Ivorian association football musician

Franck Yannick Kessié ( hold 19 December 1996 ) is an Ivorian professional football player who plays as a central midfielder for Serie A club AC Milan and the Ivory Coast national team .

Club career [edit ]

Born in Ouragahio, Kessié began his career in Stella Club d’Adjamé, joining their youth apparatus in 2010. [ 2 ] In 2014, he was promoted to the first team. [ 3 ]

Atalanta [edit ]

On 29 January 2015, Kessié signed a three-year narrow with Serie A cabaret Atalanta. [ 4 ] He was assigned to the clubhouse ‘s Primavera squad upon his arrival, and contributed with seven appearances for the side. His beginning match in Europe occurred on 1 March, as he started in a 2–0 aside win against AC Milan Primavera. [ citation needed ] On 18 April 2015, Kessié was called up to the first team for a match against Roma, [ 5 ] but remained an unused ersatz in the 1–1 draw the watch sidereal day .

Cesena ( loan ) [edit ]

On 26 August 2015, Kessié joined Cesena in the Serie B on a annual lend deal. [ 6 ] He made his professional debut on 26 September, coming on as a ersatz for Antonino Ragusa in a 0–0 away draw against Perugia. [ 7 ] Kessié scored his first professional goal on 31 October 2015, netting the last in a 2–0 home acquire against Virtus Lanciano. [ 8 ] He became an undisputed crank afterwards, appearing in 37 matches and scoring four goals as his side missed out promotion in the play-offs .

return to Atalanta [edit ]

After returning from loanword, Kessié was promoted to the first team by coach Gian Piero Gasperini. [ 9 ] After appearing with the main team during the pre-season, he made his debut for La Dea on 13 August 2016, starting and scoring the stopping point in a 3–0 Coppa Italia home winnings against Cremonese. [ 10 ] Six days subsequently, he renewed his condense until 2021. [ 11 ] Kessié made his introduction in the main class of italian football on 21 August 2016, as he started and scored a brace in a 4–3 dwelling loss against Lazio. [ 12 ] He scored another goal seven days late, in a 2–1 away frustration to Sampdoria. [ 13 ]

Kessié subsequently became a pillar in Gasperini ‘s starting football team, scoring the winners against Torino ( 2–1 home winnings ) [ 14 ] and Roma ( 2–1 home win ), [ 15 ] both through penalties. He besides scored the counterweight against Empoli on 20 December 2016, with Marco D’Alessandro scoring a last-minute winner. [ 16 ]

AC Milan [edit ]

On 2 June 2017, Kessié joined chap Serie A side AC Milan on a biennial loanword deal with the obligation to buy. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] originally, he chose 19 as his shirt act but soon was persuaded by the cabaret ‘s management to leave it for Leonardo Bonucci, who transferred to Milan a few weeks late ; as a solution, Kessié changed it to 79. Following Bonucci ‘s deviation in the future summer transfer window, he was offered his original shirt issue back however refused, citing that he does not want to force Milan fans to spend any extra money on his individualized shirts due to yet another number change. [ 19 ] He made his debut for Milan and helped the club to win the first base leg of Europa League reservation match against CS U Craiova on 27 July. [ 20 ] On 20 August 2017, in Milan ‘s open Serie A match of the season, he scored a penalty in a 3–0 victory over Crotone. [ 21 ] In a pit on 21 January 2018, Kessié scored two goals, one being from the penalty spotlight, to give Milan the winnings. On 12 July 2020, he scored a punishment for a final 2–2 score against Napoli. [ 22 ] On 23 May 2021, he scored two penalties in a 2–0 away win over his former club Atalanta, to secure second position for Milan in the 2020–21 Serie A, and qualification for the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League after an eight-year absence. [ 23 ]

International career [edit ]

Kessié represented Ivory Coast at under-17 and under-20 levels, appearing in the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup and 2015 Toulon Tournament. During the former tournament, the Royal Moroccan Football Federation submitted a complaint to FIFA claiming that Kessié was aged 22 and not 16 ; [ 24 ] FIFA later denied that claim. At the age of 17, Kessié played his first international game with the senior national team on 6 September 2014, starting in a 2–1 home win against Sierra Leone for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations reservation. [ 25 ] On 4 January 2017, he was included in Michel Dussuyer ‘s 23-man squad ahead of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations, [ 26 ] starting in all matches as his side was knocked out in the group degree. At the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, he finished as the joint-top serve supplier of the tournament, aboard Ismaël Bennacer, with three assists. His team were eliminated in the quarter-finals by eventual champions Algeria, after losing 4–3 on penalties following a 1–1 string on 11 July ; Kessié converted his state ‘s first penalty in the shoot-out. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] [ 29 ]

personal life sentence [edit ]

When Kessié was 11 years old, his father, who used to be a professional football player in his youth before enlisting in the Ivorian army, died ascribable to an illness. consequently, one of his goal celebrations is a military salute performed in order to pay tribute to his late church father. [ 30 ]

career statistics [edit ]

club [edit ]

As of match played 22 December 2021[31]
Club Season League Cup Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Cesena (loan) 2015–16 Serie B 37 4 0 0 — — 37 4
Atalanta 2016–17 Serie A 30 6 1 1 — — 31 7
AC Milan (loan) 2017–18 Serie A 37 5 5 0 12 0 — 54 5
2018–19 34 7 4 0 3 0 1[a] 0 42 7
AC Milan 2019–20 Serie A 35 4 3 0 — — 38 4
2020–21 37 13 2 0 11 1 — 50 14
2021–22 16 5 0 0 5 0 — 21 5
Total 159 34 14 0 31 1 1 0 206 37
Career total 226 44 15 1 31 1 1 0 274 48

International [edit ]

As of match played 13 November 2021[32]
National team Year Apps Goals
Ivory Coast 2014 4 0
2015 0 0
2016 6 0
2017 13 0
2018 5 0
2019 12 1
2020 4 2
2021 7 2
Total 51 5

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