Gaëtan Bong
Gaëtan Bong (2010)
Gaëtan Bong Songo ( born April 25, 1988 in Sakbayémé, Cameroon ) is a Cameroonian - French footballer on the position of a defender. He currently plays for Olympiacos FC in the Super League, the top division in Greek football.
Career
Beginnings at FC Metz
Born in Sakbayémé in the Littoral Province in Cameroon's west Bong came in childhood to France, where he first under Yannick Stopyra at the Centre de Formation, a project of the French Football Federation, coached and was incorporated in 2002 in the youth department of FC Metz. After a little more than two years in the offspring of the trained defender came from the season 2004/ 05 for the B- team of the association with gaming operations in the fourth division Championnat de France amateur (CFA ) was used and brought it here in his first season at 13 Championship Appearances. Due to its good performance in the B team came Bong from the season 2005/ 06 for the first time for the first team in the highest soccer league in France for use. His professional debut was here on December 10, 2005 in a 1-1 away draw against FC Sochaux- Montbéliard, as he stood in the square over the entire game and was reprimanded in minute 25 with the yellow card. Overall, it brought the then 17 -year-old this season on three professional league appearances and was parallel in 18 league games of the B- team in action.
The pros he rose at the end of the season along with the AC Ajaccio and Racing Strasbourg in the last place Scrapping in the Ligue 2, France's second division, from. In the season 2006/ 07 Bong came in both the professionals as well as amateurs only used occasionally and brought it so at the end of the season on a balance of two Ligue 2 performances as well as eight appearances in the fourth division CFA. After a good season of FC Metz managed as a master of French second highest football league 's re-emergence in the Ligue 1 and took in tow SM Caen and in the preseason also descended Racing Strasbourg in the excellence with. In the 2007 /08 season was followed by increased bets the young Cameroonian - French defender, where he came in eleven championship games to use and also twelve games for the B team completed. After each in a Coupe de France match he came in the two Vorsaisons used and each time still with the team was eliminated early in the competition, in 2007/ 08 was followed by an appearance in the Coupe de la Ligue.
Due to poor performance of the season the team was eliminated with only 24 scored points from 38 games at the end of the season from playing in Ligue 1 and had again the way in France's second division compete. There Bong was indeed briefly in professional cadre of Metz, but was still given relatively early in the season within the league to FC Tours. At the Club in the Centre region, the native of Cameroon became a regular in the defensive line of the team and was next to Alexandre Dujeux and Tenema N'Diaye with six yellow cards of the most frequently warned players of the team.
Transfer to FC Valenciennes
In the summer before the season 2009/10 of 1.83 m large left-back signed in late July 2009, after lengthy negotiations, a four- year contract with the Ligue 1 club Valenciennes FC. After he initially acted increasingly as a substitute, he nevertheless found quite quickly into the starting lineup of the Northern French. By the end of the season on 15 May 2010 Bong came in 29 championship matches are used, in which he scored two goals; with the team he ended up in the final table on the passable tenth place. His first professional goal in the course of his still quite a few years of career scoring of the then 21 -year-old on 20 January 2010 in a 2-0 away win over the later relegated U.S. Boulogne, when he made upon delivery of Foued Kadir in 49 minutes to 1: 0 - scorer for his team scored.
Switch to Olympiakos Piraeus
In the summer of 2013 Bong joined the Greek giants Olympiakos Piraeus.
National team career
In 2009 Bong of the head coach of the France U - 21 team, Erick Mombaerts, was first nomininiert in the French U-21 squad and invoke beginning of August 2009 for a game against Poland U-21 national team. Finally, in a 2-2 draw against Poland, he came in 59 minutes for Garry Bocaly on the lawn and gave as his national team debut.
After he was observed in a league match against Lille from Cameroon coach Paul Le Guen in April 2010, Bong publicly expressed his willingness for a dressing change. In May 2010, Le Guen nominated him first in the provisional 30 players comprehensive array of Cameroon for the Football World Cup 2010 in South Africa, and finally also belonged to the final 23 -man squad, alongside Maxim Choupo -Moting the only player without previous international duty and date of nomination without FIFA approval for a change of dressing. Bong is one of five players ( six if you count Vincent Aboubakar, which was, however, still called during his time in Cameroon in the squad ) of Valenciennes FC, taking part in the 2010 World Cup; 1990 belonged to his uncle Jean -Claude Pagal at quarter-finals Cameroon National Team.
After the release was made, the 22 -year-old left winger came on 1 June 2010 for his international debut for Cameroon when he ran aground in a 1-3 defeat against Portugal after 78 minutes of play for the long-standing international Jean Makoun on the lawn.