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Wilfried Bony

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Wilfried Guemiand Bony (born 10 December 1988 in Bingerville) is an Ivorian football player who currently plays as a striker for Eredivisie club Vitesse.

Wilfried Bony
Personal information
Full name Wilfried Guemiand Bony[1]
Date of birth (1988-12-10) 10 December 1988 (age 35)
Place of birth Bingerville, Côte d'Ivoire
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Vitesse
Number 9
Youth career
Cyrille Domoraud Football Academy
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2008 Issia Wazi
2007–2008 → Sparta Prague B (loan) 14 (2)
2008–2011 Sparta Prague 59 (22)
2011– Vitesse 54 (33)
International career‡
2010– Côte d'Ivoire 15 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10 February 2013
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 30 November 2012

Early life

He spent most of his childhood in city of Abidjan, raised in Plateau city and then in Abobo PK18. He started with street football called "Maracana", interschool matches and city competitions, then spent three years at the Cyrille Domoraud football Academy located in the city of Bingerville.[2]

Career

Issia Wazi

Bony started his professional career at Issia Wazi in the Côte d'Ivoire Premier Division and played in the CAF Champions League.[citation needed] He scored 6 goals in 16 matches at the club.[3] He was on trial at Liverpool in 2007 but was not offered a contract.[4]

Sparta Prague

In October 2007, Bony joined Sparta Prague on a loan deal and started playing for the reserve team.[5] With Sparta Prague B he won the Bohemian Football League. Bony was signed on a permanent deal and joined the first team where he scored 22 goals in 59 matches. He won the Gambrinus Liga and the Czech Republic Football Supercup with Sparta in 2010.

Vitesse

 
Bony in Vitesse away shirt.

On 30 January 2011, Bony signed a three-and-a-half year contract with Dutch club Vitesse Arnhem before scoring on his debut.[6][7] In his first full season with the Dutch club, he netted on twelve occasions in the Eredivisie, earning the top goalscoring honors for the club and was tied for tenth highest scorer in the league.[8] In February 2012, Bony signed a contract extension, keeping him until 2015, ending transfer speculation.[9]

2012-13

Bony made his first appearance of the 2012-13 Eredivisie campaign for Vitesse on 12 August 2012 in a 2-2 draw with ADO Den Haag at the GelreDome, equalizing for the hosts less than a minute after Tjaronn Chery had put ADO in front.[10] Bony scored a 90th minute winner over Rotterdam club Feyenoord on 2 September, to earn the club its third win from the first four league games.[11] On 6 October 2012, Bony scored a hat-trick as Vitesse came back from a goal down three times to draw 3-3 with Heerenveen.[12]

In Vitesse's 0-2 upset of Ajax on 3 November, Bony scored both goals, helping Vitesse to six away wins in a row and the club's first win at the Amsterdam Arena since 2001.[13] Bony added two more goals to his account in Vitesse's 4-1 defeat of NEC Nijmegen on 18 November, earning Vitesse just their second home win of the season as NEC had three men sent off.[14] On 25 November Vitesse travelled to Eindhoven to face league leaders PSV; Bony scored a late winner to put Vitesse on 31 points, level with second place FC Twente.[15] On January 9, Bony returned from his participation in the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations to face PSV once again, scoring 2 goals to secure a 2-2 draw.[16]

Statistics

Season Club Competition Played Scored
2007/2008   Sparta Prague B ČFL 14 2
2008/2009   Sparta Prague Gambrinus Liga 16 3
2009/2010   Sparta Prague Gambrinus Liga 29 9
2010/2011   Sparta Prague Gambrinus Liga 14 10
  Vitesse Eredivisie 7 3
2011/2012   Vitesse Eredivisie 28 12
2012/2013   Vitesse Eredivisie 19 18

updated 10 February 2013

International

On 30 January 2012, Bony scored the second goal in the Ivory Coast's 2-0 defeat of Angola in the third game of the group stages of the African Cup of Nations.[17]

Name

There is some confusion about his first name and family name. His father's name is Amedee Shemiz Bony,[18] so his first name is Wilfried and the family name is Bony.

Honours

References

  1. ^ "List of Players" (PDF). Confederation of African Football (CAF). Retrieved 24 January 2013.
  2. ^ bonywilfried.com, by Archive.org
  3. ^ [1]
  4. ^ Bony adds weight to Sparta challenge, UEFA.com, 30 November 2010
  5. ^ "Sparta strengthened Bonny Wilfried (in Czech:Spartu posílil Bonno Wilfried)" (in Czech). AC Sparta Prague Official Website. 24 October 2007. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
  6. ^ "Vitesse snap up Wilfried". Sky Sports. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
  7. ^ Vitesse haalt Valerica Gaman en Wilfried Bony - Vitesse
  8. ^ "Topscorers Eredivisie". EredivisieLive. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
  9. ^ "Bony commits to Vitesse". Sky Sports. 24 February 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
  10. ^ "Vitesse Arnhem 2 - 2 ADO Den Haag". ESPNFC. 12 August 2012.
  11. ^ "Vitesse 1 - 0 Feyenoord". ESPNFC. 2 September 2012.
  12. ^ "Vitesse en Heerenveen in spektakelstuk naar 3-3". Vitesse Arnhem. 6 October 2012.
  13. ^ "4 November 2012". AFC Ajax.
  14. ^ "Match Vitesse - NEC". Eredivisie Live. 18 November 2012. {{cite web}}: Text "Season 2012/2013" ignored (help)
  15. ^ "Vitesse pile pressure on to PSV". ESPNFC. 25 November 2012.
  16. ^ http://int.soccerway.com/news/2013/February/10/eredivisie-wrap-psv-slip-up-at-vitesse/
  17. ^ "28 th Orange Africa Cup of Nations- GABON-GUINEE EQUATORIALE 2012 21st January to 12th February 2012" (PDF). CAF. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
  18. ^ "Sparťan Bony čeká v Africe na slávu. Reprezentace? Prý příští rok". iDnes. Retrieved 3 June 2010.


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