Merlin Tandjigora

Merlin Koumba Abdoulaye Tandjigora ( born April 6, 1990 in Mouila ) is a Gabonese football player.

Club career

Tandjigora began playing football in his home country of Gabon, where he played throughout his youth. In 2009 he moved from Stade Mandji in Gabon with the French second division club FC Metz. At Metz, he was initially planned for the reserve team, came for this but on regular missions and reached for the season 2010/11 a place in the first team. In Metz, he succeeded his professional debut in the second division, when he was called out when 0:2 against FC Evian from the start. In the course of the season he was still employed in the second team, but also came up with six league inserts in the pros. During the season came on speculation that the VfB Stuttgart and Standard Liege are thinking about a commitment of Gabuners. In fact, the players left in the summer of 2011, Metz, but initially found no new employer, also because an offer from the Spanish club Hércules CF was withdrawn. During winter break 2011/12 he wrote to the French fourth division USJA Carquefou. In Carquefou he became a regular player with the team and reached the 2012 first ascent of the club to the third tier.

National

His first appointment to the Gabonese selection was made in September 2010, thus shortly after his first game for Metz. However, he was not used in the two games in October of the same year against Saudi Arabia and Oman. As a result, almost two years had to wait until he first ran aground on 9 June 2012 in a 1-0 win against Burkina Faso for the national team. In the same year Tandjigora was considered for the Olympic football tournament in London. He went there with a U-23 selection his country, occurred in all three group games used, but then had to accept the resignation of his team. Then he continued his earlier career started in the senior team.