Rigobert Song
Rigobert Song in the jersey of Galatasaray
Rigobert Song ( born July 1, 1976 in Nkanglicock in Cameroon ) is a former Cameroonian football player and most capped player in his country. Since end of his career he has worked as an expert on the TV show Orange sport.
Career
The center-back started in the early 1990s, his career in Tonerre Yaoundé and took the age of 17 participated in the Football World Cup 1994 in the USA. He moved to this World Cup in the first French League for FC Metz. Here he remained until the soccer World Cup 1998 in France. After this World Cup, he subsequently moved to Italy to Salernitana Calcio, however, where he remained only until the winter break, only to change in January 1999 to FC Liverpool. It now began wandering years of Rigobert Song. From November 2000 to October 2001, he played for West Ham United, and then switch to the 1 FC Cologne in the Bundesliga.
With the Football World Cup 2002 in Japan and South Korea, he played for the Cameroon national football team already his third World Cup tournament. In the preliminary round his team met under coach Winfried Schaefer on Germany. After the tournament, he left the relegated from the Bundesliga 1 FC Cologne and went back to France for RC Lens. Since the 2004/05 season, the team captain of the Cameroon national team played at Galatasaray Istanbul and had a contract until 2008. Rigobert Song In June 2008, joined the Turkish first division side Trabzonspor.
The African champions was the first player in World Cup tournaments received two red cards: 1994 in the game against Brazil and 1998 in the match against Chile. The only other player to have achieved this is Zinedine Zidane (1998 against Saudi Arabien/2006 against Italy ). Song was expelled in 1994 at age 17 became the youngest player in World Cup history of the field, and in 1998 became the youngest captain.
He is the first African player who has been in four World Cups (1994, 1998, 2002 and 2010 ) were used. He became the first player takes part in eight African championships (1996 to 2010) and played 36 games, the most games at Africa championships.
On 1 August 2010 it was announced that Rigobert Song ended his international career. The defender is with 137 international matches current record players of the national team of Cameroon.