Christian Bassogog

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Christian Bassogog
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Christian Bassogog (2017)
Personnel
Surname Christian Mougang Bassogog
birthday October 18, 1995
place of birth Douala ,  Cameroon
size 178 cm
position Winger , striker
Juniors
Years station
0000–2013 Rainbow Bamenda
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2013-2015 Rainbow Bamenda
2015 Wilmington Hammerheads 16 0(0)
2015-2017 Aalborg BK 30 0(4)
2017– Henan Jianye 53 (17)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
Cameroon U-20
2016– Cameroon U-23 at least 2 0(0)
2016– Cameroon at least 21 0(4)
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 9, 2019

2 As of March 23, 2019

Christian Mougang Bassogog (born October 18, 1995 in Douala ) is a Cameroonian football player on the position of a winger and striker .

With the national team of his home country , he won the African Cup of Nations in Gabon in 2017 and was named the best player ( Total Man of the Competition ) at this tournament .

Club career

From Cameroon to the United States

Christian Bassogog was born on October 18, 1995 in Douala, the largest city in Cameroon. In his youth he played for the lower-class Cameroonian club Rainbow Bamenda , also known as Rainbow FC, from the city of Bamenda in northwest Cameroon. For this he was also used in the men's team from 2013 at the latest, with which he made it to the second highest division in the country. About a scouting combine organized by his club Rainbow Bamenda in November 2014 , in which a total of 40 selected players took part, he showed in front of Jason Arnold, the general manager of the US soccer franchise Wilmington Hammerheads and the US players agent and ex-professional Leo Cullen his skills. In the following spring, Arnold signed Christian Bassogog and his teammate Brian Anunga . Carson Porter , the team's technical director and head coach, then used him in 16 championship games between May and August 2015 in the then third-rate United Soccer League (USL), with Bassogog contributing two assists. In the final ranking of the 2015 game year , the Hammerheads took last place in the Eastern Conference , one of two seasons running in parallel. After four months in the United States, Bassogog moved to the club on a free transfer and joined the Danish first division club Aalborg BK .

Change to Europe

He signed a four-year contract with the Danes, where he was able to convince in a ten-day trial training session. The Cameroonian made his competitive debut for the team from the port city of Aalborg on September 29, 2015 in the second round match in the 2015/16 Danish Football Cup , when he replaced coach Lars Søndergaard in the 62nd minute in the 62nd minute in the 4-0 away win over Lystrup IF Nicolaj Thomsen came into play. In the last sixteen game against Lyngby BK , which took place a month later , Bassogog came to another brief assignment and had to wait until the end of February 2016 for his first appearance in the Danish Super League. After he came onto the pitch for goal scorer Lukas Spalvis in a 1-1 draw against FC Midtjylland in minute 77 on February 29, 2016 , Søndergaard also used him for a few minutes in the two subsequent games. After that, he was no longer a professional for a period of almost two months and was instead used in the reserve. It was not until the beginning of May that he made it back into the professional squad and collected minutes from the 28th to the 33rd and thus last championship round, although he was rarely on the pitch for more than half of the game. In the final standings of the Superliga 2015/16 , Aalborg BK ranked fifth in the table, mainly due to the winless last five rounds, and thus missed an international starting position for the coming season. In the soccer cup he was eliminated with the team only in the semi-finals against the Aarhus GF .

In the following season 2016/17 Søndergaard let him come to more match practice right from the start of the season. After Bassogog, who was used as a center forward, provided an assist in the second league game, he scored his first goal in the top Danish football league in the following third championship game, a 2-2 draw against Odense BK on August 1, 2016. In the same month he scored another goal for his team in the sixth and seventh game of the season. After this seventh game, Aalborg BK ranked third without a single defeat, tied with the first and second placed. In the ten league games that followed, the table situation deteriorated increasingly; in ten games, Aalborg was only victorious in one game; Bassogog was in action in all of these games. By the winter break the situation improved somewhat and Bassogog wintered with the team in eighth place in the table; by then he had been in all 21 championship games and had contributed four goals and one assist. After Hugo Broos appointed him to the provisional 35-man squad for the 2017 African Cup of Nations on December 12, 2016 , he was part of the final 23-man Cameroonian squad at the beginning of January 2017 and took part in the African Cup of Nations in Gabon .

As Africa champion to China

After he played there in all six games in his home country, scored a goal and won the African Championship with the team again after 15 years, and was subsequently voted the best player of the tournament ( Total Man of the Competition ), he became courted by numerous international associations. These offered the Cameroonian a change during the summer break, as the transfer window for the winter break was already closed for most clubs. During the winter break of the Danish soccer championship, he moved to Henan Jianye in the Chinese Super League in China for a rumored transfer fee of 8.7 million US dollars (equivalent to approx. 6.8 million euros ) , the season of which only began at the beginning of March. For the Danes, this meant a record transfer. He was about to sign a contract with Lokomotiv Moscow . After earning the equivalent of £ 25 a week at Rainbow Bamenda just two years earlier , he was already receiving the equivalent of £ 60,000 after tax per week at Henan Jianye in the Chinese Super League. Part of the transfer fee that the Chinese paid to the Danes also went to the Wilmington Hammerheads in the United States as training compensation. At first under the well-known coach and ex-professional Jia Xiuquan , Bassogog quickly made his way into the starting line-up and made his debut in the first game of the season in early March 2017, a 0-0 draw against Hebei China Fortune , over the full 90 minutes. After scoring his first goal in China in a 1-1 draw against Fabio Capellos Jiangsu Suning on April 15, 2017 , the left-footer regularly scored hits and assists in subsequent games. By the end of the 2017 game year at the beginning of November, Bassogog had achieved a record of 24 of 30 possible championship appearances; he got ten goals and seven assists. With a 14th place in the final standings, his team was just able to secure relegation and prevent relegation to the second-class China League One .

On November 1, 2011, the Confédération Africaine de Football published a list of 30 nominees for Africa's Footballer of the Year award ; Bassogog ranked fifth on this list. At the award ceremony on January 4, 2018 in the Accra International Conference Center in the Ghanaian capital Accra , the Egyptian Mohamed Salah was voted Africa's Footballer of the Year 2017.

National team career

After playing for Cameroon's U-20 and, from 2016, also briefly for Cameroon's U-23 national team , Bassogog made his debut on November 12, 2016 under coach Hugo Broos in the second group match of the qualification for the 2018 World Cup against Zambia in the senior national team in his home country, when he started from the start and was replaced by Clinton N'Jie in the 79th minute . Before he was accepted into Cameroon's provisional 35-man squad for the 2017 African Cup , which had a major impact on his further career, he was only able to record this one international match a month earlier. At the beginning of January 2017, Bassogog was part of the final 23-strong Cameroonian squad and took part in the African Championship in Gabon . After appearing in two preparatory games against the DR Congo and Zimbabwe , Broos used him in all games of the African Cup of Nations, which will take place between mid-January and early February 2017. Second in Group A, tied with first place, Burkina Faso , the Cameroonians advanced to the quarter-finals, where they only defeated Senegal on penalties. After a 2-0 success in the semifinals against Ghana , in which Bassogog sealed the 2-0 result in the 93rd minute, Cameroon made it back to the final of the African Cup for the first time after the final participation in 2008. In the final against Egypt on February 5, 2017 in the Stade d'Angondjé in Angondjé , a suburb of the Gabonese capital Libreville , Hugo Broos used him for the full game. With a 2-1 win, Cameroon became African champions for the fifth time in history and Bassogog was then not only voted into the team of the tournament , but also the best player of the tournament ( Total Man of the Competition ).

After this success and the resulting move to Henan Jianye in China , Bassogog continued to play as a regular in his home country's national team. In March 2017, the left-footed player played two friendly international matches against Tunisia and Guinea and then played the first group match in the qualifying for the 2019 African Cup of Nations against Morocco on June 10, 2017 , before the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup began a week later . Broos brought him into the 23-man squad for this tournament too , but retired early from the tournament with Cameroon in Group B , ranking last after three games. From September he played for his home country in three more qualifying games for the 2018 World Cup; in the last group game against Zambia he was not part of the Cameroon squad. This also ended the end of the engagement with coach Hugo Broos, who had been working without a contract with the Cameroonian national team since winning the African championship in February 2017.

successes

  • African champions : 2017
  • Best player of the tournament: 2017 African Cup of Nations
  • Election to the team of the tournament: African Championship 2017

Web links

Commons : Christian Bassogog  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bassogog named Total Man of the Competition (English), accessed on January 4, 2018
  2. ↑ The incredible true story of Christian Bassogog winning Africa Cup of Nations with Cameroon , accessed on January 4, 2018
  3. ↑ Bassogog And Anunga Join Wilmington Hammerheads ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed January 4, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / goalnation.com
  4. ↑ Bassogog: AaB er en stor klub (Danish), accessed on January 4, 2018
  5. ↑ Bassogog Signs With Denmark 'Aalborg ( Memento from September 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 4, 2018
  6. ↑ a b c Cameroon and Nations Cup star Bassogog moves to China , accessed on January 4, 2018
  7. ↑ a b Cameroun: 35 présélectionnés pour la CAN 2017 (French), accessed on January 4, 2018
  8. ↑ a b Cameroun: Chedjou et Bedimo privés de CAN! (French), accessed January 4, 2018
  9. ↑ a b c d Christian Bassogog: 'Chinese Super League has the power. More will come ' , accessed January 5, 2018
  10. ↑ Europe offers rejected: MVP of the Africa Cup moves to China , accessed on January 5, 2018
  11. ↑ Nominees for African Player of the Year & African Player of the Year - Based in Africa 2017 (English), accessed on January 5, 2018
  12. ↑ Egyptian Mohamed Salah Crowned African Player of the Year , accessed January 5, 2018
  13. ↑ Bassogog udtaget til Camerouns U / 23-landshold (Danish), accessed on January 5, 2018
  14. ↑ Cameroon - Zambia (1: 1) on the official website of FIFA (English), accessed on January 5, 2018
  15. ↑ Cameroon beat Ghana to earn place in Africa Cup of Nations final (English), accessed on January 5, 2018
  16. ↑ Football: Cameroon separates from national coach Hugo Broos - Cameroon fires national coach , accessed on January 5, 2018
  17. ↑ Hugo Broos working as Cameroon coach without a contract (English), accessed on January 5, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Bassogog, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bassogog, Christian Mougang (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cameroonian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Douala , Cameroon