Igor Lolo
Lolo in the national team jersey (2012 )
Igor Lolo ( born July 22, 1982 in Abidjan ) is an Ivorian football player. The right-back is the Russian Premjer league representative FC Rostov under contract. After he had done from his youth club, the ASEC Mimosas, to move to Europe, he played mainly in Belgium, France and Ukraine. Furthermore, since 2008 he runs on for the national team of his native country.
Career
Association
Lolo was born in Abidjan and played for the youth department of the local ASEC Mimosas. The Association shall apply to talented players as a springboard to Europe, so come his youth department national idols like Didier Drogba, Yaya Toure and Gervinho. First, however, Lolo aroused the interest of the Belgian first division club KSK Beveren. There, however, he only played one season before moving to the Ukrainian representative Metalurh Donetsk in the summer. After also only one season, he returned to Belgium and signed in the summer of 2005, a contract with Germinal Beerschot. With the team he took part in the UEFA Cup, but retired in the first round against Olympique Marseille. Antwerp is Lolo established and completed in two years 41 league games for Germinal Beerschot. In the summer of 2007, League rival KRC Genk secured the services of the Ivorian. Again, Lolo played in the starting lineup and stood in 27 league appearances for Genk on the field.
The only three inserts less successful one-year stay in Dnipropetrovsk followed a two-year commitment to the French first division club AS Monaco. In the 2009/10 season he reached with his team the Cup Final, but lost 0-1 against PSG. After more than 50 appearances for the AS Monaco Lolo signed in summer 2011 at Russian club FC Kuban Krasnodar. After two years he was engaged by the league rivals FC Rostov.
National
In May 2008, Lolo made his debut in the senior national team of his country in a friendly against Paraguay. In his first appearance at a major tournament Lolo arrived at the African Cup of Nations in 2012., Where he stood in the two group games against Sudan and Angola at right-back in the starting lineup, in the knockout round in which the Ivory Coast advanced all the way to the finals, was Jean -Jacques Gosso preference. A year later he again heard the squad Ivory Coast at the Africa Cup in South Africa.
Achievements
- Coupe de France: Finalist 2010