Samuel Edimo

Samuel Edimo
Samuel Edimo (1962)
Personnel
Surname	Samuel Edimo N'Ganga
birthday	22 / 26. December 1934
place of birth	Douala ,  Cameroon
date of death	November 30, 1997
size	173 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1957-1958	HSC Montpellier	42 (11)
1958–1962	FC Sochaux	142 (49)
1962-1965	Toulouse FC	92 (34)
1965-1966	Red Star Paris	7 0(1)
1966-1967	USL Dunkerque	15 0(4)
1 Only league games are given.

Samuel Edimo (born December 22 or 26, 1934 in Douala ; † November 30, 1997 ), called "N'Ganga" , was a Cameroonian football player .

Career

Edimo grew up in the French colony of Cameroun , which today forms part of the independent state of Cameroon, and later went to metropolitan France, where he was accepted into the squad of the second division SO Montpellier in 1957 . The 173 centimeter tall striker , who was also called up as a winger, became a regular player in the south of France, did not miss a single game during the 1957/58 season and proved a talent for scoring with eleven goals. With his first year in professional football , he had aroused the interest of the first division club FC Sochaux , who signed him in 1958. In the top French league, the player, usually called N'Ganga, built on his previous achievements and with 19 goals scored in 1958/59 not only made the leap into the group of top performers of the team, but also reached sixth place in the league-wide scorer list. In addition, the team managed to move into the national cup final in 1959, which was lost in the replay against Le Havre AC .

Times followed when neither the club nor Edimo personally could maintain the level of performance; the striker did not get past eleven goals in the 1959/60 season and could not avert the relegation of his club. He did not find his qualities in scoring goals again in the second division, although the club succeeded in direct recovery in 1961. 1962 followed the renewed relegation, which was followed by Edimo's move to FC Toulouse . In Toulouse he was able to increase his goal count to 14 and 15 hits in the two following years and was part of a team that found itself in the upper table regions of the first division. However, he did not keep up with the competition and was increasingly displaced from the first team from the 1964/65 season, which was accompanied by a sharp decline in his goal rate.

On December 1, 1965, he turned his back on Toulouse and signed with league rivals Red Star Paris . At the relegation-threatened capital club, which had to go into the second division at the end of the 1965/66 season, he was also intended for no more than sporadic missions. In view of this, he went to the second division USL Dunkerque in 1966 , where he no longer made the breakthrough. In 1967, the then 32-year-old ended his professional career after 210 first division games with 76 goals and 88 second division games with 23 goals. Edimo, who was never allowed to appear for the Cameroonian national team, later did not take on any other role in professional football.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Samuel Edimo - Fiche de stats du joueur de football , pari-et-gagne.com
2. ↑ Samuel Edimo N'Ganga complete profile ( Memento from October 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), soccerdatabase.eu
3. ↑ Football: Samuel Edimo N'Ganga , footballdatabase.eu