Traore Lasina is a famous Ivorian striker who, despite his young age, has achieved great success in professional football. Today, his sports biography continues at the Hungarian club Uypest.
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 country of Côte d'Ivoire on the west coast of Africa. In this city, where Traore’s biography began, his mother lives today, giving her son a high growth, which she, in turn, received from her grandfather.
Even in his childhood, the boy fell in love with sports, but he gave preference to football. The young footballer demonstrated his first successes at the ACEK Mimozas city football academy.
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 a good result: he spent 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 manage to achieve significant results at home. But the success of Traore 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 spent 6 games and scored 1 goal. The CFR team won the national championship and won the Romanian Cup. The joy of victory was saddened by the fact that both final meetings Traore Lasin held among the reserve players.
The next season of 2009/2010 was the most successful for the forward of the CFR team. 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 Bowl. Traore made his first appearance at European League matches, where he spent 6 games and scored 2 goals.
In the next Champions League draw, he repeated his success. Spectators especially remembered the vivid game of the athlete in home matches against the Swiss “Basel” and the 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 annual salary of the player amounted to 500 thousand euros, and the total amount of the agreement - 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 distinguished himself by his first goal. With the second goal, Lasin put an end to the final goal of the game. During a meeting with the Baku Banants, the athlete injured his hip and was forced to recover.
Soon, the official debut of the Kuban striker took place, this happened in the match against Kazan “Rubin”. He scored his first goal at a meeting with Moscow Spartak. Fans of the team recognized Traore as the best player in May 2011. His beautiful game was noted during matches with “Rostov” and Perm “Amkar”. For the 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 was moving to Makhachkala “Anji”. A club from Dagestan paid a transfer amount of 18 million euros. The debut of Traore in the composition of “Anji” took place against the Hungarian “Honved”, he spent 83 minutes on the field. Soon the footballer took part in the match with Kuban, the meeting ended with the victory of Anji.
With the new club, Lasina reached great heights. “Anji” was in the group of the Europa League. The most memorable was the match against the 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 Monaco club, the transfer cost 10 million euros. But the French leased the player before the end of the season to the English club Everton. Already in the 5th minute in a match with “Swansea City”, the player opened the scoring, but was injured and missed the rest of the season. In the 2014/2015 season, Traore returned to Monaco and demonstrated a beautiful game at the French championship. The footballer said that the goal scored in the goal of “Saint-Etienne”, devotes to the owner of “Anji”.
CSKA
In July 2016, information appeared on the Monaco official page that Traore would play for CSKA club 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 in a crushing score 3-0, where the player scored twice. As part of CSKA, the football player participated in the Russian championship and the UEFA Champions League games.
The athlete spent the new season at the championship of Spain as part of the Sporting team, scored 2 goals, and then as part of the Amiens team he fought for the top spot in the French championship standings, where he could not show significant results.
In the national team of Côte d'Ivoire
For the first time, the national team leader included Traore in 2010 with Cote d'Ivoire. But the player did not have the chance to go to the world championship. The following year, the player was again invited to the national team of the country, and already in the first game against the Libyan national team, he scored a goal. The team’s friendly match with the Austrian team turned out to be striking.
In 2013, the footballer participated in the struggle for the African Cup, where the team of Côte d'Ivoire defeated the Egyptian national team with a score of 4: 2.
