Yoane Wissa Biography
Yoane Wissa, a professional football player for Premier League team Brentford, was born on September 3, 1996. He plays as a forward or left flank. He is a member of the DR Congo national team and was born in France.
Wissa, who graduated from the Châteauroux academy, joined the team in 2015 as a senior player. In 2018, after a stint with Angers, he moved to Lorient. Wissa was a member of the Lorient squad that won Ligue 2 at the end of the 2019–20 campaign. He joined Brentford in 2021 after spending a season in Ligue 1.
Yoane Wissa Personal life
Born in France of Congolese descent, Wissa can speak the Lingala language. His parents were born in Léopoldville in the early 1960s. He acquired French nationality in December 2000 through the collective effect of his parents’ naturalization.
Prior to making the decision to concentrate on football at age 15, he also played rugby union. He was the subject of an alleged acid attack in July 2021 and made a full recovery from emergency eye surgery.
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Yoane Wissa Style of play
Wissa has been described as a player who “fits many different positions,” including winger, number 10 and forward. He has “pace and power,” is “a threat in behind,” “has a good ability to take on players and create overloads,” and “good pressing abilities.”.
Yoane Wissa Career
International career
Wissa won his maiden call into the DR Congo squad for a pair of friendly matches in October 2020. He scored his first two international goals on his second and third caps in friendly and 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches versus Morocco, respectively.
Wissa was a part of the DR Congo squad that qualified for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, and he was named in the squad for the tournament finals. He scored the equaliser in DR Congo’s 1-1 draw with Zambia on his tournament debut in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations opening round of group fixtures.
Yoane Wissa Club career
Early years
Wissa began his youth career as a goalkeeper at the age of seven. He played for his local youth club, Épinay-sous-Sénart, before moving to midfield and then the forward line. As his youth career progressed, he also became adept as a winger and number 10.
Wissa began his senior career as a forward with Châteauroux and progressed through the reserve team to break into the first team during the 2015-16 Championnat National season, which he finished with 24 appearances and seven goals.
A transfer to Ligue 1 club Angers followed in 2016, but Wissa managed just two substitute appearances during the first half of the 2016–17 season, and he played much of 2017 away on loan at Ligue 2 clubs Laval and Ajaccio. Wissa departed the Stade Raymond Kopa in January 2018.
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Lorient
In January 2018, Wissa transferred to Ligue 2 club Lorient and immediately established himself at the promotion-chasing club. Promotion to Ligue 1 was attained at the end of the 2019–20 season, when Wissa’s 15 goals in 28 appearances helped the club to the Ligue 2 championship.
He made 38 appearances and scored 10 goals during the 2020–21 season, in which Lorient narrowly avoided finishing in the relegation playoff places. Wissa departed the club in August 2021 and finished his 3+1⁄2-year stay at the Stade du Moustoir with 128 appearances and 37 goals.
Brentford
On August 10, 2021, Wissa moved to England to join newly-promoted Premier League club Brentford on a four-year contract, with the option of a further year, for an undisclosed fee reported to be £8.5 million. The transfer had been in the works for two years, and he had turned down the opportunity to move to the Community Stadium during the previous transfer window.
Despite being unable to link up with the club during pre-season due to having undergone eye surgery, Wissa scored five goals in his first six appearances for the club. His brace in a 7-0 EFL Cup third-round win over Oldham Athletic on September 21, 2021, was recognised with a place in the EFL Cup Team of the Round, and his second goal, a bicycle kick, was voted Goal of the Round and Goal of the Tournament. Wissa’s goalscoring run was ended by an ankle knock suffered in mid-October 2021.
He returned to match play two months later and was deployed in a mixture of starting and substitute roles through to the end of the season, which included a run of six starts during the final nine matches of the season. Wissa ended the 2021–22 season with 34 appearances and 10 goals.
Wissa was deployed in a mix of starting and substitute roles and scored seven goals in 40 appearances during the 2022–23 season, in which Brentford were still in contention for a European place on the final day. In May 2023, he signed a new three-year contract, with the option of a further year. Following Ivan Toney being handed an eight-month ban from all football-related activity in May 2023, Wissa began the 2023–24 season as Brentford’s starting centre forward. Following the transfer deadline, Neal Maupay Wissa alternated between the forward and left-wing positions.
Yoane Wissa Honours
Lorient
- Ligue 2: 2019–20