Bafétimbi Gomis

Bafétimbi Gomis
Gomis (2015)
Personnel
birthday	August 6, 1985
place of birth	La Seyne-sur-Mer ,  France
size	184 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2003-2009	AS Saint-Etienne	131 (32)
2005	→  ES Troyes AC  (loan)	13 0(6)
2009-2014	Olympique Lyon	178 (64)
2014-2017	Swansea City	64 (13)
2016-2017	→  Olympique Marseille  (loan)	31 (20)
2017-2018	Galatasaray Istanbul	34 (29)
2018–	al-Hilal	26 (19)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2008-2013	France	12 0(3)
1 Only league games are given. As of April 4, 2019 2 As of January 12, 2016

Bafétimbi "Bafé" Gomis (born August 6, 1985 in La Seyne-sur-Mer ) is a French football player of Senegalese descent. He plays for Al-Hilal .

Career

societies

The striker comes from AS Saint-Étienne's youth department . In July 2003 he signed his first professional contract there. By January 2005, he played 17 times and scored two goals. Then Gomis was loaned to ES Troyes AC until June 2005 , for which he scored six goals in 13 games. For the 2005/06 season he returned to Saint-Étienne. In the 2006/07 season he scored ten goals, some of them spectacular, in 30 games. After the European Championship in 2008 , Gomis extended his contract with AS Saint-Étienne until 2012, but moved to Olympique Lyon for the 2009/10 season and signed a five-year contract there. There he completed his personally most successful season in the 2011/12 season, when he met 24 times in 54 matches for his club.

On December 7, 2011, Gomis scored three goals in the Champions League game at Dinamo Zagreb within seven minutes (45th / 48th / 52nd), making him the fastest hat trick in the competition to date . He later scored a fourth goal. Only Lionel Messi and Luiz Adriano later scored five more goals in a game. In July 2014, Gomis joined Swansea City on a free transfer . During the 2016/17 season the striker was loaned to Olympique Marseille .

For the 2017/18 season, Gomis signed a three-year contract with Galatasaray Istanbul . In his first league game on August 14, 2017 (1st matchday), he scored two goals in a 4-1 win against Kayserispor . In addition, Gomis was able to become Turkish champions with Galatasaray and set a new record with 29 league goals in the Süper Lig for a foreigner who scored the most goals in a Süper Lig season and was crowned top scorer.

On August 23, 2018, Gomis moved to Al-Hilal in Saudi Arabia . Galatasaray received a transfer fee of 6 million euros.

National team

At the beginning of 2008, Senegalese national coach Henryk Kasperczak asked him to take part in the African Nations Cup with Senegal . Gomis refused because he had chosen the French selection.

At the end of May 2008 he was called up to the French A-Eleven and came on as a substitute for the EM preparatory game against Ecuador in the second half. With Gomis, a player from AS Saint-Étienne wore the blue national jersey for the first time in 26 years. He made his debut with two goals at the 2-0 Bleus , which in the 104-year history of the national team was last achieved before him by Zinédine Zidane in 1994.

He was then appointed to the French squad for the 2008 European Championship finals . At the EM Gomis came on in the first group game against Romania (0-0) for Nicolas Anelka in the 72nd minute. In the 1: 4 against the Netherlands , the striker came on in the 60th minute for Florent Malouda . He was not used in the decisive group game against Italy . France was eliminated as the bottom of the group.

After that, it was only used sporadically in a few friendlies and one qualifying game each for the 2010 World Cup and 2014 World Cup .

successes

Galatasaray Istanbul

• Turkish champion : 2017/18

Individually

• Top scorer of the Süper Lig : 2017/18
• Footballer of the Year (Turkey) : 2018

Others

Gomis is the cousin of the professional soccer players Namplays Mendy and Alexandre Mendy .

Web links

• Bafétimbi Gomis in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Bafétimbi Gomis in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ transfermarkt.de: Gomis to Lyon. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 1, 2009 ; Retrieved July 29, 2009 . 
2. ↑ Bafetimbi Gomis desoye al Tottenham (Spanish) on www.fichajes.com from July 19, 2012, accessed on July 19, 2012
3. ↑ galatasaray.org: Bafétimbi Gomis Galatasaray'da , accessed on June 29, 2017.
4. ↑ http://www.weltfussball.de/spielbericht/sueperlig-2017-2018-galatasaray-kayserispor/
5. ↑ galatasaray.org: Bafetimbi Gomis Al-Hilal Saudi'ye transfer oldu , accessed on August 24, 2018.
6. ↑ UEFA on May 27, 2008: Gomis commence par un doublé
7. ↑ girondins33.com: Alexandre et Nampalys Mendy, une histoire de famille dans le mercato bordelais? (June 26, 2017) , accessed August 21, 2018