Zargo Touré
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File:Toure pdp.jpg Touré with Dijon in 2022 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 11 November 1989 | ||
| Place of birth | Pikine, Senegal | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Çorum | ||
| Number | 5 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Sporting Dakar | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2008–2013 | Boulogne | 111 | (2) |
| 2012–2013 | → Le Havre (loan) | 36 | (0) |
| 2013–2015 | Le Havre | 73 | (0) |
| 2015–2018 | Lorient | 76 | (5) |
| 2018–2019 | Trabzonspor | 27 | (0) |
| 2019–2021 | Gençlerbirliği | 55 | (0) |
| 2021–2023 | Dijon | 38 | (2) |
| 2023– | Çorum | 67 | (1) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2012 | Senegal U23 | 4 | (0) |
| 2012–2017 | Senegal | 18 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 15 June 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 23 January 2017 | |||
Zargo Touré (born 11 November 1989) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Turkish club Çorum.[1]
Club career
[edit | edit source]Touré was born in Pikine, Senegal. He began his career at homeland club Sporting Dakar in the Senegalese capital.
Touré joined US Boulogne in 2008, after interest from Olympique Marseille and En Avant Guingamp. He was assigned the number 29 shirt. He plays alongside compatriots Ibrahima Sané – whom he lived with, and Mame N'Diaye, who is on loan from Marseille.
On 31 August 2015, Touré joined the French Ligue 1 side Lorient from Le Havre. On 30 January 2016, he scored two goals against Reims in Lorient's 2–0 win . He was also the man of the match.
On 30 July 2018, Touré signed a three-year, 350.000 Euro to Turkey club Trabzonspor.[2]
On 28 July 2021, he returned to France and signed a two-year contract with Dijon.[3]
International career
[edit | edit source]Zargo was named to the Senegalese Olympic team for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.[4] He made all four appearances in the tournament, reaching the quarterfinals.[5]
Touré made his debut for Senegal in the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualification match against Ivory Coast.
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Touré holds Senegalese and French nationalities.[6]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Zargo Touré at L'Équipe Football (in French)Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Profile on Eurosport
- Profile at No Left Foot[permanent dead link]
- Interview (French)
- Feature (French)
- Living people
- 1989 births
- Men's association football midfielders
- Senegalese men's footballers
- 21st-century Senegalese sportsmen
- Senegal men's international footballers
- Naturalized citizens of France
- French men's footballers
- Ligue 1 players
- Ligue 2 players
- Süper Lig players
- US Boulogne players
- Le Havre AC players
- Trabzonspor footballers
- Gençlerbirliği S.K. footballers
- Dijon FCO players
- Çorum F.K. footballers
- Senegalese expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in France
- Senegalese expatriate sportspeople in France
- Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey
- Senegalese expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
- Olympic footballers for Senegal
- Footballers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- 2015 Africa Cup of Nations players
- 2017 Africa Cup of Nations players
- 21st-century French sportsmen
- Senegalese football midfielder stubs