Ben Cabango

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Ben Cabango
Personnel
Surname Benjamin Cabango
birthday May 30, 2000
place of birth Cardiff ,  Wales
size 188 cm
position Central defense
Juniors
Years station
Maindy Corries
AFC Newport County
0000–2018 Swansea City
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2017-2019 Swansea City U23 12 (1)
2018-2019 →  The New Saints FC  (loan) 16 (0)
2019– Swansea City 17 (1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2017 Wales U17 1 (0)
2018-2019 Wales U19 5 (1)
2019– Wales U21 4 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of July 9, 2020

2 As of July 9, 2020

Benjamin "Ben" Cabango (born May 30, 2000 in Cardiff ) is a Welsh football player of Angolan descent who is under contract with Swansea City in the English Football League Championship . The center- back has been a Welsh Under-21 international since September 2019 .

Personal

Ben Cabango was born in Cardiff, the capital of Wales, to an Angolan and a Welsh woman. His younger brother Theo plays rugby and, like him, attended Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Plasmawr , a Welsh-language school in Cardiff.

Career

society

Cabango began his football training at the age of five with the local amateur club Maindy Corries , where he was coached by his father Paolo. When he was ten, he joined the AFC Newport County's youth team . The Exiles , he played on the position of attacking midfielder , but was later central defender retrained and before he could penetrate into the first team, he was a teenager from Swansea City recruited. In the 2016/17 and 2017/18 seasons he was a regular in the U18 team and also gained his first experience in the U23, which played in Premier League 2.

On June 2, 2018, he moved to the Welsh record champions The New Saints FC on loan until the end of the year . He made his debut on July 10, 2018 in a 5-0 away defeat against North Macedonian champions KF Shkëndija in the first round of qualifying for the UEFA Champions League . In the 4-0 home win in the second leg a week later, Cabango scored in the Saints shirt for the first time, but due to the worse goal difference, this victory was of no use to the club and they were eliminated. Even in the top Welsh league , Cabango quickly established himself as a regular and by the time he was loaned he made 16 league appearances there.

After his return to Swansea City, the 2018/19 season ended in the U23, where he played regularly. On August 13, 2019, he played his first game in professional football in a 3-1 league cup win over Northampton Town . After he was initially only considered in cup games, he made his debut on November 26 (18th matchday) in a 1-1 draw against Huddersfield Town in the second-highest English division , when he played for the injured Mike van der Hoorn in the second half was brought. In December 2019, he then made his breakthrough in the starting line-up of head coach Steve Cooper . On July 8, 2020 (42nd matchday), he scored his first goal for the Swans in a 3-1 away win against Birmingham City .

National team

In September 2016, Ben Cabango made a one-off appearance for the Welsh U17 national team, before making eight appearances for the U19 between May 2018 and March 2019 , in which he scored a goal.

Cabango has been a Welsh Under-21 international since September 2019 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Introducing the Cabango brothers, the super-talented siblings excelling in Welsh rugby and at Swansea City In: WalesOnline, November 15, 2019 (accessed July 9, 2020)
  2. ↑ a b Saints sign Swansea starlet In: The New Saints FC, June 12, 2018 (accessed July 9, 2020)
  3. ↑ Ben Cabango - performance data 2016/17 In: transfermarkt.at (accessed on July 9, 2020)
  4. ↑ Ben Cabango - performance data 2017/18 In: transfermarkt.at (accessed on July 9, 2020)
  5. ↑ Shkendija 5-0 The New Saints In: BBC of July 10, 2018 (accessed July 9, 2020)
  6. ↑ The New Saints are blown away In: Shropshire Star, July 11, 2018 (accessed July 9, 2020)
  7. ↑ The New Saints 4-0 Shkendija In: BBC July 17, 2018 (accessed July 9, 2020)
  8. ↑ New Saints boss Scott Ruscoe hopes to extend youngster Ben Cabango's loan and says changes will be made ahead of Barry Town United clash In: Y Clwb Pêl-droed from August 11, 2018 (accessed July 9, 2020)
  9. ↑ a b Ben Cabango - performance data 2018/19 In: transfermarkt.at (accessed on July 9, 2020)
  10. ↑ Swansea City 3-1 Northampton Town In: BBC, August 13, 2019 (accessed July 9, 2020)
  11. ↑ Huddersfield Town 1-1 Swansea City In: BBC as of publication date (accessed July 9, 2020)
  12. ↑ Ben Cabango - performance data 2019/20 In: transfermarkt.at (accessed on July 9, 2020)
  13. ↑ Birmingham City 1-3 Swansea City In: BBC July 8, 2020 (accessed July 5, 2020)
  14. ↑ Ben Cabango - Wales U17 In: transfermarkt.at (accessed July 8, 2020)
  15. ↑ Ben Cabango - Wales U19 In: transfermarkt.at (accessed on July 8, 2020)
  16. ↑ Profile of Ben Cabango In: Soccerway (accessed July 8, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Cabango, Ben
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cabango, Benjamin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION welsh football player
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 2000
PLACE OF BIRTH Cardiff , Wales