Wilfried Bony

Wilfried Bony
Wilfried Bony, 2013
Personnel
Surname	Wilfried Guemiand Bony
birthday	December 10, 1988
place of birth	Bingerville ,  Ivory Coast
size	182 cm
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
	Maracana Bingerville
	Cyrille Domoraud Football Academy
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2006-2007	Issia Wazi
2007-2008	Sparta Prague B	14 0(2)
2008-2011	Sparta Prague	59 (22)
2011-2013	Vitesse Arnhem	65 (46)
2013-2015	Swansea City	54 (25)
2015-2017	Manchester City	36 0(6)
2016-2017	→  Stoke City  (loan)	10 0(2)
2017–	Swansea City	22 0(3)
2019	→  Al-Arabi  (loan)	7 0(5)
2019	Swansea City	0 0(0)
2020–	Ittihad FC	7 0(3)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2010–	Ivory Coast	52 (15)
1 Only league games are given. As of March 11, 2020 2 As of February 3, 2019

Wilfried Guemiand Bony (born December 10, 1988 in Bingerville ) is an Ivorian football player . The striker has been under contract with Swansea City since the end of August 2017 and made his first international match for the Ivorian senior team in 2010 .

Club career

Wilfried Bony started playing soccer at Maracana Bingerville when he was five . From 2003 to 2005 the striker played for Cyrille Domoraud's Football Academy . His first position in the senior division was the Ivorian first division team Issia Wazi .

In October 2007 Bony moved to the Czech Gambrinus League for Sparta Prague . At Sparta he was first used in the B team. He made the leap into the A-team in summer 2008. In the 2008/09 season, the Ivorian was a supplementary player; in 16 games he scored three goals. In the 2009/10 season he was a regular player and won the Czech championship with Sparta Prague.

During the winter break of the 2010/11 season, Bony moved to Vitesse Arnheim and signed a contract that ran until 2014. In the 2012/13 season he was the top scorer in the Eredivisie with 31 goals in 30 games. For the 2013/14 season he moved to the Premier League at Swansea City . He signed a four-year contract and cost 12 million pounds sterling (approx. 14 million euros) transfer fee.

In January 2015, Bony signed a contract with Manchester City until June 30, 2019 . There he could not prevail, however, so that he was loaned to Stoke City on August 31, 2016 until the end of the 2016/17 season . There Bony came to ten Premier League appearances by the end of the year, in which he scored two goals. After taking part in the 2017 African Championship at the beginning of the year , he was no longer used until the end of the season.

For the 2017/18 season , Bony initially returned to Manchester City, but played no role in Pep Guardiola's plans , so he returned to Swansea City on August 31, 2017 . He received a contract until June 30, 2019.

National team

Bony made his debut on October 9, 2010 in a 1-0 away win against Burundi in the Ivorian national team . For the African Cup of Nations 2015 he was appointed to the Ivorian squad by coach Hervé Renard . He played in all six of his team's games and became African champion on February 8, 2015 with a final win on penalties against Ghana .

successes

Manchester City

• League Cup winner: 2016

National team

• African champions : 2015

Web links

Commons : Wilfried Bony  - Collection of Images

• Wilfried Bony in the database of weltfussball.de
• Wilfried Bony in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Profile on fotbal.idnes.cz (Czech)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Spartu posílil Bonno Wilfried. October 24, 2007, archived from the original on September 25, 2008 ; Retrieved April 21, 2016 (Czech). 
2. ^ Bony's the boy for Swans
3. ↑ Wilfried Bony joins City , Manchester City Official Website, accessed and published on January 14, 2015
4. ↑ Stoke City: Potters Pounce For Bony , August 31, 2016, accessed November 18, 2017.
5. ↑ Swansea City: Swans complete Wilfried Bony transfer , August 31, 2017, accessed November 18, 2017.
6. ^ Wilfrieda reprezentační debut se "slony" nadchl, i když gól nedal fotbal.sport.cz of October 14, 2010. Accessed on October 14, 2010, in Czech.