Kévin Gameiro

Gameiro (2010)

Kevin Gameiro ( born April 9, 1987 in Senlis ) is a French football player. Since the 2013/14 season, the striker is in the Spanish first division side FC Sevilla under contract.

• 2.1 club
• 2.2 national team

Career

Clubs

Gameiro, who completed his first footballing steps at two amateur clubs near his birthplace, came as a 14- year-old to Racing Strasbourg. In racing, he was appointed to the senior squad in the summer of 2005. On the 6th Round, 10th September 2005 he made his debut in Ligue 1 in the match against Paris SG. In the 60th minute of the young players for Haykel Guemamdia came on. His first league goal he scored in a 1-2 defeat against RC Lens. His first competitive goal for Racing he scored during their UEFA Cup appearance on 14 December 2005. After his team was behind until the 79th minute already 0:2, Gameiro secured with two matches still the draw.

In February 2006, the attackers suffered a torn ACL and fell to season end. He had just played himself into the starting eleven, but then had to watch as at the end of the season, the descent was made. 2006/ 07 he got more practice and played 16 matches in Ligue 2 After returning to France's top flight Gameiro prevailed in attack and made ​​his national breakthrough. Only four of the 38 games he missed it. With its six hits he was behind Wason Renteria second best scorer of his team. Despite his league goal to Strasbourg could not hold in the upper house, but rose as 19 again immediately. For this reason, Gameiro completed in the summer of 2008 at FC Lorient, where this transfer, the maximum transfer fee the club's history (3 million euros ) was worth it. Under coach Christian Gourcuff he took in Brittany a power jump, which made ​​him in the 2009/10 season as the second best scorers in the top division and brought into the circle of senior team. During the winter break of 2010/11 Merlus denied him early exit from his current contract until July 2012, but announced that in the summer of 2011 he might leave for a transfer fee of 15 million euros Lorient. The attacker accepted this and continued into the second half for his club a success; on February 20, he had already achieved two seven more goals in the championship and in the National Cup, in which the FC Lorient has qualified for the quarter-finals. At the end of the season Gameiro was again the second-best league top scorer with 22 goals.

In summer 2011 Gameiros joined the League rivals Paris Saint Germain. Gameiro signed a four -year contract until 30 June 2015.

For the 2013/14 season Gameiro joined in the Spanish La Liga for FC Sevilla.

National

Gameiro has played for various junior national teams of France. In 2007 he was appointed to the squad for the U20 national team for the tournament of Toulon. This could attract the young Frenchman. With three goals in the final against China, he was " man of the day ". With two more goals in the tournament, he won the top scorer of the competition; next he secured by good performances the trophy for the best player. A commitment to the national team of Portugal rejected the dual citizenship from later.

End of August 2010, the then national coach Laurent Blanc called him the first time for the A national team for the two European Championship qualifiers in September against Belarus and Bosnia- Herzegovina and moved him against Belarus shortly before the end of a.

Achievements

Association

• Promotion to Ligue 1 with Racing Strasbourg: 2006/ 07

National

• Victory at the Tournament of Toulon 2007 Scorer of the tournament
• Choosing best player of the tournament