french football player

Wissam Ben Yedder ( natural 12 August 1990 ) is a french professional football player who plays as a striker for Ligue 1 club AS Monaco and the France national team. Having begun his career at amateurs UJA Alfortville, he joined Toulouse in 2010. He totalled 71 goals in 174 games for them, surpassing André-Pierre Gignac as their greatest league scorer of the twenty-first hundred. He moved to Sevilla for €10 million in 2016, and scored 70 goals in 138 games in three seasons. A €40 million transfer to Monaco followed in 2019, and he was Ligue 1 peak scorekeeper in his foremost season back.

At international flush, Ben Yedder represented France at under-21 flat, and at futsal. He made his broad international debut for France in March 2018 .

Club career [edit ]

toulouse [edit ]

Ben Yedder was born in Sarcelles, Île-de-France, of tunisian descent. [ 2 ] Among his childhood friends was Riyad Mahrez. [ 3 ] Ben Yedder began his career at local UJA Alfortville in the fourth-tier Championnat de France Amateur, before moving to Toulouse of Ligue 1 in 2010. [ 2 ] On 16 October 2010, he made his professional debut in a 0–2 home loss to Paris Saint-Germain, replacing Yannis Tafer for the final 29 minutes. He made 13 stand-in appearances across his first two seasons, and scored his first goal for Toulouse on 21 April 2012 : ten-spot minutes after coming on in place of Paulo Machado, he equalised in an eventual 2–1 personnel casualty at Evian. [ 4 ] In the trace three Ligue 1 campaigns, Ben Yedder recorded 15, 16 and 14 goals respectively. [ 2 ] On 10 August 2012, in the first game of the season, he came on at half time for Pantxi Sirieix and equalised for a 1–1 draw at reigning champions and local rivals Montpellier. [ 5 ] In the reverse fixture, the last of the campaign, on 26 May 2013, he scored both goals in a win over Montpellier. [ 6 ] On 30 November 2013, Ben Yedder scored a hat-trick in a 5–1 home gain over Sochaux. [ 7 ] He recorded another double on 17 May 2014 as Toulouse finished the season with a 3–1 acquire over Valenciennes. [ 8 ] Ben Yedder scored a penalty in a 3–3 draw against Caen on 20 September 2014. In doing so, he reached 35 Ligue 1 goals for Toulouse, surpassing André-Pierre Gignac as their highest scorer in the league in the twenty-first hundred. [ 9 ] He attained the milestone of 50 goals in the contest on 19 December 2015, when he put them ahead in a 1–1 home draw against Lille. [ 10 ] The following 9 January, he scored another hat-trick in a 3–1 win at chap strugglers Reims. [ 11 ]

sevilla [edit ]

On 30 July 2016, Ben Yedder signed a five-year contract with spanish cabaret Sevilla, for a reported €9 million fee. [ 12 ] After being an unused ersatz in their UEFA Super Cup loss to Real Madrid on 9 August, he made his debut five days late, replacing companion raw signing Luciano Vietto for the final examination 29 minutes of a 0–2 loss to Barcelona in the first gear leg of the class ‘s domestic equivalent. On 20 August, he started in his first La Liga game and scored a goal in a 6–4 victory over Espanyol at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium. [ 13 ]
Ben Yedder scored five goals across Sevilla ‘s 14–2 sum Copa del Rey win over Tercera División golf club Formentera in December 2016, including a hat-trick in the 9–1 home victory in the second leg. [ 14 ] This haul made him the tournament ‘s circus tent scorer that season, alongside Barcelona ‘s Lionel Messi. [ 15 ] On 7 January 2017, he registered a hat-trick in a 4–0 La Liga win at Real Sociedad. [ 16 ] In Sevilla ‘s UEFA Champions League campaign in 2017–18, Ben Yedder scored all three goals in a group stage victory over Slovenia ‘s Maribor on 26 September, his foremost hat-trick in the competition. [ 17 ] On 21 November, after scoring doubly as Sevilla came from a 0–3 deficit at half time to draw with Liverpool, he taunted A.C. Milan – who lost the 2005 UEFA Champions League Final to Liverpool in a like fashion – over Twitter. [ 18 ] On 13 March 2018, in the second leg of the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League attack of 16 against Manchester United at Old Trafford, Ben Yedder came on as a substitute in the 72nd minute and scored two goals in the cross of 4 minutes to help secure a 2–1 win and enable Sevilla to reach the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League for the first base prison term since 1958, and for the first base time ever in the Champions League earned run average. [ 19 ] In September 2018, Ben Yedder scored five goals in the outer space of three days, with two in a 5–1 Europa League gain against Standard Liège and a hat-trick in a 6–2 victory away to Levante. [ 20 ]

monaco [edit ]

On 14 August 2019, Ben Yedder signed with Monaco on a five-year contract after they activated his secrete clause of €40 million, a record sale for Sevilla. Rony Lopes transferred in the other management. [ 21 ] He made his debut three days late, starting aboard companion debutant Henry Onyekuru and pushing Radamel Falcao to the substitutes ‘ bench in a 3–0 loss away to Metz. [ 22 ] On 25 August, he scored his first goal for the club in his first bet on at the Stade Louis II in a 2–2 draw with Nîmes. [ 23 ] In December 2019, Ben Yedder won the UNFP Player of the Month award with four goals and two assists in four games, including two in a 5–1 home gain over Lille on 21 December. [ 24 ] His first season in the principality was curtailed in early March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, but he finished as joint top scorekeeper alongside PSG ‘s Kylian Mbappé with 18 goals from 26 games, a newfangled record for him in Ligue 1. [ 25 ]

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In 2020–21, Ben Yedder helped Monaco stopping point as runner-up in the Coupe de France, scoring in wins over Lyon and Rumilly-Vallières in the quarter-final and semi-final. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] On 2 May 2021, he scored his hundredth goal in Ligue 1 in a 2–3 home get the better of against the former. [ 28 ] He finished the season as second-highest scorekeeper behind Mbappé ‘s 27 goals, joint with Lyon ‘s Memphis Depay on 20. [ 29 ]

International career [edit ]

Ben Yedder played two futsal matches for France, scoring once, and besides represented the nation nine times at under-21 level. [ 2 ] As Ben Yedder ‘s parents ‘ hail from Tunisia and consequently he would qualify to represent that nation in international football under FIFA regulations, the Tunisian Football Federation made five attempts to get him to represent their team. In October 2017, after he turned down their propose to get him into the police squad before the 2018 FIFA World Cup, they admitted defeat. [ 30 ] In March 2018, after playing well for Sevilla, France director Didier Deschamps included Ben Yedder in the police squad for two friendly matches against Colombia and Russia. [ 31 ] He made his debut in the 3–2 loss to the Colombians on 23 March at the Stade de France, replacing Olivier Giroud for the final examination 17 minutes. [ 32 ] On 17 May, he was named on the standby list for the 23-man french squad for the World Cup. [ 33 ] On 11 June 2019, Ben Yedder made his first startle for the France senior team and scored his first elder international goal, in the 4–0 aside win over Andorra in a UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying match. [ 34 ] In May 2021, he was selected for the delayed finals. [ 35 ]

career statistics [edit ]

club [edit ]

As of match played 5 December 2021[36][37]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Europe Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
UJA Alfortville 2009–10 CFA 23 9 0 0 23 9
Toulouse B 2010–11 CFA 2 17 11 17 11
2011–12 CFA 2 1 1 1 1
2012–13 CFA 2 2 2 2 2
Total 20 14 20 14
Toulouse 2010–11 Ligue 1 4 0 1 0 0 0 5 0
2011–12 Ligue 1 9 1 1 0 1 0 11 1
2012–13 Ligue 1 34 15 2 0 1 0 37 15
2013–14 Ligue 1 38 16 2 0 2 1 42 17
2014–15 Ligue 1 36 14 1 1 1 0 38 15
2015–16 Ligue 1 35 17 2 1 4 5 41 23
Total 156 63 9 2 9 6 174 71
Sevilla 2016–17 La Liga 31 11 4 5 5 2 2 0 42 18
2017–18 La Liga 25 9 6 3 11 10 42 22
2018–19 La Liga 35 18 5 2 13 10 1 0 54 30
Total 91 38 15 10 29 22 3 0 138 70
Monaco 2019–20 Ligue 1 26 18 3 1 2 0 31 19
2020–21 Ligue 1 37 20 4 2 41 22
2021–22 Ligue 1 17 9 0 0 8 2 25 11
Total 80 47 7 3 2 0 8 2 97 52
Career total 370 171 31 15 11 6 37 24 3 0 451 216

International [edit ]

As of match played 13 November 2021[38]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
France 2018 1 0
2019 7 2
2020 3 0
2021 5 0
Total 16 2
As of 10 September 2019. France score listed first, score column indicates score after each Ben Yedder goal.
International goals by date, venue, cap, opponent, score, result and competition
No. Date Venue Cap Opponent Score Result Competition
1 11 June 2019 Estadi Nacional, Andorra la Vella, Andorra 4  Andorra 2–0 4–0 UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying
2 10 September 2019 Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France 5  Andorra 3–0 3–0 UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying

Honours [edit ]

France
Individual

References [edit ]