Josuha Guilavogui
Guilavogui with the French U -21 ( 2011)
Josuha Guilavogui ( born September 19, 1990 in Ollioules ) is a French football player. The national team is since September 2013 Spain Atletico Madrid under contract and is currently on loan to AS Saint -Étienne. He prefers the positions in central midfield.
Career
Youth
Guilavogui was born on September 19, 1990 in Ollioules near Toulon, where he grew up as a child and attended the same school as Bafetimbi Gomis. At age five he first played football before he first joined a club in 1997. From 2000 to 2005 he played for Sporting Toulon, until he moved to the youth department of AS Saint- Étienne.
Clubs
There he was in 2008 as a 18 -year-old for the first time introduced to the first team. In December 2008, he stood first in the UEFA Cup for the first time in the extended squad, and a few days later in the league. On 3 January 2009, he came to his competitive debut for the first team when he came on in a cup match just before the end. In the 2009/10 season he was from the beginning of the second half integral part of the 18 -ies squad. On April 10, 2010 he also made his debut in Ligue 1. His breakthrough to a fixed size of the first division he had 2010/11, as he stood in a total of 24 official matches on the court.
By no later than the beginning of 2011 Guilavogui was a regular player. In the 2011/12 season, he completed 32 league games and scored two goals. In the following season Saint- Étienne was surprising fifth and qualified by the League Cup victory for the European competition. Guilavogui, the 2012/13 not a single League game missed was involved as service providers in the successes.
However, its performance also attracted the covetousness of other clubs, which he did not stand up in the summer of 2013, and for as close to the end of the transfer window about 10 million euros to Spanish side Atletico Madrid moved. There, he signed a five-year contract. For Atlético he came on October 6, 2013 in a game against Celta Vigo on his debut. Its for new face he gave on 26 November 2013, the Champions League against Zenit St Petersburg. End of January 2014 Guilavogui returned to the end of the season back on loan to Saint -Étienne, when he came across the first round only in six competitive games used.
National
Guilavogui represented the French football at various youth levels. Among other things, he was in the squad at the U-19 European Championship in 2009, retired in France in the semifinals. For espoir, the U -21, he completed 15 games in which he scored twice. On June 5, 2013, he debuted the age of 22 in the national team of France. His first competitive match was followed on September 6, 2013 in a World Cup qualifier against Georgia.
Achievements
- 2013: French League Cup Winners
Statistics
As of April 7, 2014