Mickaël Poté

Mickaël Poté
Personal information
Full name Mickaël Franck Poté[1]
Date of birth (1984-09-24) 24 September 1984
Place of birth Lyon, France
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current team
 Adana Demirspor
Number 9
Youth career
2002–2003 Grenoble Foot
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003–2004 Grenoble Foot 3 (0)
2004–2007 AS Cannes 52 (9)
2007–2009 Clermont Foot 68 (12)
2009–2011 OGC Nice 21 (2)
2011 Le Mans 19 (3)
2011–2014 Dynamo Dresden 83 (21)
2014–2015 Omonia 29 (17)
2015–2017 Adana Demirspor 68 (47)
2017–2018 APOEL 29 (11)
2018– Adana Demirspor 0 (0)
National team‡
2008– Benin 42 (7)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 12 May 2018
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 7 November 2017

Mickaël Franck Poté (born 24 September 1984) is a Beninese international footballer who plays as a forward for Adana Demirspor.

Career

Poté began his career in 2003 with Grenoble Foot, where he played only three games in his first season. After the season, he signed a contract with Cannes, where he stayed three years, playing fifty-one games and scoring nine goals. In the summer of 2007, he joined Clermont Foot, where he played thirty-six games in his first season, scoring five goals. In the spring of 2009, there were rumours that he might be transferred to Strasbourg[2] or Havre,[3] but neither transfer occurred. On 26 June 2009, he signed a three-year-contract with Ligue 1 side Nice.[4] On 2 January 2011, he joined Ligue 2 side Le Mans on a six-month loan deal.[5] On August 2011, he left France and signed a three-year contract with. 2. Bundesliga club Dynamo Dresden.[6] In 2014, Poté moved to Omonia where he was Cypriot's League top scorer with 17 goals in a season. In the 2015-2016 season, he played for Adana Demirspor at Turkish 1st Division and he won the top scorer title with his 20 goals.

International

Poté is a Beninese international. He was eligible to represent the Ivory Coast, due to his father's Ivorian descent. Instead, he chose to play for his mother's country, Benin.[7] His debut game was on 7 September 2008 against Angola.[8]

International goals

Scores and results list Benin's goal tally first.[9]
#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.5 September 2010Stade de l'Amitié, Cotonou, Benin Burundi1–01–12012 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
2.26 May 2012Stade du 4-Août, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Burkina Faso2–12–2Friendly
3.17 June 2012Stade de l'Amitié, Cotonou, Benin Ethiopia1–01–12013 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
4.8 September 2013Stade Charles de Gaulle, Porto-Novo, Benin Rwanda1–02–02014 FIFA World Cup qualification
5.27 March 2016Stade de l'Amitié, Cotonou, Benin South Sudan2–04–12017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
6.3 September 2017Nuevo Estadio de Malabo, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea1–02–1Friendly
7.10 October 2017Stade d'Honneur Marcel Roustan, Salon-de-Provence, France Gabon1–01–0Friendly

References

  1. ↑ "Mickaël Poté | Stats, Career information and Matches | World Football".
  2. ↑ "Football - Ligue 2 : Imbroglio sur le transfert de Mickaël Poté à Strasbourg ?" (in French). cyberbougnat.net. 18 January 2009. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
  3. ↑ "Mickaël Poté (OGC Nice) sur les tablettes du Mans FC" (in French). ouest-france.fr. 22 December 2010. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
  4. ↑ "Nice: Arrivée de Poté" (in French). mercato365.com. 26 June 2009. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
  5. ↑ "Yohan Hautcoeur et Mickaël Poté ont signé" (in French). lemansfc.fr. 2 January 2011. Archived from the original on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
  6. ↑ "Dynamo verpflichtet Mickael Poté" (in German). Dynamo Dresden. 23 August 2011. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
  7. ↑ "Portrait : Mickaël Poté, l'Écureuil à la carrière d'un vin! - Bénin Football".
  8. ↑ "Benin - Angola 3:2 (1:1)". FIFA.com. 7 September 2008. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
  9. ↑ "Poté, Mickaël". National Football Teams. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
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