Jérôme Onguéné
 Onguéné with Cameroon at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Jérôme Junior Onguéné[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 22 December 1997 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Mbalmayo, Cameroon | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||||||||||||||||
| Club information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Eintracht Frankfurt | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 41 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | AS Illzach Modenheim | ||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2013 | Sochaux | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2017 | Sochaux | 45 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | VfB Stuttgart | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | → Red Bull Salzburg (loan) | 17 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | → FC Liefering (loan) | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–2022 | Red Bull Salzburg | 56 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021 | → Genoa (loan) | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Eintracht Frankfurt | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023 | → Red Bull Salzburg (loan) | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023–2024 | → Servette (loan) | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| National team‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | France U16 | 16 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013 | France U17 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | France U18 | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | France U19 | 16 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | France U20 | 8 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018– | Cameroon | 10 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 25 May 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 22:56, 10 August 2022 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Jérôme Junior Onguéné (born 22 December 1997) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays for Swiss club Servette, on loan from the German club Eintracht Frankfurt, and the Cameroon national team.
Youth teams
[change | change source]Onguene was born in Mbalmayo, Cameroon. At the age of eleven he went to France. He started with AS Illzach Modenheim, then he went on to the youth of FC Sochaux.
Club career
[change | change source]From 2014 to 2017 he played for FC Sochaux B and FC Sochaux. On 31 January 2017, Onguéné moved to VfB Stuttgart.[3] The club loaned him to FC Red Bull Salzburg on 31 August 2017 until the end of the season.[4] In June 2018 Onguéné he went to Salzburg.[5]
In 2021 he was on loan for the Serie A club Genoa.[6] The loan included an option to buy.[6] For the 2021-22 season he came back to Salzburg. 2022-23 he will play for Eintracht Frankfurt.[7] In Winter 2022 he came back to Salzburg on loan from Frankfurt.
International career
[change | change source]With France he won the UEFA European Under-19 Championship in 2016. Since August 2018 Onguéné has played for Cameroon. He debuted on 12 October 2018 in a qualifier for the Africa Cup of Nations versus Malawi.
Honours
[change | change source]International
[change | change source]- France U19
- UEFA European Under-19 Championship: 2016
Cameroon
- Africa Cup of Nations bronze: 2021[8]
- Red Bull Salzburg
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "FIFA U-20 World Cup Republic of Korea 2017: List of players" (PDF). 9 June 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- ↑ "Jérôme Onguéné". Eintracht Frankfurt. Archived from the original on 24 December 2022. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
- ↑ "Jérôme Onguéné sign VfB". VfB Stuttgart. 31 January 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
- ↑ "Jérôme Onguéné released on loan". VfB Stuttgart. 31 August 2017. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
- ↑ "Jérôme Onguéné makes permanent Salzburg move". VfB Stuttgart. 15 June 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Onguene done deal for Genoa". Football Italia. January 15, 2021. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
- ↑ Salzburg 24.at (German)
- ↑ AfricaNews (2022-02-06). "Cameroon beats Burkina Faso to end AFCON 2021 in third place". Africanews. Retrieved 2022-02-06.
Other websites
[change | change source]- Jérôme Onguéné at Soccerway
- Jérôme Onguéné at the French Football Federation (in French)
- Jérôme Onguéné at the French Football Federation (archived) (in French)