Mohamed Kader
![]() Kader with Togo in 2006 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Mohamed Abdel-Kader Coubadja-Touré | ||
Date of birth | 8 April 1979 | ||
Place of birth | Sokodé, Togo | ||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1995–1997 | Étoile Filante de Lomé | 23 | (27) |
1997–1998 | CA Bizertin | 24 | (16) |
1998–2002 | Parma | 0 | (0) |
1999–2000 | → Lugano (loan) | 8 | (0) |
2000–2001 | → Al Ahli Tripoli (loan) | 29 | (17) |
2002 | Vicenza | 4 | (0) |
2002–2004 | Servette | 73 | (29) |
2004–2005 | Sochaux | 20 | (1) |
2005–2008 | Guingamp | 38 | (1) |
2006–2007 | → Al Jazira (loan) | 9 | (7) |
2008–2009 | Al Dhafra | 10 | (13) |
2010–2011 | Ajman | 13 | (9) |
2012–2014 | Sochaux B | 71 | (18) |
Total | 322 | (138) | |
National team | |||
1995–2010 | Togo | 87 | (24) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Mohamed Abdel-Kader Coubadja-Touré (born 8 April 1979) is a Togolese former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Club career[]
After starting out with Étoile Filante de Lomé, he left Togo for CA Bizertin (Tunisia) before landing at AC Parma in Italy in 1998, from where he had loan spells at clubs in Switzerland, Egypt and Italy. In 2003–04 he scored 19 goals in 35 matches for Swiss outfit Servette FC and was elected best Togolese player abroad. Kader also played for En Avant Guingamp in France, but left the club in the summer of 2008.
International career[]
Kader's star rose in his home country after he scored the late winner in the 1998 African Cup of Nations match against Ghana, thus securing the Togo national team's first ever win at the tournament. The forward later played in the 2000 and 2002 editions, as well as featuring in Togo's disappointing campaign in Egypt in 2006.
He helped Togo reach the 2006 World Cup, their first World Cup ever. He further scored the team's first and only World Cup goal in a loss to South Korea.[1]
References[]
- ^ "South Korea 2-1 Togo". BBC Sport. 13 June 2006. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
External links[]
- Mohamed Kader at L'Équipe Football (in French)
- Mohamed Kader at National-Football-Teams.com
- 1979 births
- Living people
- People from Sokodé
- Association football forwards
- Togolese footballers
- Togo international footballers
- Togolese Muslims
- 2006 FIFA World Cup players
- 1998 African Cup of Nations players
- 2000 African Cup of Nations players
- 2002 African Cup of Nations players
- 2006 Africa Cup of Nations players
- CA Bizertin players
- Parma Calcio 1913 players
- FC Lugano players
- Al Ahli Club (Dubai) players
- L.R. Vicenza players
- Servette FC players
- FC Sochaux-Montbéliard players
- En Avant Guingamp players
- Al Jazira Club players
- Al Dhafra FC players
- Ajman Club players
- Étoile Filante du Togo players
- Ligue 1 players
- Ligue 2 players
- Serie B players
- Swiss Super League players
- UAE Pro League players
- Togolese expatriate footballers
- Togolese expatriate sportspeople in Tunisia
- Expatriate footballers in Tunisia
- Togolese expatriate sportspeople in Italy
- Expatriate footballers in Italy
- Togolese expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
- Expatriate footballers in Switzerland
- Expatriate footballers in the United Arab Emirates
- 21st-century Togolese people