Jean-Marc Adjovi-Bocco

Jean-Marc Adjovi-Bocco

Jimmy Boco, pictured in 2008
Personal information
Full name Jean-Marc Adjovi-Bocco
Date of birth (1963-12-22) 22 December 1963
Place of birth Cotonou, Benin
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984–1986 AS Creil
1986–1987 Amiens SC
1987–1988 FC Rouen
1988–1991 FC Tours
1991–1997 RC Lens 195 (0)
1997–1998 Hibernian 29 (0)
National team
Benin

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Jean-Marc Adjovi-Bocco (born 22 December 1963) is a Beninese former football player. Bocco captained the Benin national football team, until he retired from international football in the summer of 1997.[1] He is famous in Scotland for his time with Hibernian, where fans knew him as Jimmy Boco. He gradutated from Skema Business School in 1999.

Jimmy Adjovi-Boco, Bernard Lama, Patrick Vieira & Saer Seck founded Diambars, a worldwide project that aims to turn children's passion for football into an educational driving force.

References

  1. ↑ In Africa, success is your own boots; Man from the mean streets so content at Easter Rd, Daily Mail, 7 November 1997.


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