Stephan Loboué

Infobox Football biography
playername = Stephan Loboué
fullname = Stephan Loboué
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1981|8|23
cityofbirth = Pforzheim
countryofbirth = West Germany
height = Height|m=1.94
position = Goalkeeper
currentclub = Greuther Fürth
clubnumber = 1
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1999-2000 2000-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2006 2006-
clubs = Stuttgarter Kickers Res. Wolfsburg Res. Greuther Fürth Res. Greuther Fürth SC Paderborn 07 Greuther Fürth
caps(goals) = 57 (0) 20 (0) 10 (0) 35 (0) 19 (0)
nationalyears = 2006-
nationalteam = fb|Côte d'Ivoire
nationalcaps(goals) = 3 (0)
pcupdate = June 2007
ntupdate = February 2008

Stephan Loboué (born 23 August 1981 in Pforzheim) is an Ivorian-German football goalkeeper who is currently playing for SpVgg Greuther Fürth in the 2nd Bundesliga. He is also an Ivorian international.

Football career

Loboué spent his whole career at Germany, where he was born and raised. He started his senior career with the reserve team of Stuttgarter Kickers in the Verbandsliga Württemberg. He then moved to Wolfsburg's reserves playing in the Oberliga Niedersachsen/Bremen. In 2002, he was signed by Greuther Fürth, where he played for both reserve team in the Oberliga Bayern and first team in the 2nd Bundesliga. He made his 2nd Bundesliga debut on 19 October 2003 against LR Ahlen and finished the 2003-04 season with 10 league appearances.

In the summer of 2004, he left Greuther Fürth for SC Paderborn 07 of the Regionalliga Nord, where he was the first-choice keeper during the 2004-05 season and helped the club winning promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga. However, he only managed to make four appearances for the club in the 2nd Bundesliga the following season and moved back to Greuther Fürth in the summer of 2006. He started the 2006-07 season as understudy to Fürth's Slovenian goalkeeper Borut Mavrič, but managed to win his place as a first-team regular following Mavrič's red card against Unterhaching in December 2006, making 19 league appearances until the end of the season. Despite his solid performances, Loboué was relegated back to the bench for the 2007-08 season after the club signed Sascha Kirschstein on loan from Hamburg for two seasons. Loboué only made one league appearance during the 2007-08 season in a 1-1 away draw at SV Wehen Wiesbaden, a match for which Kirschstein was suspended after picking up his fifth yellow card.

International career

He received a call-up from Côte d'Ivoire after the 2006 FIFA World Cup and made his international debut on 16 August 2006 in a friendly match against Senegal, replacing the first-choice goalkeeper Boubacar Barry at half-time. He played his first full match for Côte d'Ivoire on 17 October 2007 against Austria.

He was also part of the Ivorian squad for the 2008 African Cup of Nations. In that tournament, Loboué replaced Boubacar Barry as a substitute in the semi-final against Egypt.

Honours and awards

*Regionalliga Nord runner-up: 2005

External links

* [http://www.greuther-fuerth.de/v3/verein/spieler_detail.php?team=1&id=89&name=Stephan+Lobou%E8&n=1 Club profile]
* [http://www.national-football-teams.com/v2/player.php?id=13912 national-football-teams.com]