Ivorian association football player
Nicolas Pépé ( hold 29 May 1995 ) is a professional football player who plays as a winger for Premier League club Arsenal. Born in France, he represents the Ivory Coast national team. Pépé began his elder club career with Poitiers in the Championnat de France Amateur 2. He signed for Angers in 2013, aged 18, and spent a season on lend at Orléans in 2015. He signed for Lille in 2017, and was named to the UNFP Ligue 1 team of the year in the 2018–19 season. [ 4 ] That summer, Pépé joined Arsenal for a club-record fee of £72 million, and won the FA Cup in his debut temper. [ 5 ] [ 6 ]

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Pépé, who was born in France to parents of Ivorian descent, made his debut for the Ivory Coast on 15 November 2016 in a friendly against France. [ 7 ] He was selected for the Africa Cup of Nations in 2017 and 2019 .

Club career [edit ]

Poitiers [edit ]

Pépé was born in Mantes-la-Jolie, Île-de-France. [ 8 ] He started his career originally playing as a goalkeeper for local anesthetic english Solitaire Paris Est until he was 14 years old. [ 9 ] When his forefather Celestin, a prison guard, was transferred to Poitiers, Pépé began his senior career as an outfield musician with Poitiers FC in the Championnat de France Amateur 2 ( fifth tier ) in 2012–13. [ 10 ]

Angers [edit ]

He signed for Angers in 2013, and spent his first base season with the reserves in the CFA 2. He made his professional debut in the second base round of the Coupe de la Ligue in a 2–1 home loss to Arles-Avignon on 26 August 2014, as a 73rd-minute utility for Yohann Eudeline. His first Ligue 2 match was on 21 November 2014, starting in a 1–1 Ligue 2 draw away to Ajaccio. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Pépé was loaned to Orléans for the 2015–16 Championnat National, and helped the club to promotion from the third tier as runner-up. [ 13 ] He returned to an Angers side play in Ligue 1 and which reached the 2017 Coupe de France Final, where he started in a 1–0 passing to Paris Saint-Germain at the Stade de France. [ 14 ]

Lille [edit ]

On 21 June 2017, Pépé signed a five-year deal with Lille, for a maximum transmit fee of €10 million, [ 15 ] after being signed by head coach Marcelo Bielsa who had scouted the musician by watching footage of every Ligue 1 game he had played in for Angers, before scouting him in person. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Pépé described Bielsa as “ special ” and a “ great coach ”. [ 18 ] He started the season playing as a striker after being converted into playing the position under Bielsa, before finishing the season under the new Lille head bus Christophe Galtier, playing as a winger. [ 19 ] During the entirety of the 2017–18 Ligue 1 season, he was a regular in a Lille side that narrowly avoided relegation, missing alone two games and scoring 13 times, including two each in off wins at Metz and Toulouse. [ 20 ] On 15 September 2018, during the 2018–19 Ligue 1 season, Pépé scored a hat-trick, including two penalties, in the 3–2 away win over Amiens. [ 21 ] Days late, it was confirmed by club president Gérard Lopez that Barcelona were among respective clubs that were interested in signing him. [ 5 ] On 14 April 2019, Pépé scored a goal and provided two assists in the 5–1 home acquire over Paris Saint-Germain. [ 22 ] He finished the 2018–19 Ligue 1 season with 22 goals, second entirely to PSG ‘s Kylian Mbappé, [ 4 ] with 11 assists, and was named in the UNFP Team of the Year. [ 23 ]

arsenal [edit ]

On 1 August 2019, it was announced that Pépé had joined Premier League club Arsenal in a club-record fee of €79 million ( £72 million ), [ 6 ] eclipsing the previous read of €62 million for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. Upon signing for Arsenal, he was handed the number 19 shirt. [ 24 ] Pépé made his arsenal introduction in a 1–0 off win over Newcastle United on 11 August, as a ersatz for Reiss Nelson in the 71st infinitesimal. [ 25 ] His first base start for the club came two weeks later in a 3–1 personnel casualty to Liverpool, in which he played the full moon 90 minutes. [ 26 ] He scored his first Arsenal goal, from the penalty spot, in the team ‘s 3–2 home win over Aston Villa on 22 September. [ 27 ] He scored his first gear european goals in Arsenal ‘s UEFA Europa League 3–2 home win over Vitória de Guimarães on 24 October, two free-kicks. [ 28 ] On 1 January 2020, Pépé scored Arsenal ‘s first finish in a 2–0 home victory over Manchester United, marking new head-coach Mikel Arteta ‘s first acquire. [ 29 ] On 16 February, Pépé scored once and assisted doubly in a 4–0 succeed over Newcastle United. [ 30 ] On 28 June, he scored his first FA Cup goal in a 2–1 away win against Sheffield United in the quarter-finals, giving Arsenal the lead in the twenty-fifth minute from the penalty blemish. [ 31 ] On 1 August, he played the hale 90 minutes of the FA Cup Final catch against Chelsea to win his inaugural golf club trophy as an Arsenal musician, contributing the serve for Aubameyang ‘s second goal. [ 32 ]

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On 22 November 2020, Pépé received the first loss card of his career in a 0–0 aside disembowel against Leeds United after headbutting Ezgjan Alioski in the 51st infinitesimal. [ 33 ] On 2 February 2021, he beat two defenders before scoring in a game against Wolverhampton Wanderers ; that finish was by and by voted as Goal of the Month for February on Arsenal ‘s official web site. [ 34 ] [ 35 ]

International career [edit ]

Pépé was born in France to parents of Ivorian lineage. He received a call up to the Ivory Coast national football team in November 2016, and was an unused utility in the scoreless draw away to Morocco in 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification on 12 November. [ 36 ] He made his debut three days late in a friendly of the same score against his give birth nation, France, at the Stade Bollaert-Delelis in Lens, playing the final four minutes in place of Max-Alain Gradel. [ 7 ] Pépé was named in Michel Dussuyer ‘s 23-man squad for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon, but took no region as the Elephants were eliminated from their group. [ 37 ] On 24 March 2018, in a friendly against Togo in France, Pépé scored his first base international goals in the first half of a 2–2 withdraw. [ 38 ] He followed it three days late, with another goal in a 2–1 succeed against Moldova in the same stadium. [ 39 ] Pépé was called up for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt. [ 40 ] He was absent from their quarter-final punishment gunfight kill by Algeria, having been dropped for Max Alain Gradel due to a lack of form. [ 41 ]

stylus of shimmer [edit ]

Pépé is known as a quick and skilled attacking winger who is comfortable on both flanks, but normally plays on the right annex cutting onto his exit foot ; he was besides converted by former Lille pass coach Marcelo Bielsa to play as a hitter. [ 19 ] [ 16 ]

career statistics [edit ]

clubhouse [edit ]

As of match played 30 October 2021[42][43]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club

Season

League

National Cup[a]

League Cup[b]

Europe

Other

Total

Division
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals

Angers
2014–15
Ligue 2

7
0

1
0


8
0

2016–17
Ligue 1

33
3
5
0
1
0


39
3

Total

40
3
5
0
2
0


47
3

Orléans (loan)

2015–16
Championnat National

29
7
2
1
1
0


32
8

Lille
2017–18

Ligue 1

36
13
2
1



38
14

2018–19

Ligue 1

38
22
3
1
1
0


42
23

Total

74
35
5
2
1
0


80
37

Arsenal
2019–20
Premier League

31
5
5
1
0
0
6[c]
2

42
8

2020–21

Premier League

29
10
2
0
3
0
13[c]
6
0
0
47
16

2021–22

Premier League

7
0
0
0
2
1


9
1

Total

67
15
7
1
5
1
19
8
0
0
98
25

Career total

210
60
19
4
9
1
19
8
0
0
257
73

International [edit ]

As of match played 11 October 2021[44]

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team
Year
Apps
Goals

Ivory Coast

2016
1
0

2017
6
0

2018
4
3

2019
9
2

2020
4
0

2021
2
1

Total
26
6

As of match played 11 October 2021. Scores and results list Ivory Coast’s goal tally first.[44]

Honours [edit ]

Arsenal
Individual

References [edit ]

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