Salimata Simporé (born 29 January 1987) is a Burkinabé footballer who plays as a forward for Belarusian Premier League club FC Minsk and the Burkina Faso women's national team.
[3][4][5][6][7] In October 2006, Simporé was registered as a player for Equatorial Guinean club Las Vegas.
Simporé was a member of the Burkina Faso women's national football team in 2007 (as their captain), scoring 8 goals,[10] and 2018.
[11] Scores and results list Equatorial Guinea's goal tally first Scores and results list Burkina Faso's goal tally first Beyond the mechanism by which Simporé was naturalized by Equatorial Guinea, the main controversy arose regarding whether Simporé was actually a man.
In 2015, Frigerio, now a former national team coach for Equatorial Guinea, told the Brazilian press Simporé is in fact a man.