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Wilfried Bony
Bony Wilfried
Personal information
Full name Wilfried Guemiand Bony
Date of birth (1988-12-10) 10 December 1988 (age 35)
Place of birth Bingerville, Côte d'Ivoire
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Vitesse
Number 9
Youth career
Cyrille Domoraud Football Academy
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2008 Issia Wazi
2007–2008 → Sparta Prague B (loan) 14 (2)
2008–2011 Sparta Prague 59 (22)
2011– Vitesse 48 (29)
International career‡
2010– Côte d'Ivoire 13 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18 November 2012
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18 November 2012

Wilfried Bony (born 10 December 1988 in Bingerville) is an Ivorian football player who currently plays as a Striker for Eredivisie club Vitesse Arnhem.

Early life

He spent most of his childhood in city of Abidjan, raised in Plateau city and then in Abobo PK18. He started with street football called Maracana, Interschool matches and City competitions, then spent three years at the Cyrille Domoraud football Academy located in the city of Bingerville.[1]

Career

Issia Wazi

Bony started his professional career at Issia Wazi in the Côte d'Ivoire Premier Division and played in the CAF Champions League.[citation needed] He scored 6 goals in 16 matches at the club.[2] He was on trial at Liverpool FC in 2007 but was not offered a contract.[3]

In 2007 he had trials with Galway United and Finn Harps ( League of Ireland ) however he was not offered a contract.

Sparta Prague

In October 2007, he joined Sparta Prague on a loan deal and started at the reserve team. With Sparta Prague B he won the Bohemian Football League. Bony was signed on a permanent deal and joined the first team where he scored 22 goals in 59 matches. He won the Gambrinus Liga and the Czech Republic Football Supercup with Sparta in 2010.[4]

Vitesse

On 30 January 2011 Bony signed a three-and-a-half year contract with Dutch club Vitesse Arnhem and he scored on his debut.[5][6] In his first full season with the Dutch club, Bony netted on twelve occasions in the Eredivisie, earning the top goalscoring honors for the club and was tied for tenth highest scorer in the league.[7]

On 6 October 2012, Bony scored a hat-trick as Vitesse came back from a goal down three times to draw 3-3 with Heerenveen.[8] In Vitesse's 2-0 upset of Ajax on 3 November, Bony scored both goals, helping Vitesse to six away wins in a row and the club's first win at the Amsterdam Arena since 2001.[9]

Statistics

Season Club Competition Played Scored
2007/2008 Czech Republic Sparta Prague B ČFL 14 2
2008/2009 Czech Republic Sparta Prague Gambrinus Liga 16 3
2009/2010 Czech Republic Sparta Prague Gambrinus Liga 29 9
2010/2011 Czech Republic Sparta Prague Gambrinus Liga 14 10
Netherlands Vitesse Eredivisie 7 3
2011/2012 Netherlands Vitesse Eredivisie 28 12
2012/2013 Netherlands Vitesse Eredivisie 13 14
Totaal 121 53

updated 18 nov. 2012

International

On the 30th of January 2012 he scored the second goal, in the 65' minute, as the Ivory Coast defeated Angola 2-0 in the third game of the group stages of the African Cup of Nations.[10]

Name

There is some confusion about his first name and family name. His father's name is Amedee Shemiz Bony,[11] so his first name is Wilfried and the family name is Bony.

Honours

References

  1. ^ bonywilfried.com, by Archive.org
  2. ^ [1]
  3. ^ Bony adds weight to Sparta challenge, UEFA.com, 30 November 2010
  4. ^ Spartu posílil Bonno Wilfried, sparta.cz, 24 October 2007
  5. ^ "Vitesse snap up Wilfried". Sky Sports. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
  6. ^ Vitesse haalt Valerica Gaman en Wilfried Bony - Vitesse
  7. ^ "Topscorers Eredivisie". EredivisieLive. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
  8. ^ "Vitesse en Heerenveen in spektakelstuk naar 3-3". Vitesse Arnhem. 6 October 2012.
  9. ^ "4 November 2012". AFC Ajax.
  10. ^ "28 th Orange Africa Cup of Nations- GABON-GUINEE EQUATORIALE 2012 21st January to 12th February 2012" (PDF). CAF. Retrieved 15 November 2012. {{cite web}}: line feed character in |title= at position 3 (help)
  11. ^ "Sparťan Bony čeká v Africe na slávu. Reprezentace? Prý příští rok". iDnes. Retrieved 3 June 2010.


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