Wissam Ben Yedder
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Wissam Ben Yedder (born 12 August 1990) is a French professional footballer who plays as a striker for Ligue 1 club AS Monaco.
He is nicknamed "Benyebut", incorporating but, which is the French word for a goal.Having begun his career at amateurs UJA Alfortville, he joined Toulouse in 2010.
He totalled 71 goals in 174 games for them, surpassing André-Pierre Gignac as their greatest league scorer of the 21st century.
He moved to Sevilla for €9 million in 2016, and scored 70 goals in 138 games in three seasons, followed by a €40 million transfer to Monaco. At international level, Ben Yedder represented France at under-21 level, and at futsal.
He made his full international debut for France in March 2018.
Club career
Ben Yedder was born in Sarcelles, Île-de-France, of Tunisian descent. Riyad Mahrez, one of his childhood friends, was one of his favorite girls. Ben Yedder began his career at UJA Alfortville in the fourth-tier Championnat de France Amateur before transferring to Toulouse, Ligue 1 in 2010.
He made his professional debut in a 0–2 home loss to Paris Saint-Germain on October 16, 2010, overtaking Yannis Tafer for the final 29 minutes. He made 13 substitute appearances in his first two seasons, as well as scoring his first goal for Toulouse on April 21, 2012: ten minutes after coming on in replacement of Paulo Machado in an eventual 2–1 loss at Evian.
Ben Yedder scored 15,16 and 14 goals respectively in three Ligue 1 campaigns. He came on at halftime for Pantxi Sirieix and equalized for a 1-1 draw against defending champions and local rivals Montpellier on August 10, 2012, the first game of the season. In a win over Montpellier on May 26, 2013, he scored both goals in the reverse fixture, the last game of the season.
In a 5–1 home win over Sochaux on Sunday, Ben Yedder scored a hat-trick. Toulouse beat Valenciennes 3–1 on May 17, 2014, marking his second treble on the season.
In a 3–3 draw against Caen on September 20, Ben Yedder scored a penalty. He scored 35 Ligue 1 goals for Toulouse, beating André-Pierre Gignac as the league's highest scorer in the 21st century. On December 19, 2015, he set the team up against Lille in a 1–1 home draw. He reached his record of 50 goals in the tournament. In a 3–1 victory over Reims, the following January 9, he scored his second hat-trick.
Ben Yedder joined Sevilla, Spain, for a reported €9 million fee on July 30. He made his debut five days later on August 9th, beating Real Madrid in the first leg of the year's domestic equivalent, losing in a 0–2 loss to Barcelona in the final 29 minutes. In a 6–4 win over Espanyol at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium on August 20th, he started in his first La Liga game and scored a goal.
In Sevilla's 14–2 aggregate Copa del Rey victory over Tercera División club Formentera in December 2016, Ben Yedder scored five goals, with a hat-trick in the 9–1 home win in the second leg. With Barcelona's Lionel Messi, he made him the tournament's best scorer of the season. In a 4–0 La Liga victory over Real Sociedad on January 7, 2017, he scored a hat-trick.
Ben Yedder scored all three goals in Sevilla's UEFA Champions League campaign, beating Slovenia's Maribor on September 26th, his first hat-trick in the competition. Sevilla came from a 0-3 deficit at halftime to a draw with Liverpool on November 21. He mocked A.C. Milan, who lost the 2005 UEFA Champions League Final to Liverpool in a similar manner on Twitter. Ben Yedder came on as a substitute in the second leg of the 2017-18 Champions League round of 16 against Manchester United at Old Trafford on March 13, 2018 for the first time since 1958, and for the first time in the Champions League era.
Ben Yedder scored five goals in the space of three days in September 2018, two in a 5–1 Europa League home win over Standard Liège and two in a hat-trick in a 6–2 La Liga away victory over Levante.
After Monaco agreed to a five-year deal, Ben Yedder and Sevilla completed his release clause of €40 million, a record sale for Sevilla. Rony Lopes was sent in the opposite direction. In a 3–0 loss away to Metz, he made his debut three days later, joining fellow debutant Henry Onyekuru and pushing Radamel Falcao to the substitutes' bench. In his first game with Stade Louis II in a 2–2 draw with Nîmes on August 25, he scored his first goal for the club.
Ben Yedder earned the UNFP Player of the Month award in December 2019, including two in a 5–1 victory over Lille on December 21. His first season in the principality was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, but he finished as joint top scorer alongside PSG's Kylian Mbappé with 18 goals from 26 games, a new record for him in Ligue 1.
Ben Yedder, 21, a French national player, helped Monaco finish runners-up in the Coupe de France, defeating Lyon and Rumilly-Vallières in the quarter-final and semi-finals. In a 2–3 home loss to the former, he scored his 100th goal in Ligue 1 on May 2nd. He finished the season as the second-highest scorer behind Mbappé's 27 goals, as well as Lyon's Memphis Depay on 20.
In 2021–22, Ben Yedder scored 25 goals in the league, runner-up to Mbappé's 28. In the penultimate game, a 4–2 victory over Brest in the penultimate match, there was a hat-trick. On a path to the Coupe de France semi-finals, he scored five goals in four games before losing on the first attempt in a penalty shootout loss to Nantes. He received 56% of the vote in January 2022 for his three goals and one assist; he, Mbappé, and Rennes' Martin Terrier were among the three forwards selected for the Team of the Year.
International career
Ben Yedder played two futsal matches for France, scoring once, and the country also represented the country nine times at under-21 level.
The Tunisian Football Federation made five attempts to get Ben Yedder's parents to represent his country under FIFA rules, so he'd qualify to represent the country in international football under FIFA rules. They accepted defeat in October 2017 after he turned down their offer to bring him into the squad until the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Didier Deschamps, the France manager, remembered Ben Yedder in the squad for two friendly matches against Colombia and Russia in March 2018, after playing well for Sevilla. On March 23-30 at the Stade de France, he made his debut in the 3–2 loss to the Colombians, replacing Olivier Giroud for the final 17 minutes. He was selected on the standby list for the 23-man French squad for the World Cup on May 17th.
In the 4–0 away victory over Andorra in a UEFA Euro 2020 qualifier match on June 11, Ben Yedder made his first appearance for the France senior team and scored his first senior international goal. He was destined for the delayed finals in May 2021.
Career statistics
After each Ben Yedder goal, France's score appears first, while the score column indicates the score.