Biography and the life story of Alexander Lacazette "Little Lacazette spent five years there before finally joining the Lyon academy"

Alexandre Lacazette was born on May 28, 1991 in Lyon, France. He was born from the Guadeloupean family who migrated to France in search of a better life. Since childhood, Lacazette was a fan of legendary French players and Arsenal's Thiery Henry.

Lacazette has a sibling named Benoit, he is also a soccer player who strengthens the club in the fourth division of the Swiss league. Lacazette is the last child of four siblings.

Lacazette spent his childhood playing football. He started soccer training by joining a local club, Elan Sportif, in 1998. Little Lacazette spent five years there before finally joining the Lyon academy.

Lacazette has been part of the Lyon academy team since 2003. Together with Lyon, his dream began. He continued to play nicely until he made it into the first team in 2010.

Lacazette made its debut in French Ligue One when Lyon faced Auxerre on 5 May 2010. Due to a pretty good start, in July of the same year he signed a three-year contract with Olympique Lyon.

Even so, Lacazette still often defends the young Lyon team in wading through various competitions. Once deemed feasible, Lacazette only really began its professional contract on July 1, 2011.

Lacazette himself scored his first goal in the match against Sochaux on 30 October 2011. At that time, Lyon managed to win with a score of 2-1.

The 2010/11 season, Lacazette made its first debut in European competition. At that time, Lyon flew to Portugal to travel to Benfica's headquarters. But unfortunately, Lyon must fall with a score of 4-3. While he scored his first goal in European competition on December 7 against Hapoel Tel Aviv, in the final Group B match where both teams had to be willing to share numbers.

2011/12 season, Lacazette helped Lyon win the French Cup competition and the French Super Cup. Because he is considered to continue to play nicely, Lacazette made it into the NFP Ligue 1 Team of the Year list in the 2013/14, 2014/15, and 2016/17 seasons.

With quite encouraging achievements, Lyon gave a contract extension to the Frenchman for the next two years. On October 5, 2014, Lacazette scored his first hat trick for Lyon after they were able to topple Lille 3-0.

Thanks to his perfect performance, Lacazette successfully won the UNFP Player of the Month title in December 2014, January 2015 and August 2016.

He managed to set a new record with Lyon after being able to netted as many as 26 goals in league competition in one season. It happened on April 26, 2015. Previously, the record was held by Andre Guy who scored 25 goals in the 1968/69 season.

In the 2014/15 season, Lacazette managed to become the Ligue One top score and was chosen as the UNFP Ligue 1 Player of the Year.

On August 8, 2015, Lacazette renewed his contract with Lyon again until 2019. A year later, he managed to score his 100th goal for Lyon after successfully breaking through the Toulouse goal in Lyon's 2-1 victory.

Together with Olympique Lyon, Lacazette has played 275 and scored 129 goals in all competitions.

Seeing the extraordinary potential shown by Gemini's men, Arsenal hijacked Lacazette with a dowry of around 53 million euros. This value is the biggest in the history of sales of Lyon players.

Lacazette's move to the land of Queen Elizabeth was not easy. He was branded a traitor by Lyon supporters. Many of his fans are hurt. Following the unpleasant treatment, Lacazette only accepted and assumed the response of his supporters.

Another problem is, Lacazette turned out to have the nature of being homesick. He admitted that it was a bit difficult to adapt because he kept thinking of happy memories while still in Lyon. Lacazette herself has never lived anywhere else besides Lyon.

Knowing this, the Gunners supporters can only pray and continue to support the sharp attacker.

After officially uniforming the London cannon on July 6, 2017, Lacazette made its debut on August 6 of the same year. At that time, Arsenal faced Chelsea in the Community Shield. Arsenal managed to win with a score of 4-1 in the penalty shootout round.

For the Premier League debut, Lacazette entered the Arsenal squad that won with a score of 4-3 against Leicester city.

Lacazette continued to play nicely and was able to make a big impact on the Gunners' attack line. He is called similar to Thierry Henry because it has a good final settlement.

In the 2017/18 season, he was able to score 17 goals in 39 appearances in all competitions. The following season Lacazette performed better, he totaled 19 times in 49 matches in all competitions. He also became the best Arsenal player of the season.

Playing for the national team ………

Not only at club level, Lacazette also played brilliantly when appearing with the French national team. Debuting with the France U-16 national team, Lacazette continued to advance to the next level, and in 2010 he became the backbone of the French national team when he won the European Cup U-19, when he scored the winning goal when he beat the Spanish national team.

After briefly defending the French u-20 and u-21 teams, Lacazette finally started his first match with the senior national team on June 5, 2013 in a friendly against Uruguay. At that time he played after replacing Oliver Giroud on 53 minutes.

Lacazette scored his first international goal on 29 March 2015, opening the scoring in a friendly against Denmark at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard. Until now the 175 cm tall man has scored 3 goals in 16 occasions dressed in bleus les.

Before becoming a forward, at the beginning of his career Lacazette played as a winger. Aside from his ability to score and finish, his other strengths are speed, strength, balance, technique, dribbling, and ability with both legs.

He is also a hardworking player, who always presses opponents and wins the ball back. French coach Gérard Houllier said in July 2017 that Lacazette was "somewhat similar" to former Arsenal striker Ian Wright.

Until now, Lacazette is still Arsenal's mainstay in attack and his ability to break into the opponent's goal is always expected by the French national team.