Traore Lasina is a famous Ivorian striker who, despite his young age, achieved great success in professional football. Today his sports biography continues in the Hungarian club "Ujpest".
early years
The famous Traore Lasina was born on August 20, 1990 in the city of Abidjan, the largest economic and cultural center of the Ivory Coast on the west coast of Africa. In this city, where the biography of Traore began, and today his mother lives, who gave her son high growth, which she, in turn, received from her grandfather.
Even in childhood, the boy fell in love with sports, but gave preference to football. The young footballer demonstrated his first successes in the city football academy "ACEK Mimosas".
At the age of 17, the athlete opened a professional football career, he was invited to the "Stud Abidjan" club. Already in the first season, the young man showed good results: he played 17 games and scored 2 goals. In the new season, he played 10 matches and sent 4 goals into the opponent's goal. The club for which the footballer played did not rise high in the standings of domestic championships and Cups, so he did not have a chance to achieve significant results in his homeland. But Traore's successes attracted the attention of representatives of European clubs.
CFR
In 2008, the young man became a member of the Romanian football club CFR from the city of Cluj. The debutant played 6 games and scored 1 goal. The CFR team became the winner in the national championship and the owner of the Romanian Cup. The joy of victory was saddened by the fact that Traore Lasina played both final matches as a reserve player.
The next season, 2009/2010, was the most successful for the CFR striker. He showed good work: he entered the field 25 times and scored 6 goals. Together with his teammates, he became the champion of Romania and received the Super Cup. Traore made his first appearance in the Europa League matches, where he played 6 games and scored 2 goals.
In the next Champions League, he repeated his success. The spectators especially remembered the bright performance of the athlete in home matches against Swiss Basel and Italian Roma.
Kuban
In the winter of 2011, Traore Lasina signed an agreement with the Krasnodar professional club Kuban. The contract was concluded for 4, 5 years, according to which the player's annual salary was 500 thousand euros, and the total amount of the agreement was 5 million euros. A few days later, the footballer entered the field in a friendly match with the Warsaw Legia to replace Sergei Davydov, who scored the first goal. With the second ball into the opponents' goal Lasina put an end to the final score of the game. During the meeting with the Baku "Banants", the athlete injured his hip and had to recover.
Soon the official debut of the Kuban striker took place, it happened in the match against Rubin Kazan. He scored his first goal at a meeting with Spartak Moscow. The fans of the team recognized Traore as the best player in May 2011. His beautiful game was noted during the matches with Rostov and Perm Amkar. In his first year in Russia, the player scored 18 goals and made 5 assists.
Anji
At the end of June 2012, it was announced that the forward would transfer to Anji Makhachkala. The club from Dagestan paid for the transfer amount of 18 million euros. Traore's debut with Anji took place against Hungarian Honved, he spent 83 minutes on the field. Soon the footballer took part in the match with Kuban, the meeting ended with Anji's victory.
With the new club Lasina reached great heights. Anji got into the Europa League group. The most memorable match was against English Liverpool, where Traore sent the only goal and led the team to victory.
"Monaco"
The beginning of 2014 coincided with the transfer of the striker to the AS Monaco club, the transfer cost 10 million euros. But the French gave the player on loan before the end of the season to English club Everton. Already in the 5th minute in the match against Swansea City, the footballer opened the scoring, but was injured and missed the rest of the season. In the 2014/2015 season, Traore returned to AS Monaco and showed a beautiful game in the French championship. The football player said that the goal scored against Saint-Etienne is dedicated to the owner of Anji.
CSKA
In July 2016, the official Monaco website reported that Traore would play for CSKA on loan. In the first four games, the athlete failed to please the audience with his results. But soon the fans were surprised by the match with Terek, which ended with a crushing score of 3: 0, where the player scored twice. As part of CSKA, the footballer participated in the Russian championship and the UEFA Champions League games.
The athlete spent the new season at the Spanish championship as part of the Sporting team, scored 2 goals, and then, as part of the Amiens team, fought for the top line in the French championship standings, where he could not show significant results.
In the national team of Côte d'Ivoire
For the first time in the Ivory Coast team, the head of the national team included Traore in 2010. But the player did not have a chance to go to the world championship. The following year, the footballer was again invited to the national team of the country, and in the first game against the Libyan national team, he scored a goal. The friendly match of the national team with the Austrian team turned out to be bright.
In 2013, the footballer took part in the struggle for the African Cup, where the Ivory Coast defeated the Egyptian national team with a score of 4: 2.
How does he live today
In February 2019, the forward signed an agreement with the Hungarian club Ujpest. The young player is considered promising and in demand due to his clear technique and good play with both feet. He reads the game well, prefers to play in a quickdraw and often sends the ball into the goal with lightning speed, not leaving the opponent a second to think. Among the striker's shortcomings is that he overexposes the ball and, for this reason, loses many good chances. Despite this, experts have high hopes for the football player, they believe that he can easily score many beautiful goals.
Little is known about the player's personal life, there is information about his unconventional orientation. According to the footballer himself, he is very fond of video games and devotes all his free time to computer battles.
