Souleymane Coulibaly

Souleymane Coulibaly

Personal information
Full name	Souleymane Coulibaly
Date of birth	26 December 1994 (1994-12-26) (age 17)
Place of birth	Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current club	Tottenham Hotspur
Youth career
2009–2011	Siena
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2011–	Tottenham Hotspur	0	(0)
National team
2011–	Côte d'Ivoire U17	4	(9)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Souleymane Coulibaly (born 26 December 1994) is an Ivorian footballer who plays as a centre forward for English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the Côte d'Ivoire national under-17 football team.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Club career 2.1 Siena 2.2 Tottenham Hotspur 3 International career 4 References

Biography

As a 13-year-old Coulibaly emigrated to Italy to avoid conflict in Côte d'Ivoire.^[1] He joined his father who had married an Italian woman.^[2][3]

Club career

Siena

Soon after arriving in Italy he signed for A.C. Siena.^[4] In 2010-11 he played 10 games for the Siena under-19s, scoring once.^[5]

Tottenham Hotspur

On 18 July 2011 Tottenham Hotspur confirmed they had signed Coulibaly following his golden boot-winning performance at the FIFA Under-17 World Cup.^[6] 'Soli' scored for the Tottenham Hotspur XI on his debut against Brighton and Hove Albion in Algarve.

Coulibaly then scored twice in a 7-1 win for Spurs youth over Inter Milan in their second group game of the NextGen Tournament on 31st August 2011. He also opened the scoring in their third group game away at PSV, where they won 2-1. On 22 December 2011, Coulibaly scored an injury time winner against Stevenage in the FA Youth Cup.

International career

Souleymane Coulibaly began his international career with Côte d'Ivoire national under-17 football team at the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup where he scored nine goals in four matches: one goal against Australia, 4 goals against Denmark, and a hat-trick in a draw against Brazil.^[7][8][9] Coulibaly also scored a goal in a 2-3 loss to France in the Round of 16. He is the tournament's topscorer. When it comes to "most goals scored at one tournament" only one other player scored the same amount of goals, Florent Sinama Pongolle from France (at the earlier held 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship), who did that in six matches, not in Coulibaly's four.^[10] He scored nine of his side's ten goals overall, which meant that he scored every 40 minutes of match time, or slightly more than once per half played.^{[11][12][13][14]}

As a result of his performances, Coulibaly was linked in the media to moves to Manchester United and Real Madrid.^[15][16][17] He has received the label of the "New Drogba" in reference to fellow Ivorian footballer Didier Drogba.^{[18][19][20][21]}

References

Tottenham Hotspur F.C. – current squad 1 Gomes 3 Bale 4 Kaboul 6 Huddlestone 7 Lennon 8 Parker 9 Pavlyuchenko 10 Adebayor 11 Van der Vaart 13 Gallas 14 Modrić 17 Giovani 18 Defoe 19 Bassong 20 Dawson 21 Kranjčar 22 Ćorluka 23 Cudicini 24 Friedel 25 Rose 26 King (c) 27 Falqué 28 Walker 29 Livermore 30 Sandro 32 Assou-Ekotto 40 Pienaar 47 Nicholson Manager: Redknapp

Persondata
Name	Coulibaly, Souleymane
Alternative names
Short description	Côte d'Ivoire association footballer
Date of birth	26 December 1994
Place of birth	Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Date of death
Place of death