He is 28 years old and a
French born Gabonese footballer who plays for German Bundesliga club Borussia
Dortmund. His name is Pierre Emerick Aubameyang. Aubameyang is 6 feet 2 inches
tall and weighs about 80 Kgs. He plays in the position of a centre forward as
the striker for the teams he plays for. He is already having a market value of
about € 70,0 Million and a football star by all standards.
His early days in football
Aubameyang had played for
the French under 21. But he made his senior international debut for Gabon in
the year 2009. Thereafter he also represented the same country in 3 Africa Cup
of Nations tournaments and in the 2012 Olympic Games. He began his
international club football career at Milan. He joined Saint Eltienne
permanently in the year 2011. After winning the Coupe de la league final in
2013 he joined Borussia Dortmund. In the year 2015 he became the winner of the
CAFs African footballer of the year award. He became the first player to win
the award. In the December of 2016, renowned British English Daily The Guardian named him the 8th best footballer in the world.
His
record with Borrusia Dortmund
In 2013 Aubameyang
entered with Dortmund for a 5 year contract. He made his debut against Bayern
Munich. With this he also became the first Gabonese player to appear in
Bundesliga. In the November of 2013 he scored his first goal group stage
against Napoli where in the team won with a score of 3 is to 1. In the 2016-17
seasons with Dortmund, Aubemeyang had an excellent start. With a double score
against FSV Mainz. He also had a great start to Dormund's Champion's League group
stage game. He scored in each of the group stage matches owing to which his
team was at the top of their group with Real Madrid. IN December this Gabonese
football star scored his 100th goal for Borussia Dortmund. Thereafter he also
scored a hat-trick against Benfica shortly after.
In spite of having a
great record with Dortmund it seems that not many clubs come in
for Aubameyang. The star has as much as a whopping 27% of the total goal
goals scored by Dortmund in the past 2 seasons. Reasons include that some team
managers and football experts do not consider him as a true value for the money
invested.
According to some there
is another quality lacking in him which is important. This is to hold-up
play with back passes towards goal. Keeping hold of the ball while teammates
run into dangerous spaces has become an important trait for any top striker.
This is what some feel Aubameyang does not have and thus not many big
clubs have considered hiring him.
To conclude we can say
that in spite of the fact that not many big football clubs have shown interest
in him, Aubameyang still is still one of the greats of the game.
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