Johan Djourou

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Johan Djourou
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Johan Djourou (2015)
Personnel
Surname Johannes Danon Djourou-Gbadjere
birthday January 18, 1987
place of birth Abidjan ,  Ivory Coast
Size 191 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1993-1994 FC Champel
1995-2003 Etoile Carouge
2003-2004 Arsenal FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2004-2013 Arsenal FC 86 (1)
2007 →  Birmingham City  (loan) 13 (0)
2013 →  Hannover 96  (loan) 14 (0)
2013-2017 Hamburger SV 94 (2)
2017-2018 Antalyaspor 18 (1)
2018-2019 SPAL Ferrara 5 (0)
2020 FC Sion 2 (0)
2020 Neuchâtel Xamax 4 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2001-2002 Switzerland U16 4 (0)
2002 Switzerland U17 4 (0)
2003-2004 Switzerland U19 8 (1)
2004-2005 Switzerland U20 9 (1)
2006 Switzerland U21 2 (0)
2006– Switzerland 72 (2)
1 Only league games are given.
As of February 8, 2020

2 As of October 10, 2017

Danon Issouf Johannes Djourou Gbadjere (born January 18, 1987 in Abidjan , Ivory Coast ) is a Swiss football player of Ivorian origin.

Club career

youth

Djourou was born in Ivory Coast. At the age of 17 months, he was adopted by Djourou's father's Swiss partner and grew up near Geneva . His first club was FC Champel , where he stayed briefly; at the age of eight he went to Étoile Carouge . Here he first played as a striker, but when he was 13 he was pulled into defensive midfield . While still a youngster, he moved to Arsenal in July 2003 .

professional

Djourou in England

He made his debut for the professional Arsenal team on October 27, 2004 in the League Cup in a 2-1 win over Manchester City , when he came on in the 89th minute for Jermaine Pennant . As a result, he was used two more times in the League Cup and was eliminated with Arsenal in the quarter-finals against Manchester United . He made his Premier League debut the following season on January 14, 2006 in a 7-0 win over Middlesbrough FC . Then he came to six more appearances in the league, bringing it to a total of twelve season appearances, although he was not involved in Arsenal's entry into the Champions League final . To his first Champions League appearances he came against Dinamo Zagreb in the CL qualification of the next season. He won this with Arsenal and thus came to further appearances in the Champions League.

Johan Djourou in the jersey of Arsenal FC (2010)

Despite these missions and 21 league games, he did not make the final breakthrough. Therefore he was loaned to Birmingham City for the first half of the 2007/08 season. In the Premier League promoted Djourou was part of the team from the start. Before returning to Arsenal, he played 13 games for Birmingham during the winter break.

After returning to Arsenal, he made two appearances in the second half of the season. In the next season he was a regular member of the squad again and made a total of 29 missions across all competitions. He suffered a knee injury in the game against Wigan Athletic on April 11, 2009 and underwent surgery in September 2009 that forced him to take an eight-month hiatus. His comeback and his only game in the 2009/10 season he played on May 9, 2010 at the season finale against Fulham .

In the 2010/11 season he gradually became a regular player, also due to the injury of Thomas Vermaelen . Together with Laurent Koscielny Djourou formed mostly the central defense and scored his first goal in the Premier League on February 5, 2011 against Newcastle United . He also reached the league cup final with Arsenal and lost 2-1 to Birmingham City, his former club. In the next season he played 14 times from the start. In the Champions League group stage he only made sporadic appearances and was unable to secure a permanent place in the starting line-up.

Change to the Bundesliga

In the winter break of 2012/13 he was loaned to Bundesliga club Hannover 96 until the end of the season. In the second half of the season opener in the away game against FC Schalke 04 Djourou was in the starting line-up and played the full distance in the 4-5 defeat. He played 14 out of 17 possible games.

For the 2013/14 season he was loaned to Hamburger SV . The association also secured a purchase option. This had to be used by Djourou after the 20th league mission.

In the 2014/15 season Djourou was a regular player and missed only two league games. For the 2015/16 season he took over the captaincy from Rafael van der Vaart , who moved to Betis Sevilla . Djourou had already represented van der Vaart several times in the preseason. In the home win against VfB Stuttgart on the second match day of the 2015/16 season, Djourou scored his first Bundesliga goal to make it 3-2 in the 89th minute. In November 2016, coach Markus Gisdol appointed Djourou's teammate Gōtoku Sakai as the new team captain. He publicly criticized Gisdol for this in an interview with the Aargauer Zeitung . In the second half of the season he also lost his regular place to the newcomers Kyriakos Papadopoulos and Mergim Mavraj , who from then on represented the regular central defense. At the beginning of May 2017 Djourou was deleted from the first team's squad together with Nabil Bahoui and Ashton Götz . The reasons given by coach Markus Gisdol were to want to reduce the training squad for the last three match days in order to keep the league. The players were offered the opportunity to train with the second team or a private coach. Djourou then went into training for the second team until the end of the season and then left the club when his contract expired.

Via Turkey to Italy

In the 2017/18 season he played for the Turkish first division club Antalyaspor . Due to a lack of salary payments, Djourou dissolved his contract with the Turks after a year.

For the 2018/19 season Djourou joined the Italian first division club SPAL Ferrara . After only five games in his first half with the Italians, the contract was terminated by mutual agreement. It wasn't until the second half of 2020 that he found a new employer in FC Sion . Djourou signed a contract with the Super League team until the end of the 2019/20 season . In mid-March 2020, he was released again because of the corona crisis. Johan Djourou has been playing for Neuchâtel Xamax since May 29, 2020, where he signed a contract until the end of the 2019/2020 season.

National team

Djourou played a total of 27 international junior matches from the U-16 to the U-21 for Switzerland and scored two goals.

Djourou received for the friendly against Scotland his first squad for the senior team in Switzerland. The first squad was followed by the first international match, which he played in Glasgow on March 1, 2006 at the age of 19 . He played at times with his then teammate from Arsenal FC Philippe Senderos in the Swiss central defense.

He was part of the Swiss national team at the 2006 World Cup in Germany and was used in three of the four Swiss World Cup games. As part of the “ Swiss Sports Awards ”, he was voted “Newcomer of the Year”. At the home European championship in 2008 he was again in the Swiss national team . After suffering a knee injury in April 2009, he made his comeback for the national team on November 17, 2010 in a friendly against Ukraine . Switzerland was unable to qualify for the 2012 European Football Championship after the team with Djourou delivered a long-distance duel with Montenegro for second place over long periods of qualification , which entitles them to participate in the play-offs, and in the penultimate game with 0: 2 against Wales . Because Montenegro scored 2-2 against leaders England a few hours later , Switzerland were eliminated.

Djourou was able to qualify for the 2014 World Cup with Switzerland after winning the group in qualifying . On May 13, 2014 Djourou was nominated by Ottmar Hitzfeld in the World Cup squad .

At the European Football Championship in France in 2016 , he was included in the Swiss squad. He was part of the regular eleven and played in all four of the team's games for the full season including extra time until he was eliminated in the round of 16.

At the 2018 World Cup in Russia, he was part of the Swiss squad . He came to a mission and was eliminated with the team in the round of 16.

Personal

Johan Djourou is the illegitimate child of his father, who was married to a Swiss woman. She decided to adopt Johan.

Web links

Commons : Johan Djourou  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johan Djourou Biography, Age, Wife, Parents, Net Worth, Stats and News. In: InformationCradle. April 14, 2018, Retrieved July 6, 2019 (American English).
  2. ↑ a b Here Djourou tells the touching story of his two mothers in: bild.de . January 24, 2013, accessed January 28, 2013
  3. ↑ Biography ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2012 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. , www.johan-djourou.ch  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.johan-djourou.ch
  4. ↑ Johan in a nutshell ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , www.johan-djourou.ch  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.johan-djourou.ch
  5. ↑ Match report on bbc.co.uk
  6. ↑ Match report on bbc.co.uk
  7. ↑ Match report on bbc.co.uk
  8. ↑ Match report on bbc.co.uk
  9. ↑ Match report on bbc.co.uk
  10. ↑ News item on bbc.co.uk
  11. ↑ News report on arsenal.com ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arsenal.com
  12. ↑ Match report on bbc.co.uk
  13. ↑ Match report on bbc.co.uk
  14. ↑ Hamburger SV: Djourou: "At HSV everything worked out for me" ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , July 1, 2013, accessed February 15, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hsv.de
  15. ^ Clause extends Djourou contract with HSV
  16. ↑ kicker online: HSV is interested in Barça jewel - Djourou is captain , August 8, 2015, accessed on August 9, 2015.
  17. ↑ Hamburger SV: Gotoku Sakai is the new HSV captain ( memento of the original from November 18, 2016 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. , November 17, 2016, accessed November 17, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hsv.de
  18. ↑ Kicker online : Due to the captain's withdrawal: Disappointed Djourou criticizes Gisdol , March 24, 2017, accessed on May 5, 2017.
  19. ↑ Bundling all forces - training group will be reduced in size , hsv.de, May 2, 2017, accessed on May 5, 2017.
  20. ↑ Bahoui advisor attacks HSV trainer Gisdol ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2017 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. , zeit.de, May 3, 2017, accessed May 5, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zeit.de
  21. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt : Djourou comments on his expulsion and trains with U21s , May 3, 2017, accessed in May 2017.
  22. ↑ Hamburger Morgenpost: Djourou before moving to Serie A , accessed on July 17, 2018
  23. ↑ JOHAN DJOUROU E 'UN NUOVO GIOCATORE DELLA SPAL , spalferrara.it, accessed on July 21, 2018.
  24. ↑ Telebasel: Djourou and SPAL Ferrara with separate paths , accessed on January 17, 2019
  25. ↑ Alain Kunz: Johan Djourou changes to Sion - agreement with Constantin. January 23, 2020, accessed January 23, 2020 .
  26. ^ Johan Djourou, licensed by FC Sion. March 21, 2020, accessed on July 17, 2020 (French).
  27. ↑ Karlen moves to Wallis - Xamax signs Djourou and Kouassi . In: Swiss Radio and Television (SRF) . May 29, 2020 ( srf.ch [accessed July 17, 2020]).
  28. ↑ Olympia Verlag GmbH (ed.): All nine! Hitzfeld is building on the Bundesliga. In: kicker online. May 13, 2014, accessed June 30, 2014 .
  29. ↑ www.blick.ch of March 24, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Djourou, Johan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Djourou-Gbadjere, Johannes Danon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss football player
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Abidjan , Ivory Coast