Touré
- Alain Claude Traoré
- Dramane Traoré
- Mahrahane Traoré
- Djimi Traoré
- Cheick Oumar Dabo
- Sidi Yaya Keita
