Francis Kioyo

Francis Adissa Kioyo ( born September 18, 1979 in Yaoundé ) is a German football player with Cameroonian roots.

Clubs

With the football Kioyo began in his home at Union Douala, the majority of his career spent the striker but in German clubs. Although he was never a scorer in his first year, there were always teams that had interest in him. As of the 1st FC Cologne in 2003 rose to the first Bundesliga, they wanted to keep Kioyo necessarily. However, he had long ago signed with TSV 1860 München. In Munich, he never made ​​the breakthrough and after the Munich were relegated from the Bundesliga 1 2004, they put no value on his services more. After a year at Rot-Weiss Essen, stood at the end of the descent into the Regional, he joined Energie Cottbus. In the season 2005/ 06 he scored as actually " written off " players scored eight goals for Cottbus and thus contributed significantly to the rise of the association at. In January 2008, he joined the Israeli first division side Maccabi Netanya. Despite a successful athletic time in Netanya, his family had major adjustment problems in Israel. In an interview Kioyo describes his time there as a " big mistake ".

On 1 September 2008 Kioyo moved to FC Augsburg, however, where he played only one season. The Augsburgers he completed 18 missions, but never got the full distance used.

Then Kioyo joined the Swiss club FC Aarau. There he received a three -year contract. In his first game against FC Basel, he showed a good performance, but injured himself two days later heavy. After his injury, he no longer found her way back into the game, played most of the time for the amateur side FC Aarau. The contract was terminated by Kioyo in April 2010, although he had not been in the squad since the end of December 2009.

Since that time Kioyo was without a club and participated in the camp of the VDV. At the end of the camp, he still had not found a new club. To fitzuhalten, he trained with at the Brandenburg Oberliga side Germania Schöneiche. In the second half of the 2010/11 season he ran for the third division side SV labor Wiesbaden, where he came up with a score of three goals in eleven missions. In September 2011, the SpVgg Bayreuth, in the national league playing Bayern, as newcomer Kioyo ago. With 18 goals in 18 games, he helped the club to promotion to the Bavarian League. After the successful league in the Bavarian League 2012/13 he left Bayreuth and changed in the summer of 2013 to FC Amberg. The end of 2013 Kioyo left the club again for professional reasons.

National

Since November 2007 Kioyo holds German citizenship. At the same time he lost the Cameroonian citizenship. He completed three A- international matches for Cameroon. He is no longer eligible to play international matches by the loss of Cameroonian citizenship. Since Kioyo was active for several years in German professional football, his colleagues called him in the national team of Cameroon based on the " German Oak " often " Holzmann ". They were convinced that Kioyo have lost its lightness due to the hard pace in Germany.

Achievements

• 2002 African champions ( Cameroon )
• 2003 promotion to the 1st League ( with the 1st FC Cologne)
• 2006 promotion to the 1st League ( with FC Energie Cottbus )