Clémentine Touré (born 21 March 1977) is an Ivorian

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and former

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who coaches the

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. She has also previously coached

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Personal life

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, Touré decided she enjoyed playing football. Her father played professional football, and her two brothers played football, too. Touré has a degree in

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Playing career

As a player, Touré played for a number of Ivorian clubs, as well as in Ghana, where she won three league titles. She made 22 appearances for the

between 1995 and 2002.

Coaching career

Touré's coaching career began in 2004 as an assistant coach at Jeanne d'Arc

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. In 2006, she was appointed head coach of the

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Amazons, with whom she won the Ivorian League. The press questioned her appointment as head coach, primarily due to her gender. In 2006, Touré moved to Equatorial Guinea to coach Águilas Verdes de Guadalupe. In 2008, she became head coach of the

. During her reign, the team won the 2008 African Women's Championship, and came second at the 2010 event, losing to

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in the final. In 2010, Touré was appointed head coach of the

. During her reign as head coach, the team qualified for the 2012 African Women's Championship, where they finished third overall, the 2014 African Women's Championship, and the

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. Touré was one of eight female head coaches at the 24-team 2015 World Cup. Prior to the tournament, the national team had never played a match outside Africa, and in their first match, Ivory Coast lost a record 10–0 to

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. Touré has recruited multiple professional footballers who were born to Ivorian parents outside of the Ivory Coast. At

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, Touré was on the panel to award

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and The Best FIFA Women's Coach awards. During the

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, Touré supported a

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and

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initiative against domestic violence during

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s. In 2020, she became a supporter of the joint FIFA and

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"Recover with Integrity" campaign against corruption in football. Touré's Ivory Coast team failed to qualify for the 2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations, after losing in qualifying to Nigeria. It was the third consecutive AFCON that they had failed to qualify for.

References

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Personal life

Playing career

Coaching career

See also

References