Thievy Bifouma
<templatestyles src="Module:Infobox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
File:Thievy Bifouma (Reims).JPG | |||
Personal information | |||
---|---|---|---|
Full name | Thievy Guivane Bifouma Koulossa[1] | ||
Date of birth | 13 May 1992 | ||
Place of birth | Saint-Denis, France | ||
Height | Script error: No such module "person height". | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team
|
Reims (on loan from Espanyol) | ||
Number | 9 | ||
Youth career | |||
1999–2006 | CS Meaux | ||
2006–2010 | Strasbourg | ||
2010–2011 | Espanyol | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2010–2011 | Espanyol B | 6 | (3) |
2011– | Espanyol | 32 | (4) |
2012–2013 | → Las Palmas (loan) | 38 | (11) |
2014 | → West Bromwich Albion (loan) | 6 | (2) |
2014–2015 | → Almería (loan) | 29 | (4) |
2015–2016 | → Granada (loan) | 7 | (0) |
2016– | → Reims (loan) | 14 | (4) |
International career‡ | |||
2011 | France U20 | 1 | (0) |
2012–2013 | France U21 | 3 | (0) |
2014– | Congo | 17 | (10) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10 May 2016 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 13 October 2015 |
Thievy Guivane Bifouma Koulossa (born 13 May 1992), known simply as Thievy, is a Congolese professional footballer who plays as a forward for French club Stade de Reims on loan from Spanish club RCD Espanyol, and the Congo national team.
Contents
Club career
Born in Saint-Denis, Paris, Thievy joined RCD Espanyol in Spain in early 2010, not yet aged 18, signing from RC Strasbourg. On 13 March 2011 he made his debut with the Catalans' first team, after coming on as a substitute for Joan Verdú in the dying minutes of a 2–0 La Liga home win against Deportivo de La Coruña.[2]
On 10 August 2011, in the Copa Catalunya final, Thievy scored a hat-trick in a 3–0 win against a FC Barcelona team that was filled with reserve and youth players.[3] On 17 December he netted his first goal with the main squad, scoring the opener in an eventual 2–1 success at Sporting de Gijón.[4]
In September 2012, Thievy was loaned to UD Las Palmas in Segunda División.[5] After a successful spell, he extended his contract with Espanyol until 2017.[6]
On 31 January 2014, Thievy signed for West Bromwich Albion on a loan deal with a view to a permanent transfer, being awarded the number 50 shirt.[7][8] He made his debut in the Premier League eight days later, playing the second half and scoring within 36 seconds of taking the pitch in a 1–3 away loss against Crystal Palace.[9]
On 13 August 2014 Thievy left Espanyol and moved to fellow top division club UD Almería, in a season-long loan.[10] On 19 March of the following year he was suspended for one month, due to allegations of breach of contract with his former agent;[11] the ban was lifted days later, and he continued to appear regularly for the Andalusians, which suffered relegation.
On 19 August 2015 Thievy was loaned to fellow league team Granada CF, for one year.[12]
International career
A French youth international, Thievy opted to represent Congo at the senior level, receiving a FIFA clearance on 1 August 2014.[13] He made his full international debut a day later, replacing Julsy Boukama-Kaya in the 68th minute of a 0–2 away loss against Rwanda for the second leg of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations second qualification round.[14]
On 6 September 2014, in the same competition, Thievy scored a brace in a 3–2 win in Nigeria.[15] At the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations finals, he netted Congo's first goal of the tournament in a 1–1 draw to hosts Equatorial Guinea.[16] He also scored the opener in their 2–1 group phase victory over Burkina Faso, a result which qualified the nation to the quarter-finals for the first time since 1992,[17] where he grabbed his final goal against the DR Congo, putting his team ahead 2–0 but in an eventual 2–4 defeat.[18]
International goals
- Scores and results list Congo's goal tally first.[19]
# | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | 6 September 2014 | U. J. Esuene, Calabar, Nigeria | Nigeria |
|
|
2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
2. |
|
|||||
3. | 10 January 2015 | Dakar, Senegal | Cape Verde | 1–0 | 2–3 | Friendly |
4. | 17 January 2015 | Estadio de Bata, Bata, Equatorial Guinea | Equatorial Guinea |
|
|
2015 Africa Cup of Nations |
5. | 25 January 2015 | Estadio de Bata, Bata, Equatorial Guinea | Burkina Faso |
|
|
2015 Africa Cup of Nations |
6. | 31 January 2015 | Estadio de Bata, Bata, Equatorial Guinea | DR Congo |
|
|
2015 Africa Cup of Nations |
7. | 13 October 2015 | Alphonse-Massamba-Débat, Brazzaville, Congo | Benin |
|
|
Friendly |
8. |
|
|||||
9. | 14 November 2015 | Addis-Abeba, Ethiopia | Ethiopia | 1–1 | 3–4 | 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification |
10. | 17 November 2015 | Alphonse-Massamba-Débat, Brazzaville, Congo | Ethiopia | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification |
Statistics
Club
- As of 3 January 2015[20]
Club | Season | Competition | League | Cup | Other[lower-roman 1] | Total | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
Espanyol B | 2010–11 | Tercera División | 6 | 3 | — | 6 | 3 | |||
Espanyol | 2010–11 | La Liga | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | |
2011–12 | 19 | 1 | 4 | 0 | — | 23 | 1 | |||
2012–13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | |||
2013–14 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 0 | — | 14 | 3 | |||
Total | 32 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 4 | ||
Las Palmas | 2012–13 | Segunda División | 38 | 11 | 6 | 2 | — | 44 | 13 | |
West Bromwich | 2013–14 | Premier League | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | 6 | 2 | |
Almería | 2014–15 | La Liga | 29 | 4 | 1 | 0 | — | 29 | 4 | |
Career totals | 110 | 24 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 124 | 26 |
- ↑ Including Segunda División play-offs.
International
- As of 25 January 2015
Congo | ||
---|---|---|
Year | Apps | Goals |
2014 | 7 | 2 |
2015 | 10 | 8 |
Total | 17 | 10 |
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Alonso and Verdu fire Espanyol; ESPN Soccernet, 13 March 2011
- ↑ El Espanyol se da un festín en el derbi de la mano de Thievy (Espanyol indulges itself in derby courtesy of Thievy); Marca, 10 August 2011 (Spanish)
- ↑ Sporting Gijon 1–2 Espanyol; ESPN Soccernet, 17 December 2011
- ↑ El delantero Thievy jugará cedido en Las Palmas por el Espanyol (Forward Thievy will play in Las Palmas on loan from Espanyol); Liga de Fútbol Profesional, 4 September 2012 (Spanish)
- ↑ Thievy, españolista hasta el 2017 (Thievy, españolista until 2017); Tinta Amarilla, 12 July 2013 (Spanish)
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Congo: La FIFA donne feu vert à Thievy Bifouma (Congo: FIFA gives green light to Thievy Bifouma); Africa Top Sports, 1 August 2014 (French)
- ↑ Rwanda 2–0 Congo; African Soccer, 2 August 2014
- ↑ Congo stun Nigeria in five-goal show; SuperSport, 6 September 2014
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
- Espanyol official profile
- Thievy profile at BDFutbol
- Thievy Bifouma at National-Football-Teams.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Thievy at Soccerway
- Articles with Spanish-language external links
- Articles with French-language external links
- Pages with broken file links
- Pages using infobox football biography with height issues
- 1992 births
- Living people
- People from Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis
- French people of Republic of the Congo descent
- Sportspeople from Île-de-France
- French footballers
- Republic of the Congo footballers
- Association football forwards
- La Liga players
- Segunda División players
- Tercera División players
- RCD Espanyol B footballers
- RCD Espanyol footballers
- UD Las Palmas players
- UD Almería players
- Granada CF footballers
- Premier League players
- West Bromwich Albion F.C. players
- France youth international footballers
- France under-21 international footballers
- Republic of the Congo international footballers
- 2015 Africa Cup of Nations players
- French expatriate footballers
- Republic of the Congo expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Spain
- Expatriate footballers in England
- French expatriates in Spain
- French expatriates in England