Jean Evrard Kouassi (born 25 September 1994) is an Ivorian professional

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who plays as a winger for

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club

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and Ivory Coast national team.

Club career

Kouassi played for the Ivorian football club Moossou F.C. youth team before going abroad to have trials with

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Club Brugge (), known simply as Club Brugge (in English also: ''Club Bruges''), is a Belgian professional football club based in Bruges, Belgium. It was founded in 1891 and its home ground is the Jan Breydel Stadium, which has a capacity of 29,062.

and

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before having a successful trial with Croatian club

Hajduk Split Hrvatski nogometni klub Hajduk Split, commonly referred to as Hajduk Split () or simply Hajduk, is a Croatian professional football club based in Split, that competes in the Croatian First League, the top tier in Croatian football. Since 1979, t ...

who offered him a three-year contract in January 2013. He made his debut in a league game against

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on 16 February 2013 that ended in a 2–0 victory. He gradually started to establish himself within the team and on 21 April 2013, Kouassi scored in a draw against Slaven Belupo, marking the 4000th jubilee championship goal for HNK Hajduk Split. He further endeared himself towards the fans when he scored and assisted for a goal against Lokomotiva in the 2012–13 Croatian Cup final, which the club won 5–4 on aggregate.

club

Shanghai SIPG Shanghai Port FC (), previously named Shanghai SIPG, is a professional football club that participates in the Chinese Super League under licence from the Chinese Football Association (CFA). The team is based in Pudong, Shanghai, and their home sta ...

announced that Kouassi had joined the squad in February 2015 and signed a contract until 2017. He made his debut in a league game on 7 March 2015 against Jiangsu Guoxin-Sainty F.C. in a game that ended in a 2–1 victory. On 18 January 2017, Kouassi moved to League One side

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. On 18 June 2017, he scored his first goal against

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. He helped the club earn promotion to the Super League by winning the China League One title in

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, forming a strong strike partnership with Rafael Silva and netting 15 league goals. On 10 December 2021, Kouassi joined Turkish

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side

Trabzonspor Trabzonspor Kulübü is a Turkish sports club located in the city of Trabzon. Formed in 1967 through a merger of several local clubs, the men's football team has won seven Süper Lig championships. Trabzonspor also have a women's football team, ...

on a three-and-a-half-year contract. On 6 September 2022, he was loaned to

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. On 22 January 2023, Kouassi returned to China to join top tier club Zhejiang Professional signing a deal until 2025.

International career

Kouassi was named in the Ivorian squad for the

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. He scored in the game against Gambia on 15 January 2011. He was also named in the Ivorian squad for the

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. He played in all four games before the Ivorians were eliminated from the competition by France in the round of 16. He made his debut for Ivory Coast national team on 30 March 2021 in a 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Ethiopia and scored his team's third goal in a 3-1 victory.

Career statistics

Honours

Hajduk Split *

Croatian Cup Croatian Cup may refer to: *Croatian Football Cup *Croatian Football Super Cup * Croatian Women's Football Cup *Croatian Basketball Cup, also known as Krešimir Ćosić Cup *Croatian Handball Cup *Croatian Water Polo Cup *Croatian Minute Movie Cup ...

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Wuhan Zall *

China League One The Chinese Football Association China League (), also known as China League One or Chinese Jia League (中甲联赛), is the second level of professional football in China. Above League One is the Chinese Super League. Prior to the formation of ...

Trabzonspor *

: 2021–22 *

Turkish Super Cup The Turkish Super Cup ( Turkish: ''TFF Süper Kupa''), as it is currently known, is the annual super cup football match contested between the previous season's Süper Lig champions and the Turkish Cup winners in Turkey. It was originally known a ...

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References

External links

HNK Hajduk Split profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kouassi, Jean Evrard 1994 births Living people Ivorian men's footballers Men's association football forwards Ivory Coast men's international footballers Ivory Coast men's youth international footballers Croatian Football League players Moossou FC players HNK Hajduk Split players Shanghai Port F.C. players Wuhan Yangtze River F.C. players Trabzonspor footballers Fatih Karagümrük S.K. footballers Zhejiang Professional F.C. players Chinese Super League players China League One players Süper Lig players Ivorian expatriate men's footballers Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in Croatia Expatriate men's footballers in Croatia Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in China Expatriate men's footballers in China Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey 2021 Africa Cup of Nations players