Jonathan Pitroipa
Pitroipa after a Bundesliga game with HSV in 2010.
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Beninwende Yann Jonathan Pitroipa | ||
| Date of birth | 12 April 1986 | ||
| Place of birth | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | ||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Winger | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Al-Nasr | ||
| Number | 11 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2004 | Planete Champion | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2004–2008 | SC Freiburg | 75 | (16) |
| 2008–2011 | Hamburger SV | 74 | (6) |
| 2011–2014 | Rennes | 91 | (14) |
| 2014–2015 | Al Jazira Club | 25 | (9) |
| 2015– | Al-Nasr | 25 | (6) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2006– | Burkina Faso | 51 | (14) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 28 April 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15 November 2014 |
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Beninwende Yann Jonathan Pitroipa (born 12 April 1986) is a Burkinabé footballer. He plays as a winger for Al Nasr in Arabian Gulf League. he joined from Al Jazira in the summer of 2015.
At the international level he plays for Burkina Faso, with whom he made his debut for in 2006. Since then, he has featured at the 2010, 2012 and 2013 editions of the African Cup of Nations, scoring two goals in the 2013 tournament as Burkina Faso reached the final. He was also chosen the Player of the Tournament.
Pitroipa played for Planete Champion in his native Burkina Faso until 2004, when he moved to Germany. In 2004, he signed with Bundesliga side SC Freiburg. He scored his first goal for Freiburg in a 3–3 draw with SpVgg Greuther Fürth on 22 September 2006. He went on to make 75 league appearances, both in the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga, and scored 16 goals.
In July 2008, Pitroipa moved to Hamburger SV on a free transfer. In his last season in the Bundesliga with Hamburg, he appeared in 26 games, adding two goals and six assists. After the dismissal of head coach Armin Veh in March 2011, Pitroipa voiced his unhappiness with the coaching situation. Under new manager Michael Oenning, Pitroipa was relegated to a bit-part role for the club and expressed his desire to leave Hamburg in search of regular football. Hamburg's new director of football, Frank Arnesen, formerly of Chelsea, did not help matters either, bringing in many young players in an effort to freshen up the squad and start a new era.
Pitroipa's last game for the club came on the final day of the 2010–11 Bundesliga season, coming on as a 38th-minute substitute for striker Paolo Guerrero in Hamburg's 1–1 draw with Borussia Mönchengladbach. Pitroipa made a total of 97 appearances for Hamburg, scoring six goals and adding ten assists. His exit from the club was part of a mass exodus of star names, as Frank Rost, Zé Roberto, Joris Mathijsen, Piotr Trochowski and Ruud van Nistelrooy were also shown the door.
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