Ibrahima Bangoura is a Guinea

Guinea

Guinea , officially the Republic of Guinea , is a country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea , it is today sometimes called Guinea-Conakry to distinguish it from its neighbour Guinea-Bissau. Guinea is divided into eight administrative regions and subdivided into thirty-three prefectures...

n footballer

Football (soccer)

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 who currently plays in Mali

Mali

Mali , officially the Republic of Mali , is a landlocked country in Western Africa. Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west. Its size is just over 1,240,000 km² with...

 for Djoliba Athletic Club.

Bangoura was a member of the Guinea

Guinea national football team

The Guinea national football team, nicknamed Syli national , is the national team of Guinea and is controlled by the Fédération Guinéenne de Football. They have never qualified for the World Cup finals, and their best finish in the African Nations Cup was second in the 1976...

 squad for the 2006 African Nations Cup, where the team was eliminated in the quarter-finals. His cousin Ismaël Bangoura

Ismaël Bangoura

Ismaël Bangoura is a Guinean football striker who currently plays for Al Nasr SC and the Guinea national team. His favourite position is striker. Also, Bangoura has played as a winger and attacking midfielder.-Early career:...

 is also a footballer and a member of the team. His favourite position is second striker although he has played as winger or as an attacking midfielder. He is well known for his pace.

Early career

Bangoura started his career in his native Guinea at local side FC Istres

FC Istres

Football Club Istres Ouest Provence is a French association football club based in Istres. The club was formed in 1920 and currently play in Ligue 2, the second level of French football having achieved promotion to the league following the 2008–09 season. Istres plays its home matches at the...

 before being spotted by scouts from Gazélec Ajaccio

Gazélec Ajaccio

Gazélec Football Club Olympique Ajaccio was founded in 1910. The club is based in Ajaccio, Corsica.- Honours :* French Amateur Champions: 1963, 1965, 1966, 1968.* Corsican Champions: 1937, 1938, 1956, 1957, 1961.-Current squad:...

. He joined the Corsica

Corsica

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n side, scoring 15 times in 44 games for his new club, before moving to French Ligue 1

Ligue 1

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 outfit Le Mans

Le Mans UC72

Le Mans Football Club is a French association football club based in Le Mans. The club was founded in 1985 as a result of a merger under the name Le Mans Union Club 72. In 2010, Le Mans changed its name to Le Mans FC to coincide with the re-modeling of the club, which includes moving into a new...

 in 2005. He made his debut on November 5, 2005 against French giants Marseille

Olympique de Marseille

Olympique de Marseille is a French association football club based in Marseille. Founded in 1899, the club plays in Ligue 1 and have spent most of its history in the top tier of French football. Marseille have been French champions nine times and have won the Coupe de France a record ten times. In...

, starting his top-flight career in perfect style with a goal in his sides 3-0 victory. He ended his first season having played 23 times, scoring a respectable six goals. In the 2006/07 season he was the top scorer for Le Mans with 12 goals in 33 games as well as being the joint second highest scorer in the French league.

Move to Turkey

On 25 January 2009 Bangoura signed a five-year-contract with Denizlispor

Denizlispor

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. The transfer fee was estimated to be around €300,000. Ibrahima quickly became a fan favourite, and established himself as a talented goal scorer. Bangoura's other notable feature is his goal celebration, which he performs with fellow teammate and Senegalese

Senegal national football team

The Senegal national football team, nicknamed the Lions of Teranga, is the national team of Senegal and is controlled by the Fédération Sénégalaise de Football...

 international defender Pape Diakhate

Pape Diakhaté

Pape Malickou Diakhaté is a Senegalese professional footballer who currently plays in Spain for Granada CF.-Career:...

, it resembles an Africa

Africa

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In 2010, he moved to Konyaspor

Konyaspor

Konyaspor is a professional Turkish football club based in Konya. Konyaspor currently play in the Süper Lig. The club was founded in 1922 but then reformed in 1981. The club colours are green and white and they play their home games at Konya Atatürk Stadium....

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