Joseph-Désiré job

Joseph-Désiré job
Personnel
birthday	1st December 1977
place of birth	Vénissieux ,  France
size	178 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	AS Minguettes Vénissieux
	Olympique Lyon
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1997-1999	Olympique Lyon	40 (11)
1999-2000	RC Lens	23 0(4)
2000-2006	Middlesbrough FC	93 (17)
2002	→  FC Metz  (loan)	13 0(2)
2005-2006	→  Al-Ittihad  (loan)	25 0(9)
2006-2007	CS Sedan	28 0(9)
2007-2008	OGC Nice	9 0(0)
2008-2009	Al-Kharitiyath SC	23 0(7)
2009-2010	Diyarbakırspor	8 0(0)
2010-2011	Lierse SK	10 0(3)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1997-2009	Cameroon	52 0(8)
1 Only league games are given.

Joseph-Désiré Job (born December 1, 1977 in Vénissieux , Arrondissement Lyon , France ) is a former Cameroonian football player . The striker has participated in two World Cup finals and has played for professional clubs in France, England, Qatar and Saudi Arabia over the course of his career.

Career

Childhood and Adolescence, 1977–1997

Job is the cousin of the two German professional soccer players Marvin Matip and Joel Matip . He was born as the youngest of five brothers on December 1, 1977 in Vénissieux, a suburb of Lyon, to a Cameroonian. He lived with his family in a small apartment in a poor part of town. At the age of five, Job was already enthusiastic about football and had the goal of becoming a professional footballer. He played for local club AS Minguettes Vénissieux and was discovered by scouts from Olympique Lyon around the age of ten . After a trial session, the talent was accepted into the club's youth department.

First professional years in France, 1997-2000

He made his competitive debut for the first team in Lyon in June 1997 in the UI Cup together with Frédéric Kanouté . In the game against the Polish club Odra Wodzisław , he scored three goals in a 5-2 win. In Division 1 , he came to 22 missions in his first season, eleven of them from the start, and scored five goals. As early as November 1997, he was appointed to the national team of Cameroon for the first time and was used for the first time in the friendly against England at Wembley Stadium (final score 0: 2). Job also had an offer from the French Football Association to run the U21 national team, but justified his decision in favor of his mother's home country as follows: “ [...] my heart wasn't with France, it was with Cameroon. "

In January 1998 he was appointed to Cameroon's squad for the 1998 Africa Cup in Burkina Faso. Job was used in all four games, in the first two preliminary round games as a substitute, in the last group game and in the quarter-finals, in which the Democratic Republic of the Congo lost 1-0, right from the start. He scored his only tournament goal in a 2-1 win over Algeria. Half a year later he played with Cameroon at the 1998 World Cup in France. He and his team showed a poor performance, at the end of which with two points the last place in the group stage was behind Italy, Chile and Austria.

After another season at Lyon, in which he mostly served as a substitute and was dissatisfied with his situation, Job moved in 1999 to league rivals RC Lens . At Lens he was mainly part of the permanent staff before he traveled to Ghana and Nigeria for the Africa Cup of Nations in January 2000 . The tournament there was successful for the now 22-year-old. Although he only made four appearances during the tournament, which was mainly due to the strong competition from Samuel Eto'o and Patrick M'Boma , in the end he won the tournament with a 6: 5 on penalties against Nigeria.

When he returned to Lens, Job had lost his place in the storm. However, he had already attracted attention in the UEFA Cup . In the second round of the second leg against 1. FC Kaiserslautern , he scored three goals and thus played a major role in progressing, after losing the home game with 1: 2. Only in the semi-finals did they fail at the English club Arsenal .

Difficulties starting at Middlesbrough FC, 2000–2002

These three goals against Kaiserslautern are said to have made the English club FC Middlesbrough aware of the striker. After a one-week trial training session during the pre-season phase, he was finally signed by Bryan Robson for a transfer fee of three million pounds .

His start at the new club went as planned. He stormed alongside Alen Bokšić and scored on the first day of the 2000/01 season against Coventry City . In the period that followed, however, his league appearances became increasingly rare. After the commitment of Terry Venables as the new Kotrainer in December 2000, he played no role in the first team. The team was in a relegation battle and Job was only used in the reserve team. Only on the last day of the season, when relegation was already achieved, he came back to the first division after more than five months and scored a goal.

The following season the managerial post was taken over by Steve McClaren . Job actually wanted to leave the club, but McClaren convinced him to stay. Job was in the first three games of the 2001/02 season on the starting line-up, but all three games were lost and Middlesbrough was second from bottom of the table without having scored a single goal. McClaren then switched the team to some positions and Job lost his regular place. When the team scored seven points without him between the fifth and seventh match day, Job played no role again. In January 2000 he was loaned to FC Metz in France in order to gain match practice, and he himself also wanted to maintain the chance of participating in the 2002 World Cup .

Job was also unlucky at Metz. Albert Cartier , the coach who brought him to Metz, was sacked shortly after the loan deal during the winter break and his successor, Gilbert Gress , did not rely on the striker. Job was used a total of 13 times in the second half of the season, but mostly only as a substitute shortly before the end of the game. At the end of the season, Metz was relegated to Ligue 2 . Despite the unhappy season for Job, he was appointed to the 23-strong Cameroon squad for the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan. The course of the world championship also continued seamlessly from previous events. His team was eliminated in the preliminary round and Job was only substituted on in the last group game against eventual runner-up Germany eleven minutes before the end.

Three more years in the Premier League, 2002–2005

After the World Cup, Job tried to find a new club, but did not succeed. So he returned to Middlesbrough for the pre-season, which had strengthened among other things with his Cameroonian compatriot Geremi Njitap , who was loaned for one season by Real Madrid . At the beginning of the season he found himself in the starting line-up again, to his own surprise. He attributed this positive development for him to two incidents: On the one hand, he was used by Coach McClaren in the striker, unlike in the previous two seasons, in which he mostly had to move to the left or right attacking side and on the other hand, the presence from Geremi, who was extremely important to him.

Job came to regular appearances for the first time this season and scored four goals in 28 league appearances, including the goal of the 3-1 final score in the home win over eventual champions Manchester United. A few weeks before that hit, on November 30, 2002, he and West Brom defender Darren Moore collided with their heads. Job was then passed out for four and a half minutes, barely avoiding permanent brain damage.

At the end of the season, Job was appointed to the Cameroon squad for the 2003 Confederations Cup . In contrast to the Confederations Cup 2001 , in which Job also participated and recorded two short appearances, Cameroon survived the preliminary round this time. A tragic incident occurred in the semi-final match against Colombia when his teammate and friend Marc-Vivien Foé collapsed on the field and died a short time later in hospital. Cameroon finished the tournament in second place after losing 1-0 in overtime to hosts France in the final, which Job described as a mistake. Job was used during the tournament in the three preliminary round games and was without a goal.

In the subsequent 2003/04 season, Job was part of the permanent staff, despite the departure of Geremi, who moved to Chelsea for six million pounds . At the end of September 2003 he seriously injured his knee during training and was out for three months. Due to the injury, Job missed participation in the 2004 Africa Cup . After his recovery in early January, he immediately returned to the first team and, after two victories over Arsenal, moved into the League Cup final with the club . In the final they faced the Bolton Wanderers , who were defeated 2-1 after two early goals from Job (2nd) and Boudewijn Zenden (7th). This success was the first major title win in the history of Middlesbrough FC.

His contract, which expired at the end of the season, was extended by two years in July 2004. In the 2004/05 UEFA Cup , Middlesbrough's first international appearance, Job made six appearances and reached the round of 16 with the club. In the league, meanwhile, they finished seventh, which means they qualified again for the UEFA Cup . Job came to 23 appearances this season and was only a substitute on several occasions after Mark Viduka and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink were signed at the beginning of the season . The end of the season for Job came in early April 2005 when he sustained another protracted knee injury. With the signing of Yakubu Aiyegbeni for £ 7.5 million for the 2005/06 season, it was clear to Job that his stakes would be less in the coming season. Job therefore wanted to leave the club. Middlesbrough had already agreed on the transfer fee with West Ham United , but the move failed. Finally, shortly before the transfer was closed, it was awarded to the Saudi Arabian club Al-Ittihad for a year .

One year in Saudi Arabia, 2005–2006

At Al-Ittihad, he played alongside Mohamed Kallon , who previously worked for Inter Milan and AS Monaco . He reached the final of the AFC Champions League 2005 with the club and scored in the final second leg against Al Ain Club to make it 3-1. Shortly after this goal, he grabbed his opponent Fahad Ali in the face and saw the red card. Because of this dismissal, Job was also suspended from Al-Ittihad's first two games at the 2005 FIFA Club World Cup . Job was only allowed to intervene in the game for third place against Deportivo Saprissa and scored a goal in the 2: 3 defeat of his club. His hope of being called up again for the national team of Cameroon through match practice was not fulfilled. After his knee injury in April 2005, he was not included in the other qualifying games for participation in the 2006 World Cup and the 2006 Africa Cup . With the end of the loan business in May 2006, his contract with Middlesbrough FC also ended and Job never returned to the club in northern England.

Career finale, 2006 to date

In the pre-season job spent some time at the Premier League promoted Watford FC , but could not recommend himself for a contract there and ultimately returned to France after six years and signed a contract with the first division promoted CS Sedan Ardennes . Despite his nine goals this season in 25 missions, which made him the club's second top scorer after Grégory Pujol , Sedan rose again from Ligue 1 at the end of the season. Job then left the club and moved to the first division club OGC Nice shortly after the start of the season .

In January 2008, Job took part in the Africa Cup for the third time with the national team of Cameroon. He was in competition with Mohamadou Idrissou for the position of striker at the side of seeded Samuel Eto'o . In the second preliminary round game against Zambia, Job scored twice in the 5-1 win and then played in the 3-0 win against Sudan in the final group game. He only saw the victorious quarter-finals from the bench, but made his third appearance in the semifinals against hosts Ghana and reached the final with his country. In the same job, job was not taken into account, mainly because national coach Otto Pfister only called up one striker, Eto'o, to strengthen the defensive against the offensive Egyptians. This tactic was ultimately unsuccessful and Cameroon lost the final 1-0.

After a disappointing season at Nice, in which he went without a hit in his nine league appearances, he moved to Qatar for Al-Kharitiyath SC in the summer of 2008 . A year later he went to Diyarbakırspor in Turkey , and in 2010 to Lierse SK in Belgium for a year . This was his last stop in his playing career.

successes

• African champions : 2000
• English league cup winner : 2004
• AFC Champions League winner : 2005

Web links

• Job website at icons.com
• Data sheet on lequipe.fr
• Detailed overview of his appearances in Ligue 1 on lfp.fr
• Joseph-Désiré job in the soccerbase.com database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marvin Matip - the Lion of the Ruhr ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2012 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. dated December 14, 2004, accessed December 27, 2013  
2. ↑ icons.com Autobiography on icons.com, 1997-99  ( 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.  
3. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Robson's Whelan deal (July 31, 2004)
4. ↑ "I wanted to get a move to another club during the summer, but nothing came of it." Diary entry on November 14, 2002 "Chelsea can win the league" on icons.com ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2008 on 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. 
5. ↑ "[...] play me in my favorite position. Last season the boss was sometimes playing me on the right, sometimes on the left, everywhere but in my real position, which is in the center. [...] It's helped me so much that I'm now playing in my natural position. "Diary entry on November 14, 2002" Chelsea can win the league "on icons.com ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2008 on 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. 
6. ^ "He's a part of the new start for Middlesbrough and for me. I've known him for a long time now and he's really helped me to get into it here. "Diary entry on October 24, 2002" We look like a top eight side "on icons.com ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2008 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. 
7. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Job's lucky escape (Dec. 14, 2002)
8. ↑ "Marc had been a team-mate and friend of mine for many years so I was very close to him." Diary entry on August 28, 2003 "I'll dedicate my first goal to Marc" on icons.com ( Memento des Originals from March 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ^ "I don't believe that we should have gone on to play the Confederations Cup final" Diary entry on August 28, 2003 "I'll dedicate my first goal to Marc" on icons.com ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2008 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. 
10. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Job moves to Saudi Arabia on loan (Aug. 31, 2005)