Gervais Yao Kouassi (born 27 May 1987) better known as Gervinho is an Ivorian footballer who plays as a forward for Roma and the Ivory Coast national team.Gervinho began his career at ASEC Abidjan and Toumodi F.C. before moving to Belgium in 2004 to play for the now-defunct Beveren. Between 2007 and 2011 he played in the French Ligue 1 initially at Le Mans and then at Lille. He was sold to Arsenal in 2011.He has made 52 appearances for the Ivorian national team scoring 13 goals. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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