The Nerazzurri striker played for Les Bleus until the Under 21s, but just before the World Cup, FIFA approved the change of nationality. And the winning debut came against Mbappé and co
Ange-Yoann Bonny is a smart guy. The Inter player tried to play against France. In 2022 he started with the Under 19 team, reaching the semi-finals of the European category. Then the Under 20, and also the Under 21, the antechamber of the Blue paradise. If he played it, Bonny, he was there: 19 games with the French shirt. And in parallel a good career in Italy, 4 seasons in Parma, then Inter. In Milan the competition increased and attendance drastically reduced, and Bonny extended his thinking to the national team too. Ivory Coast, his parents’ national team, had been courting him for some time and so this spring Ange-Yoann decided and changed blue for orange, cockerels for elephants.
With France he was closed by phenomena: the king Mbappé and the PSG court, Doué, another Ivorian who has a brother who plays with Bonny, Barcola, Dembélé and so on. In Côte d’Ivoire they appreciate it a lot and they aren’t very well equipped up front. Exchange request accepted by FIFA and the dream debut: June 4th in Paris against his native France, 23 minutes and a 2-1 victory against the national team of the country where he was born. And now on to the World Cup. Can Bonny become the new Drogba? At 22, he has a lot of time ahead of him, but the bar is very high. Tomorrow against Ecuador in Philadelphia the Inter player can start his run-up.