Christopher Samba
| Christopher Samba | ||
 Christopher Samba (2014)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Veijeany Christopher Samba | |
| birthday | March 28, 1984 | |
| place of birth | Créteil , France | |
| size | 193 cm | |
| position | Central defender | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| FC Issy-les-Moulineaux | ||
| -2001 | FC Rouen | |
| 2001-2002 | CS Sedan | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2002-2003 | CS Sedan B | 26 (0) |
| 2003-2004 | CS Sedan | 3 (0) |
| 2005-2007 | Hertha BSC II | 30 (4) |
| 2005-2007 | Hertha BSC | 20 (0) |
| 2007–2012 | Blackburn Rovers | 161 (16) |
| 2012-2013 | Anzhi Makhachkala | 27 (3) |
| 2013 | Queens Park Rangers | 10 (0) |
| 2013 | Anzhi Makhachkala | 5 (1) |
| 2013-2016 | FK Dynamo Moscow | 38 (6) |
| 2016-2017 | Panathinaikos Athens | 2 (0) |
| 2017-2018 | Aston Villa | 12 (1) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2004-2013 | Republic of the Congo | 26 (0) |
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1 Only league games are given. As of September 29, 2018 |
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Veijeany Christopher Samba (born March 28, 1984 in Créteil ) is a Congolese football player born in France . The tall central defender had his breakthrough in the English Premier League after his first professional positions in Sedan and Berlin at the Blackburn Rovers .
Career
society
The 1.93 m tall defender came to Hertha BSC in early 2005 via the French clubs FC Rouen and CS Sedan . Samba played his first Bundesliga game on August 27, 2005 in Munich . In January 2007 he completed a trial session at the English Premier League club Blackburn Rovers , to which he moved shortly thereafter. The transfer fee is said to have been £ 400,000. In October 2007, Samba, who was a regular at Blackburn Rovers and mostly formed the central defense with Ryan Nelsen , extended his contract for another two years until 2012 - the contract was renewed in November 2009 until the end of the 2013/14 season.
At the end of February 2012 Samba moved to the Russian first division club Anzhi Makhachkala . On January 31, 2013, he went back to the Premier League for the Queens Park Rangers . He signed a contract that ran until June 30, 2017. After the team was relegated from the Premier League, he returned to Anzhi Makhachkala for the 2013/14 season. According to media reports, the transfer fee was 11.6 million euros. In the same transfer period, Samba moved from Anzhi to Dynamo Moscow as part of the austerity measures . After a brief stint at Panathinaikos Athens , he moved to English second division Aston Villa for a year in the summer of 2017 . Samba has been without a club since summer 2018.
National team
Samba was a national player of the Republic of the Congo from 2004 to 2013 and played 26 international matches (no goal).
Web links
- Christopher Samba in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
- Profile at Blackburn Rovers ( Memento from August 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Christopher Samba in the database of soccerbase.com (English)
- Christopher Samba in the database of weltfussball.de
- Christopher Samba in the L'Equipe database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christopher Samba - in Anji! (fc-anji.ru)
- ↑ EXCLUSIVE: R'S SEAL SAMBA SWITCH
- ↑ transfermarkt.de: Samba returns to Anzhi Makhachkala , July 6, 2013, accessed on July 27, 2013
- ^ Announcement on Aston Villa's website, accessed September 30, 2019
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Samba, Christopher |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Samba, Christopher Veijeany (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Congolese-French soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Créteil , France |