Zinho Gano
 Gano as a SV Zulte Waregem player in 2021 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 13 October 1993 | ||
| Place of birth | Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium | ||
| Height | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Al-Hazem | ||
| Number | 93 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Club Brugge | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2013–2015 | Club Brugge | 0 | (0) |
| 2013–2014 | → Lommel United (loan) | 22 | (6) |
| 2014–2015 | → Mouscron-Péruwelz (loan) | 17 | (5) |
| 2015–2017 | Waasland-Beveren | 73 | (25) |
| 2017–2018 | Oostende | 31 | (8) |
| 2018–2021 | Genk | 21 | (1) |
| 2019–2020 | → Antwerp (loan) | 11 | (2) |
| 2021 | → Kortrijk (loan) | 11 | (6) |
| 2021–2024 | Zulte Waregem | 67 | (33) |
| 2024– | Al-Hazem | 6 | (4) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2011 | Belgium U18 | 2 | (1) |
| 2011–2012 | Belgium U19 | 11 | (1) |
| 2022– | Guinea-Bissau | 7 | (4) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 April 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22 January 2024 | |||
Zinho Gano (born 13 October 1993) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Al-Hazem. Born in Belgium, he plays for the Guinea-Bissau national team.
Early life
[edit]Gano was born in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium to a Bissau-Guinean father and a Belgian Flemish mother.[2]
Club career
[edit]Gano is a youth exponent from Brugge. During the 2013–14 season, he scored six goals out of 22 league games with Belgian Second Division side Lommel United, on loan from Brugge. Then he played on loan for Mouscron in the Belgian Pro League. He made his top division debut at 27 July 2014 against Anderlecht.[3] On 2 July 2018 he joined Genk from fellow Pro League side Oostende for a value of £1.62 million.[4]
On 2 September 2019, he joined Antwerp on a season-long loan with an option to buy.[5]
International career
[edit]Gano made his senior debut for Guinea-Bissau on 23 March 2022, starting in a 3–0 friendly win over Equatorial Guinea.[6]
In December 2023, he was selected from the list of 25 Bissao-Guinean players selected by Baciro Candé to compete in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.
Honours
[edit]Genk
References
[edit]- ^ "Zinho Gano - Profil".
- ^ "Ik kan het nog niet geloven". BlueArmy. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
- ^ "Anderlecht vs. Mouscron-Péruwelz - 27 July 2013". Soccerway. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ^ "Zinho Gano komt naar Genk!" (Press release) (in Dutch). Genk. 2 July 2018.
- ^ "ONTDEK ONZE NIEUWE REDS!" (Press release) (in Dutch). Antwerp. 2 September 2019.
- ^ "BACIRO CANDÉ APOSTA EM OITO ESTREIAS NO ONZE DOS DJURTUS CONTRA GUINÉ-EQUATORIAL". 23 March 2022.
External links
[edit]- Zinho Gano at Soccerway
- Zinho Gano at the Royal Belgian Football Association
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- 1993 births
- Living people
- People from Sint-Katelijne-Waver
- Footballers from Antwerp Province
- Bissau-Guinean men's footballers
- Bissau-Guinean expatriate men's footballers
- Guinea-Bissau men's international footballers
- Belgian men's footballers
- Belgian expatriate men's footballers
- Bissau-Guinean people of Belgian descent
- Belgian people of Bissau-Guinean descent
- Men's association football forwards
- People of Flemish descent
- Club Brugge KV players
- Lommel S.K. players
- Royal Excel Mouscron players
- S.K. Beveren players
- K.V. Oostende players
- K.R.C. Genk players
- Royal Antwerp F.C. players
- S.V. Zulte Waregem players
- Al-Hazem F.C. players
- Belgian Pro League players
- Saudi First Division League players
- 2023 Africa Cup of Nations players
- Expatriate men's footballers in Saudi Arabia
- Belgian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia
- 21st-century Belgian sportsmen