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Jérôme Onguéné

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Jérôme Onguéné
Onguéné with Cameroon at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations
Personal information
Full name Jérôme Junior Onguéné[1]
Date of birth (1997-12-22) 22 December 1997 (age 26)
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)
2017–2018Red Bull Salzburg (loan) 17 (4)
2017–2018FC Liefering (loan) 3 (0)
2018–2022 Red Bull Salzburg 56 (7)
2021Genoa (loan) 4 (0)
2022– Eintracht Frankfurt 0 (0)
2023Red Bull Salzburg (loan) 0 (0)
2023–2024Servette (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
Men's football
Representing  Cameroon
Africa Cup of Nations
Third place 2021 Cameroon
* 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

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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

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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

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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.

International

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France U19
  • UEFA European Under-19 Championship: 2016

Cameroon

Red Bull Salzburg

References

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  1. "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.
  2. "Jérôme Onguéné". Eintracht Frankfurt. Archived from the original on 24 December 2022. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  3. "Jérôme Onguéné sign VfB". VfB Stuttgart. 31 January 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  4. "Jérôme Onguéné released on loan". VfB Stuttgart. 31 August 2017. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
  5. "Jérôme Onguéné makes permanent Salzburg move". VfB Stuttgart. 15 June 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  6. 6.0 6.1 "Onguene done deal for Genoa". Football Italia. January 15, 2021. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
  7. Salzburg 24.at (German)
  8. AfricaNews (2022-02-06). "Cameroon beats Burkina Faso to end AFCON 2021 in third place". Africanews. Retrieved 2022-02-06.

Other websites

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