Name Jean-Jacques Gosso Career start 2000 Weight 74 kg | Number 19 Height 1.77 m Role Footballer | |
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Full name Jean-Jacques Gosso Gosso Date of birth (1983-03-15) 15 March 1983 (age 32) Current teams Goztepe S.K. (Midfielder), Ivory Coast national football team (Midfielder) Similar People Sabri Lamouchi, Sven‑Goran Eriksson, Herve Renard, Vahid Halilhodzic, Henryk Kasperczak | ||
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Jean-Jacques Gosso Gosso (born 15 March 1983 in Abidjan) is an Ivorian footballer who plays as a midfielder and he is currently playing for Turkish side Göztepe.
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Gosso, a defensive midfielder, has played in Côte d'Ivoire, Israel, Morocco, France and Turkey.
Stella Club
Gosso started his career at Stella Club d'Adjamé in his native Cote d'Ivoire. In 2004, he moved to Wydad Casablanca in Morocco, before travelling to Israel to discuss terms with Maccabi Tel Aviv in 2006. Due to financial constraints at the club, they were unable to come up with the transfer fee that the Moroccan club had come up with.
F.C. Ashdod
Months later Gosso's name came up again but this time word had spread that F.C. Ashdod had agreed terms with the club and player and that he was due to sign a contract. In the end, Gosso did indeed join F.C. Ashdod where he immediately received a starting position in his first league match against Maccabi Tel Aviv.
AS Monaco
On 8 July 2008, it was announced that Gosso would go on trial with French side AS Monaco FC. On 22 July 2008, it was announced that Monaco would sign Gosso after the successful trial on a three-year contract.
Orduspor
Gosso signed a three-year contract with the Turkish Süper Lig club Orduspor in July 2011. On 18 October 2012, Gosso left the club after his contract was terminated two years early by mutual consent.
After finishing the 2012/2013 season at Mersin Idmanyurdu, Gosso signed a one-year contract at Ankara's Genclerbirligi.
Kuyt on Jean-Jacques Gosso - " He crushed my ballsack"
Honours
International
He was member of the Côte d'Ivoire U-20 squad in 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship in United Arab Emirates.
He was called up to the senior squad for the first time in 2008, and was named as part of the Elephants squad for the 2010 African Cup of Nations in Angola.
He was selected for the 2012 African Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, playing mostly at right-back.