Ivory Coast Dangerman!
Ivorian forward Salomon Kaloujoined Lille from Premier League heavyweights Chelsea on a free transfer in July 2012. His last act as a Chelsea player was winning the Champions League via the penalty shootout success at the expense of host team Bayern Munich.
Tottenham Hotspur Dele Alli is close to surpassing a fine record held by former Chelsea forward Salomon Kalou. The England international popped up with a much-needed goal during Spurs’ 4-1 win over Bournemouth in the Premier League on Sunday, and this now sees him within touching distance of surpassing Kalou in a particular statistic.
With the goal at the Vitality Stadium, Alli managed to go unbeaten for the 30th straight Premier League game when he has found the scoresheet, and he is now within distance of Kalou’s 32-match record. The former Chelsea man occupied the third position in this ranking with former Aston Villa striker Darius Vassell (46) and current Liverpool midfielder James Milner (47) ahead of him.
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Salomon Kalou earned a late penalty but that earned Berlin a point in the game against Borussia Dortmund, The Bundesliga leaders. This led to a 2-2 draw in the match that took place on Saturday.
The former striker of Chelsea, Salomon Kalou has asked the Football Federation of Nigeria (NFF) to take another move for his teammate at Germany’s Hertha Berlin, Jordan Torunarigha. Kalou recently made this big statement regarding the inclusion of Jordan in the team.
The former striker who earned a good name with Cote d’Ivoire before he quit his international duty, made a statement that Jordan Torunarigha is in great form and is going through the best phase of his career. He believes that the Super Eagles can do a wonderful job and can do well too if they will have the defender on their cards at the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations to be held in 2019.
Jordan, 21-year-old lad has 3 goals in his name for Hertha Berlin in just 25 appearances since he made his debut for the club of German Bundesliga and he played the first match for his team against the FC Ingolstadt in the month of February in 2017.
He has total 26 overall cops in his name for Germany for Under16, Under18, Under 19, Under 20 and Under 21 teams, and thereafter he trained with the squad (senior) ahead of World Cup, 2018.
The coach of Eagles, Gernot Rohr approached the defender, Jordan Torunarigha and asked him to play for Nigeria at the similar Mundial, but the young lad rejected the offer and said that he wants to prove his talent for Germany. However, Salomon had urged the Nigerian Football Federation to approach the youthful defender once again, who he believes that he is a good boy and a fantastic player. Kalou said “I reckon that they will be able to convince Jordan to play for Nigeria but currently he is playing awesome for Hertha Berlin, which is very important.
Salomon Kalou has reportedly lost out on a bet with his teammate Ondrej Duda. The Ivory Coast international had challenged Ondrej to a bet at the beginning of the season. According to the terms of the bet,Kalou would give the striker a Rolex Watch if he scored 8 goals in the season.
Duda won the bet last weekend when he scored a brace in Hertha BSC 3-1 victory over FC Nurnberg in taking his goals to nine for the season. Kalou laughed about the bet during the post-match interview with Bild and insisted that he would honour the deal.
Duda is understood to not be interested in the Rolex watch and has plans to sell the watch and donate the money to charity. He, however, is pleased to have reached the milestone and thanked Kalou for motivating him with the bet.
Kalou meanwhile is still going strong for the German side and has eighteen appearances for the club this season. The 33-year-old former Chelsea star has had less success since leaving Chelsea but is remembered fondly in the Stamford Bridge for his role at the club.Kalou was part of the Chelsea squad that won the Champions League against Bayern Munich in 2012. Hertha sits seventh in the Bundesliga after their latest victory on Sunday.
Hertha Berlin’s Salomon Kalou in an interview that he relishes the prospect of adding more to his 4 goals in 7 Bundesliga matches against Borussia Dortmund. Kalou has scored twice as Dortmund was held by Hertha to a draw of 2-2 on 9th match day. He is confident enough that he will be able to help his side out for claiming a prize scalp. They are also known to have taken down Bayern Munich, the defending champions in 2018-2019 at Olympic Stadium.
While discussing the clash with Dortmund, he said it is always great to play against them. Dortmund is playing under Favre and thus, there are making a lot of chances while scoring many goals. He says that the match is going to be an open one. Kalou says that they like that kind of game as they are also able to score. Both these teams can score goals and thus, he feels that it is going to be a good game.
He goes on to say that there aren’t any easy matches when it comes to Bundesliga. It can be seen that Bayern lost against Hertha and Dortmund lost against Augsburg. Players have to give in their 100% in each and every game. He says that they are not going to focus on Borussia Dortmund going through a difficult time at present. They will have to concentrate on their own game and try to play well. According to him, if they approach the game in this manner then they will be able to win against Dortmund.
Kalou has scored the first 2 goals of the season in their first game against Borussia Dortmund. He says that Dortmund is a team that is never going to sit back and will defend all through the game. Given an opportunity, they will attack.
Ex-Hertha Berlin, Botafogo and Chelsea forward Salomon Kalou was part of the golden Ivory Coast generation alongside Didier Drogba and the Toure brothers, KoloToure and Yaya Toure.
Former Chelsea attacker Salomon Kalou has revealed that Blues owner Roman Abramovichwas clear about his ultimate goal of winning the Champions League. According to Salomon Kalou, Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich was vocal about his desire to win the Champions League trophy.