Issoufou Dayo

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Issoufou Dayo
Personal information
Full name Issoufou Sellsavon Dayo
Date of birth (1991-08-06) 6 August 1991 (age 30)
Place of birth Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Centre Back[1]
Club information
Current team
 RS Berkane
Number 4
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2011–2013 RC Bobo Dioulasso
2013–2014 Étoile Filante de Ouagadougou
2014–2016 AS Vita Club
2016– RS Berkane 120 (22)
National team‡
2013– Burkina Faso 53 (5)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 12 November 2021

Issoufou Sellsavon Dayo (born 6 August 1991) is a Burkinabé footballer who plays as a defender for RS Berkane and the Burkina Faso national football team.[1][2]

Club career[]

Dayo played for RC Bobo Dioulasso and Étoile Filante de Ouagadougou in Benin, then for AS Vita Club in Congo DR, before joining RS Berkane in Morocco. On 25 October 2020, he scored the winning goal for RS Berkane in a 1–0 victory over Egyptian club Pyramids FC in the 2020 CAF Confederation Cup Final.[3]

International career[]

In January 2014, coach , invited him to be a part of the Burkina Faso squad for the 2014 African Nations Championship which is the Locaux African Cup.[4][5] The team was eliminated in the group stages after losing to Uganda and Zimbabwe and then drawing with Morocco. He was part of the squad in the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations which is his first African cup. In the team's first game he scored a 75th-minute equalizer to gain a point for his nation. This is to date his only goal for his country.[6][7]

International goals[]

Scores and results list Burkina Faso's goal tally first.[8]
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 14 January 2017 Stade d'Angondjé, Libreville, Gabon  Cameroon 1–1 1–1 2017 Africa Cup of Nations
2. 18 November 2018 Estádio 11 de Novembro, Luanda, Angola  Angola 1–2 1��2 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
3. 9 October 2020 Stade El Abdi, El Jadida, Morocco  DR Congo 3–0 3–0 Friendly
4. 11 October 2021 Stade de Marrakech, Marrakesh, Morocco  Djibouti 1–0 2–0 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
5. 12 November 2021  Niger 1–1 1–1

Honours[]

Étoile Filante de Ouagadougou

AS Vita Club

RS Berkane

References[]

  1. ^ a b "2014 CHAN - Burkina Faso Team Profile". mtnfootball.com/m. Archived from the original on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  2. ^ "Squad List for BFA-T0006 Burkina Faso Burkina Faso" (PDF). cafonline.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  3. ^ Football, CAF-Confedération Africaine du. "Total CAF Confederation Cup". CAFOnline.com.
  4. ^ "CHAN 2014: the 23-man squad of Burkina Faso". modernghana.com. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  5. ^ "CHAN 2014 Preview: GROUP B". allsports.com.gh. Archived from the original on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  6. ^ "Burkina Faso/Morocco: Chan 2014 - Burkina Faso Vs Morocco, the Big Shock of the Day". allafrica.com. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  7. ^ "CHAN 2014: Final Result: Burkina Faso 0 - 1 Zimbabwe". cafonline.com/. Archived from the original on 19 April 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  8. ^ "Dayo, Issoufou". National Football Teams. Retrieved 20 January 2017.


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