Bachirou Salou

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Bachirou Salou
Full name	Bachirou Salou
Date of birth	September 15, 1970 (1970-09-15) (age 37)
Place of birth	Lomé, Togo
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Retired
Youth clubs
-1988 1989-1990	Omnisport Lomé Panthere Sportive de Bangangte
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1990-1995 1995-1998 1998-1999 1999-2000 2000-2003 2003 2003 2004 2005-2006	Borussia Mönchengladbach MSV Duisburg Borussia Dortmund Eintracht Frankfurt Hansa Rostock SC Kapellen-Erft Alemannia Aachen AS Eupen SC Kapellen-Erft	86 (13) 95 (26) 25 0(5) 34 0(8) 46 0(7) 14 0(3)
National team
	Togo
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Bachirou Salou (born 15 September 1970) is a Togolese former football (soccer) player, with German nationality. During his career, Salou most notably played for a number of teams in the German Bundesliga. Salou played as a striker, and played 39 games for the Togo national football team.

Born in Lomé, Salou was spotted at the age of 19, by former Czech Republic national player Anton Ondruš. Ondruš was on holiday in Cameroon, where he saw Salou play in a provincial team. With the help of Ondruš, Salou moved to German Bundesliga team Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1990, where he quickly became a fan favourite.

In his time at Mönchengladbach, Salou helped the team win the 1995 DFB-Pokal. Having scored 13 goals in 86 league games for Mönchengladbach between 1990 and 1995, he moved to 2nd Bundesliga team MSV Duisburg. He helped Duisburg, win promotion for the Bundesliga, scoring a combined 26 goals in 95 league games for the club. In 1998, he moved to Borussia Dortmund, where he spent a single season. Salou played on for Bundesliga clubs Eintracht Frankfurt and Hansa Rostock, before moving to the 2nd Bundelsiga club Alemannia Aachen in 2003.

After 14 years in the premier and second leagues of Germany, Salou moved away in 2004, to play for AS Eupen in the second league of Belgium. He stayed in Eupen for half a year, before moving on to play amateur football.