Ouagadougou: The coach of the Stallions of Burkina Faso Brama Traoré unveiled Monday in Ouagadougou during a press conference, a list of 23 players without Bertrand Traoré and Issoufou Dayo, to play the 3rd and 4th day of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers, we noted.
Brama Traoré justified the absence of these two players (Bertrand Traoré and Issoufou Dayo) by the sporting choice. ‘It’s the timing. I follow these two players with great interest. Many other players were not called up just like these two players.’
Furthermore, in this list of 23 players there is the return of two players. These are the defensive midfielder of the National Bank, (D1 Egypt) Saïdou Simporé and the goalkeeper of the Vita club of Congo Farid Ouédraogo. Hervé Koffi who was absent during the last FIFA window appears in this list of Brama Traoré.
Four young players celebrate their selection for official matches. This is the case of Mohamed Ouédraogo (SCR Altach, D1 Austria), Ousséni Bouda (San José Earthquakes, D1 United States), Régis N
‘Do (CF Estrela Amadora, D1 Portugal) and Cheick Hassami Traoré (Cancún FC, D2 Mexico) .
No local player appears on the Stallions coach’s list.
The Stallions begin training on May 28 in Casablanca where they will travel to Cairo to play against the Pharaohs of Egypt on June 6 before returning to Bamako to face Sierra Leone.
Egypt leads group A with 6 points (+8) followed by Burkina Faso (4 points +4), Guinea (4 points +1), Sierra Leone (1 point – 2), Ethiopia (1 point – 3) and Djibouti (0 point – 7).
Here is the list of the 23 players summoned as well as their clubs.
Guardians
Hervé Koffi (Sporting Charleroi, D1 Belgium)
Kilian Nikiéma (ADO Den Haag, D2 Netherlands)
Farid Ouédraogo (Vita club, D1 RD Congo)
Defense
Edmond Tapsoba (Bayer Leverkusen, D1 Germany)
Valentin Nouma (FC Saint Éloi Lupopo, D1 RD Congo)
Steeve Yago (Aris Limassol, D1 Cyprus)
Yacouba Nasser Djiga (Red Star Belgrade, D1 Serbia)
Adamo Nagalo (FC Nordsjælland, D1 Denmark)
Mohamed Ouédraogo (SCR Altach, D1 Austria)
Environmen
ts
Gustavo Fabrice Sangaré (Quevilly-Rouen, D2 France)
Ibrahim Blati Touré (Pyramids FC, D1 Egypt)
Cédric Badolo (Sheriff Tiraspol, D1 Moldova)
Stéphane Aziz Ki (Young Africans, D1 Tanzania)
Ismahila Ouédraogo (Panserraikos FC, D1 Greece)
Sacha Bancé (Valenciennes, D2 France)
Saïdou Simporé (National Bank, D1 Egypt)
Attackers
Dango Aboubacar Faissal Ouattara (AFC Bournemouth, D1 England)
Ousseni Bouda (San José Earthquakes, D1 United States)
Lassina Traoré (Shakhtar Donetsk, D1 Ukraine)
Régis N’Do (CF Estrela Amadora, D1 Portugal)
Bureima Hassane Bandé (HJK Helsinki, D1 Norway)
Mohamed Konaté (Akhmat Grozny, D1 Russia)
Cheick Hassami Traoré (Cancún FC, D2 Mexico)
Source: Burkina Information Agency