Adama Guira
Guira with Burkina Faso in 2022
Personal information
Date of birth (1988-04-24) 24 April 1988 (age 35)
Place of birth Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Qingdao Hainiu
Number 24
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2008 RC Bobo Dioulasso
2008–2009 Gavà 27 (0)
2009–2010 Alicante 34 (1)
2010–2011 Logroñés 17 (0)
2011 Djurgården 6 (0)
2011–2013 Dacia Chișinău 25 (0)
2013–2016 SønderjyskE 96 (3)
2016–2017 Lens 7 (0)
2017 Lens II 4 (0)
2017–2019 AGF 51 (0)
2019–2020 R&F 11 (1)
2021 SønderjyskE 4 (0)
2021–2022 Racing Rioja 12 (0)
2022– Qingdao Hainiu 0 (0)
International career‡
2010– Burkina Faso 38 (0)
Medal record
Representing  Burkina Faso
Africa Cup of Nations
Third place 2017 Gabon
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 March 2022
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 08:04, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

Adama Guira (born 24 April 1988) is a Burkinabé professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Chinese club Qingdao Hainiu and the Burkina Faso national team.

Club career

Born in Bobo-Dioulasso, Guira has played club football in Burkina Faso, Spain, Sweden, Moldova and Denmark for RC Bobo Dioulasso, Gavà, Alicante, Logroñés, Djurgården, Dacia Chișinău and SønderjyskE.[1][2][3][4]

In July 2017, Guira returned to Denmark and joined AGF.[5] He left the club two years later, to join Hong Kong Premier League club R&F.[6] On 14 October 2020, Guira left the club after his club's withdrawal from the HKPL in the new season.[7]

On 6 February 2021, Guira returned to SønderjyskE in Denmark, on a deal for the rest of the season.[8] He left the club again at the end of the contract.[9] He then signed for Racing Rioja.[10]

International career

Guira made his international debut for Burkina Faso in 2010.[1] He was selected as part of Burkina Faso's preliminary squad for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations.[11]

Honors

Burkina Faso

References

  1. ^ a b c "Adama Guira". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
  2. ^ Adama Guira at Soccerway. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
  3. ^ "Profile". BDFutbol. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
  4. ^ Peder Ernerot (1 June 2011). "Adama Guira klar för DIF" (in Swedish). Djurgårdens IF. Archived from the original on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
  5. ^ VELKENDT MIDTBANEKRIGER FÅR TRE ÅR I AGF Archived 17 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine, agf.dk, 8 July 2017
  6. ^ AGF's Guira drager til Hong Kong, bold.dk, 1 July 2019
  7. ^ 港超︱富力R&F落實棄戰港超　稱退出因現時香港足球氛圍. Ming Pao. 14 October 2020.
  8. ^ Gammel kending får kontrakt i SønderjyskE frem til sommer, soenderjyske.dk, 6 February 2021
  9. ^ SønderjyskE tager afsked med midtbanespiller, jv.dk, 21 May 2021
  10. ^ @RiojaRacing (10 August 2021). "✅FICHAJEADAMA GUIRA, medio proveniente de Sonderjyske Superliga de Dinamarca.Jugador internacional por Burkina Fa…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  11. ^ "Nations Cup 2015: Traore brothers in Burkina Faso squad". BBC Sport. 23 December 2014. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
  12. ^ "2017 Africa Cup of Nations squads". newvision.co. New Vision. 13 January 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  13. ^ McCauley, Kim (14 January 2017). "Africa Cup of Nations 2017 schedule, scores and what you need to know". SBNation.com.
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