Jonathan Kodjia
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Jonathan Adjo Kodjia (born 22 October 1989) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Aston Villa and the Ivory Coast national team.

Born in the suburbs of Paris, France, Kodjia started his career at Reims and gained experience in the Championnat National (French third division) and Ligue 2 with Cherbourg, Caen and Amiens. Kodjia moved to Angers in 2014, ultimately winning Ligue 2 Player of the Year 2015 and being named in the Ligue 2 Team of the Season.

Kodjia was born and bred in Seine-Saint-Denis, the same commune in the northern suburbs of Paris that produced France internationals such as Alou Diarra and Moussa Sissoko and around a dozen other players who have enjoyed solid careers. Being such fertile territory, the place is teeming with scouts but Kodjia had not caught the eye of any of them by the time he left school in 2007, so he enrolled at college to build on his baccalaureate in accountancy. At the age of 18, he was approached by an agent who got in touch with him and said he’d seen him playing and found him interesting. The agent then arranged a trial with Ligue 2 side Stade de Reims, where he scored 3 goals and signed a professional contract 6 months later.