Official: Narva Trans star Kabore signs with Hearts

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Scottish Premiership side Hearts have announced the signing of JK Narva Trans star forward Pierre Landry Kabore. The 23-year-old forward has signed a three-year-deal with the club.

Burkina Faso forward for the past year and a half was the main guy for the Premium Liiga side JK Narva Trans as he made 44 league appearances scoring 23 goals. This season he started red-hot with 12 goals in 15 games, which includes scoring back-to-back hattrick.

This summer the young Burkinabe for the first time in his career was called up to the Burkina Faso national team where he made his debut in a match against Tunisia, he also played an entire game in a win against Zimbabwe.

Hearts who finished seventh last season in the Scottish Premiership have made to the main stages of Europe twice in the last three seasons – UEFA Europa Conference League group stage in the 2022-23 season where they twice beat the Latvian champions FC RFS and last season in the UEFA Conference League phase where they finished just one step short of making play-offs.

Edinburgh based team have won the league title four times with the last being 1959-60 season and eight time Scottish Cup winner. Hearts have started the season with a 2-0 win against Aberdeen in their opening game of the season with next one coming up on Sunday when they will play an away game against Dundee United.

Source: https://www.heartsfc.co.uk/blogs/news/kabore-is-a-jambo