Moussa Koné (soccer player, 1996)

Moussa Koné
Moussa Koné (2019)
Personnel
birthday	December 30, 1996
place of birth	Dakar ,  Senegal
size	175 cm
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
2004-2014	AS Dakar Sacré Coeur
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2014-2015	AS Dakar Sacré Coeur
2015-2017	FC Zurich II	1 0(1)
2016-2018	FC Zurich	46 (18)
2018-2020	Dynamo Dresden	59 (22)
2020–	Olympique Nimes	5 0(2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2015	Senegal U20	11 0(3)
1 Only league games are given. As of March 7, 2020

Moussa Koné (born December 30, 1996 in Dakar ) is a Senegalese football player . He is under contract with Olympique Nimes in France and is preferred for attack . He is also a former Senegalese junior national player.

Career

societies

Koné learned to play football since he was seven, first on the street, then at his home club AS Dakar Sacré Coeur , of which he was a member until October 13, 2015. Since October 14, 2015, he has been with FC Zurich in Switzerland , where he played first for the second and later also for the first team in the first-class Super League and the second-class Challenge League . Moussa Koné made five appearances in the UEFA Europa League (one goal).

Moussa Koné in the jersey of Dynamo Dresden (2019)

In January 2018 Koné moved to the German second division team Dynamo Dresden for a transfer fee and received a contract starting on January 30, 2018 for four and a half years until summer 2022 , 2 million euros. However, figures over 2 million euros are also rumored, but a credible 2.5 million euros is given by a source closely networked with FC Zurich (and in other reports refers to the club's internal upheavals after the departure of Koné in Zurich). In his first game for Dynamo, Koné was substituted on by coach Uwe Neuhaus in the 74th minute for Sascha Horvath and scored the goal in the 89th minute to make the final score of 2-0 against VfL Bochum . On March 12, 2018, after only six appearances for Dynamo Dresden, the kicker editors voted him the man of the 26th match day . With his 22nd goal on November 3, 2019, Koné became the record scorer for Dynamo Dresden in the second Bundesliga. He scored a total of 22 goals and nine assists in 59 games in the league.

On January 22, 2020, the French first division club Olympique Nimes announced the signing of Koné after Dresden had strengthened itself with several loan strikers during the winter break. In Nimes, the Senegalese meets his former Dresden teammate Haris Duljević . As with Dynamo Dresden, Koné scored his first goal on his first appearance for Nimes.

National team

On March 8, 2015, Koné made his debut for the Senegalese U20 national team at the U20 Africa Cup of 2015 . He also took part in the 2015 U20 World Cup , scoring one goal in six games.

Private

Koné is married and a devout Muslim .

Web links

Commons : Moussa Koné  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Player portrait on the homepage of SG Dynamo Dresden
• Moussa Koné in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Moussa Koné in the database of weltfussball.de
• Moussa Koné in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sächsische Zeitung, January 30, 2018: Koné storms to Dresden ( Memento from February 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Ex-FCZ striker Moussa Koné dreams of participating in the World Cup on 4-4-2.com , accessed on March 12, 2018. The extremely long contract of around 4.5 years would, however, fit this high transfer fee.
3. ↑ FCZ collects 2.5 million for Koné transfer on 4-4-2.com , accessed on March 12, 2018.
4. ↑ http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/2bundesliga/vereine/2-bundesliga/2017-18/dynamo-dresden-65/95197/player_moussa-kone.html
5. ↑ Koné is now Dynamo's record scorer . In: Saxon newspaper . November 4, 2019 ( online [accessed November 5, 2019]).
6. ↑ MOUSSA KONÉ EST NÎMOIS , nimes-olympique.com, accessed on January 22, 2020 (French)
7. ↑ Moussa Koné moves to Olympique Nimes , dynamo-dresden.de, accessed on January 22, 2020
8. ↑ Sven Geisler: The secret of the yellow stripe . In: Saxon newspaper . February 7, 2018 ( online [accessed November 27, 2018]).