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Donald-Olivier Sié

Ivorian and French association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ181041 ↗
Source-derived summary

Donald-Olivier Sié (born 3 April 1970) is an Ivorian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He participated at the 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2000 Africa Cup of Nations.

He played for Toulouse FC in Ligue 1. He later played for lower-league side JS Cugnaux.

Sié acquired French nationality by naturalization on 27 July 2005.

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The public source identifies “Donald-Olivier Sié” as ivorian and French association football player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Donald-Olivier, Ivorian and French.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 1992, 1994, 1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Donald-Olivier, Ivorian and French providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q181041. The first chronological checks are 1970, 1992, 1994 and 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “Donald-Olivier Sié” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.