Japhet N'Doram

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Japhet N'Doram
Personnel
birthday February 27, 1966
place of birth N'Djamena ,  Chad
size 182 cm
position Defense / midfield / storm
Juniors
Years station
until 1979 Tourbillon FC N'Djamena
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1979-1988 Tourbillon FC N'Djamena
1988-1989 Tonnerre Yaoundé (33)
1990-1992 FC Nantes B 8 0(4)
1990-1997 FC Nantes 192 (72)
1997-1998 AS Monaco 13 0(1)
1998-1999 AS Monaco B 9 0(3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1989-1998 Chad 36 (13)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2007 FC Nantes
1 Only league games are given.

Japhet N'Doram (born February 27, 1966 in N'Djamena ) is a former Chadian football player and current coach .

The universally offensive as well as defensive all-rounder is considered the best Chadian football player of all time. In a 1998 election by the IFFHS to determine the African Player of the Century, he finished 13th with 30 votes.

During his time at FC Nantes he won the French championship title once , made it to the final of the French Cup and reached the semi-finals of the Champions League .

Club career

N'Doram began his career in the youth of his home club Tourbillon FC N'Djamena, from whose football field he lived only a few 100 meters away. In 1979 he made his debut in the club's senior team at the age of 14, before flinging the unrest in N'Djamena to his sister in the Chad province in 1980 . In 1986 he returned to his hometown and played again for his hometown club. After a championship title and two cup victories, he moved to the top African club Tonnerre Yaoundé in Cameroon at the end of 1988 through the mediation of the former Chadian international Abdoulaye Mamat .

A cross-border change was a specialty in Africa at the time, which created a great deal of expectation. In addition, at Tonnerre he followed in the great footsteps of George Weah , who had migrated to AS Monaco and whom he was supposed to replace. N'Doram knew how to convince in a row, celebrated a cup victory and scored a total of 33 league goals before breaking with the club in late 1989. Shortly before the semi-final match against Raja Casablanca in the Coupe des clubs champions africains , he asked not to appear, but instead to attend the funeral of his recently deceased older brother. When the club denied this request, he left the club on his own initiative and returned to Chad. Tonnerre then lost the semi-finals with an overall result of 2: 4. N'Doram never returned to Yaoundé .

Meanwhile without a club, he completed a training camp in France with the Chadian national football team in the spring of 1990 , where he was discovered by regional scouts from FC Nantes . Four months later, in April 1990, he was then signed by Nantes.

For the time being, however, he had no chance of playing time at Nantes, as the foreigner regulation at the time allowed only two legionaries and with Dragan Jakovljević and the Argentine ex-world champion Jorge Burruchaga already two foreigners were under contract with the club. After four games with three goals for the B-team from Nantes, the then long-term injured Burruchaga agreed to an amateur contract, whereby N'Doram was promoted to professional. As a result, he moved under coach Miroslav Blažević , as a rather offensive player, between positions in central defense and defensive midfield without finding a traditional place in the system. It was only under coach Jean-Claude Suaudeau that he was given an important role in the central midfield of the team, where he became a synonym for the technically sophisticated game of the "Canaris" in the mid-1990s. In the 1994/95 championship season, at the age of 28, he was the leading player in a team that was largely studded with talents such as Patrice Loko , Reynald Pedros , Nicolas Ouédec , Claude Makélélé and Christian Karembeu . As an interface between offensive and defensive, he acted at the same time as a catalyst and offensive driver of the team, who, however, also looked for the goal himself.

The championship title was followed by another strong season which was crowned by reaching the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League before the club was forced to sell its best players one after the other due to financial problems. N'Doram, after the departure of Loko to Paris Saint-Germain , forcibly converted into a center forward, remained and convinced in the following two seasons with a total of 36 league goals also in the position on the front line. In 1997 he also left the club and switched to the reigning champions AS Monaco , where he became the top earner at the time.

Four months after his move, he was seriously injured on November 9, 1997 in a league game against Nantes and was out for the rest of the season. In 1998/99 he tried a comeback, played nine more games with three goals for the B-team of the "Monegassen" before he had to end his career for good due to chronic complaints.

After the active career

After his sudden end to his career, he worked as a scout for AS Monaco from 1998 to 2005 before returning to FC Nantes in the same position. In February 2007 he rose briefly to the head coach of Nantes together with Michel Der Zakarian , but resigned after the club's first relegation since 1963 on June 30, 2007, whereupon Der Zakarian became sole responsible.

successes

In the club

As a player

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Japhet N'Doram, le buteur sensible (French) footnostalgie.free.fr, accessed on October 19, 2010
  2. ↑ Africa's Player of the Century iffhs.de, accessed on October 19, 2010
  3. ↑ Makelele is aiming great things at de.fifa.com, accessed on October 19, 2010
  4. ↑ Les Clubs des Légends: Japhet N'Doram (French) ( Memento of the original of April 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. fcn-museum.com, accessed October 19, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fcn-museum.com
  5. ↑ Japhet N'Doram, le sorcier tchadien (French) afrik.com, accessed on October 19, 2010
  6. ↑ Another change of coach in Nantes volksblatt.li, accessed on October 19, 2010
  7. ↑ Foreign Player of the Year (English) rsssf.com, accessed on October 19, 2010
personal data
SURNAME N'Doram, Japhet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chadian football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH N'Djamena , Chad