Augustine Ejangue

Augustine Ejangue
Personal information
Full name Augustine Silvia Ejangue Siliki[1]
Date of birth (1989-01-19) 19 January 1989 (age 35)
Place of birth Douala, Cameroon
Height 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
Sawa United
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Franck Rollycek
Águilas Verdes
Etarek United
2011–2012 Energiya Voronezh 19 (0)
2012–2013 WFC Rossiyanka 9 (0)
2014 Tyresö FF 0 (0)
2014 Amazon Grimstad 8 (0)
2015–2017 Fortuna Hjørring
2017–2018 Santa Teresa CD 19 (0)
2018–2019 Amazone FAP
2019 Arna-Bjørnar 16 (0)
2020–2021 FC Ebolowa
2021–2022 Pomigliano 7 (0)
2022–2023 Fatih Karagümrük 9 (1)
International career‡
Cameroon 58[2] (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 January 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16:31, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Augustine Silvia Ejangue Siliki (born 19 January 1989) is a Cameroonian footballer, who plays as a defender for and the Cameroon women's national team.

Club career

She played for Energiya Voronezh and WFC Rossiyanka of the Russian Top League,[3][4] Arna-Bjørnar of the Norwegian Toppserien and also Danish Elitedivisionen club Fortuna Hjørring.[5]

A Russian-speaking agent secured Ejangue and compatriot Ajara Nchout a lucrative transfer to Energiya Voronezh in 2011. But her time in Russia was interrupted by illness when she contracted malaria while back in Cameroon on national team duty.[6]

Ejangue had signed for Swedish club Tyresö FF when they suffered a financial implosion and withdrew from the 2014 Damallsvenskan season, expunging all their results and making all their players free agents. She moved on to finish the season with Amazon Grimstad of the Norwegian Toppserien.[7] In February 2015 Ejangue agreed a two-year contract with another Scandinavian club, Fortuna Hjørring.[8] In summer 2017 she moved to Spain and signed for Santa Teresa CD.[9]

In November 2020, Ejangue debuted for FC Ebolowa in the Cameroonian Women's Championship.[10] In August 2021 she returned to Europe, signing a one-year contract with newly-promoted Italian Serie A club Pomigliano.[11]

End October 2022, she moved to Turkey, and signed with the Istanbul-based club Fatih Karagümrük to play in the Women's Super League.[12]

International career

She is a member of the Cameroonian national team, who she represented at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2015 and 2019 editions of the FIFA Women's World Cup.[5]

At the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, Cameroon faced England in the last sixteen stage. Ejangue's back-pass to her goalkeeper conceded the indirect free kick from which England took the lead. She spat on Toni Duggan in the immediate aftermath, one of several controversies during Cameroon's 0–3 defeat.[13]

References

  1. ^ "List of Players - Cameroon" (PDF). FIFA. 30 May 2015. p. 3. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
  2. ^ "Profile". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  3. ^ Profile Archived 2012-04-05 at the Wayback Machine in Energiya's website
  4. ^ Statistics in the 2011-12 Champions League, in UEFA.com
  5. ^ a b Statistics in FIFA.com
  6. ^ Oxenham, Gwendolyn (2017). Under the Lights and In the Dark: Untold Stories of Women's Soccer. Icon Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1785783197.
  7. ^ Holtet, Anders (7 July 2014). "Skandinaviske spillere vil ikke til Sørlandet" (in Norwegian). NRK. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
  8. ^ Boye Estrup, Rasmus (4 February 2015). "Fortuna Hjørring henter to udlændinge" (in Danish). Nordjyske. Archived from the original on 27 March 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
  9. ^ "La internacional camerunesa Augustine Ejangue, cuarto fichaje del Santa Teresa" (in Spanish). Hoy.es. 6 June 2017. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  10. ^ Lesley, Angu (21 November 2020). "Augustine Ejangue cleared for FC Ebolowa". Kick 442. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  11. ^ Marrone, Claudia (11 August 2021). "Colpo internazionale per il Pomigliano: in difesa arriva Ejangue" (in Italian). Tutto Mercato Web. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  12. ^ "Augustine Sylvia Ejangue Siliki" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  13. ^ "'I'm not sure where to start' - the World Cup game that had everything". BBC Sport. 23 June 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2019.