Venance Zézé

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Personal information
Venance Zézé
Full name	Venance Zézé
Date of birth	June 17, 1981 (1981-06-17) (age 26)
Place of birth	Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 6+¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	FC Metalist Kharkiv
Youth clubs
1991–2000	ASEC Abidjan
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2000–2001 2001–2003 2003–2004 2004–2005 2005–2006 2006–2007 2007–	ASEC Abidjan KSK Beveren AA Gent Brussels KSK Beveren Metalurh Donetsk Metalist Kharkiv	62 (20) 29 0(4) 24 0(1) 20 0(3) 24 0(3) 28 0(4)
National team
2000–2002	Cote d'Ivoire	20 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of May 25, 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Venance Zézé nickname Zézéto (born 17 June 1981 in Abidjan) is a Côte d'Ivoire footballer who plays in Ukraine as an attacking midfielder for FC Metalist Kharkiv. He has been capped by the Côte d'Ivoire national side.

Like many successful Ivorian footballers, he is a product of the famed youth academy at ASEC Abidjan, where he began his career. Following this, he moved to Belgian side K.S.K. Beveren in 2001, where he starred with other Ivorians such as Yaya Touré and Gilles Yapi Yapo. He left Beveren in 2003 to join AA Gent where he spent a season before moving to Brussels. In 2005 he returned to his former club Beveren for another seasonn, before moving to Ukrainian side FC Metalurh Donetsk in 2006. After a successful loan to Metalurh's Vyscha Liga rivals FC Metalist Kharkiv in the first half of the 2007/08 season, a permanent transfer was agreed between the clubs on December 14, 2007.