Personal information | |||
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Full name | Serhou Yadaly Guirassy [1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 12 March 1996||
Place of birth | Arles, France | ||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) [2] | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | VfB Stuttgart | ||
Number | 9 | ||
Youth career | |||
2009–2010 | Montargis | ||
2010–2011 | Amilly | ||
2011–2013 | Laval | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
2013–2015 | Laval B | 16 | (14) |
2013–2015 | Laval | 33 | (6) |
2015–2016 | Lille | 8 | (0) |
2015–2016 | Lille B | 4 | (4) |
2016 | → Auxerre (loan) | 16 | (8) |
2016–2019 | 1. FC Köln | 37 | (6) |
2016–2019 | 1. FC Köln II | 5 | (2) |
2019 | → Amiens (loan) | 13 | (3) |
2019–2020 | Amiens | 24 | (10) |
2020–2023 | Rennes | 65 | (19) |
2022–2023 | → VfB Stuttgart (loan) | 22 | (11) |
2023– | VfB Stuttgart | 23 | (25) |
International career‡ | |||
2012 | France U16 | 4 | (1) |
2014–2015 | France U19 | 11 | (6) |
2015–2016 | France U20 | 9 | (4) |
2022– | Guinea | 16 | (3) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18:58, 13 April 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:35, 2 February 2024 (UTC) |
Serhou Yadaly Guirassy [note 1] (born 12 March 1996) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart. Born in France, he plays for the Guinea national team.
Guirassy was born in Arles, France, to Guinean parents. [4]
Guirassy started his career playing for Montargis, Amilly and Laval. [5]
In July 2015, Guirassy joined Lille from Laval, signing a four-year contract. The transfer fee was reported to be around €1 million. [6] [7]
Guirassy joined 1. FC Köln in July 2016, signing a five-year contract. [8] [9] Soon after arriving at Köln, he underwent meniscus surgery. Later in the first half of the 2016–17 season, muscular problems kept him out of action. [10] He made his Bundesliga debut on matchday 26 on 1 April 2017, in a 2–1 defeat against Hamburger SV. [10] [11] Days later, he was again kept from playing by muscular issues. Towards the end of the season, Guirassy nursed an inflammation of the pubic bone joint. [10]
In his second season, he scored his first goal in a 2–1 away defeat against Bayer Levekusen on 28 October 2017. [12] Five days later, he scored his first goal in the Europa League in a 5–2 victory over BATE Borisov. [13] Later that month, he scored the only goal in a 1–0 win against Arsenal in the same tournament. [14] Eventually, 1. FC Köln finished last in the league to be relegated, with Guirassy being their top scorer in all competitions. [12]
In January 2019, he was loaned to Amiens until the end of the season. [15] Amiens exercised an option and bought the rights for Guirassy for the upcoming season. Transfer fees were reported to be about 5 to 6 million Euros. [16] Amiens later took advantage of the option and turned the deal permanent. [17]
On 15 February 2020, he scored a brace in a 4–4 draw against Paris Saint-Germain, with his second goal equalized the match in the stoppage time. [18] However, Amiens were relegated while being at 19th position, when the league was suspended prematurely following the outbreak of COVID-19 in France. [19]
On 27 August 2020, Guirassy joined Ligue 1 side Rennes on a five-year deal. [20] He scored his first two goals for the club in the same match, a 4–2 league win against Nîmes. [21] On 20 October 2020, he scored his first Champions League goal in a 1–1 draw against Krasnodar in the 2020–21 season, [22] which was also his club's first ever goal in the competition. [12] On 20 March 2022, he scored his first career hat-trick in a 6–1 thrashing of FC Metz. [23]
On 1 September 2022, Guirassy joined Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart on loan for the 2022–23 season. [24] On 31 May 2023, the club announced that they had activated the option to make the move permanent, signing a three-year contract. [25]
In the 2023–24 season, Guirassy scored ten goals in the first five matches, including his first Bundesliga hat-trick which came against Mainz, to equal a previous record set by Robert Lewandowski in 2020–21. [12] He also set the Bundesliga record for most goals by a player in the first seven matches of a season by scoring a hat-trick within 15 minutes in a 3–1 win against Wolfsburg. This set the record at 13 goals, overtaking Robert Lewandowski's record of 11 in both 2019–20 and 2020–21. [26] After scoring his 14th goal of the season in an away match against Union Berlin, he was substituted after 30 minutes of play due to a hamstring injury. [27] He later missed two league matches, [28] before he managed to score a penalty to secure a 2–1 victory over Borussia Dortmund, and to reach 15 goals in his first nine matches of the season. [29]
Guirassy was a youth international for France. [30] However, he decided to represent the home country of his parents, the Republic of Guinea, at senior level. He debuted in the Guinea national team at a friendly 0–0 tie against South Africa on 25 March 2022, held in Kortrijk, Belgium. [31]
In December 2023, he was named in the Guinean squad for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast. [32]
Club | Season | League | National cup [a] | League cup [b] | Europe | Other | Total | |||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Laval B | 2013–14 | CFA 2 | 10 | 6 | — | — | — | — | 10 | 6 | ||||
2014–15 | 6 | 8 | — | — | — | — | 6 | 8 | ||||||
Total | 16 | 14 | — | — | — | — | 16 | 14 | ||||||
Laval | 2013–14 | Ligue 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 4 | 0 | ||
2014–15 | 29 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 34 | 7 | ||||
Total | 33 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 38 | 7 | ||||
Lille | 2015–16 | Ligue 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 9 | 1 | ||
Lille B | 2015–16 | CFA 2 | 4 | 4 | — | — | — | — | 4 | 4 | ||||
Auxerre (loan) | 2015–16 | Ligue 2 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 16 | 8 | |||
1. FC Köln | 2016–17 | Bundesliga | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 6 | 0 | |||
2017–18 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 1 | — | 5 [c] | 2 | — | 22 | 7 | ||||
2018–19 | 2. Bundesliga | 16 | 2 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 17 | 2 | ||||
Total | 37 | 6 | 3 | 1 | — | 5 | 2 | — | 45 | 9 | ||||
1. FC Köln II | 2016–17 | Regionalliga | 4 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 4 | 2 | ||||
2017–18 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 0 | ||||||
Total | 5 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 5 | 2 | ||||||
Amiens (loan) | 2018–19 | Ligue 1 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 13 | 3 | ||
Amiens | 2019–20 | 23 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 24 | 9 | |||
2020–21 | Ligue 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | ||||
Total | 37 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 38 | 13 | ||||
Rennes | 2020–21 | Ligue 1 | 27 | 10 | 1 | 1 | — | 4 [d] | 2 | — | 32 | 13 | ||
2021–22 | 37 | 9 | 2 | 0 | — | 9 [e] | 3 | — | 48 | 12 | ||||
2022–23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | ||||
Total | 65 | 19 | 3 | 1 | — | 13 | 5 | — | 81 | 25 | ||||
VfB Stuttgart (loan) | 2022–23 | Bundesliga | 22 | 11 | 4 | 2 | — | — | 2 [f] | 1 | 28 | 14 | ||
VfB Stuttgart | 2023–24 | 23 | 25 | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | 25 | 27 | ||||
Total | 45 | 36 | 6 | 4 | — | — | 2 | 1 | 53 | 41 | ||||
Career total | 266 | 108 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 305 | 124 |
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Guinea | 2022 | 5 | 0 |
2023 | 7 | 3 | |
2024 | 4 | 0 | |
Total | 16 | 3 |
No. | Date | Venue | Cap | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 14 June 2023 | Marrakesh Stadium, Marrakesh, Morocco | 6 | Egypt | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
2 | 17 June 2023 | RCDE Stadium, Barcelona, Spain | 7 | Brazil | 1–2 | 1–4 | Friendly |
3 | 17 October 2023 | Estádio Algarve, Faro/ Loulé, Portugal | 10 | Gabon | 1–0 | 1–1 | Friendly |
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