Ismaël Bennacer

Ismaël Bennacer
Bennacer taking a shot against Dinamo Zagreb
Personal information
Full name Ismaël Bennacer
Date of birth (1997-12-01) 1 December 1997[1]
Place of birth Arles, France
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Empoli
Number 10
Youth career
2004–2015 Arles
2015–2017 Arsenal
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2015 Arles B 16 (0)
2015 Arles 6 (0)
2015–2017 Arsenal 0 (0)
2017 → Tours (loan) 16 (1)
2017– Empoli 39 (2)
National team‡
2015 France U18 4 (1)
2015–2016 France U19 7 (1)
2016– Algeria 4 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 5 August 2018
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20:00, November 17, 2017 (EST)

Ismaël Bennacer (born 1 December 1997) is an Algerian footballer who currently plays for Italian club Empoli and the Algeria national team.

Club career

Bennacer made his senior Arsenal debut in the League Cup fourth round away to Sheffield Wednesday on 27 October 2015, replacing Theo Walcott after 19 minutes, after the latter had already replaced the injured Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in an eventual 3–0 loss.[2]

On 31 January 2017, it was announced that Bennacer would join Ligue 2 side Tours on loan for the remainder of the 2016–17 season.[3] He scored his first goal for Tours on 14 April 2017 against Sochaux off of a free kick.[4]

International career

On 31 July 2016, the Algerian Football Federation announced that Bennacer had opted to switch his international allegiance and represent Algeria internationally.[5] He debuted for the Algeria national team in a 2017 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifier, a 6–0 win over Lesotho.[6] Bennacer was called up on 11 January 2017 to Algeria's squad for the African Cup of Nations of 2017.[7] to replace Saphir Taïder, who suffered an injury in training.[8]

Personal life

Bennacer was born in Arles, France and is of Algerian and Moroccan descent.[9]

Career statistics

As of match played 12 May 2018 [10]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals
Arles-Avignon II 2013–14 CFA 2 20———20
2014–15 140———140
Arles-Avignon II total 160———160
Arles-Avignon 2014–15 Ligue 2 601100—71
Arsenal 2015–16 Premier League 0000100010
Tours (loan) 2016–17 Ligue 2 1610000—161
Empoli 2017–18 Serie B 38200——382
Career total 763111000784

    References

    1. 1 2 "Premier League Player Profile Ismael Bennacer". Barclays Premier League. 2016. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
    2. ↑ "Sheffield Wednesday 3-0 Arsenal". BBC Sport. 27 October 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
    3. ↑ "Ismael Bennacer joins Tours on loan". www.arsenal.com. Arsenal Media Group. Retrieved 2017-02-14.
    4. ↑ "Tours en route pour le maintien (3-1 contre Sochaux), Orléans replonge à Nîmes (0-2)". Magcentre.fr (in French).
    5. ↑ Toufik O. (July 31, 2016). "Bennacer (Arsenal) choisit officiellement l'Algérie" (in French). DZfoot. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
    6. ↑ "CAN 2017 : Algérie 6-0 Lesotho" (in French). DZfoot. September 4, 2016.
    7. ↑ "Arsenal midfielder Ismael Bennacer handed shock call up to Algeria's Africa Cup of Nations squad". Metro.co.uk.
    8. ↑ M-A-D (January 11, 2017). "CAN 2017 : Ismael Bennacer remplace Taider" (in French). DZfoot. Retrieved January 11, 2017.
    9. ↑ "Ismaël Bennacer : Je n'ai pas de mot pour décrire ce qu'il m'arrive" [Ismaël Bennacer: I have no words to describe what happened to me] (in French). ArlesAvignon.net. January 3, 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
    10. ↑ Ismaël Bennacer at Soccerway. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
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