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Assane Gnoukouri

Ivorian association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ19818111
Source-derived summary

Assane Demoya Gnoukouri (pronounced [asan dəmwaja ɲukuʁi]; born 28 September 1996) is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. He temporarily retired in 2017 following a diagnosis with a heart condition while playing for Serie A club Udinese, on loan from Inter Milan. Gnoukouri made his Serie A debut as an 18-year-old for Inter, under then coach, Roberto Mancini.

Early career

Gnoukouri spent his early career at the Altovicentino. On 18 September 2014, Gnoukouri, along with his younger brother Zate Wilfried Gnoukouri and other brothers, Miguel Anguel Gnoukouri and Williams Gnoukouri, joined the Internazionale Primavera.

Club career

He made his Serie A debut for the club on 11 April 2015, coming on as a substitute for Gary Medel after 80 minutes in 3–0 win against Hellas Verona.

International career

Gnoukouri was born in Ivory Coast to Ivorian parents, but was raised in France as child before spending his late teens in Italy. He received a call up to the Ivory Coast national football team for their friendly tie against Hungary, where he was an unused substitute in a 0-0 draw. He debuted for the Ivory Coast U23s in a 5-1 loss to France U21 in November 2016.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Assane Gnoukouri” as ivorian association football player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2017, 2014, 2015—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1996-09-28, 1996-11-07—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Assane, Gnoukouri and Ivorian can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as ivorian association football player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19818111. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996, 2017, 2014 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from Assane Gnoukouri” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.