Johan Djourou

Johan Djourou (2008)

John Danon " Johan " Djourou - Gbadjere ( born January 18, 1987 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast ) is a Swiss footballer of Ivorian origin, who is under contract at Arsenal, but is currently playing on loan at Hamburger SV.

Club career

Youth

His first club was FC Champel, where he stayed for short; the age of eight he went to the Étoile Carouge FC. Here he first played as a striker, but when 13 -year-old moved to the defensive midfield. Even in youth he joined in July 2003 for Arsenal.

Professional at Arsenal (2004-2007)

His debut in the first team of Arsenal he gave on 27 October 2004 in the League Cup in a 2-1 victory against Manchester City when he came on in the 89th minute for Jermaine Pennant. As a result, he came two more times in the League Cup for use with Arsenal and was eliminated in the quarter- final against Manchester United from. His Premier League debut, he finally gave in the following season on 14 January 2006, in the 7-0 victory against Middlesbrough FC. Then he came to six additional inserts in the league and put it in a total of twelve inserts season, where he was not involved in the collection Arsenal in the Champions League final. Among his first Champions League against Dinamo Zagreb inserts he came in the CL qualification next season. This he won with Arsenal and thus resulted in further missions in the Champions League. However, despite these inserts and 21 league games he failed the final breakthrough. Therefore, he was loaned for the first half of the 2007/08 season at Birmingham City.

Loan to Birmingham City (2007)

In the Premier League Movers Djourou was from the beginning to the starting eleven. So he played until his return to Arsenal in the winter break 13 games for Birmingham.

Return to London (2007-2012)

After his return to Arsenal, he came only two appearances in the second half. But already in the next season he was once again a regular in the squad and came all competitions for a total of 29 missions. He suffered 11 April 2009 in the game against Wigan Athletic a knee injury and underwent a surgery in September 2009, which forced him to an eight-month break. His comeback and at the same time his only game in the 2009/10 season he played on 9 May 2010 in the season finale against Fulham.

In the season 2010/11 he was, however, gradually to regular players due to the injury of Thomas Vermaelen. Along with Laurent Koscielny Djourou usually formed the central defense and scored 5 February 2011 against Newcastle United 's first goal in the Premier League. He also reached the League Cup final with Arsenal and lost there with 1:2 against Birmingham City, his former club. Last season he came back and more behind and played only 14 times from the beginning. Even in the Champions League group stage, he came only to sporadic inserts and could not secure a permanent place in the starting XI.

Lending to Hannover 96 (2013 )

During the winter break of 2012/13 he was loaned to the Bundesliga club Hannover 96 until the end of the season. On the return half kick-off in the away match against FC Schalke 04 Djourou was in the starting and played in the 4:5 defeat over the full distance. He completed 14 of 17 possible games.

Loan to Hamburger SV (2013 - )

For the 2013/14 season Djourou was loaned to the Hamburger SV. The club also secured a purchase option.

National

Djourou got his first squad for the national team of Switzerland for the friendly against Scotland. The first line-up was followed by the first international game he played at the age of 19 years in Glasgow on March 1, 2006. He played it at times with his former team-mate Philippe Senderos from Arsenal FC in the Swiss central defense.

He belonged to the squad of the Swiss national team at the World Cup in Germany in 2006 and came in three of the four Swiss World Cup games available for use. As part of the " Swiss Sports Awards", he was voted " Newcomer of the Year ". At the European Championships held in 2008 he was again in the national squad Switzerland. After the knee injury in April 2009, he made his comeback in the national team on November 17, 2010 in a friendly match against Ukraine.

Private

Joe, as he is called in his environment is the result of an affair his father, who is actually married to the Swiss Danièle and Johan 's adoptive mother. Djourous family moved when he was 17 months old, in Switzerland and settled there near Geneva.