Former Arsenal and Galatasaray player, Emmanuel Eboue, recently revealed he had contemplated suicide having fallen on tough times. Eboue has admitted he was on the brink of trying to take his own life following a bitter divorce battle that has left him broke.
The ex-Gunners defender who is now broke and unable to see his children as a result of the case and financial mismanagement throughout his career. We give the ten things you need to know about this footballer who played for Arsenal in the UEFA Champions League final against Barcelona in 2006:
1. Emmanuel Eboué is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a right back.
2. Eboué was born in Abidjan on 4 June 1983.
3. Formed at ASEC Mimosas, he moved to Europe to play for Belgium’s Beveren in 2002. He spent most of his career, from 2005 to 2011, with Arsenal of the Premier League, playing 214 games – including the 2006 UEFA Champions League Final – and scoring 10 goals.
4. He moved for €3.5 million to Galatasaray in Turkey, where he played regularly and won five domestic honours in the country.
5. After his release in 2015, he was briefly on the books of Sunderland before being given a one-year ban by FIFA for not paying his agent.
6. Eboué made his international debut for the Ivory Coast in 2004, eventually earning 79 caps by 2013. He was part of their squads at five Africa Cup of Nations tournaments and two World Cups.
7. Eboué is a Christian and has three children with his Belgian wife Aurélie Bertrand, whom he married before joining Arsenal.
8. In December 2017, Eboué revealed that he is poor and homeless due to his divorce and bad investments that were under his former wife’s control.
9. His former employers, Arsenal and Galatasaray has offered him an academy coaching job at the club.
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