When he played between the poles, Copa Boubacar was quite a character in the Belgian championship. He reopens the memory box.
In Ivory Coast, Boubacar Cup will forever remain a legend for his 86 caps, and especially for his major role in the CAN victory in 2012.
Despite this, the goalkeeper with 345 Pro League matches will forever harbor one regret: that of not having been able to win the Ebony Shoe. In 2009, he firmly believed in it: “A week before, I humbly told myself that I deserved to win it. I wanted to make history as a goalkeeper, I didn’t think I could repeat a year like this one. there” he remembers for DAZN.
More Mbark Boussoufa beat him: He probably deserved to win too. But I promised my son I would win it. I came home empty-handed, it’s a disappointment,” he remembers, letting out several tears. “We are role models for our children.”
A trophy that means a lot
“Failure also allows you to grow. I always told my children that success was to go from failure to failure, without ever giving up,” he reflects philosophically.
Little Kaïs, three years old at the time, came to console his father on stage by surprise: “I didn’t expect to see him. It was a pride to receive the (second) trophy. When I handed it over to my son, it was as if I was passing the torch to him, so that he too could be a champion, but he broke the trophy,” he laughs. “Thank God, we were able to put it back together, it will remain engraved in my memory.” A more than symbolic handover since Kaïs Barry is now central defender for the RSCA Futures.
