John Mary

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John Mary
Personnel
Surname John Mary Honi Uzuegbunam
birthday March 9, 1993
place of birth Nnobi , Anambra ,  Nigeria
size 185 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
2000-2009 AS Fortuna Yaoundé
2009–201? Union Douala
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2009–2012 Union Douala 61 (23)
2012 Buriram United 6 0(1)
2012-2013 →  FC Bangkok Christian College  (loan) 7 0(6)
2013-2014 Krabi FC 26 (10)
2014 →  PT Prachuap FC  (loan) at least 5 0(8)
2015-2016 FK Vojvodina 1 0(0)
2016-2018 NK Rudar Velenje 46 (26)
2018-2019 Meizhou Hakka 43 (36)
2019– FC Shenzhen 0 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
~ 2011 ~ Cameroon U-20 at least 8 0(5)
1 Only league games are given.
As of July 3, 2019

John Mary Honi Uzuegbunam or just John Mary ; in Serbia and Slovenia often also written John Mery (born March 9, 1993 in Nnobi , Anambra , Nigeria ) is a Cameroonian football player in the position of a striker . Since July 2, 2019, he has been under contract with the Chinese first division club FC Shenzhen .

Club career

Career start in Cameroon

John Mary was born on March 9, 1993 in the village of Nnobi in the Local Government Area Idemili-Süd in the Nigerian state of Anambra, but grew up as the oldest of five children in the eastern neighboring country of Cameroon. There he appeared in the youth division of the capital club AS Fortuna Yaoundé from 2000 to 2009 and then moved to the largest city in Cameroon for the Union Douala club located there . Here he was initially used alternately in the junior division and in the men's team, although he made his debut in the Cameroonian first class for the latter at the age of 16 . While the Union Douala 2008/09 season still on the second place and four points behind Tiko United had been completed and the resulting participation in the CAF Confederation Cup 2009 was eliminated only in the second round, the team fell in the subsequent 2009/10 season on the seventh place in the table back.

In 2010/11 the club, which was founded in 1958, was again one of the leading clubs in the country and ended the season in third place in the table, which once again qualified for an international starting position. At the CAF Confederation Cup 2012, John Mary and his team were already defeated in the preliminary round with an overall result of 1: 2 against FC Kallon from Sierra Leone . The following season 2011/12 was extremely successful for the young offensive player and his team , in which the first championship title in 22 years was won. Union Douala had two points ahead of their closest rival and multiple champions in recent years, the Coton Sport Football Club de Garoua . For the goal-scoring attacking player (23 goals in 61 championship games), a move abroad opened up after the championship title.

Career stations in Thailand

In 2012 he joined the Thai first division club and reigning champions Buriram United and played six championship games for them in the 2012 game year , in which he scored twice. Even if Buriram United was denied the championship title this year - in fourth place in the final standings they were 30 points behind the champions Muangthong United - the club was able to assert itself as the winner in the Thai FA Cup in 2012 and in the Thai League Cup in 2012 . After winning the cup, Buriram United secured a place in the qualifying round for the 2013 AFC Champions League . In the same year he was awarded to the then Thai third division club FC Bangkok Christian College and belonged to this for some time in 2013. In total, he scored six goals in seven games for them and barely managed to stay up with the team in 2012.

In 2013 he received a contract with the Thai second division club Krabi FC and was one of seven permitted foreign players in the squad alongside Valci Júnior , Jean-Michel Gnonka , Anayo Cosmas , Bojan Mamić , Ju Myeong-Gyu and Soukaphone Vongchiengkham . In the final table, which is sometimes quite tight, John Mary and his team took ninth place in the table and, with ten goals from 26 championship games, was the team's most dangerous player and thus the team's top scorer. For the 2014 game year he was also supposed to remain part of the team, but was awarded to third division club PT Prachuap FC early in the year . At the club from the province of Prachuap Khiri Khan in the southern part of central Thailand , he also acted as extremely dangerous. For the team that won the championship in the Regional League Division 2 Southern Region after the runner-up in 2013 in the Regional League Central-West Division this year , he contributed at least eight goals in five championship games. Nothing more can be said about the exact number of missions and hits. After good offensive performances in Thailand, John Mary made the leap to Europe in 2015 and was brought into contact with FK Vojvodina by his advisor there, Ognjen Karisik, who is still his advisor a few years later .

Via Serbia to Slovenia

After successful trial training, he was signed by the Serbian first division team during the winter break of the 2014/15 season . Soon after the commitment, John Mary, who had signed a contract with a term of two and a half years, fell out due to injury until the end of the year and did not find his way back into the team until the end of 2015. The then 22-year-old made his competitive debut for the traditional club from Novi Sad on October 28, 2015 in the first round match in the 2015/16 Serbian Football Cup . In the narrow progress against FK Kolubara on penalties , he came on in the 79th minute for Aleksandar Stanisavljević . As before, he was hardly considered by the club, which is notorious for its many coach changes in recent years. After his league debut on November 28, 2015, when he was on the pitch in the 3-0 home win over FK Mladost Lučani from the 78th minute, he did not find his way back into the team and did not even sit unused on the bench. Without any chance of a breakthrough, the Nigerian-born Cameroonian was handed over to the Slovenian first division club NK Rudar Velenje one year before the end of the contract term and his contract with the Serbs was terminated by mutual agreement.

Top scorer in Slovenia’s first division and China’s second division

At the end of July 2016 he was presented with a two-year contract as a new obligation for the Slovenes, but had already been a training player for Rudar Velenje for a long time before that. Subsequently, the center forward hit the mark and scored both goals in his debut game, the third championship round, in a 2-0 home win over FC Koper . After three goalless games for him personally, he scored twice again on his fifth appearance of the season, a 3-0 away win over NK Aluminij . When he was sent off in the sixth minute of the game with the red card in the round of 16 against NK Dekani in the Slovenian Football Cup 2015/16 after an assault with the red card , he was no longer considered by coach Slobodan Krčmarević for the following three league games . After he had not played a competitive game for a month, John Mary was regularly used again from the end of September 2016, but only rarely scored a goal in the following two months (only one goal in the league). It was not until the end of November or beginning of December 2016 that his accuracy increased significantly. At this point he was eliminated from the competition with his team after a total of four cup appearances (one hit). In the league he advanced even after the winter break under the new coach Vanja Radinović and his successor Ramiz Smajlovic , who took over on an interim basis shortly before the end of the season, to one of the most dangerous offensive players. When Rudar Velenje was in seventh place in the table with 41 points after 36 league games at the end of the season , the Cameroonian had 17 league goals and one assist. With one goal ahead of his teammate Dominik Glavina , with whom he formed the most dangerous attacking duo in the league, Mary was the top scorer of the Slovenian first class.

After a cautious start to the 2017/18 season (after nine rounds he had only scored one goal), the Cameroonian showed similar offensive performances from the end of September 2017 as in the previous season and scored more. Due to these services, his contract, which expired in summer 2018, was prematurely extended for another year until summer 2019 at the beginning of November 2017. Four championship games and two goals later, the club announced the departure of its goal guarantor to China in mid-January 2018 . At that time, with nine goals in the 2017/18 season, he was the clear leader of the team's internal goalscorer list and in third place in the league . In the second-highest Chinese soccer league , he signed a two-year contract with Meizhou Hakka and was next to Serges Déblé , Izunna Uzochukwu and Tsui Wang Kit one of four permitted foreign players in the squad. Coach Rusmir Cviko and his successor Li Weijun used him as a regular from the start, with John Mary scoring his first goal in his first appearance of the season, a 1: 2 away defeat against Shijiazhuang Ever Bright FC on March 10, 2018. Subsequently, he regularly scored goals and had scored 24 goals after 28 of 30 possible league appearances, all of which were on the pitch for over 90 minutes. He was in first place in the team's internal goalscorer list with 19 goals ahead of Serges Déblé and also had a goal ahead of the closest rival Harold Preciado from Shenzhen FC in the league-wide goalscorer list . Thus, John Mary was top scorer on two different continents for two consecutive years. With his team he reached the ninth place in the table in the partly quite tight final ranking of the China League One 2018 and is also available for the team in the following game year 2019 .

Change to the Chinese Super League

In this he started again under coach Zheng Xiaotian as a regular on the offensive and had scored eleven twelve goals after appearances in the first 15 league games. After he had been courted by Chinese first division clubs for a while, John Mary's move to Shenzhen FC in the Chinese Super League was announced on July 2, 2019 . Three days earlier he had played his last league game for Meizhou Makka and scored a hat trick in the 7-1 away win over Shanghai Shenxin .

National team career

Around 2011 John Mary was called up for the Cameroonian U-20 national team and subsequently came to regular missions for them. The website transfermarkt.de lists at least eight U-20 international matches and five goals for him.

successes

Club successes

With Buriram United

Individual successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b DŽON MERI PREŠAO U RUDAR IZ VELENJA (Serbian), accessed on November 2, 2018
  2. ↑ JOHN MARY JE NOVI ČLAN NK RUDAR VELENJE (Slovenian), accessed on November 2, 2018
  3. ↑ JOHN MARY ZA ZMAGO PRED DOMAČIM OBČINSTVOM (Slovenian), accessed on November 2, 2018
  4. ↑ V KIDRIČEVEM S KAR 3: 0 ODPRAVILI ALUMINIJ (Slovenian), accessed on November 2, 2018
  5. ↑ Cup Slovenije, 2. krog: Jadran Dekani - Rudar Velenje (Slovenian), accessed on November 2, 2018
  6. ↑ JOHN MARY OSTAJA ZVEST RUDARJU! (Slovenian), accessed November 2, 2018
  7. ↑ JOHN MARY NAJUČINKOVITEJŠI KNAP JESENI (Slovenian), accessed on November 2, 2018
  8. ↑ a b John Mary zdaj pa res prestopil na Kitajsko (Slovenian), accessed on November 2, 2018
  9. ↑ 深圳 官 宣宣 布约翰马里 加盟 中 甲 大 杀 器 将 战 中超 (Chinese), accessed July 3, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Mary, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mary Honi Uzuegbunam, John (full name); Mery (name in Serbia and Slovenia)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cameroonian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Nnobi , Anambra , Nigeria