Sports 2015 AFCON: Jonathan Pitroipa tops Burkina Faso 24-man squad

Burkina Faso football association have released their squad list for the 2015 African Nations Cup tournament in Equatorial Guinea.

The provisional list includes star players like Jonathan Pitroipa and Alain Traore who are expected to lead their country's charge next year.

Burkina Faso will be hoping to go one past than their runners up finish at the last tournament in South Africa where they lost in the final to Nigeria.

Burkina Faso will be coming up against hosts Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Congo Brazzaville in group A of the tournament.

Provisional squad:

Goalkeepers: Moussa Germain Sanou (WC Beauvais/FRA), Abdoulaye Soulama (Hearts of Oak/GHA), Moussa Fofana (RC Kadiogo/BUR)

Defenders: Bakary Kone (Lyon/FRA), Mohamed Koffi (Zamalek/EGY), Wilfried Balima (Sheriff Tiraspol/MDA), Steve Yago (Toulouse/FRA), Paul Keba Koulibaly (Horoya FC/GUI), Narcisse Bambara ( Universitatea Cluj/ROM), Florent Rouamba (Bastia/FRA), Issa Gouo (AS Kaloum/GUI)

Midfielders: Jonathan Zongo (Almeria/ESP), Moussa Yedan (Al Ahly/EGY), Bertrand Traore (Vitesse Arhnem/NED), Djakaridja Kone (Evian/FRA), Charles Kabore (FC Kuban/RUS), Préjuce Nacoulma (Mersin Idmanyurdu Klubu/TUR), Adama Guira (Sonderyesk/DEN), Abdou Razack Traore (Kardemir Karabuk Sport/TUR)

Forwards: Jonathan Pitroipa (Al Jazira /UAE), Aristide Bancé (HJK Helsinki/FIN), Issiaka Ouédraogo (Admira Wacker/AUS), Alain Traore (Lorient/FRA), Banou Diawara (RC Bobo/BUR)



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