Gilles Mbang Ondo
Gilles Mbang Ondo (born 10 October 1985 in Libreville ) is a Gabonese - French football player. He is currently in Norway at Stabæk Fotball under contract.
Club career
The son of an Ivorian father and a French grew up in Gabon, before the family moved to France in the mid 90s. There he came in 1999 in the youth department of Paris SG, where he was trained by 2004. In his last two years at PSG he scored 39 goals, after which he was recruited by AJ Auxerre.
In Auxerre, he was initially also in the youth department for use before he took admission to the B- Squad from Auxerre for season 2005/ 06 after 32 gates. There followed an impressive rate of 44 missions with 39 Torerfolgen for the B team. Only during a brief loan period at the French fifth-tier SC Feignies he disappointed all along the line. Against the expectations of the club, the striker traded as a great talent Mbang could not prevail and completed only seven games with a score. After his return to Auxerre, the association then decided the players lack of perspective on a breakthrough as a professional player, to leave despite his extraordinary rate draw a free transfer. Previously it club legend Guy Roux had personally observed several times.
About the help of his adviser, he then wrote in July 2007, the then Austrian regional division SC Eisenstadt. When financially ailing club Mbang was able to largely convincing, with good performances, the team was not compiled adequately due to the financial situation, whereby the club with only 5 points held the last place for winter break. When the club was bound to finally file for bankruptcy for second round, the contracts with the few service providers, thereby also Mbang were disbanded.
As a result, he was out of contract until March 2008, until he found shelter in the Icelandic first division UMF Grindavík. The commitment proved for club and player stroke of luck. Mbang struck an instant at the relegation-threatened club and brought the team with strong performances in midfield in the league. The following season he rose again and gained with 11 goals in 21 Season inserts the fourth overall place in the scorer rating in the league. He also was voted the best striker of the 2009.
His performances did not go unnoticed, especially in the stronger Nordic leagues, which he has been associated by the end of the 2009 season with several clubs from Norway, Sweden and Denmark. However, a change to GAIS Gothenburg failed already at the detachment notions of Grindavik. Furthermore failed already reported as fixed exchange for Greek first division club Skoda Xanthi.
National
Due to the nationality of his father and mother Mbang would have been theoretically eligible to play for the Ivory Coast and France. During his time at Auxerre Ivory Coast also launched the same time as his native Gabon a request, whereupon he decided to Gabon.
2006 then followed by the first convocation in the U -23 national team of Gabon, for whom he played a total of three official and unofficial four internationals. An important gateway Among other things, he succeeded in the 2-0 victory against Cameroon in the qualification for the Pan-African Games.
His first game for the national team of Gabon, he played in February 2008 against the national team of Madagascar. Since then he has been employed by coach Alain Giresse among others in qualifying for the African Cup of Nations 2010, which survived Gabon. The qualification for the FIFA World Cup 2010 you missed as a group runner-up behind Cameroon, just barely.