Issouf Paro (born 16 October 1994) is a Burkinabé international

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who plays as a

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for Azerbaijani Premier League club

Araz-Naxçıvan PFK Araz-Naxçıvan PFK () is an Azerbaijani professional football (soccer), football club based in Nakhchivan City, Nakchivan. The club played in the Azerbaijan Premier League again in 2014–15 Azerbaijan Premier League, 2014–15 after being prom ...

. He previously played in his homeland for Étoile Filante and in South Africa with Santos.

Club career

Born in

Bobo-Dioulasso Bobo-Dioulasso ( , ) is a city in Burkina Faso with a population of 1,129,000 (); it is the second-largest city in the country, after Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital. The name means "home of the Bobo- Dioula". The local Bobo-speaking pop ...

, Paro has played for Étoile Filante, Santos,

Niort Niort (; Poitevin: ''Niàu''; ; ) is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department, western France. It is the prefecture of Deux-Sèvres. The population of Niort is 58,707 (2017) and more than 177,000 people live in the urban area. Geography T ...

and Niort II. On 21 June 2022, Paro joined

Concarneau Concarneau (, meaning "Bay of Cornouaille") is a Communes of France, commune in the Finistère Departments of France, department of Brittany (administrative region), Brittany in Northwestern France. Concarneau is bordered to the west by the Baie ...

on an initial one-season deal. On 3 September 2024, the

Azerbaijan Premier League The Azerbaijan Premier League (), also known as Misli Premyer Liqası for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Azerbaijan and the highest level of the Azerbaijani football league system. It is contested by twelve ...

club Araz-Naxçıvan signed a one-year contract with Paro.

International career

Paro made his international debut in 2015, and was named in the squad for the

2017 Africa Cup of Nations The 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (abbreviated as AFCON 2017 or CAN 2017), known as the Total 2017 Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons, was the 31st edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the biennial international men's football champions ...

References

1994 births Living people Burkinabe men's footballers Burkina Faso men's international footballers Étoile Filante de Ouagadougou players Santos F.C. (South Africa) players Chamois Niortais FC players US Concarneau players National First Division players Ligue 2 players Championnat National 3 players Men's association football defenders Burkinabe expatriate men's footballers Burkinabe expatriate sportspeople in South Africa Expatriate men's soccer players in South Africa Burkinabe expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate men's footballers in France 2017 Africa Cup of Nations players Araz-Naxçıvan PFK players Burkinabe expatriate sportspeople in Azerbaijan Expatriate men's footballers in Azerbaijan 21st-century Burkinabe sportsmen {{BurkinaFaso-footy-bio-stub