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Mariam Abdulai Toloba (born 20 September 1999) is a Belgian footballer who plays as a striker for Première Ligue club Paris FC and the Belgium national team. Toloba is the 2025 Belgian Women’s Footballer of the Year after scoring the winning goal for Standard in the Belgian Cup Final. She previously played for Gent and Anderlecht, and was a UEFA Goal of the Year nominee as a 15-year-old.
After starting in football in the schools teams of Sparta Gent, Evergem and Sparta Petegem, Toloba moved to Gent as a 13-year-old, making her debut in the Belgian Women’s Super League at the age of 15 with Gent in 2015, making headlines for being nominated that year for UEFA’s Goal of the Year while playing for the Belgium under-17s.
Toloba ended her second season in top-class Belgian football by scoring in the Buffalos’ first ever Cup success, a 3–1 victory over Anderlecht to win the 2017 Belgian Women’s Cup Final. Toloba scored the clinching goal near the end. After being beaten 3–2 by Genk in the following year’s Cup semi-final, Gent returned to the Cup Final in 2019, defeating Standard Fémina de Liège 2–0 with Toloba and Marie Minnaert scoring the goals.
Toloba moved to Anderlecht in…
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