Yaya Touré

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Yaya Touré
Yaya Touré (cropped) .jpg
Yaya Touré, 2013
Personnel
Surname Gnégnéri Yaya Touré
birthday May 13, 1983
place of birth Bouaké ,  Ivory Coast
size 191 cm
position Central midfield
Juniors
Years station
1996-2000 ASEC Mimosas
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2000-2001 ASEC Mimosas
2001-2003 KSK Beveren 70 0(3)
2003-2005 Metalurh Donetsk 33 0(3)
2005-2006 Olympiacos Piraeus 19 0(3)
2006-2007 AS Monaco 27 0(5)
2007-2010 FC Barcelona 74 0(4)
2010-2018 Manchester City 230 (62)
2018 Olympiacos Piraeus 2 0(0)
2019-2020 Qingdao Huanghai 14 0(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2004-2015 Ivory Coast 97 (19)
1 Only league games are given.
As of November 2, 2019

Gnégnéri Yaya Touré (born May 13, 1983 in Bouaké ) is an Ivorian football player . He was named Africa's Footballer of the Year from 2011 to 2014 and was the first player to win this award four times in a row.

society

Yaya Touré started his career in 1996 in the youth football school Academy Mimosifcom. Via ASEC Abidjan , he moved to KSK Beveren in Belgium in 2001 , from where he went to Metalurh Donetsk in 2003 . In 2005 he was finally signed by the top Greek club Olympiacos Piraeus . In 2006 he received a number of offers from other clubs; in the end he decided on that of AS Monaco .

FC Barcelona became aware of him through his very good performance at AS Monaco . On June 26, 2007, Touré's move to Barcelona was finally announced. He signed for four years and cost ten million euros transfer fee. In June 2009 Touré extended his contract with Barça prematurely until 2012. In the new contract, the fixed transfer fee was increased from 60 to 100 million euros.

After winning all six possible trophies with FC Barcelona in 2009, he was named Ivory Coast Footballer of the Year in 2009.

On July 2, 2010, he signed a five-year contract with Manchester City . As a key player, who partly wore the captain's armband, Touré played a major role in establishing the “Citizens” as the top team in the Premier League in the following years. Although he was mainly used in defensive midfield at FC Barcelona, ​​he usually played a more offensive position at Manchester City, which also made him more dangerous. It can be used in defensive, central and offensive midfield as well as in central defense.

In his first season with City, he scored the only goal of the game in the FA Cup semi-finals against Manchester United and thus played a major role in getting his team to the final. There Manchester City met Stoke City , which were defeated 1-0. The goalscorer was Touré again, who gave the Citizens fans their first title win in 35 years.

In April 2013 Touré extended his contract with the “Citizens” for another four years until the end of the 2016/17 season. He then received another one-year contract, but was only a substitute player in the 2017/18 season. In May 2018, coach Pep Guardiola announced that Touré would be leaving Manchester City at the end of the season. He was officially adopted in the last home game of the season on May 9, 2018.

At the beginning of September 2018 Touré returned to Olympiacos Piraeus, but the contract was terminated in mid-December 2018 after only a few missions "by mutual agreement".

Touré ended his active career in May 2019. He later denied the reports about the end of his career and made it clear that he was already preparing for a coaching career, but had not ended his playing career.

In July 2019, he signed a contract with Qingdao Huanghai in China League One .

National team

In 2006 he was in the final of the Africa Cup with Ivory Coast . In 2006 national coach Henri Michel also appointed him to the Ivorian squad for the soccer World Cup in Germany.

In 2010 he was also in the Ivory Coast squad for the World Cup in South Africa, just like four years later for the World Cup in Brazil . He was the only player to appear in all nine Ivorian World Cup games, making him the Ivory Coast's record player.

family

Yaya Touré has two brothers. His older brother Kolo Touré was also a national player and active as a central defender at Manchester City. Ibrahim Touré , the youngest of the three, was under contract with Safa SC Beirut until his death at the age of 28 in Lebanon

Achievements and Awards

society

ASEC Mimosas (2000-2001)

Olympiacos Piraeus (2005-2006)

FC Barcelona (2007-2010)

Manchester City (2010–)

National team

Touré with the trophy after winning the 2015 African Championship

Personal honors

Web links

Commons : Yaya Touré  - Collection of Images
  • Yaya Touré in the database of weltfussball.de
  • Yaya Touré in the database of soccerbase.com (English)
  • Yaya Touré , profile on the Manchester City homepage
  • Yaya Touré in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Africa's Footballer of the Year: Aubameyang runner-up - Yaya Touré catches up with Eto'o. kicker.de , January 8, 2015, accessed on September 24, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Ben Hunt, Stuart James: Barcelona keep spending to snap up Yaya Touré from Monaco . The Guardian , June 2, 2007, accessed September 24, 2016.
  3. ↑ Touré renews contract until 2012. FC Barcelona, ​​June 26, 2009, archived from the original on July 29, 2012 ; accessed on September 24, 2016 (English).
  4. ↑ Yaya Toure voted Ivorian player of the year. Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF), June 28, 2009, archived from the original on July 20, 2012 ; accessed on September 24, 2016 (English).
  5. ↑ Tim Oscroft: Manchester City have secured the signing of Yaya Toure on a five-year deal from Barcelona. Manchester City, July 2, 2010; archived from the original on May 30, 2012 ; accessed on September 24, 2016 (English).
  6. ^ Yaya Toure signs new deal. Manchester City, April 4, 2013, archived from the original on May 5, 2013 ; accessed on September 24, 2016 (English). April 4, 2013, accessed April 5, 2013
  7. ^ Mark Critchley: Yaya Toure to leave Manchester City at the end of season with 'beautiful farewell' against Brighton . The Independent, May 4, 2018
  8. ↑ Yaya Toure returns to Olympiacos! In: Olympiacos.org | Official Website of Olympiacos Piraeus . ( olympiacos.org [accessed September 3, 2018]).
  9. ↑ bbc.com: Yaya Toure leaves Olympiakos three months after rejoining Greek club (December 11, 2018) , accessed December 25, 2018
  10. ↑ Touré ends career - consultant: "He can become an assistant in any club from June" , transfermarkt.de, accessed on May 10, 2019
  11. ↑ Yaya Toure denies retirement despite agent claims. May 13, 2019, accessed July 6, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Yaya Toure continues career after Aus with Manchester City in China. Retrieved July 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Touré, Yaya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Touré, Gnégnéri Yaya (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ivorian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Bouaké , Ivory Coast