Benjamin Angoua

Benjamin Angoua in 2009

Brou Benjamin Angoua ( born November 28, 1986 in Anyama ) is an Ivorian football player at the position of a defender. He currently plays for Valenciennes FC in Ligue 1, the top division in French football.

Career

Career start in Grand- Bassam

After he started in 2000 when amateur sports club Toumodi FC in the port city of Grand- Bassam his career as a football player, he was until 2004 there in the young active before he moved to Ivorian first division club Africa Sports National. At the club from the former capital of the country he came in the next two years on the defensive for use and has advanced to a regular in the defensive line of the association. After good performances in his home country Angoua received a promising offer from Europe.

Change to Hungary

The Hungarian first division took him to the 2005/06 season under contract, where he was to strengthen the defense. After a total of only five league appearances in his first season, he has been an increase from the 2006/07 season in the Hungarian Defence series are used. In addition to 23 events in Hungary's highest football league in the native Ivorians came in Magyar Kupa, the Hungarian Cup competition, are used. He managed the team to the finals, where the team finally Debreceni Vasutas SC defeated on penalties and cup winner was. Furthermore Angoua was 2007/08 in the recently introduced Ligakupa, another cup competition, and was used with his team Szuperkupa - finalist in 2007.

By the Cup victory in the preseason Angoua was entitled to prove his talent in intercontinental football in the season 2007 /08. This Angoua came in all four qualifying matches for the UEFA Cup 2007/ 08 of his team to use, but the team was eliminated in the second qualifying round against Hamburger SV from the current competition. During the four meetings Angoua also scored his first goal in an intercontinental competition. In the league it was just as successful for the dedicated defensive player. In 23 championship matches, he went to a hit and made it also with the team to the finals of the Magyar Kupa 2007/ 08, where, however, was defeated clearly against the previous year's final opponents with a total score of 1:9 in return game.

Although one -time but mediocre eighth place in the final table of the Nemzeti National Championship Honvéd Budapest was qualified in 2008 due to the good placement in the official Hungarian football trophy for the first round of the UEFA Intertoto Cup. In the competition, in the Angoua could make in two games his talent, the team retired but in the third round against SK Sturm Graz. Within the League Angoua was only used occasionally and brought it in the 2008 /09 season to just 14 league appearances. It took this season compared to the previous seasons, the number of his extant maps significantly. In the final of the Magyar Kupa 2008/ 09 could just enforce with a total score of 1-0 against the Gyori ETO FC Benjamin Angoua with Honvéd Budapest and so won once again the Hungarian Cup. It also managed the team after 2007 once more into the final of the Hungarian Super Cup, which the Debreceni VSC 1-0 could decide for themselves.

After he clearly resigned with his team in the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League against Fenerbahce and until the winter break of the season 2009/10 came up 14 league appearances, in which he scored an own goal, among other things, a change of club Angouas apparent. Since he clearly demonstrated by the self- defined targets and thus the participation of the UEFA Europa League failed, he got an offer from the French first division side Valenciennes FC.

Transfer to France

Even before the completion of the transition period changed Angoua end of January 2010 to the northern French club with which he quite well in 2009/10 was launched in the second half of the season. About two weeks after his contract signing at the Northern French Ivorian got its first use in France's top flight as he stood on the lawn in a 2-1 home win over OGC Nice on the entire game. End of the season Angoua scored in the last round with a 1-1 away draw against AS Nancy to kick Template by Renaud Cohade the only goal of his team.

National team career

After he came previously in the various Ivorian youth selections used Angoua was used from 2005 onwards in the Ivorian U -20 team, for which he finally came to 2008 for use in various international games. In 2008 he took to the Olympic team in his home country at the football tournament of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing which completed doing all four games of his team and eventually retired with the Ivorians in the quarterfinals against the Olympic team from Nigeria.

His debut for the senior team in his home country was Angoua in the same year, when he came on 19 November in a 2-2 draw against Israel in the 60 minutes for Igor Lolo on the lawn. The following year, the defensive player were further appearances for the national team of Ivory Coast, including among other things, two appearances in qualifying for the 2010 World Cup.

In May 2010 Angoua was the coach of the national team of his native country, the Bosnian-Herzegovinian success coach Vahid Halilhodžić, was appointed to the provisional 30 players comprehensive array of Ivory Coast for the Football World Cup 2010 in South Africa, and finally also belonged to the final 23 -man squad the Ivorians, who competed with the new coach Sven- Goran Eriksson's World Cup finals. It is Angoua one of five players ( six if you count Vincent Aboubakar, which was, however, still called during his time in Cameroon in the squad ) of Valenciennes FC, taking part in the 2010 World Cup.

Achievements

• 2x Magyar Kupa winner: 2006/ 07, 2008/ 09
• 1x Magyar Kupa - finalist: 2007/ 08
• 2x Szuperkupa - finalist: 2007, 2009

Game style

Angoua himself thinks that his greatest strengths in the head ball game in its speed and in the opening game are. The defender, who is mainly in central defense for use, can be used as a right-back or in defensive midfield. He may well prevail against his opponent because of his physical strength and robust physique.