Yaya Toure's football story.

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Good day everyone am here to share with you the football story of a noticeable man whose body and souls embraces football,his name is Yaya Toure.Let me talk about him from scratch.

Toure started his football career in ivorian club ASEC Minomas at the age of 12 ,In 2001 he won the Ivorian league title with the club.

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In 2003 he was interested by Arsene Wenger ,he couldn't get work permit ,and so he joined the Ukraine side Metathurk Donesk in 2003.He played in the Ukraine side for 2 seasons(2003-2005)where he scored 3 goals in 33 appearances.

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In 2005 you're left the Ukraine side for the Greek side Olympiaqos ,where he played for just a season (2005-2006),he scored 3 goals in 20 appearances.He won the Greek cup for the team in 2006.

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In 2006 the ivorian joined Monaco FC from Olympiaqos ,where he played for one year(2006-2007),and scored 5 goals in 27 appearances.

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Toure made his national debut in 2004,he earned 100 caps for Ivory coast from 2004-2015 ,he made Ivory coast runner ups in Africa Nation's Cup in 2006 and 2012.He helped ivory coast win African Nation's cup in 2015 against Ghana which marks the first time for the country in 33 years.He scored 19 goals for his country in 101 appearances .He has been named as part of the greatest footballers in Africa,he won the African footballer of the year for 5 times in a row(2011-2015) making him the first ivorian to get that,He also won the BBC African award twice(2013 and 2015).

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BBC African award

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African footballer of the year award

Toure showed great potentials in Monaco fc and so Barca decide to sign him in 2007 ,he played for 3 seasons with Barca(2007-2010),he was part of the Barcelona players who won 6 trophies in a calendar year in 2009,he sometimes played as a defender in Barcelona,he scored 4 goals in 74 appearances for Barca.

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Toure left Barca for Manchester city in 2010 ,where he got to play for 8 seasons (2010-2018),which made it his longest seaoson with a club,he had most of his great moments of football in city ,he scored 32 goals in 230 appearances for city.In 2012,Toure won the first premier league trophy for city in 44 years,In 2014,he scored the only goal in Fa cup to mark the first time of city winning the cup in 34 years,The club also secured it first champions league qualification in it's history.He won 3 premier league titles,three carabo cups,One fa cup and one community shield for city.He was voted in as nominees for the player of the year award in 2014,and was also named in the PFA team that same year.He left Manchester city in 2018 and he was celebrated and praised for his performance at city,and he can also be called a city legend.

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In 2018 you're went back to the Greek side , Olympiaqos where played for a season( 2008-2009)but he struggled with the team.

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Toure left olympiaqos in 2019 and moved to Chinese club, Qingdao Huaghai,where he ended his football career and scored 2 goals in 14 appearances ,he also won the Chinese league for the team.

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