Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
in the jersey of Arsenal FC (2018)
Personnel
Surname	Pierre-Emerick Emiliano François Aubameyang
birthday	June 18, 1989
place of birth	Laval ,  France
size	187 cm
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
1995-1997	ASL L'Huisserie
1997-1998	OGC Nice
1998-1999	ASL L'Huisserie
1999-2001	Stade Laval
2001-2005	FC Rouen
2005-2007	SC Bastia
2007-2008	AC Milan
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2008-2011	AC Milan	0 0(0)
2008-2009	→  FCO Dijon  (loan)	34 0(8)
2009-2010	→  Lille OSC  (loan)	14 0(2)
2010-2011	→  AS Monaco  (loan)	19 0(2)
2011-2013	AS Saint-Etienne	87 (37)
2011	AS Saint-Étienne II	2 0(1)
2013-2018	Borussia Dortmund	144 (98)
2018–	Arsenal FC	85 (54)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2009	France U21	1 0(0)
2012	Gabon U23	3 0(1)
2009–	Gabon	59 (24)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20 2 As of March 23, 2019

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang [ pjɛʁ ɛməʁik obaməjɑ̃ɡ ] (born June 18, 1989 in Laval , France ) is a Gabonese football player . Since the end of January 2018 he has been under contract with Arsenal , which he leads as captain . The striker , who also has French and Spanish citizenship, is the captain and record scorer for the Gabonese national team .

Club career

AC Milan and loan shops

Aubameyang began his footballing career in France and moved to the youth department of AC Milan in January 2007 , where his brother Willy was also playing in the first and second teams at the time. In 2007 he was part of the squad that finished fourth in the 2007 Champions Youth Cup . There the then 18-year-old won the Roberto Bettega trophy as the tournament's top scorer.

He began his professional career in 2008 at AC Milan and was immediately transferred  to the French second division FCO Dijon via a loan contract for the 2008/09 season . On August 1, 2008 (1st matchday) he made his debut in the 1: 3 defeat in the away game against RC Lens ; he marked his first league goal on August 22, 2008 (4th matchday) in a 2-1 win in the home game against FC Tours with the goal to make it 1-0 in the 65th minute. For Dijon he played 34 league games in which he scored eight goals.

In the 2009/10 season he was awarded to Ligue 1 and gained match practice at OSC Lille . However, he was not a regular player and had a record of 14 league games and two goals. In the Europa League he was on the field seven times. The team was eventually eliminated in the round of 16 against Liverpool . The club had a purchase option that was not used.

The 2010/11 season then spent Aubameyang for the third time as a loan player. He was given up for a year to AS Monaco , with which he played again in Ligue 1. For the first time he was used on August 7, 2010 in the league. Here he played 23 competitive games, 19 of them in the league. He was successful as a goalscorer in two games. At the end of the season he returned to AC Milan.

AS Saint-Etienne

In January 2011 he moved - again on loan - to league rivals AS Saint-Étienne . He made his competitive debut on August 7, 2011, when he scored his first goal against Girondins Bordeaux . In Saint-Étienne he was in all 19 first half games on the field and scored six goals. In December 2011, the club took up the option of a permanent contract. Aubameyang scored 16 goals in 36 games throughout the 2011/12 season .

In the 2012/13 season he improved his goal rate again and finished the season as the second best goalscorer in the league . In 37 games he had scored 19 goals. With the French League Cup he won the first title of his professional career.

Aubameyang (2014)

Borussia Dortmund

After the season he had offers from various large clubs. Newcastle United , Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Borussia Dortmund, among others, were interested in signing. He decided to move to Dortmund and signed a contract there in July 2013, which ran until 2018. In his Bundesliga debut on August 10, 2013, he was used from the start and scored three goals in the 4-0 away win against FC Augsburg . This makes him the first Gabonese player and goalscorer in the Bundesliga and the first Dortmund player to score three goals in his competitive debut. In the 2015/16 season he was the first Bundesliga player to score at least one goal in each of the first eight games of the season. In January 2016 he was named Africa's Footballer of the Year as the first Bundesliga player . In the 2016/17 season, Aubameyang was the top scorer in the Bundesliga with 31 goals this season and scored the decisive goal for the DFB Cup victory against Eintracht Frankfurt .

From mid-2017, there was media coverage of Aubameyang's will to leave Borussia Dortmund. So was u. a. speculated about possible moves to Paris Saint-Germain , AC Milan and Tianjin Quanjian . After a change in the summer transfer period did not take place, he stayed with BVB and in December extended his contract term to June 30, 2021. In the weeks before his move to Arsenal , Aubameyang was after indiscipline and poor training for the Bundesliga Games against VfL Wolfsburg and Hertha BSC not taken into account by his coach Peter Stöger . After Karlheinz Wild, chief reporter of the kicker , described the behavior of Aubameyang in the soccer talk show Kicker.tv as "monkey circus", Aubameyang took this as a racist insult and wrote a corresponding post on Instagram . Wild then apologized for his misleading choice of words; Aubameyang then deleted his posting. When he switched, he apologized for his behavior over the past few weeks with the words:

“First of all, sorry for everything that has happened in the last month. But I already wanted to change last summer [...] Maybe it wasn't the best way [...], but everyone knows that Auba is crazy - and yes, I'm a crazy boy, hahahaha! ""

- Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

The events surrounding Aubameyang's move caused a public debate about the unbalanced power relationship between professional footballers and clubs. A lack of contractual loyalty by the players and the potential of the players to blackmail transfers through misconduct were criticized.

Arsenal FC

On January 31, 2018, Aubameyang moved to the Premier League for Arsenal FC . With a transfer fee of 63.75 million euros, it became the most expensive new addition in the history of the club. His first appearance was on matchday 26 of the 2017/18 Premier League season in a 5-1 win over Everton , where he made it 4-0. In his first year for the Gunners , the Gabonese contributed a total of 26 goals in 43 competitive games. In spring 2019 he received the award of the best goalscorer in the Premier League for his 22 goals in the 2018/19 season together with Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mané (both Liverpool FC ).

At the beginning of November 2019, head coach Unai Emery named the striker as the new team captain as the successor to his deposed teammate Granit Xhaka .

National team

Aubameyang with the Gabonese national team (2012)

Together with his brother Willy , Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was appointed to Gabon's senior national team for the first time in 2009 . He made his debut in the game against Morocco and contributed a goal to the 2-1 victory. For the Gabonese selection he was used in both the Africa Cup of 2010 (three group games ) and the 2012 tournament in Gabon. There he scored one goal in each of the three group games . In the quarter-finals , which was lost 4-5 on penalties against Mali , he missed his penalty. Aubameyang was part of the Gabonese squad at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. He took in 2017 with the national team at the in Gabon discharged African Cup of Nations in part, scored in the first two group matches each a gate and was eliminated from the tournament after the third group match.

Others

Pierre-Emerick is the younger brother of Willy and Catilina Aubameyang , both also professional footballers. His father, Pierre Aubame, is a former Gabonese professional footballer and his mother is Spanish . In addition to French , Aubameyang speaks fluent Italian and English as well as Spanish and German . He has three nationalities: the Gabonese from his father, the Spanish from his mother and the French from his place of birth.

He is known for his unusual hairstyles and clothes, but does not feel like the "shrill, extroverted person" he is perceived as. Aubameyang often celebrates his goals with a forward salto .

On March 26, 2016, the music label "Africa Jungle" released the song "Aubameyang" by three French rappers , including his younger brother Felix. In the video, Aubameyang himself and his teammate Marco Reus appear.

He has two children with his partner.

Style of play

One of Aubameyang's greatest strengths is his enormous acceleration. He is considered one of the fastest players in world football and, according to his own statement, needed just 3.75 seconds for the first 30 meters during his time at AC Milan. He can be used offensively in various positions, including on the offensive flanks and in the center forward position. One of his strengths is his accuracy.

titles and achievements

societies

AS Saint-Etienne

• League Cup Winner (1): 2013

Borussia Dortmund

• DFB Cup Winner (1): 2017
  • Finalist (3): 2014 , 2015 , 2016
• German runner-up (2): 2014 , 2016
• DFL Supercup Winner (2): 2013 , 2014

Arsenal FC

• FA Cup (1): 2020
• FA Community Shield (1): 2020

Personal awards

• Africa's Footballer of the Year (1): 2015
  • Second (2): 2014, 2016
  • Third (2): 2017, 2018
• VDV player of the season (1): 2015/16
• Kicker Striker of the Year (1): 2017
• Top scorer of the Bundesliga (1): 2017 (31 hits)
  • Second (1): 2016 (25)
  • Third (1): 2015 (16)
• Premier League top scorer (1): 2018/19 (22 hits)
• Member of VDV 11 (2): 2015/16 , 2016/17
• Classification as world class in the ranking of German football (3): winter 2015/16 , winter 2016/17 , summer 2017
• District Footballer of the Year (1): 2015
• BVB player of the season (2): 2014/15, 2015/16
• Best African player in Ligue 1 (1): 2012/13

Records

• Most successful African goalscorer in a Bundesliga season : (31 hits).
• Most successful foreign goalscorer of BVB in a Bundesliga season : (31 hits)
• Most consecutive games with at least one goal from the start of the season: 8 ( 2015/16 )

statistics

Status: end of season 2017/18. The cup is the Coupe de France in France , the DFB Cup in Germany and the FA Cup in England .

season	team	league	Games (goals)
			league	Cup	Europe
2008/09	FCO Dijon	Ligue 2	34 (8)	02 (0)	-
2009/10	Lille OSC	Ligue 1	14 (2)	00 (0)	07 (0) tbsp
2010/11	AS Monaco		33 (4)	01 (0)	-
2011/12	AS Saint-Etienne		36 (16)	00 (0)	-
2012/13			37 (19)	03 (2)	-
2013/14	Borussia Dortmund	Bundesliga	32 (13)	05 (2)	09 (1) CL
2014/15			33 (16)	04 (5)	08 (3) CL
2015/16			31 (25)	04 (4)	010 (8) tbsp
2016/17			32 (31)	04 (2)	09 (7) CL
2017/18			16 (13)	01 (3)	06 (4) CL
2017/18	Arsenal FC	Premier League	13 (10)	-	-

^Tbsp Europe League

^CL Champions League

Web links

Commons : Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang  - Collection of Images

• Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in the database of weltfussball.de
• Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on soccerway.com
• Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Statistics at LFP.fr (French)
• Portrait on the Arsenal FC website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Gabon's squad list at the Africa Cup 2015 (PDF; 207 KB)
2. ^ ^{A b} Nathan Carr: One 2 Watch - Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. backpagefootball.com, July 24, 2012, accessed August 12, 2013 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Oliver Müller: Aubameyang: "With BVB we are close to Bayern". welt.de , August 2, 2013, accessed on August 12, 2013 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} performance data 2011/12 , transfermarkt.de
5. ↑ ^{a b} kicker sports magazine from August 12, 2013 (No. 66), p. 19
6. ↑ Borussia Dortmund sign Aubameyang bvb.de, accessed on August 13, 2013
7. ↑ Three- pack: Aubameyang's great debut kicker.de, accessed on August 10, 2013
8. ↑ Bundesliga history: Aubameyang like Olaf Marschall , on reviersport.de from August 11, 2013
9. ↑ Mission statistics on weltfussball.de, accessed on October 23, 2015
10. ↑ Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is Africa's Footballer of the Year! BVB.de, accessed on March 11, 2016
11. ^ Aubameyang: From the pot to Paris? , kicker.de from May 3, 2017. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
12. ↑ Aubameyang has to stay with BVB , faz.com from July 18, 2017. Accessed January 31, 2018.
13. ↑ http://www.fr.de/sport/fussball-bundesliga/erstebundesliga/borussia-dortmund-vertragsverlaengerung-mit-aubameyang-bestaetigt-a-1410670 , accessed on December 27, 2017.
14. ↑ The racism debate flares up in “monkey circus” around Aubameyang? kicker apologizes to BVB professional January 14, 2018
15. ↑ The power of football professionals increases to rp-online from January 31, 2018. Accessed on January 31, 2018.
16. ↑ Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang immediately before joining Arsenal London , January 31, 2018, accessed on January 31, 2018.
17. ↑ Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang signs , arsenal.com, January 31, 2018, accessed January 31, 2018.
18. ↑ Xhaka deposed as captain of Arsenal , srf.ch, accessed on November 6, 2019
19. ↑ Rien n'arrête Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang leparisien.fr, accessed on 30 April 2015 (French)
20. ↑ Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang: "Mon rêve, c'est de jouer au Real Madrid" afriquefoot.rfi.fr, accessed on April 30, 2015 (French)
21. ↑ Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang at BVB: Danger on the march , on sueddeutsche.de from August 11, 2013
22. ↑ France Football , edition N ° 3627 of October 28, 2015 (French)
23. ^ Salto artist Aubameyang speaks of the European Cup again. Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 22, 2015, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
24. ↑ Ghost St. feat. Soolking & Djam Chow (Marco Reus) - Aubameyang (Clip Officiel) , published on March 26, 2016 on Youtube , accessed on April 1, 2016.
25. ↑ Aubameyang posts music video for the Aubameyang song , accessed on January 16, 2018
26. ↑ Fat rap video for BVB professional - Aubameyang gets its own song. n-tv.de, March 27, 2016, accessed April 1, 2016 . 
27. ↑ BVB striker Aubameyang leaves China from ruhrnachrichten.de, accessed on July 27, 2016
28. ↑ Aubameyang back in training after the birth of his child , NWZonline, August 4, 2016, accessed on August 6, 2016.
29. ↑ kicker special issue Bundesliga 2013/14, p. 26
30. ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/sport/fussball/bvb/bvb-stuermer-aubameyang-ist-revierfussballer-des-jahres-2015-id11443898.html
31. ↑ Aubameyang puts the crown on ruhrnachrichten.de, June 3, 2015
32. ↑ Aubameyang wins best African player in France award bbc.com (English)
33. ↑ The longest home series for over 13 years bvb.de, April 30, 2016
34. ↑ Performance data 2008/09 , transfermarkt.de
35. ↑ Performance data 2009/10 , transfermarkt.de
36. ↑ Performance data 2010/11 , transfermarkt.de
37. ↑ Performance data 2012/13 , transfermarkt.de
38. ↑ Performance data 2013/14 , transfermarkt.de
39. ↑ Performance data 2014/15 , transfermarkt.de
40. ↑ Performance data 2015/16 , transfermarkt.de
41. ↑ Performance data 2016/17 , transfermarkt.de
42. ↑ ^{a b} performance data 2017/18 , transfermarkt.de