Joseph-Désiré Job
Joseph- Désiré Job ( born December 1, 1977 in Vénissieux, Arrondissement Lyon, France) is a Cameroonian football player. The striker took part in two World Cup finals and played throughout his career at professional clubs in France, England, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
Career
Childhood and Youth, 1977-1997
Job is the cousin of the two German professional football player Marvin Matip and Joel Matip. He was born as the youngest of five brothers on December 1, 1977 in Vénissieux, a suburb of Lyon, the son of a Cameroonian. He and his family lived in a small apartment in a poorer part of town. At the age of five years job was excited about the football game and had to be the goal of a professional footballer. He played the local club AS Minguettes Vénissieux and was discovered at the age of about ten years of Scouts of Olympique Lyon. After a trial, the talent was included in the Youth Section of the Club.
First professional years in France, 1997-2000
He came in June 1997 in the Intertoto Cup, together with Frederic Kanoute to his competitive debut for the first team of Lyon. In the game against the Polish club Odra Wodzisław he scored in a 5-2 victory three hits. In Division 1, he came in his first season to 22 missions, including eleven from the start, and scored five goals. In November 1997, he was first appointed to the national team of Cameroon and was used for the first time in a friendly against England at Wembley Stadium (final score 0-2). Job aground had an offer from the French Football Federation for the U21 national team, explained his decision in favor of his mother's home country but as follows: " [ ... ] my heart was not with France, it what with Cameroon. "
In January 1998 he was appointed to the Cameroon squad for the African Nations Cup in 1998 in Burkina Faso. Job came at all four games for use in the first two group games yet as a substitute in the final group game and in the quarter-finals, in which one of the Democratic Republic of Congo was defeated 0:1, from the beginning. His only goal of the tournament, he scored in the 2-1 win over Algeria. Half a year later he played for Cameroon at the 1998 World Cup in France. He and his team showed a faint idea, was the last place in the group stage behind Italy, Chile and Austria at the end with two points.
After another season at Lyon, in which he served mostly as a substitute and was unhappy with his situation, changed job 1999 league rivals RC Lens. At Lens he belonged predominantly to the permanent staff, before he traveled in January 2000 Africa Cup of Nations in Ghana and Nigeria. The local tournament was a success for the now 22 -year-olds. He came only four sub- missions during the tournament, which was mainly due to the strong competition from Samuel Eto'o and Patrick M'Boma, in the end, however, was the tournament victory by 6-5 in a penalty shoot-out against Nigeria.
When he returned to Lens, Job had lost his place in the storm. However, he had already aware of the UEFA Cup in coming. In the first knockout round second leg against 1 FC Kaiserslautern, he scored three goals and thus had a significant share in the next round after you have lost the home game 1-2. Only in the semifinals you failed at English club Arsenal.
Start difficulties in Middlesbrough, 2000-2002
These three goals against Kaiserslautern it should have been, by the English club Middlesbrough FC became aware of the striker. After a weeklong trial during pre-season, he was finally obliged for a transfer fee of three million pounds by Bryan Robson.
His start in the new club was desired. He rushed to the side of Alen Bokšić and met on the opening day of the 2000/01 season against Coventry City. In the period following his league operations, however, were becoming increasingly rare. After the signing of Terry Venables as new Kotrainer in December 2000, he played no role in the first team. The team was in the relegation battle and job came only in the reserve team for use. Only on the final day of the season, when the league was already done, he came over five months back to a Erstligaeinsatz, scoring a hit also.
The following season, the manager post of Steve McClaren took over. Job wanted to leave the club actually McClaren, however, convinced him to stay away. Job was in the first three games of the 2001/02 season in the starting lineup, but all went three games lost and Middlesbrough was to have achieved on the penultimate place in the table without a single hit. McClaren set then the team on some items to job and lost his place. When the team got seven points without him between the fifth and seventh match, played no role job again. In January 2000, it was awarded to France for FC Metz in order to gain match practice can, and he wanted to maintain the chance to participate in the 2002 World Cup.
Also in Metz remained luckless job. Albert Cartier, the coach who brought him to Metz, was still released into the winter break shortly after the loan deal and its successor, Gilbert Gress, not built up the striker. Although Job was in the second half used a total of 13 times, but it usually only as a substitute shortly before the game ends. At the end of the season Metz dismounted in the Ligue 2. Despite the unhappy job for verlaufenen season he was appointed to the 23- man squad for the 2002 World Cup Cameroon in South Korea and Japan. Also, the course of the World Cup tied seamlessly from the previous events. His team already retired from in the first round and job has been changed only in the last group match against eventual runners-up Germany eleven minutes from the end.
Three more years in the Premier League, 2002-2005
After the World Cup to job sought is to find a new club, which he did not succeed. So he returned to pre-season back to Middlesbrough, who had strengthened among others with his Cameroonian compatriot Geremi Njitap, which was loaned for one season of Real Madrid. At the start of the season he found himself - even to their own surprise - in the starting lineup again. This positive for him development he himself led back to two events: First, it was used by coach McClaren in the striker, unlike in the two seasons before, in which he usually had to swerve to the left or right wing and the second the presence by Geremi, who was extremely important to him.
Job came in this season for the first time regularly to missions and scored in 28 league inserts four hits, including the gateway to the 3-1 final score in a home victory over the eventual champions Manchester United. A few weeks before this hit, on 30 November 2002, he met and West Brom defender Darren Moore along with the heads. Job was then four and a half minutes unconscious and barely escaped permanent damage to the brain.
At the end of the season job has been nominated for the 2003 Confederations Cup in the squad of Cameroon. In contrast to the Confederations Cup 2001, on the job and also took part in two short assignments recorded, Cameroon survived the first round this time. In the semi-final against Colombia, there was a tragic incident when his team-mate and friend Marc -Vivien Foe collapsed on the field and died in hospital a short time later. The tournament ended Cameroon in second place after you, subject to hosts France 0-1 in extra time in the final, the host designated job as an error. Job came during the tournament in the three preliminary round games available for use, and remained without a goal.
In the subsequent 2003/04 season was one job to the permanent staff, despite the departure of Geremi, who moved to Chelsea for six million pounds. End of September 2003 he was injured in training hard on the knees and fell by three months. By failing missed job participation in the African Nations Cup 2004. Upon his recovery, in early January, he played immediately back into the first team and moved with the club after two wins over Arsenal in the final of the League Cup a. In the final one was the Bolton Wanderers over that one after two early goals from job ( 2 ) and Boudewijn Zenden ( 7 ) 2-1 defeated. This success was the first major title in the history of Middlesbrough FC.
His expiring contract at the end of the season extended job in July 2004 for two years. In the UEFA Cup 2004/ 05, the first international appearance for Middlesbrough, Job came to six missions and reached the second round with the club. In the league they finished in seventh place, meanwhile, bringing you qualified again for the UEFA Cup. Job came in this season to 23 events and was several times only substitute after start of the season Mark Viduka and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink were committed. The Saisonaus for job came in early April 2005, when he again drew upon a lengthy knee injury. With the signing of Yakubu Aiyegbeni for 7.5 million pounds for the 2005/06 season it was clear to Job that his appearances in the upcoming season would be rare. Job therefore wanted to leave the club. With West Ham United Middlesbrough was already agree on the transfer fee already, but the change failed. Finally, he was given just before the transfer deadline for a year at the Saudi Arabian club Al -Ittihad.
A year in Saudi Arabia, 2005-2006
With Al -Ittihad, he played in the storm on the side of Mohamed Kallon, who worked at Inter Milan and AS Monaco before. He reached with the club the final of the AFC Champions League 2005 and scored in the final second leg against Al Ain Club Hits for predetermining the end 3:1. Shortly after that hit he took his opponent Fahad Ali in the face and looked for the red card. Because of this sending off job was closed in the first two games of Al -Ittihad at the FIFA Club World Cup 2005. Only in the 3rd place match against Deportivo Saprissa was allowed to intervene in the Job Done, scoring in the 2:3 defeat of his club hit. His hope, to be appointed by the match practice again for the national team of Cameroon, however, was not fulfilled. After his knee injury in April 2005, he was disregarded both in the other qualifiers to participate in the 2006 World Cup as well as for the African Nations Cup 2006. With the end of the lending business in May 2006, his contract ended at FC Middlesbrough and job never returned to the North English club.
Career finale, 2006 to present
In the pre-season job spent some time in the Premier League team FC Watford, but could there not recommend for a contract and ultimately returned after six years to France and signed a contract with Erstligaaufsteiger CS Sedan Ardennes. Despite his nine goals this season in 25 missions, which he was within the association 's second top scorer after Grégory Pujol, Sedan rose at the end of the season again from the Ligue 1. Job left the club and then moved shortly after the season starts for first division club OGC Nice.
In January 2008, Jobs took the national team of Cameroon in part for the third time at the African Nations Cup. He was in competition with Mohamadou Idrissou to the position of the striker on the side of the set Samuel Eto'o. In the second preliminary round game against Zambia job hit in a 5-1 victory twice and then played well in a 3-0 win against the south in the final group game. The winning quarter-finals he only saw from the bench, but came in the semi-final against hosts Ghana for his third deployment and reached his country to the final. In selbigem job was disregarded, mainly because coach Otto Pfister with Eto'o mustered only one striker to strengthen against the offensively strong Egyptians the defensive. This tactic was ultimately not marked by success and Cameroon lost the final 0-1.
After a disappointing season in Nice, where he remained in his nine league matches without inserts, he joined in the summer of 2008 to Qatar for Al- Kharitiyath SC.
Achievements
- African champions: 2000
- English League Cup Winners: 2004
- AFC Champions League winner: 2005