Gervais Yao Kouassi[1] (an haife shi a ranar 27 ga watan Mayun shekara ta, 1987), wanda aka fi sani daGervinho, ƙwararren ɗan wasan ƙwallon ƙafa ne na ƙasar Ivory Coast wanda ke taka leda a matsayin ɗan wasan gaba ga kulob ɗin Aris na Super League na Girka da kumaƙungiyar ƙwallon ƙafa ta Ivory Coast .
Gervinho ya fara aikinsa a ASEC Abidjan daToumodi, kafin ya koma Belgium a shekarar 2004 don taka leda a Beveren . A tsakanin shekarar 2007 da 2011, ya taka leda a Faransa Ligue 1, da farko a Le Mans sannan a Lille . A kakar wasa ta ƙarshe a Faransa, ya taimaka wa kulob ɗin lashe gasar da Coupe de France . An sayar da shi gaArsenal a shekarar 2011 kan fam miliyan 10.8 sannan ya koma Roma a shekarar 2013 kan Yuro miliyan 8. A cikin watan Janairun shekara ta, 2016, Gervinho ya koma Hebei China Fortune . A watan Agustan shekara ta, 2018, ya shiga Parma Calcio a shekara ta, 1913
Gervinho ya buga wasanni sama da 80 a tawagar kasar Ivory Coast tun a shekarar 2007 inda ya zura ƙwallaye 23. Ya kasance cikin tawagarsu a gasar cin kofin Afrika biyar da kuma gasar cin kofin duniya guda biyu .
An haifi Gervinho a Anyama, Ivory Coast.[2] Ya fara aikinsa a shahararriyar makarantar matasa ta ASEC Abidjan, inda ya yi shekaru biyar. A ASEC Abidjan, an ba shisunan laƙabi na Portuguese style na Brazil "Gervinho", wanda aka samo daga sunansa na farko Gervais, ta kocinBrazil wanda ya horar da ASEC Abidjan.[3][4]Ƙaƙwalwar "-inho", a cikin Portuguese, tana nuna ƙanƙanta da/ko ƙauna, a wannan yanayin, ma'anar "Little Gervais".
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Bayan haka, ya koma ƙungiyar ta Toumodi FC ta Ivory Coast Division Zone Huɗu, inda ya zama ƙwararre.[5]