Didier Ya Konan

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Didier Ya Konan
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Ya Konan (2015)
Personnel
birthday May 22, 1984
place of birth Abidjan ,  Ivory Coast
size 174 cm
position Sturm , attacking midfield
Juniors
Years station
0000-2002 Olympic Sport Abobo
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2003-2006 ASEC Mimosas 77 (18)
2007-2009 Rosenborg Trondheim 50 (13)
2009-2014 Hannover 96 125 (39)
2014-2015 Al-Ittihad 5 0(2)
2015 Hannover 96 7 0(1)
2015-2017 Fortuna Dusseldorf 20 0(4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2006-2014 Ivory Coast 26 0(7)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2016/17

Didier Ya Konan (born May 22, 1984 in Abidjan ) is an Ivorian football player . The offensive player, who can be used as both a midfielder and a striker , made his debut in 2006 in the senior national team of Ivory Coast .

Career

In the club

Ya Konan started playing soccer at Olympic Sport Abobo . In 2003 he joined ASEC Mimosas from his native Abidjan. With the club he won the Ivorian championship several times and competed in the African Champions League at international level . He drew attention to himself in particular in the 2006 Champions League season , when he and the team reached the semi-finals against the eventual winner Al-Ahly Cairo from Egypt and together with Mohamed Abo Treka was the top scorer of the competition with eight goals excellent. Then the Egyptian club offered 500,000 dollars for the services of offensive player, the offer but declined the club from when he wanted to make it to Europe.

Shortly before the end of the year, he and his teammate Bakary Soro were invited to a trial by Charlton Athletic . Ajax Amsterdam also showed interest in the offensive player. There was no obligation in each case.

In December 2006, the multiple Norwegian national champion Rosenborg Trondheim signed him . At his new club, which had a fellow countryman under contract with Abdou Razack Traoré , he was given the number 8. In the Tippeligaen he established himself as a regular player and helped the team to advance to the group stage of the 2007/08 UEFA Champions League , in which he was used in five games. In the 2007 Tippeligaen season he played in 20 of the 26 season games and contributed to reaching fifth place in the table with six goals this season. In the following season he was one of the club's regulars under coach Erik Hamrén , before he was mainly used as a substitute in the first half of the 2009 season and only started once.

On August 11, 2009, the German Bundesliga team Hannover 96 signed Ya Konan as reinforcement for the offensive, which had been weakened by many injured. He signed a three-year contract with the Lower Saxony club and was given the number 11. He scored his first goal for Hannover 96 on September 19, 2009 in a 1-1 draw against Borussia Dortmund . In the 2009/2010 season he scored nine goals and prepared five goals in 25 games, of which he played 15. The importance for his team in that season became clear from the following statistics: Hannover 96 scored a total of 33 points in the 25 games in which Ya Konan was used; in the remaining nine games without Ya Konan, the team remained pointless. In the 2010/11 season , Ya Konan scored 14 goals in 25 games and prepared six more. On December 17, 2010, he extended his contract to 2014. The Lower Saxony sports journalists voted him Lower Saxony's footballer of the year in spring 2011 . In the 2011/12 season he was no longer part of the starting XI and no longer scored regularly, but was substituted on in almost every game. By making it to the quarter-finals of the 2011/12 Europa League, he and his club achieved a new personal success at European level. In the 2012/13 season his situation was similar; he was regularly posted or substituted. Towards the middle of the season, however, he found his old form again and was increasingly in the starting line-up, albeit in the right attacking midfield. At the beginning of the 2013/14 season, Ya Konan suffered cartilage damage and was out for six weeks. He made his comeback on August 24, 2013 (3rd matchday) in a 2-1 win against FC Schalke 04 . On October 4, 2013 (8th matchday), he injured his ankle in a 1-1 draw against Hertha BSC and was out for around four and a half months. Ya Konan, who played as a striker under the new coach Tayfun Korkut, was reinstated for the first time on matchday 24 in a 1-1 draw against Bayer 04 Leverkusen . Didier Ya Konan was a crowd favorite in Hanover. The Hanoverian fan chants of his name became legendary for the refrain of the world hit "Give it up" by KC & and Sunshine Band.

In the summer of 2014 he moved to Al-Ittihad in Saudi Arabia . There he came to five missions in which he got two hits.

On January 27th, 2015 Ya Konan returned to Hannover 96. He initially received a contract until the end of the 2014/15 season . Due to a lack of training, he was only used again on matchday 24 against Bayern Munich.

On June 25, 2015, he signed a two-year contract with Fortuna Düsseldorf . There the striker celebrated a great success in the home stadium on September 13, 2015, when he contributed two goals to the 3-0 win over TSV 1860 Munich and thus to the club's first win of the season. After a decent first half of the season and four goals, Ya Konan only made three short appearances in the second half of the season. Recurring knee problems and rumors of a sports disability ensured that he was eliminated from the professional squad in summer 2016 and did not appear for Düsseldorf until his contract ended in summer 2017.

National team

Didier Ya Konan in the international match against Austria on November 14, 2012

Ya Konan was appointed to the senior national team of his country for the first time in October in the 5-0 victory over the Gabonese national team in October 2006 and was honored as "Player of the Year" in the Ivorian Ligue 1 . He was also nominated in the same year for the Ivorian Footballer of the Year award , which his compatriot Didier Drogba ultimately received.

At the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations , Ya Konan appeared in three games and was runner-up with his team. In 2013 he was again in the Ivorian squad for this competition and reached the quarter-finals with his team.

He took part with the national team in the 2014 World Cup, in which the Ivorians were knocked out and unhappy as third in the preliminary group.

successes

ASEC Mimosas

Rosenborg Trondheim

Hannover 96

Personal awards

Private

Ya Konan, who is only called "Didi" in his environment, has been married since the end of December 2007. Ya Konan has a daughter (* 2012).

Web links

Commons : Didier Ya Konan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mtnfootball.com: "Al Ahly Have Ya Konan Bid Rejected" ( Memento from May 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 11, 2009)
  2. ↑ mtnfootball.com: "Charlton Trials For ASEC Duo" ( Memento from January 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 11, 2009)
  3. ↑ voetbalzone.nl: "'Ajax richt pijlen op Ya Konan'" ( Memento from May 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 11, 2009)
  4. ↑ news.bbc.co.uk: "Ivorian Ya Konan joins Rosenborg" (accessed on August 11, 2009)
  5. ↑ ndr online: Hannover 96 gets replacement for Schlaudraff ( Memento of August 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 22, 2009)
  6. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from December 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Ya Konan extended
  7. ↑ RP online : Ya Konan is out for four to six weeks , July 10, 2013
  8. ↑ Comeback for striker Didier Ya Konan at Hannover 96 ( Memento from January 27, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) hannover96.de, accessed on January 27, 2015
  9. ↑ Fortuna strengthens itself with Didier Ya Konan f95.de, accessed on June 25, 2016
  10. ↑ Volker Geißler, Axel Strötker: Ya Konan breaks the spell! 3-0 against the lions: Fortuna Düsseldorf shoots the frustration off the soul . Article from September 13, 2015 in the express.de portal , accessed on September 14, 2015
  11. ↑ ndr online: Ya Konan: Sad Descent of a 96 Hero , November 25, 2016
  12. ↑ news.bbc.co.uk: "Drogba swoops Ivorian award" (accessed on August 11, 2009)
  13. ↑ Photos of the wedding on Flickr
  14. ↑ Hanover star became papa at 9:56 a.m. - Ya Konan: Baby cheers against Liège?
personal data
SURNAME Ya Konan, Didier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ivorian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Abidjan , Ivory Coast