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| Full name | Boubacar Barry[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1979-12-30)30 December 1979 (age 46)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Marcory, Ivory Coast | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1999–2001 | ASEC Mimosas | 17 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2003 | Rennes B | 23 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2007 | Beveren | 107 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2017 | Lokeren | 239 | (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | OH Leuven | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 386 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2000–2015 | Ivory Coast | 82 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | OH Leuven (goalkeeping coach) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | Gent U21 (goalkeeping coach) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Lokeren-Temse (goalkeeping coach) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Boubacar "Copa" Barry (born 30 December 1979) is an Ivorian former professionalfootballer who played as agoalkeeper. Having begun his career atASEC Mimosas, he moved to France in 2001, where he played forRennes' reserve team. In 2003, he joined Belgian sideBeveren where he stayed four years. He then spent ten years atK.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen amassing 239 league appearances. At international level, he played for theIvory Coast national team before his retirement from international football in March 2015, but continued to play for his club, Lokeren. Exactly four years after his international retirement, Barry retired also professionally as a player in March 2019.
Barry scored a penalty for Lokeren in the 2011–12 season, in a 4–0 win againstWesterlo. He won the Belgian Cup with Lokeren in the same season as well as in the 2013–14 season.[4]
When his contract at Lokeren ran out, he was signed byBelgian First Division B teamOud-Heverlee Leuven, where he was part of the squad during the2017–18 and2018–19 season as backup goalkeeper, but was effectively employed as goalkeeping coach.
He retired from playing on 2 March 2019, although at that point in time he had not played a match for over two years.[5][6]
Barry was called up to the2006 World Cup as part of theIvory Coast national team. He appeared in the final group match againstSerbia and Montenegro on 22 June 2006, which Ivory Coast won 3–2.[7]
He started all three matches for the Ivory Coast inGroup G in the2010 FIFA World Cup.[8] He earned clean sheets againstPortugal[9] andNorth Korea.[10]
He was the first-choice goalkeeper for the Elephants'2014 FIFA World Cup campaign as they narrowly missed out on qualifying for the second round, following an injury-time defeat toGreece.[11]
Barry was called up to the Ivory Coast squad for the2015 Africa Cup of Nations held in Equatorial Guinea. He was benched for most of the tournament in favour of his younger teammateSylvain Gbohouo, but went on to play in the final following Gbohouo's injury in the semi-final.[12] It was his second appearance in the showpiece event having been in goal in the2012 final againstZambia; a match that the Ivory Coast lost 7–8 on penalties after the game finished 0–0.[13] The 2015 final finished goalless after normal and extra-time, and Barry emerged as the hero by saving two penalties and scoring the winning penalty, overcoming a cramp in the process.[4][14][15]
A month later, on 2 March 2015, he retired from international football.[16]
| Club | Season | League[a] | Cup | Europe[b] | Other[c] | Total | ||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Beveren | 2003–04[17] | Belgian Pro League | 31 | 0 | — | — | — | 31 | 0 | |||
| 2004–05[17] | 12 | 0 | — | 6 | 0 | — | 18 | 0 | ||||
| 2005–06[17] | 27 | 0 | — | — | — | 27 | 0 | |||||
| 2006–07[17] | 32 | 0 | — | — | — | 32 | 0 | |||||
| Total | 102 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 108 | 0 | ||
| Lokeren | 2007–08[17] | Belgian Pro League | 23 | 0 | — | — | — | 23 | 0 | |||
| 2008–09[18] | 31 | 0 | — | — | — | 31 | 0 | |||||
| 2009–10[18] | 19 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 20 | 0 | ||||
| 2010–11[18] | 32 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 33 | 0 | ||||
| 2011–12[18] | 27 | 1 | 5 | 0 | — | — | 32 | 1 | ||||
| 2012–13[18] | 27 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | 32 | 0 | |||
| 2013–14[18] | 31 | 0 | 6 | 0 | — | — | 37 | 0 | ||||
| 2014–15[18] | 16 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | — | 25 | 0 | |||
| 2015–16[3][18] | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 7 | 0 | ||||
| 2016–17[17] | 26 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 28 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 239 | 1 | 20 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 268 | 1 | ||
| Career total | 341 | 1 | 20 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 376 | 1 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivory Coast | 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2005 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2006 | 5 | 0 | |
| 2007 | 7 | 0 | |
| 2008 | 13 | 0 | |
| 2009 | 7 | 0 | |
| 2010 | 9 | 0 | |
| 2011 | 5 | 0 | |
| 2012 | 12 | 0 | |
| 2013 | 11 | 0 | |
| 2014 | 8 | 0 | |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 82 | 0 | |
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