Christopher Samba

Christopher Samba, 2012

Veijeany Christopher Samba ( born March 28, 1984 in Créteil ) is a French -born Congolese footballer. The tall central defender had after first professional stations in Sedan and Berlin at Blackburn Rovers in the English Premier League his breakthrough. Since July 2013 he is in Russia at FK Dynamo Moscow under contract.

Career

Association

About the French clubs FC Rouen and CS Sedan of 1.93 m wide defender came in early 2005 to Hertha BSC. His first Bundesliga Match of Samba on August 27, 2005 in Munich. In January 2007, he completed a trial with English Premier League club Blackburn Rovers, which he joined shortly after. The transfer fee is said to have amounted to 400,000 pounds. Extended in October 2007 Samba, who was a regular at Blackburn Rovers and mostly with Ryan Nelsen was the central defense, his contract for two more years until 2012 - the contract was in November 2009 again renewed until the end of Season 2013 / 14th

End of February 2012 moved to the Russian first division club Anzhi Makhachkala Samba.

On January 31, 2013 Samba moved back to the Premier League for Queens Park Rangers. He signed a contract with a term until 30 June 2017. Peel was 15 million euros. After Samba could there not avoid relegation of his team from the Premier League, he returned to the 2013/14 season to Anzhi Makhachkala back. In this case, the transfer fee was, according to media reports, to 11.6 million euros. That same transfer period joining Samba as part of the austerity measures of Anschi to Dynamo Moscow.

National

Samba is since 2004 National Player of the Republic of Congo.

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