Gervinho

Gervinho
Gervinho (2014)
Personnel
Surname	Gervais Yao Kouassi
birthday	May 27, 1987
place of birth	Anyama ,  Ivory Coast
size	179 cm
position	Right winger
Juniors
Years	station
0000-2002	ASEC Abidjan
2002-2004	Toumodi FC
2004-2005	KSK Beveren
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2005-2007	KSK Beveren	61 (14)
2007-2009	UC Le Mans	59 0(8)
2009-2011	Lille OSC	67 (28)
2011-2013	Arsenal FC	46 0(9)
2013-2016	AS Roma	71 (17)
2016-2018	Hebei China Fortune	29 0(4)
2018–	Parma Calcio	49 (16)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2006	Ivory Coast U23	4 0(1)
2007-2017	Ivory Coast	75 (22)
1 Only league games are given. As of March 8, 2020 2 As of November 11, 2017

Gervais Yao Kouassi (born May 27, 1987 in Anyama ), called Gervinho , is an Ivorian football player . The striker has played for the Italian first division club Parma Calcio since August 2018 and is also active in the Ivorian national team .

Career

In the club

Gervinho was trained at the ASEC Abidjan youth academy led by Jean-Marc Guillou and moved to Europe in 2004 to the Belgian club KSK Beveren . After another year in youth, he made his debut in the 1st division in 2005 and made 61 league appearances in the following two years.

In July 2007, Gervinho and his two compatriots and teammates Zito and Sekou Ouattara were signed by UC Le Mans for a total of 650,000 euros . While Ouattara and Zito played on loan at Beveren for another year in Belgium, Gervinho immediately switched to the French first division club and was mostly in the starting line-up in the first half of the 2007/08 season. For the 2009/10 season he moved to Lille OSC and signed a contract for three years until the end of the 2011/12 season. In his first year with the northern French, he was recognized as the season's best field player in Ligue 1.

In July 2011, Arsenal FC signed Gervinho. For the 2013/14 season he went to the Italian Serie A for AS Roma . On January 27, 2016, he moved to Hebei China Fortune in the Chinese Super League for a transfer fee of 18 million euros .

For the 2018/19 season Gervinho moved to Serie A promoted Parma Calcio .

National player

Gervinho was the captain of the Ivorian Olympic team. He led the team to a successful qualification for the 2008 Olympic Football Tournament in China, in which the country participated for the first time. In November 2007 he was appointed to the senior national team for the first time and was used in two preparatory games for the 2008 African Cup of Nations, in which Gervinho was in the squad. In the final of the Africa Cup of 2012, he missed the decisive penalty, whereby the Zambian selection won the title.

successes

• African champions: 2015
• French champion: 2011
• French cup winner : 2011
• Étoile d'Or as the season's best outfield player in Ligue 1 2009/10
• Super Prix Sport-Ivoire : Award as the best Ivorian athlete 2010
• Football-Prix Sport-Ivoire : two awards in a row as the best Ivorian professional footballer in the seasons 2009/10 and 2010/11
• Prix ​​RFI : two consecutive awards for the best African player in Ligue 1 in the 2009/10 and 2010/11 seasons
• Top scorer of the Coppa Italia : 2013/14 (with 6 other players)

Web links

Commons : Gervinho  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gervinho in the database of weltfussball.de
• Gervinho in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Gervinho in the soccerbase.com database
• Gervinho in the lequipe.fr database (French)
• Gervinho in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ voetballbelgie.be: Gervinho en Romaric presteren sterk ( accessed on January 22, 2008)
2. ↑ Gervinho agrees deal to join Arsenal ( Memento of the original of July 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed August 8, 2013)  
3. ↑ arsenal.com: Gervinho completes transfer to Roma ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ AS Rome: Gervinho completes Hebei China Fortune move , January 27, 2016, accessed on February 3, 2016.
5. ↑ Zambia according to Elfer crime thriller Afrika-Meister ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.