Gaëtan Bong

Gaëtan Bong
Gaëtan Bong (2018)
Personnel
Surname	Gaëtan Bong Songo
birthday	April 25, 1988
place of birth	Sakbayémé ,  Cameroon
size	183 cm
position	Left full-back
Juniors
Years	station
2002-2004	FC Metz
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2004-2008	FC Metz B	51 (0)
2005-2009	FC Metz	16 (0)
2008-2009	→  FC Tours  (loan)	34 (0)
2009-2013	Valenciennes FC	115 (4)
2013-2015	Olympiacos Piraeus	22 (0)
2015	Wigan Athletic	14 (0)
2015-2020	Brighton & Hove Albion	91 (0)
2020–	Nottingham Forest	1 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2009-2010	France U21	1 (0)
2010–	Cameroon	17 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of April 23, 2020 2 As of June 29, 2019

Gaëtan Bong Songo (born April 25, 1988 in Sakbayémé , Cameroon ) is a Cameroonian- French football player on the position of a defender . He plays for Nottingham Forest .

Career

Born in Sakbayémé in the province of Littoral in the west of Cameroon, Bong came to France as a child, where he first trained under Yannick Stopyra in the Center de Formation , a project of the French Football Association , and was accepted into the youth department of FC Metz in 2002. After a little more than two years in the offspring, the trained defender started playing for the B-team of the club with play in the fourth-rate Championnat de France Amateur (CFA) and made 13 championship appearances in his first season . Due to his good performance in the B-Team, Bong was used for the first time for the professional team in France's top football league from the 2005/06 season . He made his professional debut on December 10, 2005 in the 1-1 away draw against FC Sochaux-Montbéliard , when he was on the pitch for the entire game and was warned with a yellow card in the 25th minute . In total, the then 17-year-old made three professional league appearances this season and was also involved in 18 league games for the B-team.

With the professionals, he rose at the end of the season together with AC Ajaccio and Racing Strasbourg in the last place in the table in Ligue 2 , France's second division. In the 2006/07 season , Bong was only used sporadically by both the professionals and the amateurs, and at the end of the season it had two Ligue 2 appearances and eight appearances in the fourth-class CFA. After a good season, FC Metz managed to return to Ligue 1 as champions of the second highest French soccer league and, in tow, took SM Caen and Racing Strasbourg, which had also been relegated in the previous season, to the top class. In the 2007/08 season , the young Cameroonian-French defender increased his stakes, where he was used in eleven championship games and also played twelve games for the B-team. After he was used in a Coupe de France match in each of the two pre-seasons and was eliminated with the team very early in the competition, he performed in the Coupe de la Ligue in 2007/08 .

Due to a poor season's performance, the team retired with only 24 points scored from 38 games at the end of the season from Ligue 1 and had to start again in France's second division. There Bong was in the professional squad of Metz for a short time, but was awarded to Tours FC at the beginning of the season within the league . At the club from the French region of Center-Val de Loire , the native Cameroonian became a regular player in the team's defensive line and was next to Alexandre Dujeux and Tenema N'Diaye the most frequently cautioned player on the team with six yellow cards.

In the summer break before the 2009/10 season , the 1.83 m tall left full-back signed a four-year contract with Ligue 1 club Valenciennes in late July 2009 after long negotiations . After initially playing as a substitute player, he quickly found his way into the starting line-up for the northern French. By the end of the season on May 15, 2010, Bong was used in 29 championship games, in which he scored two goals; with the team he landed in the final table on the passable tenth place. The then 21-year-old scored his first professional goal in the course of his career, which had lasted for several years, on January 20, 2010 in a 2-0 away win over the later relegated US Boulogne , when he after submission by Foued Kadir in minute 49: Scored 0 opener for his team.

In the summer of 2013, Bong moved to the Greek record champions Olympiacos Piraeus . He could not assert himself in Greece; he had made 22 league appearances before moving to English second division side Wigan Athletic in the winter of 2014 .

Half a year later, Bong moved to Brighton & Hove Albion and rose to the Premier League with the team in 2017 .

National team career

In 2009, Bong was nominated for the first time in the French U-21 squad by the head coach of the French U-21 national team , Erick Mombaerts , and was appointed to a game against Poland's U-21 national team in early August 2009 . In the 2-2 draw against Poland, he finally came on the pitch in 59 minutes for Garry Bocaly and made his national team debut .

After he was observed in a league game against Lille by Cameroon coach Paul Le Guen in April 2010 , Bong publicly expressed his willingness to change associations. In May 2010, Le Guen initially nominated him to Cameroon's provisional 30-player squad for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, and finally also belonged to the final 23-man squad , next to Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting as the only player without a previous international appearance and at the time of nomination without FIFA approval for a change of association. Bong is one of five players (six if you include Vincent Aboubakar , who was called to the squad while he was in Cameroon) of Valenciennes FC, who will take part in the 2010 World Cup; In 1990 his uncle Jean-Claude Pagal was part of the national team in Cameroon's quarter-finals.

After the clearance, the 22-year-old left winger made his international debut for Cameroon on June 1, 2010, when he played on the pitch for long-time international Jean Makoun in a 78-minute defeat by Portugal in the 78th minute .

successes

• 1 × Ligue 2 champions : 2006/07 (with FC Metz)
• Greek champion : 2013/14 with Olympiacos Piraeus

Web links

• Gaëtan Bong in the database of weltfussball.de
• Gaëtan Bong in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Player profile on the homepage of L'Équipe (French)
• Player profile on the homepage of FC Metz ( Memento of July 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.ligue1.com/joueur/bong-gaetan
2. ↑ ^{a b} G. Bong: "Franchir des paliers avec VA" ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2009 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. (French), accessed June 18, 2010  
3. ↑ FC SOCHAUX-MONTBÉLIARD - FC METZ (1: 1)  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French), accessed June 18, 2010  
4. ↑ FC Metz: l'accession en ligue 1 est acquise! (French), accessed June 18, 2010
5. ↑ le FC Metz est champion de France de Ligue 2 ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2016 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. (French), accessed June 18, 2010 
6. ↑ Le bon goût de la victoire! (French), accessed June 18, 2010
7. ↑ FRANCE - POLOGNE ESPOIRS (game on August 12, 2009) (French; PDF; 1.3 MB), accessed on June 18, 2010
8. ↑ Les Bleuets concèdent le nul (2-2) (French), accessed on June 18, 2010
9. ↑ Bong prêt à rejoindre le Cameroun ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2010 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. (French), accessed June 18, 2010  
10. ↑ Le Cameroun à la mode ch'tis (French), accessed June 18, 2010
11. ↑ World Cup 2010: Cameroon finalize World Cup squad (English), accessed on June 18, 2010
12. ↑ En route vers l'Afrique du Sud avec ... G. Bong (French), accessed on June 18, 2010
13. ↑ Portugal 3-1 Cameroon: Meireles Brace Powers Seleccao Past Ten-Man Indomitable Lions , accessed June 18, 2010