Marie-Yasmine Alidou

About

Marie-Yasmine “Mimi” Alidou d’Anjou (born April 28, 1995) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Northern Super League club Montreal Roses FC and the Canada national team.

Alidou was born in Montreal, Quebec and raised in Saint-Hubert, Quebec to a Beninese father and a French Canadian mother. She played the majority of her youth soccer with CS St-Hubert and also had stints with FC St-Leonard, Lanaudiere Sud and Varennes-St. Amable. She joined the National High Performance Centre at age 13, where she played for a year, and later moved to Newark, New Jersey to attend an American high school.

Alidou has attended the Université du Québec à Montréal. In 2016, she was named RSEQ Player of the Week for Week 2, UQAM Athlete of the Year, an RSEQ First Team All-Star, and a U Sports Second Team All-Star.

In 2017, Alidou joined French club Olympique de Marseille.
Afterwards, she played for Swedish club Linköpings FC in 2018. A year later, she joined Sporting de Huelva in Spain. Afterwards, she played for Klepp IL in Norway in 2020–21 and Sturm Graz in 2022.
In 2022, she signed with Famalicão in Portugal in…