Issoufou Sellsavon Dayo (born 6 August 1991) is a Burkinabé professional

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who plays as a

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for

RS Berkane Renaissance Sportive de Berkane () commonly referred to as Nahdat Berkane or RS Berkane for short, is a Moroccan professional football club based in Berkane, that competes in Botola, the top flight of Moroccan football. Founded on 21 May 1938 a ...

(which he captains) and the Burkina Faso national team. Issoufou Dayo featured in the AFCON 2021 third place match against

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Club career

Dayo played for RC Bobo Dioulasso and

Étoile Filante de Ouagadougou Étoile Filante de Ouagadougou ("Ouagadougou Shooting Star") is a Burkinabé football club based in Ouagadougou. They play their home games at the Stade du 4 Août. The club's colors are blue and white. Honours * Burkinabé Premier League: 13 : ...

in Benin, then for

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in Congo DR, before joining

in Morocco. On 25 October 2020, he scored the winning goal for RS Berkane in a 1–0 victory over Egyptian club

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in the 2020 CAF Confederation Cup Final.

International career

In January 2014, coach Brama Traore, invited him to be a part of the

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squad for the

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. The team was eliminated in the group stages after losing to

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and

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and then drawing with

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. He was part of the squad in the

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which is his first African cup. In the team's first game he scored a 75th-minute equalizer to gain a point for his nation. This is to date his only goal for his country.

Career statistics

:''Scores and results list Burkina Faso's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Dayo goal.''

Honours

Étoile Filante de Ouagadougou * Burkinabé Premier League: 2013–14 AS Vita Club *

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: 2014–15 RS Berkane *

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: 2024–25 *

Moroccan Throne Cup The Moroccan Throne Cup or the Throne Cup () is a knockout football tournament in Moroccan football, organized by the Royal Moroccan Football Federation.The first club to win this cup was Mouloudia Oujda. Since the inception of the cup, the sy ...

: 2017–18, 2020–21, 2021–22 *

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: 2019–20, 2021–22, 2024–25; runner-up: 2018–19, 2023–24 *

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2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

Burkina Faso *

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third place:

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Individual *

Best Foreign Player of the Season: 2021–22] *Burkina Faso Player of the Year: 2022–23, 2024–25 Records * RS Berkane, RS Berkane all-time top scorer: 49 goals.

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1991 births Living people Burkinabe men's footballers Footballers from Bobo-Dioulasso 21st-century Burkinabe sportsmen Burkina Faso men's international footballers Men's association football central defenders Burkina Faso men's A' international footballers 2014 African Nations Championship players 2017 Africa Cup of Nations players 2021 Africa Cup of Nations players 2023 Africa Cup of Nations players Étoile Filante de Ouagadougou players RS Berkane players Burkinabe expatriate men's footballers Burkinabe expatriate sportspeople in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Expatriate men's footballers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Burkinabe expatriate sportspeople in Morocco Expatriate men's footballers in Morocco {{BurkinaFaso-footy-bio-stub