Jean-Philippe Gbamin

Jean -Philippe Gbamin ( born September 25, 1995 San Pédro ) is an Ivorian - French footballer.

Club career

Gbamin played in his youth for two small northern French clubs before he was admitted to the youth of northern French traditional club RC Lens in 2007. At Lens he advanced at the beginning of the season 2012/13 with 16 years in the squad of the second team in the fourth division, and came to this from now regularly used. At the same time it was announced that clubs such as Paris SG and Lyon, as well as international top clubs have expressed interest in the young players. Still in the same season was the defender with 17 years to his pro debut for the second league team when he came off the bench on May 10, 2013 against EA Guingamp in the 14th minute. With the score of 0:2 so he replaced the overmatched Alexandre Coeff, but a 0:7 defeat of his team could not be avoided despite a passable own performance. At the beginning of the 2013/14 season he was promoted to regulars.

National

Gbamin, which is both the Ivorian as also has French nationality and therefore eligible to play for both nations, adopted in 2010 at a pre-selection to the French U-16 selection part. Shortly after his induction into the reserve team of Lens he was appointed to the U-18 and made his debut for this September 6, 2012 in a 4-1 win over Austria. In March 2013, he was considered in the 4-0 win over the United States and the 3-2 against Germany, where he achieved his first goal in the national team during the game against the USA. In the summer of 2013, the leap took place in the U- 19, with which he participated in the European Championships in 2013 and failed in the final to Serbia.