Mamadou Zongo

Early career

Zongo was born in Bobo-Dioulasso, Upper Volta (today Burkina Faso). He began playing football in 1996 at RC Bobo, winning the Burkinabé Premier League championship at the end of his first season, netting a personal record of 22 goals in 25 matches. In the next season he went to play for ASEC Mimosas for which he scored 18 goals in 22 Côte d'Ivoire Premier Division games, as the team won The Double.

Career in Netherlands

Afterwards, Zongo went to play for Dutch side Vitesse, making his Eredivisie debut on 31 October 1998 when coach Herbert Neumann sent him in the 62nd to replace Marko Perović in a 2–1 away loss to Heerenveen. On 3 December, he netted his first goals when he managed a double in a 5–3 away win over Willem II, and in the following round he scored another brace in a 2–0 victory against NAC Breda. In the same season he made his debut in European competitions, helping his side get past AEK Athens in the first round of the 1998–99 UEFA Cup, being eliminated in the second round by Bordeaux. In the next season he netted a brace in a 2–1 win over RKC Waalwijk in the league and helped his side once again get past the first round of the UEFA Cup by eliminating Beira-Mar, but they were defeated in the following round by Lens. In the second round of the 2000–01 UEFA Cup, Zongo made his last two made his last two of his seven total appearances in the competition, as he played in both legs of the loss to Inter Milan on the away goal rule after…

Zongo played 24 games in which he scored 14 goals for Burkina Faso, making his debut on 9 November 1996 under coach Ivan Vutov in a 2–0 away loss to Nigeria in the 1998 World Cup qualifiers. His following four games were also during the World Cup qualifiers, Zongo scoring in all of them, starting with a brace against Kenya and one goal against each of Guinea, Nigeria and Kenya again, but all the matches resulted in losses. Afterwards he played in three games during the successful 2000 African Cup of Nations qualifiers, scoring two goals in two wins over Burundi. Then coach René Taelman used him in all three group stage matches in the final tournament which were losses to Senegal and Egypt, but also a draw against Zambia. In the following years, Zongo made two appearances in which he netted three goals in the 2002 World Cup qualifiers and played four games and scored once in a 1–0 win over Angola during the 2002 African Cup of Nations qualifiers. His last four games for The Stallions were in the 2006 World Cup qualifiers, netting one goal in a 1–0 victory against Ghana, with his last match being a 2–1 home loss to Cape Verde, played on 26 March 2005.

In April 2013, Zongo became head coach of the Burkinabé side Santos. He was appointed head coach of ASFB in 2015.

International

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