Romuald Boco

Romuald Boco ( born July 8, 1985 in Bernay, France) is a French- Beninese football player.

Club career

Boco, was born as the fourth of five children of Paul, a Beninese who came to France to study, and Elizabeth, a Frenchwoman. He grew up in the Picardie region and played in the youth academies of Lens, Amiens and Valenciennes, before he came to Niort. There he moved in 2003 to the first team, but without being able to prevail. In 2005 he moved to England to Accrington Stanley, who played at this time in the National Football Conference. At 20, he immediately became a regular for Accrington and helped the club to promotion to the first Football League Two 38 years after the founding.

Boco was also the on August 12, 2006 go against Barnet FC the first two goals for Accrington, 44 years after the withdrawal from the League Football. Because of injuries sustained in an international match injury Boco fell from November to mid-January two and a half months. At the end of the season Accrington was on the 20th place in the table and was able to keep the game class, the Benin was chosen by the fans of the club to Stanley's Young Player of the Year. During the winter break of the season 2007/ 08 Boco joined the Irish first division club Sligo Rovers. There he played until 24 February 2010 and was then loaned out to Football League Two club Burton Albion. There he played until the end of the season 2010/2011 in eight games before he returned to Ireland end of May 2010. After half a year in Sligo, he was loaned out again and spent a year in the Chinese Super League for Shanghai East Asia FC., Where he came to the end of December 2011 on 22 missions and scored 1 goals, before returning to Sligo Rovers. On the last day of the summer transfer window he left Ireland and moved back to Accrington Stanley, where he signed a contract until 30 June 2013.

National team career

By his own admission possible matches for the Benin played until he was 18 not matter to him, he felt as a Frenchman.

" It was not always my dream to play for Benin Because I had always been in France so that's who I supported. But my attentions turned to Benin When I Was 18 "

2004 was the first time Boco in the squad of his father's home country. In the Africa Cup 2004 Tunisia he belonged to the 23- man squad and was standing by the Vorrundenaus in the first two games in the root formation. A year later, he played with the U20 of Benin at the Junior World Championship in 2005 in the Netherlands. Boco led his team as a captain, had already leave after the first round but after two draws and a narrow defeat against the hosts. In the aftermath of the venerated as King of Benin Boco belonged to the permanent staff of the national team. In qualifying for the 2006 World Cup, he was also a regular player as in the qualifiers for the African Cup of Nations 2008. During one as a group Last was still a chance in 2006, they finished 2008 on surprising second place, ahead of World Cup qualifiers Togo and qualifies for the second time after 2004 for an African Cup of Nations. For the African Cup of Nations in Ghana in 2008, the temporary captain heard under coach Reinhard Fabisch to the permanent staff and was one of the major players of Benin, but could not prevent the Vorrundenaus.