Yaya Touré

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Gnégnéri Yaya Touré (born May 13, 1983 in the Ivory Coast) is an Ivorian footballer who currently for Olympiakos. He has 17 caps for the Côte d'Ivoire.

Himself a midfielder, Yaya Touré is the younger brother of Arsenal F.C defender Kolo Touré and has a younger brother Ibrahim Touré who plays for Toumodi F.C..

Touré joined a youth academy - the Academy Mimosifcom - in 1996. After two years in KSK Beveren (Belgium) and two more at FC Metalurh Donetsk (Ukraine), he moved to Olympiakos Piraeus in 2005. He was nicknamed the new Patrick Vieira by his brother Kolo. He has attracted the interest of clubs such as Olympique Lyon, Manchester United, Chelsea and A.C. Milan, but has since expressed a wish to play alongside his brother Kolo at Arsenal. It has since emerged that Arsenal made a EYR 7 million bid in January 2006 which was rejected as the club wanted to wait to the summer to consider selling. The recent conflict between the player's manager Dmitri Selouk and Olympiakos F.C. is likely to affect the future of the young player. According to local press the team willa ccept a EYR 5 million offer by Lyon to sell the player.

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