{"id":27962,"date":"2023-08-09T15:39:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T06:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=27962"},"modified":"2023-08-09T15:39:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T06:39:09","slug":"former-lyon-swansea-al-hilal-and-galatasaray-striker-gomis-signs-for-frontale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2023\/08\/09\/former-lyon-swansea-al-hilal-and-galatasaray-striker-gomis-signs-for-frontale\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Lyon, Swansea, Al-Hilal, and Galatasaray Striker Gomis Signs for Frontale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kawasaki Frontale have just received a major boost for their attacking lineup with the arrival of French striker Bafetimbi Gomis from Turkish giants Galatasaray.<\/strong><\/p>\n

38-year old Gomis, famed for his “prowling lion” celebration, could also count the likes of French giants Lyon, Premier League side Swansea City, and Saudi behemoths Al-Hilal as his former clubs, winning the AFC Champions League with the latter twice in 2019 and 2021.<\/p>\n

Despite being in his twilight years as a footballer, Gomis’ goalscoring prowess hasn’t waned one bit, scoring eight league goals for a Galatasaray side that won the Super Lig last season.<\/p>\n

It is believed that Gomis was brought in to solve Kawasaki’s goalscoring issues, with the club only scoring 30 times in 22 games as they languish at 7th place in the J.League 1 table. Star striker Leandro Damiao, usually a reliable source of goals, has been sidelined with injury throughout most of the current campaign.<\/p>\n

Gomis turned down offers from fellow Super Lig teams and teams down in the Turkish second tier in favor for a return to Asia with Kawasaki, with the Frenchman scheduled to join his new teammates in Japan within the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kawasaki Frontale have just received a major boost for their attacking lineup with the arrival of French striker Bafetimbi Gomis from Turkish giants Galatasaray. 38-year old Gomis, famed for his “prowling lion” celebration, could also count the likes of French giants Lyon, Premier League side Swansea City, and Saudi behemoths Al-Hilal as his former clubs, winning the AFC Champions League with the latter twice in 2019 and 2021. Despite being in his twilight years as a footballer, Gomis’ goalscoring prowess hasn’t waned one bit, scoring eight league goals for a Galatasaray side that won the Super Lig last season. It is believed that Gomis was brought in to solve Kawasaki’s … Continue reading “Former Lyon, Swansea, Al-Hilal, and Galatasaray Striker Gomis Signs for Frontale”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":25092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,32],"tags":[2787,2428,127,2334,381,57,733,95],"class_list":["post-27962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia","category-japan","tag-bafetimbi-gomis","tag-east-asia","tag-j-league","tag-j-league-1","tag-j1-league","tag-japan","tag-kawasaki-frontale","tag-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27964,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27962\/revisions\/27964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}