He is faster than Usain Bolt
Well, not officially, but he did, according to his club Borussia Dortmund, sprint 30 metres in 3.7 seconds at a training camp in 2013, which is 0.08 seconds faster than Bolt ran at the start of his record-breaking 100m in Berlin four years earlier.
Bolt would obviously catch him up (probably by about 35m) but it is impressive nonetheless. Accordingly, Aubameyang is the third-fastest player on Fifa 16: one of the two players he is ‘slower’ than is Arsenal’s very own Theo Walcott, apparently.
Would Aubameyang beat Bolt in a 30m race?
He chose Gabon over France and Italy
Having been born in France but grown up in Italy Aubameyang could have played for either one of the two former world champions but chose Gabon back in 2009. Perhaps that decision was a little premature (when he was a mere loanee at lowly Dijon) but it remains commendable.
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By the age of 26 he is their highest ever scorer. One of his 19 goals came at the 2012 London Olympics.
He is in the form of his life
Halfway through 2015/16, remarkably, this is already Aubameyang’s most prolific season ever. He has 18 Bundesliga goals in 17 games, as well as nine more in cup competitions and one for Gabon.
Bundesliga 2015/16 top scorers
| Player | Goals |
|---|---|
| Aubameyang | 18 |
| Lewandowski | 15 |
| Muller | 14 |
| Hernandez | 11 |
| Kalou | 9 |
He is the leading scorer in the German top flight, three clear of Robert Lewandowski and four ahead of Thomas Muller, while he also has as many assists as those two combined.
In October the Dortmund forward hit back-to-back hat-tricks but the goals have dried up since. He has *only* scored seven in his last 10 matches.
He loves a celebration
Front flips, superhero masks (that’s Batman or Spiderman, so far), you name it, Aubameyang has probably done it after one of his goals.
He has explained the Batman celebration – during which team-mate Marco Reus donned a Robin mask – by saying he is a little bit ‘crazy’. Okay then.
He signed a new five-year contract last summer
A potential stumbling block for a perennially frugal Arsene Wenger could be the fact that Dortmund can demand a large fee given that the player signed a contract up until 2020 only five months ago.
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£44.6 million has been the mooted price but there are suggestions that £60m is more accurate. Given Aubameyang’s contractual situation, the ball is in Dortmund’s court.
He is lethal in front of goal
Every one of his 18 Bundesliga goals this season has come from a chance deemed ‘clear cut’ by the statisticians at Opta, with those goals coming from 30 such chances (60 per cent success).
Giroud is wasteful by Aubameyang's standards
Comparatively, Arsenal’s forwards are decidedly wasteful. Olivier Giroud has scored six goals from 15 attempts (40 per cent); Alexis Sanchez has four from 10 (40 per cent); Theo Walcott has finished only two of his 11 ‘big’ chances (18.2 per cent). With almost perfect service from Mesut Ozil, Aubameyang could thrive.
He is Africa’s best player
Only this week he denied Yaya Toure a fifth straight title as African footballer of the year, as voted for by coaches and technical directors of the nations. Some feat indeed.
A proud Aubameyang with his trophy
AC Milan turned him away
He joined the Milan youth team in 2007 and might not have been taken all that seriously to start with given that his father was a scout at the club.
After going out on loan to four French clubs in three years with mixed success, Saint-Etienne decided to make the deal permanent in 2011 and he hasn’t looked back. Milan, having finished eighth and tenth in the last two Serie A seasons, could do with a player like Aubameyang right now.
He can take a penalty
He once scored three in a game. After Santi Cazorla’s recent attempt at West Brom his ability might just be welcomed at the Emirates.
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