André Ayew

Andre ' Dede ' Ayew (born 17 December 1989 Seclin, France) is a French- Ghanaian footballer. The striker played for the 2010/11 season again at the French first division club Olympique Marseille, from which he was loaned out to FC Lorient in 2008 and 2009 at AC Arles- Avignon, and is also active in the Ghanaian national team.

He is the son of Abédi Pelé, one of the most successful African footballers of all time, and nephew of Kwame Ayew and Sola Ayew, who were also known Ghanaian players. His older brother Ibrahim and his younger brother Jordan are football professionals.

Club career

Ayew was born in northern France when his father played for Lille OSC. He began his career at the age of ten years at FC Nania Accra in Ghana. After he served four years of the club 's youth academy, he was promoted to the first team coached by his father of the association. After two years as a pro for Nania, where he came in the juniors used, he returned to France to play for Olympique Marseille, the club where his father celebrated his greatest successes. There he first played in the Under-17 team of the club, scored eleven goals in his first season and coached at the side of Salomon Olembé, Habib Beye and Bixente Lizarazu already with the first team. In May 2007 he signed a three-year professional contract and has been an integral part of the Ligue 1 club Marseille. His first professional game he played on Matchday 3 of the 2007/08 season on August 15 at the 1:2 defeat against FC Valenciennes, when he came on in the 89th minute for Modeste M'Bami. A little later he made his debut on 24 October 2007 at home against the Portuguese champions FC Porto in the Champions League. In his first season, Ayew was in league, cup and Champions League a total of 13 appearances for.

For the 2008/09 season Ayew was loaned out to league rivals FC Lorient, where he was employed by coach Christian Gourcuff in attack alongside Fabrice Abriel, Kevin Gameiro, and Rafik Saïfi, and he too in the match against FC Lyon 16 August 2008 his first game came. A month later, he scored the 1-0 opener against FC Sochaux his first Profitor. Nevertheless, he was considered in the subsequent period only as a substitute. He finished the season with 22 league games in which he scored three goals, and returned to Marseille on 30 June 2009.

Since he was not considered by the new coach Didier Deschamps, Marseille, Ligue committed him 2 Newcomer AC Arles -Avignon on 31 August 2009 for a season on loan. With Arles -Avignon reached Ayew, who was employed there on the right wing position, promotion to the Ligue 1 He came into the season on 25 league games and scored four goals.

After a successful season at AC Arles -Avignon Ayew returned again to Marseille. After first suspected that he would leave the club, he extended his contract in August 2014. During the season of 2010/11, Ayew has established itself at Marseille and was in the first round 18 used once, of which he stood 16 times in the starting line-up.

National team career

Its dual citizenship André Dede Ayew could have played internationally for both France and Ghana. First, he decided to France and played once in the French U18 national team before he had to cancel four more appointments due to injuries. In the men's area, he decided due to the origin of his father for Ghana, although he was also courted by the French federation. In August 2007, convened in Ghana coach Claude Le Roy for a friendly against Senegal in the squad of the national team. It was towards the end of the match, which was held the stage in New London, on as a substitute and thus got his first international cap. In the following months he has been gradually incorporated into the Ghanaian national team, which is preparing to be held in their own country Africa Cup beginning of 2008. Ayew finally made ​​the jump to the 23-man national squad and took part in four of the six games. In the semifinals of the tournament he was in the 0-1 defeat to Cameroon in the starting lineup. At the end, he finished in third place with Ghana.

Under the new national team coach Milovan Rajevac Ayew was initially only little attention. This changed after his outstanding performance in the World Youth Championship in the fall of 2009 in Egypt, in Ghana for the first time won the title. As a result, André Dede Ayew also came back for the A national team for use. He participated in the Africa Cup 2010 in part, subject to the Ghana until the endgame of the team of Egypt 0-1, and Ayew took part in all five games. In May 2010, he was nominated for Ghana's squad at the World Cup in South Africa. Ghana survived the first round and won in the second round against the United States, where the decisive 2-1 winning goal Ayew of Ghana prepared and was named Man of the Match. In the quarterfinals, in which Dede Ayew could not accrue due to suspension, Ghana lost on penalties against Uruguay and retired. He was elected after the German Thomas Müller as the second best young player of the 2010 World Cup.

In Africa Championship 2012 he succeeded in the quarter-final against Tunisia in the extension of a 2-1 draw.

Achievements

  • Junior World Champion 2009
  • Africa Junior Champion 2009
  • Second in the Africa Cup 2010
  • Third in the African Cup of Nations 2008
  • French League Cup Winners: 2011
  • French Football Supercup: 2010, 2011
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