Going directly from National 2 to Ligue 1 is what we call a great promotion! Jean-Philippe Krasso, 22, will join AS Saint-Etienne this summer, with whom he has signed for the next three years.
Author of a remarkable season with Epinal (N2), with eight goals in the Coupe de France and a quarter-final at the end, the striker from Chartres caught the eye of the Greens.
Jean-Philippe Krasso with the Greens?
“I am very happy and also extremely proud to sign for a club the size of AS Saint-Etienne,” he admits on the Forez club website. It is a new step in my career and it represents an extraordinary chance to succeed at the highest level. I can’t wait to start, to merge into the collective and integrate as quickly as possible in order to be ready to take up this magnificent challenge. “
Brilliant, the young Eurélien had chained up the big performances in the Coupe de France this winter with Epinal. He had signed two assists against Sochaux (L2, 2-0) in the 7th round, scored twice against Lille (L1, 2-1) in the 8th final, before scoring his 8th goal in the Coupe de France, in the quarter , opposite… Saint-Étienne (1-2). It was during this match that Krasso would have seduced Stéphane’s coach Claude Puel.
Born in Stuttgart, Germany, the Franco-Ivorian grew up in Chartres. Trained on the Horizon, he joined the Lorient training center when he was 14 years old. He then went through the Alsatian club of Schiltigheim (N2), before landing in Épinal, in 2018. Two years later, here he arrives today in the big world, in Saint-Etienne.
Joseph Krasso, Ivorian by origin, pillar of C’Chartres Football: “Chartres is a city that succeeded”
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