Jérôme Onguéné
Jérôme Junior Onguéné (born 22 December 1997) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays for Austrian Bundesliga club Red Bull Salzburg and the Cameroon national team.
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Full name | Jérôme Junior Onguéné[1] | |||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 22 December 1997 | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Mbalmayo, Cameroon | |||||||||||||||
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Defender | |||||||||||||||
Club information | ||||||||||||||||
Current team | Red Bull Salzburg | |||||||||||||||
Number | 6 | |||||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||||
2009–2011 | AS Illzach Modenheim | |||||||||||||||
2011–2013 | Sochaux | |||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
2015–2017 | Sochaux | 45 | (1) | |||||||||||||
2017–2018 | VfB Stuttgart | 0 | (0) | |||||||||||||
2017–2018 | → Red Bull Salzburg (loan) | 17 | (4) | |||||||||||||
2017–2018 | → FC Liefering (loan) | 3 | (0) | |||||||||||||
2018– | Red Bull Salzburg | 28 | (3) | |||||||||||||
2021 | → Genoa (loan) | 4 | (0) | |||||||||||||
National team‡ | ||||||||||||||||
2012–2013 | France U16 | 16 | (3) | |||||||||||||
2013 | France U17 | 2 | (0) | |||||||||||||
2014–2015 | France U18 | 3 | (0) | |||||||||||||
2015–2016 | France U19 | 16 | (2) | |||||||||||||
2016–2017 | France U20 | 8 | (1) | |||||||||||||
2018– | Cameroon | 7 | (0) | |||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22 May 2021 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 13 October 2018 |
Club career
On 31 January 2017, Onguéné moved to VfB Stuttgart.[2] He was loaned to FC Red Bull Salzburg on 31 August 2017 until the end of the season.[3] In June 2018 Onguéné moved permanently to Salzburg.[4]
On 15 January 2021, Onguéné moved to Serie A club Genoa, on a loan until the end of the season.[5] The loan included an option to buy.[5]
International career
Onguéné won the 2016 UEFA European Under-19 Championship with France. In August 2018 Onguéné switched his allegiance to Cameroon and was nominated for the match against Comoros in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification Group B.[6] He made his debut for Cameroon in a 1–0 win over Malawi national football team on 12 October 2018.[7]
Career statistics
Club
- As of 8 March 2019[8]
Club | Season | League | Cup | League Cup | Europe | Other | Total | |||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Sochaux | 2014–15 | Ligue 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 4 | 0 | ||
2015–16 | 32 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 40 | 1 | ||||
2016–17 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 14 | 0 | ||||
Total | 45 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 0 | — | — | 58 | 1 | ||||
VfB Stuttgart II | 2016–17 | Regionalliga Südwest | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 2 | 0 | ||||
Red Bull Salzburg (loan) | 2017–18 | Austrian Football Bundesliga | 17 | 4 | 4 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 22 | 5 | ||
FC Liefering (loan) | 2017–18 | Austrian First League | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 3 | 0 | |||
Red Bull Salzburg | 2018–19 | Austrian Football Bundesliga | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | — | 4 | 0 | — | 14 | 1 | ||
Red Bull Salzburg total | 24 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 6 | ||
Career total | 74 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 99 | 7 |
Honours
International
- France U19
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Cameroon
- Africa Cup of Nations bronze: 2021[9]
- Red Bull Salzburg
References
- "FIFA U-20 World Cup Republic of Korea 2017: List of players" (PDF). 9 June 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- "Jérôme Onguéné sign VfB". VfB Stuttgart. 31 January 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
- "Jérôme Onguéné released on loan". VfB Stuttgart. 31 August 2017. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
- "Jérôme Onguéné makes permanent Salzburg move". VfB Stuttgart. 15 June 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
- "Onguene done deal for Genoa". Football Italia. January 15, 2021. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
- "Comores-Cameroun : Les 23 de Clarence Seedorf" (in French). Cameroonian Football Federation. 20 August 2018. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
- "Cameroon overcome Malawi in Yaounde".
- "Jérôme Onguéné Socceway Profile". Retrieved 25 July 2016.
- AfricaNews (2022-02-06). "Cameroon beats Burkina Faso to end AFCON 2021 in third place". Africanews. Retrieved 2022-02-06.
External links
- Jérôme Onguéné at Soccerway
- Jérôme Onguéné at the French Football Federation (in French)
- Jérôme Onguéné at the French Football Federation (archived) (in French)