Jean Evrard Kouassi

Jean Evrard Kouassi (born 25 September 1994) is an Ivorian footballer who plays as a winger for Chinese Super League side Wuhan Zall and Ivory Coast national football team.

Club Career

Jean Evrard Kouassi would play for the Ivorian football club Moossou F.C. youth team before going abroad to have trails with TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, Club Brugge and Monaco before having a successful trail with Croatian club Hajduk Split who offered him a 3-year contract in January 2013. He made his debut in a league game against Slaven Belupo on 16 February 2013 that ended in a 2-0 victory. He would gradually start to establish himself within the team and on 21 April 2013, Kouassi scored in a draw against Slaven Belupo, marking the 4000th jubilee championship goal for HNK Hajduk Split. He would further endear himself towards the fans when he scored and assisted for a goal against Lokomotiva in the 2012–13 Croatian Cup final, which the club won 5–4 on aggregate.

Chinese Super League club Shanghai SIPG announced that Kouassi had joined the squad in February 2015 and signed a contract until 2017. He would make his debut in a league game on 7 March 2015 against Jiangsu Guoxin-Sainty F.C. in a game that ended in a 2-1 victory. On 18 January 2017, Kouassi moved to League One side Wuhan Zall. On 18 June 2017, he scored his first goal against Dalian Transcendence. He helped the club earn promotion to the Super League by winning the China League One title in 2018, forming a strong strike partnership with Rafael Silva and netting 15 league goals.