Joël Epalle

Joël Dieudonné Martin Epalle Newaka ( born February 20, 1978 in Matomb ) is a Cameroonian football player.

Career

The offensive man played from the beginning of his professional career until 2007 continuously in Greece and has therefore also be made on a Greek passport. His first club was Ethnikos Asteras, where he was active from 1998 to 2000. Epalle Then moved to Panachaiki and after a year on to Aris Thessaloniki. After good performances of the Cameroonian was established in 2003 by the Greek giants Panathinaikos Athens obliged, where he also managed to win the cup and thus the double addition of the Greek Championship in 2004. Finally, in 2005 he transferred to Iraklis Saloniki. He came in his entire time in Greece on 203 missions, scoring 28 goals.

For the second half of the season 2006/ 07 moved Joël Epalle to VfL Bochum, where he was able to achieve four goals in the first 17 games. In the summer of 2010, he was brought by Winfried Schäfer, under whom he had already played in the national team of Cameroon, to two times Azerbaijani champions FK Baku. Epalle signed in Baku a one-year contract. In his first competitive match in Baku, he came to a tragic figure: he was placed in the first leg of their second qualifying round of the Europa League on home soil against FK Budućnost Podgorica, although he was not yet eligible to play due to the short-term change, since the association a registration deadline had failed. Consequently, it was the game that Baku had actually won 2-1, taken as 0-3 defeat. In the return game led Baku, without the now locked Epalle, at halftime already 2-0 and the pairing would therefore almost more turned cashed in half 2 but the first goal difference and thus, despite two victories from the competition. The incident ultimately led also to the fact that Winfried Schaefer left the club in January 2011. Immediately after the shepherd from Baku Epalle changed on 18 January 2011 back to Greece and came to the December 2011 22 inserts for Iraklis Thessaloniki. In February 2012, he left Europe and returned to Cameroon, where he has since become associated with Coton Sport Garoua under contract.

Joël Epalle completed to date (November 2009) 38 games for the Cameroonian national team, where he met five times. He participated in the 2000 Olympics and the 2002 World Cup.

Achievements

• Greek champions: 2004
• Greek Cup winner: 2004
• Olympic champion: 2000

Private

• Epalle is the cousin of professional Ajax- Thimothée Atouba.