Francis Ambané

Francis Ambané
Personal information
Full name Francis Idriss Ambane Moubourou[1]
Date of birth (1984-11-08) 8 November 1984 (age 40)[2]
Place of birth Douala, Cameroon
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Midfielder/Play-Maker[3]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2003 Canon Yaoundé 14 (7)
2003–2004 KSC Lokeren 17 (6)
2004–2007 Union Douala 20 (4)
2007–2008 Canon Yaoundé 19 (5)
2008–2011 ES Sétif 16 (5)
2011–2012 ASO Chlef 17 (6)
2012–2013 WA Tlemcen 21 (7)
2015–2017 AS Fortuna
2017–2018 Gokulam Kerala FC 3 (0)
International career
Cameroon U-23 7 (2)
Cameroon 4 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 00:00, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Francis Idriss Ambane Moubourou (born 8 November 1984 in Douala) is a Cameroonian professional footballer,[4] who last played for Gokulam Kerala FC in the I-League.[5]

Career

Ambane started his professional club career with Elite One outfit Canon Yaoundé, where he appeared in 14 league matches and scored 7 goals. He was in Yaoundé's 2002 Super Coupe Roger Milla Runners-up squad.

He later moved to KSC Lokeren a Belgian association football club in 2003–2004 season.[6] After just one season Ambane returned to Cameroon and joined another MTN Elite one club Union Douala.[7] He spent 3 seasons there before he returned to his youth club Canon Yaoundé.[8] In 2009–2010 Ambane Francis was sold to ES Sétif.[9]

On 14 July 2011 Ambane signed a two-year contract with ASO Chlef, joining them on a free transfer from ES Sétif after terminating his contract with the club.[10] On 19 January 2012 Ambane signed a one-year contract with WA Tlemcen, joining them on a free transfer from ASO Chlef

With ES Sétif, he won the 2009–10 Algerian Cup.[11] He was also in Sétif's Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 and 2009 CAF Confederation Cup Runners-up squad.

On 11 October 2017, newly-formed I-League side Gokulam Kerala FC announced that they have secured services of Ambane for the 2017–18 I-League season.[12][13][14] Gokulam finished 7th in the season and Ambané has appeared in only 4 league matches for "the Malabarians".[15] On 14 January, he was released by the club.[16]

International career

Ambané has represented Cameroon U23 in 7 matches, scoring 2 goals. He featured with the Cameroon 2004 Olympic team in Athens.

Ambane was the only home base that was selected 3 times for the Cameroon national team games in 2006–2007.[17] He made his senior international debut on 23 December 2012 against Niger in a 1-0 friendly win.[18]

He has also represented Cameroon in the 2016 African Nations Championship, where they lost 3-0 to Ivory Coast in the Quarter-finals.

Honours

Club

Canon Yaoundé
Silver Runners-up (1): 2002
ES Sétif
Silver Runners-up (1): 2009–10
Gold Champions (1): 2009–10
Silver Runners-up (1): 2009

References

  1. ^ Francis Idriss Ambane Moubourou Soccer player from Cameroon Soccerway.com. Retrieved 20 March 2021
  2. ^ Francis Ambané footballer profile and transfers m.goalzz.com. Retrieved 20 March 2021
  3. ^ Cameroonian footballer Francis Ambané: profile and clubs Sport.de. Retrieved 20 March 2021
  4. ^ Francis Ambané player archive and career statistics Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 20 March 2021
  5. ^ Francis Ambane, ES Setif, Attacking mid(L) – IMScouting
  6. ^ Ils frappent aux portes de l’équipe nationale de football du Cameroun Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Francis Ambané in Union Douala, club career Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 20 March 2021
  8. ^ kamerfoot.com: Francis Ambane: « Je souhaite quitter l'Algérie »
  9. ^ "Inside Sports GmbH". Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
  10. ^ Ambane première recrue officielle
  11. ^ "Coupe d'Algérie 2010". DZfoot. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011.
  12. ^ Kerala FC, Gokulam. "Francis is here". facebook.com. Gokulam Kerala FC. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  13. ^ Gokulam Kerala signs five new foreigners ahead of their rest of the I-League matches Sportskeeda.com. Retrieved 20 March 2021
  14. ^ "I-League 2017: Gokulam Kerala FC unveil their team for the upcoming season". thefangarage.com. 20 November 2017.
  15. ^ Kundu, Abhishek (23 January 2017). "I-League 2018-19: Gokulam FC rope in Haitian midfielder Fabien Vorbe". sportskeeda.com. Sportskeeda. Archived from the original on 3 February 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  16. ^ Exclusive: Gokulam Kerala release two foreign players, sign Bahrainian midfielder Khel Now. Retrieved 20 March 2021
  17. ^ FIFA.com - Setif seek African glory minus star
  18. ^ "Francis Idriss Ambane with Cameroon national team". National-Football-Teams. Retrieved 20 March 2021.