Ange Pacomé Dogba Gnagbo (born 4 February 1991 in Lakota

Lakota, Côte d'Ivoire

Lakota is a department of Côte d'Ivoire. Lakota is also the name of a town in the department. Lakota Department and Lakota Town lie in Sud-Bandama Region....

) is an Ivorian

Côte d'Ivoire

The Republic of Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast is a country in West Africa. It has an area of , and borders the countries Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana; its southern boundary is along the Gulf of Guinea. The country's population was 15,366,672 in 1998 and was estimated to be...

 football player

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 who currently plays for ASEC Mimosas

ASEC Mimosas

The Académie Sportive des Employés de Commerce Mimosas is an Ivorian football club based in Abidjan. The club is also known as ASEC Mimosas Abidjan and ASEC Abidjan, especially in international club competitions. Founded in 1948, they are the most successful side in Ivorian football, having won...

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Career

Seri began his career with Séwé Sports de San Pedro

Séwé Sports de San Pedro

Séwé Sports de San Pedro is an Ivorian football club based in San Pédro. They are a member of the Fédération Ivoirienne de Football Premiere Division...

. He had a spell at Africa Sports National, and in January 2010, he transferred to ASEC Mimosas

ASEC Mimosas

The Académie Sportive des Employés de Commerce Mimosas is an Ivorian football club based in Abidjan. The club is also known as ASEC Mimosas Abidjan and ASEC Abidjan, especially in international club competitions. Founded in 1948, they are the most successful side in Ivorian football, having won...

, Ivory Coast's most successful club, which has won23 Premier League titles, 16 National Cups, a Super Cup and a Champions League title. He played his debut for his new team in the Coupe Félix Houphouët- Boigny.

Time in England

In April 2008, while he was 16 years old, his agent Bryan Yeubrey

Bryan Yeubrey

Bryan Yeubrey is a British businessman, writer and football agent licensed by The FA and FIFA.-Early life and career:Born in Wolverhampton, he attended the city's St. Peter's School. A creative producer and entrepreneur, whose varied commercial interests at one time even included ownership of an...

 brought him to the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 for training, at the invitation of Portsmouth FC, who were then in the Premier League and managed by Harry Redknapp

Harry Redknapp

Henry James "Harry" Redknapp is a former English footballer who has enjoyed a long career in football management starting in 1983 with Bournemouth. He is the current manager of Tottenham Hotspur....

. The club offered him a long term contract, but work-permit difficulties frustrated the move.

The player later trained with other Premier League clubs, including Birmingham City and Tottenham Hotspur. Alex McLeish

Alex McLeish

Alexander "Alex" McLeish , is a Scottish former professional footballer and manager, who is currently managing English Premier League club Aston Villa...

 was particularly impressed, but again work-permit regulations for non-Europeans made a transfer impossible, so Dogba returned to Ivory Coast to continue his career.

Dogba has impressed a number of other top football people, including Paul Hart

Paul Hart

Paul Hart is an English football manager and former football defender, who is currently Academy Director at Charlton Athletic. The son of Johnny Hart, a football inside forward and manager, Hart had five-year spells with both Blackpool and Leeds United, while also playing for Nottingham Forest and...

, Ian Woan

Ian Woan

Ian Woan is an English former professional footballer and current assistant manager at Watford. He played as a midfielder from 1985 until 2004, starting in non-league football. Signed by Nottingham Forest in 1990, he played for the club for 10 years, including a spell in the Premier League...

 and Paul Montgomery

Paul Montgomery

Joseph Paul Montgomery was an American entrepreneur and inventor. In the mid 1980s, he was among the first to see the potential of personal computer technology in the field of video production and 3D animation...

 (Chief Scout of Aston Villa), Juande Ramos (former Tottenham Hotspur and Real Madrid

Real Madrid

Real Madrid Club de Fútbol , commonly known as Real Madrid, is a professional football club based in Madrid, Spain. The club have won a record 31 La Liga titles, the Primera División of the Liga de Fútbol Profesional , 18 Copas del Rey, 8 Spanish Super Cups, 1 Copa Eva Duarte and 1 Copa de la...

 manager), Harry Redknapp

Harry Redknapp

Henry James "Harry" Redknapp is a former English footballer who has enjoyed a long career in football management starting in 1983 with Bournemouth. He is the current manager of Tottenham Hotspur....

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International Career

He has played 13 international games, scoring 6 goals.

In 2010, Sven Goran Eriksson and Tord Grip

Tord Grip

Tord Grip is a Swedish football manager. Prior to England's exit in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, he was one of Sven-Göran Eriksson's assistant coaches of the English national football team....

 were considering him for a full national call up during their managerial tenure of the Ivory Coast national football team.