Kolo Touré

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Kolo Touré
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Kolo Touré (2012)
Personnel
Surname Habib Kolo Touré
birthday March 19, 1981
place of birth Bouaké ,  Ivory Coast
size 183 cm
position Central defender
Juniors
Years station
0000-2000 ASEC Mimosas
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2000-2002 ASEC Mimosas
2002-2009 Arsenal FC 225 (9)
2009-2013 Manchester City 82 (2)
2013-2016 Liverpool FC 46 (1)
2016-2017 Celtic Glasgow 9 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2000-2015 Ivory Coast 117 (7)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2017-2019 Celtic Glasgow (assistant coach)
2019– Leicester City (assistant coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Habib Kolo Touré (born March 19, 1981 in Bouaké ) is a former Ivorian football player and current football coach . The former defender was most recently under contract with Celtic Glasgow , where he ended his football career in 2017. He has been a member of the Leicester City coaching team since February 2019 . In the period between 2000 and 2015, he completed more than 100 international matches for the Ivorian national team .

Club career

The central defender began his football career with the Ivorian record champions ASEC Abidjan . In 2000 he made the leap into the first team and was Ivorian champion in his first season. In the following season, the championship was won again. He then moved to English champions Arsenal for £ 150,000 .

Right away he got a regular place in midfield under Arsène Wenger and won the FA Community Shield Cup with his team at the beginning of his first season . At the end of the 2002/03 season he was English runner-up behind Manchester United and FA Cup winner against FC Southampton .

In the following season he was undefeated champions with Arsenal. In the 2004/05 season he had to defend his regular place against Philippe Senderos and Pascal Cygan alongside Sol Campbell and was used in 50 competitive games, scoring a goal against Bayern Munich in the last sixteen of the UEFA Champions League , which lost 3-1 went. The second leg was won, but Arsenal were eliminated due to the goal difference. At the end of the season, Touré and his team were again runner-up and FA Cup winner.

In the new season Touré was used in defense and reached the UEFA Champions League final with the team , but lost 2-1 after Jens Lehmann received a red card in the 18th minute for an emergency brake and Arsenal from then on in Outnumbered played. For the club it was the first and so far only final of the UEFA Champions League that Touré had made possible as the winning goal with his second international goal in the semi-final first leg against FC Villarreal and the second leg had ended goalless. In the Premier League season 2006/07 Touré finished fourth with his club and lost 2-1 to Chelsea in the Carling Cup final .

In the summer of 2009 he moved to Manchester City for the equivalent of 16.3 million euros and was named captain of the team. However, coach Roberto Mancini passed on the role of captain to Carlos Tévez from the 2010/11 season . On March 3, 2011, Touré was suspended from Manchester City on suspicion of doping after testing positive for a "certain substance" in the A sample. On May 27, 2011, he was banned from the FA for six months. The penalty took effect retrospectively from March 2, 2011 and ran until September 2, 2011.

For the 2013/14 season Touré moved to league rivals Liverpool FC on a free transfer .

In July 2016 Touré moved to Scotland to join Celtic Glasgow . The 35-year-old center-back signed a one-year contract in Glasgow.

On September 15, 2017 Touré announced his end of career as an active footballer in order to subsequently work in the coaching team of Celtic Glasgow.

National team career

Touré made his debut for the Ivorian national team against Rwanda in April 2000 . His best result so far with "the elephants" was reaching the finals of the 2006 African Championship , which the Ivorian team lost on penalties against hosts Egypt . In 2006 Kolo Touré was able to qualify with the national team for the first soccer World Cup, but was eliminated in the preliminary round. The same result was repeated at the 2010 World Cup on the home continent in South Africa . On October 11, 2012, the Ivorian Football Association honored him for 115 international matches and awarded him and Didier Zokora (for 135 games) a shirt with the number “100”. On February 15, 2015, just a week after the Africa Cup success , Kolo Touré resigned from the national team after 117 games for Ivory Coast.

Coaching career

Touré has been part of the Celtic Glasgow coaching team since September 2017. There he works as a technical employee in the team of head coach Brendan Rodgers . In February 2019 he moved to Leicester City as an assistant coach together with head coach Rodgers and his coaching team .

Private

Kolo Touré has two younger brothers who are also professional soccer players. Yaya Touré won Africa's Footballer of the Year award four times in a row from 2011 to 2014 . Ibrahim Touré was under contract with Al-Ittihad , among others . On May 31, 2014, it was announced that Kolo Touré had malaria . His brother Ibrahim, who last played in Lebanon, died on June 19, 2014 at the age of 28 from complications from cancer in a hospital in Manchester, England . At the time of his cancer death, he and his brother Yaya were playing the preliminary round match against the Colombian national soccer team .

successes

society

ASEC Mimosas

  • 2001: Ivorian champion
  • 2002: Ivorian champion

Arsenal FC

Manchester City

Liverpool FC

Celtic Glasgow

National team

Web links

Commons : Kolo Touré  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Skipper Tevez ready to exert influence
  2. ↑ Club statement
  3. ^ Kolo Toure suspended for six months
  4. ↑ Reds agree Toure deal ( Memento of the original from June 5, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.liverpoolfc.com
  5. ↑ Celtic delighted to sign Kolo Touré. celticfc.net, July 24, 2016, accessed July 25, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Chris McLaughlin: Kolo Touré: Celtic sign ex-Liverpool defender on one-year deal. BBC Sport, July 24, 2016, accessed July 25, 2016 .
  7. ↑ fif-ci.com: Kolo et Zokora, ces Eléphants “centenaires”!
  8. ↑ Celtic Welcomes Kolo Toure Back to Paradise , homepage of Celtic FC, September 15, 2017, accessed on February 26, 2019 (English).
  9. ↑ Loudly welcomed: Rodgers should make Leicester legs , kicker.de, February 26, 2019, accessed on February 28, 2019.
  10. ↑ Ibrahim Toure dies: Younger brother of Yaya and Kolo dies aged 28
  11. ↑ Kolo and Yaya Toure's brother died


personal data
SURNAME Touré, Kolo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Touré, Habib Kolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ivorian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Bouaké