Romuald Boco
| Romuald Boco | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | July 8, 1985 | |
| place of birth | Bernay , France | |
| size | 178 cm | |
| position | midfield player | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| RC Lens | ||
| SC Amiens | ||
| Valenciennes FC | ||
| Chamois Niort | ||
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2003-2004 | Niort B. | 0 (0) |
| 2004-2005 | Chamois Niort | 2 (0) |
| 2005-2008 | Accrington Stanley | 73 (7) |
| 2008–2012 | Sligo Rovers | 81 (16) |
| 2010 | → Burton Albion (loan) | 8 (0) |
| 2011 | → Shanghai East Asia (loan) | 22 (1) |
| 2012– | Accrington Stanley | 23 (9) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) 2 |
| Benin U-20 | ||
| 2004– | Benin | 46 (1) |
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1 Only league games are given. As of February 10, 2013 2 As of February 10, 2013 |
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Romuald Boco (born July 8, 1985 in Bernay , France ) is a Franco- Beninese soccer player .
Club career
Boco was born the fourth of five children to Paul, a Benin who came to study in France, and Elizabeth, a French. He grew up in the Picardy region and played in the youth academies of Lens, Amiens and Valenciennes before coming to Niort. There he moved up to the first team in 2003, but without being able to prevail. In 2005 he moved to England to Accrington Stanley , who was playing in the Football Conference National at that time . At the age of 20 he immediately became a regular at Accrington and helped the club to its first promotion to Football League Two 38 years after the re-establishment.
It was also Boco who scored the first two goals for Accrington against FC Barnet on August 12, 2006, 44 years after his withdrawal from League Football . Because of an injury sustained at an international match, Boco was out for two and a half months from November to mid-January. At the end of the season Accrington was in 20th place in the table and was able to hold the league, the Benin was voted Stanley's Young Player of the Year by the fans of the club . During the winter break of the 2007/08 season, Boco moved to the Irish first division club Sligo Rovers . There he played until February 24, 2010 and was then loaned to Football League Two club Burton Albion . There he played eight games until the end of the 2010/2011 season before returning to Ireland in late May 2010. After half a year at Sligo, he was loaned out again and went to the Chinese Super League for Shanghai East Asia FC for a year. There he made 22 appearances by the end of December 2011 and scored 1 goals before returning to Sligo Rovers. On the last day of the summer transfer period, he left Ireland and moved back to Accrington Stanley, where he signed a contract until June 30, 2013.
National team career
According to his own admission, possible international matches for Benin played no role for him until he was 18, he felt like a Frenchman.
"It wasn't always my dream to play for Benin because I had always been in France so that's who I supported. But my attentions turned to Benin when I was 18. "
In 2004, Boco was in his father's home country for the first time. At the 2004 African Cup of Nations in Tunisia, he was a member of the 23-man squad and was in the first two games in the first two games. A year later he played with the Benin U20s at the 2005 World Youth Championship in the Netherlands. Boco led his team as captain, but had to leave after the preliminary round after two draws and a narrow defeat against the hosts. In the period that followed, Boco , who was revered as the King of Benin , was a permanent member of the senior national team. He was a regular player in qualifying for the 2006 World Cup as well as in qualifying for the 2008 African Cup . While in 2006 there was still no chance as the bottom of the group, in 2008 they surprisingly finished second, ahead of World Cup participants Togo, and thus qualified for the second time since 2004 for an African Championship. For the African Cup of Nations 2008 in Ghana, the temporary team captain under coach Reinhard Fabisch is one of the permanent staff and was one of the most important players in Benin, but could not prevent the preliminary round.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview on thisislancashire.co.uk ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Stanley Cook up deal for Romuald Boco | The Sun | Old Irish site
- ^ Amical contre l'Egypte: Avec Barazé et Oussou
Web links
- Romuald Boco in the soccerbase.com database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boco, Romuald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Beninese soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bernay , France |