Onema Grace Geyoro

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Geyoro (left) in October 2014

Onema Grace Geyoro (born July 2, 1997 in Kolwezi , Democratic Republic of the Congo ), occasionally just called Grace Geyoro , is a French soccer player .

Club career

Onema Grace Geyoro came to France with her family from the Congo as a child. The age of eleven she joined the girl's section of US Orléans on, one year later the in the neighborhood of Orléans -based SMOC Saint-Jean-de-Braye . Her great talent was recognized and appreciated there when she was recognized by the regional subdivisions of the Olympic Sports Confederation. In 2012 she moved to the youth department of the Paris Saint-Germain FC club and moved to Rambouillet , where she attended a lyceum .

The defensive midfielder , who is often used in the back four at the club , is considered to be more reserved and helpful to the team; She has good shooting technique, but prefers to provide her teammates with templates. She first appeared in PSG's first division team in October 2014 when she came on for Fatmire Alushi against FF Issy . In the 2015/16 season , too, there were selective missions; In the 2016/17 season, however, she became a regular player, was only absent during her participation in the U-20 World Cup (see below) and had 17 D1F appearances for PSG, 15 of them in the starting lineup. Coach Patrice Lair has also regularly taken them into account in the European Cup . In 2018 she won the national cup . Her contract with Paris Saint-Germain runs until 2022.

Stations

  • US Orléans (2008/09)
  • SMOC Saint-Jean-de-Braye (2009–2012)
  • Paris Saint-Germain FC (since 2012, in its league fraud from 2014)

National player

Grace Geyoro during an interview during the European Championship 2017

Just a few days after her 15th birthday, Onema Grace Geyoro played four games at the Nordic Cup with France's U-16 team  - at the time as a striker . In 2012 and 2013 she played five times with the U-17 and became world champion in 2012 . With the U-19, for whom she made a total of 20 appearances and scored five goals, she reached the semifinals of the European Championship in 2015 and even won the European Championship title in this age group a year later , scoring two goals in the 2016 tournament, one of them in the 2-1 final win against Spain. With the French U-20 she was runner- up in the same year . She also scored a goal at this World Cup in Papua New Guinea , in which she was on the pitch from kick-off during all six matches, and that again in the final. This time, however, their early opening goal only meant the consolation goal of the French in their 3-1 defeat against North Korea.

She made her debut in the French national team in January 2017 on Réunion against South Africa , where she replaced Sandie Toletti in the last 20 minutes . Five weeks later, national coach Olivier Echouafni took Geyoro to the SheBelieves Cup in the USA ; there she played against both the English and Germany for a full 90 minutes, against the German women in central defense alongside Wendie Renard . Echouafni then nominated her for the French European Championship squad in 2017 , where she played three of the four encounters over the full distance. For Echouafni's successor Corinne Diacre , Geyoro is the player “for the decisive pass”, even if Geyoro was no longer her first choice, especially in 2018/19. Nevertheless, it was taken into account in the French 23-man squad for the 2019 World Cup in their own country .

So far, she has played 31 international matches for the Bleues, in which she scored two goals. (As of March 10, 2020) The second of her goals, scored in November 2019 on the occasion of the European Championship qualification against Serbia , was a volley from outside the penalty area, which hit the inside edge of the crossbar and goal post and flew into the net from there; L'Équipe paid tribute to this artistic shot with the words "This should remain the most beautiful goal for a long time."

Palmarès

  • French Cup Winner: 2018

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ Article “ Creating a new sports policy ” of January 21, 2013 in lanouvellerepublique.fr
  2. ↑ Stations as young people according to the association's website (see under web links )
  3. ↑ to Geyoro's Facebook entry
  4. ↑ Article "Les 10 joueuses à bien observer à l'Euro" in France Football of July 11, 2017, p. 8
  5. ↑ Article " Cissoko - Geyoro: Supports the French team " from December 2, 2016 at fifa.com
  6. ↑ Report on the game on October 12, 2014 at footofeminin.fr
  7. ↑ Article “ PSG extends with its young pearls ” from May 16, 2018 at footofeminin.fr
  8. ↑ according to the list of Geyoro's U-16 missions at footofeminin.fr
  9. ↑ see the article " U-19 Euro 2016: Two Parisians give the Bleuettes the victory " from August 1, 2016 at francetvinfo.fr
  10. ↑ Match report of the U-20 World Cup final from December 3, 2016 at fifa.com
  11. ↑ Quote from the interview with Diacre on January 21, 2018 at footofeminin.fr
  12. ↑ Article “ Amel Majri shines, Valérie Gauvin disappoints ” from November 10, 2019 at lequipe.fr
personal data
SURNAME Geyoro, Onema Grace
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geyoro, Grace
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolwezi , Democratic Republic of the Congo