Gueïda Fofana keen to make a good impression at Olympique Lyonnais – Ligue 1 news
Although Olympique Lyonnais youngster Gueïda Fofana has made just a few appearances for his new club, the 20-year-old is already drawing a lot of comparisons to former France international Patrick Viera.
Things are looking bright for Lyon with former youth academy player Maxime Gonalons earning his first France national team call-up and young striker http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alexandre-Lacazette-c4895 showing progress.
Olympique Lyonnais’ new shift in recruitment policy that now focuses on young blood instead of splashing the cash on big name players has slowly started paying dividends and according to many experts, Fofana is one of the best examples of this policy.
Signed for just 2 million Euros from Ligue 2 side Le Havre this summer, Fofana is now one of the most promising midfielders in France and is now carving out a place in the starting XI since the departure of Jeremy Toulalan who joined La Liga side Malaga
this summer.
Though the youngster has made just five appearances of which two have been starts, the youngster has already given everyone an idea about what to expect of him in the future. Repeatedly being compared to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/France-c2899 legend Patrick Viera, Fofana knows that he
has a lot to prove himself before taking so much pressure that comes with being compared to the former http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Arsenal-c38429 captain.
The youngster knows that people like comparing footballers to famous stars. "Of course, it's extremely flattering for me. Perhaps I have a similar profile, and a style of play that you could say bears some relation to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Patrick-c29254 Vieira's. But there is only
one http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Patrick-Vieira-c29316. And it's up to me to build my career according to my style of play," the youngster said.
Fofana has already lead the French Under-20 team to a fourth place in the World Cup last summer and knows that he has a long way to go in becoming one of the best defensive midfielders in Europe.
With http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Olympique-Lyonnais-c40130 still in the Champions League and the Coupe de la Ligue and the Coupe de France still to kick off, Fofana has a great chance to bag as many appearances for Les Gones as he can in order to justify the comparisons drawn at him.
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