Clinton N'Jie

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Clinton N'Jie
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Personnel
Surname Clinton Mua N'Jie
birthday August 15, 1993
place of birth Buea ,  Cameroon
size 175 cm
position Center forward , left winger
Juniors
Years station
2006-2011 EFBC
2011–2012 Olympique Lyon
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2011-2014 Olympique Lyon B 60 (15)
2012-2015 Olympique Lyon 37 0(7)
2015-2017 Tottenham Hotspur 8 0(0)
2016-2017 →  Olympique Marseille  (loan) 22 0(4)
2017-2019 Olympique Marseille 16 0(6)
2019– FK Dynamo Moscow 0 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2012-2013 Cameroon U-20
2014– Cameroon 22 0(7)
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 1, 2018

2 As of December 23, 2017

Clinton Mua N'Jie (born August 15, 1993 in Buea ) is a Cameroonian football player on the position of a striker and winger . He is under contract with the Russian first division club FK Dynamo Moscow . He has been a Cameroonian national player since 2014 .

Club career

Start of career and first appearances in men's football

N'Jie was born in the western Cameroon city of Buea in 1993 and started playing soccer at the age of five. At the age of 13, he was discovered by local scouts in 2006 as one of 80 players and accepted into the Ecole de Football Brasseries du Cameroun . N'Jie, who grew up in the English-speaking part of Cameroon, then appeared for the Brasseries du Cameroun football school until 2011 . Then she was brought to France by the Lyon Africa scout, Patrice Girard, following the recommendation of the manager of the football school, Jean-Flaubert Nono, the brother of the former Olympique Lyon player Jean-Jacques Nono . In the following months he spent a sometimes quite difficult time in the training center of Olympique Lyon, where the language was a major hurdle, as N'Jie had previously only grown up with English. Upon his arrival at the club in August 2011, the offensive player was initially used in the U-19 team, but managed quickly made it into the reserve team with gaming operations in the fourth-rate Championnat de France amateur (CFA), where he met with Nabil Fekir and Anthony Martial a congenial attack trio formed. He made his debut for the B team on November 14, 2011 in a 2-0 home win over FC Mulhouse , when he came on in the 90th minute for the goal scorer Mohamed Yattara . In the further course of the season, the Cameroonian was used in numerous league games and brought it to a record of five goals in a total of 14 fourth division appearances by the end of the season, when he and the team ranked first in Group B, the four-track CFA. However, since the team was already operating in the highest possible league for B-teams of professional clubs, there was no further promotion to the third division and the team remained as champions in the fourth highest soccer league in the country.

Slow breakthrough as a professional

In the following season 2012/13, the 1.75 m tall offensive player made 26 league appearances for the B team, but mostly only acted as a substitute player and only scored two league goals by the end of the season, although he continued to play for other parts of the season was used as a striker. Due to his performances in the reserve, the now 19-year-old also drew the attention of those responsible for the professional team with play in Ligue 1 and finally made his debut on November 18, 2012 under Rémi Garde in the French first class, when he was from the 89th minute for the Senegalese Bafétimbi Gomis came onto the lawn. After another brief assignment a week later, he made another brief assignment as a substitute for the reigning cup winner last year in December 2012 and March 2013. While he reached third place with the team in Ligue 1 in the final classification of the 2012/13 season, he ranked fifth with the CFA team in Group B. In the 2013/14 season, the Cameroonian found back to his offensive strength and scored a total of eight goals in 19 fourth division games, making him the top goalscorer of his team and finishing fourth with the team at the end of the season. From the beginning of March 2014 he was again in the professional squad of OL, where he sat in seven league games on the bench until the beginning of May 2014 and only came three times to short appearances lasting a few minutes. He finished the 2013/14 season with the team in 5th place, but was also used for the professionals during the 2013/14 UEFA Europa League . In eight games on the bench, he made short appearances once against Vitória Guimarães and twice against Juventus Turin . While the team in the Coupe de France 2013/14 was eliminated in the round of 16 against RC Lens from the current tournament, he made it with the team in the Coupe de la Ligue 2013/14 to the final, where it was a narrow 1: 2 Defeat against Paris SG came.

Strong substitute player from 2014/15

In 2014/15, the native Cameroonian made his final breakthrough in professional football, with the third qualifying round for the 2014/15 Europa League playing against the Czech club Mladá Boleslav . While he was still unused on the bench in the 4-1 first leg win, he was in action in the second leg from the 72nd minute and scored the goal for the 2-1 final score shortly before the end of the game after Malbranque submission. After the departure of Garde in the summer, under the new coach Hubert Fournier , he quickly became a regular player within the league and was not infrequently used as a center forward, even if not for the entire duration of the game. After he was eliminated with the team in the last qualifying round for EL 2014/15 , but there was still the template for the 1-0 winning goal in the second leg, he had a record of 30 appearances in Ligue 1 2014/15 in which he scored seven goals and prepared another eight for his teammates, making him one of the best assistants in the entire league this season. While the successes in the cup (out in the 2nd round) and in the league cup (eliminated in the second round) failed to materialize, the team around the committed offensive talent fought for second place in the final standings, eight points behind Paris SG. He also played in the reserve team when he played through the full 90 minutes in a 0-0 home draw against US Marignane on December 13, 2014 . With the team, he finished third behind the traditional runner-up Grenoble Foot and the champions AS Béziers . When his team was eliminated in the French Supercup against Paris SG, N'Jie was still a member of the club, but was no longer in the squad.

Move to England

Mainly due to his performances in the previous season and the equally good performances in the Cameroonian national team , to which the offensive player was first called up by Volker Finke in August 2014 , he moved to England in summer 2015. There N'Jie signed a five-year contract with the Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur on his 22nd birthday for a rumored transfer fee of £ 10 million plus £ two million variable components . Before that, he is said to have been in conversation with Arsenal for a long time , which the games denied. He made his competitive debut for the club only a month after signing, when he came onto the pitch from the 68th minute for Andros Townsend in the 3-1 first leg win over FK Qarabağ Ağdam in the group stage of the 2015/16 Europa League . Three days later he made his league debut under Mauricio Pochettino , where he was substituted on in the 1-0 home win over Crystal Palace in the 79th minute for Son Heung-min . Further missions followed in the following days, including a 4-1 home win over the then leaders Manchester City , in which the Cameroonian also provided an assist to Erik Lamela's 4-1 winning goal . In France, as a center forward, Clinton N'Jie is almost exclusively used as a left winger under Pochettino in England .

Return to France

On August 31, 2016, the French first division club Olympique Marseille announced that they had signed N'Jie on loan. This season N'Jie, although not a regular player, was able to convince those responsible in Marseille to sign him for the long term. The fast offensive all-rounder moved to the club in southern France in the summer of 2017 for a fee of 7 million euros.

National team career

Due to his quick breakthrough in Ligue 1 from the beginning of the 2014/15 season, N'Jie, who had previously briefly played for the U-20 national team of his home country, was taken over by the Cameroonian national coach Volker Finke in August 2014 during qualifying for the 2015 African Championship drafted into the senior national team of Cameroon. In this, he finally made his debut for the indomitable Lions on September 6, 2014 in a 2-0 win over the Democratic Republic of the Congo , when he played alongside Vincent Aboubakar in the storm and shortly before the final whistle in the first half to 1-0 lead, while Aboubakar made it 2-0 towards the end of the second half. Four days later, N'Jie once again showed his class when he scored twice in the opposing goal in a 4-1 win over Ivory Coast . After the fast attacking player was used in all six qualifying games and the team survived the qualifying phase without defeat, N'Jie was also part of the 24-man Cameroonian squad during the subsequent African Cup in Equatorial Guinea . Here, however, he only came to a brief assignment in the last game in his home country against the Ivory Coast, when he replaced his former league rival Benjamin Moukandjo from minute 67 . After various appearances in friendly international matches, in which he was often successful as a goalscorer, the striker was also involved in a qualifying match for the 2017 African Cup . To date (as of October 18, 2015), the 22-year-old has completed twelve international matches in which he scored six goals.

successes

with Olympique Lyon B
  • CFA Group B Champion: 2011/12
with Olympique Lyon

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pourquoi Lyon a eu le coup de foudre pour N'Jie (French), accessed on October 18, 2015
  2. ↑ Clinton N'Jie on the official website of Olympique Lyon (French), accessed on October 18, 2015
  3. ↑ LYON OLYMPIQUE II - MULHOUSE FC (2: 0) (English), accessed on October 18, 2015
  4. ↑ OLYMPIQUE LYONNAIS - REIMS (3: 0) (English), accessed on October 18, 2015
  5. ^ Lyon: Njie Clinton passe pro (French), accessed October 18, 2015
  6. ^ Lyon: Njie signe à Tottenham (officiel) (French), accessed on October 18, 2015
  7. ↑ Tottenham complete £ 12m signing of Clinton N'Jie on forward's 22nd birthday - to the relief of Harry Kane , accessed October 18, 2015
  8. ↑ Tottenham new boy Clinton N'Jie claims he was never going to sign for Arsenal , accessed October 18, 2015
  9. ↑ Clinton Njie est Olympia. August 31, 2016, accessed September 1, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME N'Jie, Clinton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES N'Jie, Clinton Mua (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cameroonian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Buea , Cameroon