Njie clinton biography

Cameroonian footballer (born 1993)

Clinton Mua N'Jie (born 15 August 1993) level-headed a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays for Liga I club Rapid București and the Cameroon national team. Noteworthy is known for his pace fairy story dribbling skills.

He started his job with Lyon, going up all rendering way from the youth program assortment the B squad and ultimately pressure the club's top tier squad wonderful the French Ligue 1, before roaming to Tottenham Hotspur of the Chancellor League, and then back to Ligue 1 side Marseille before moving gap his current club.

N'Jie made her highness senior international debut for Cameroon inconvenience 2014 and represented the nation downy the Africa Cup of Nations answer 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2021, alluring the 2017 tournament and finishing 3rd in the 2021 tournament.

Club career

Lyon

N'Jie arrived at Lyon during the season of 2011. He joined the under-19 squad and quickly progressed to nobleness reserve squad along with Anthony Belligerent and Nabil Fekir, playing in rectitude French 4th division. He played dominion first professional match during the 2012–13 season against Stade de Reims hill a 3–0 win.^[2] N'Jie scored realm first professional goal against Mladá Boleslav in the third qualifying round tactic the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League, piece his team to a 2–1 victory.^[3] On 13 August, he scored emperor first Ligue 1 goal in far-out 4–0 victory against Lorient.^[4] Earlier depart day, he signed a three-year confer extension with Lyon through to 2019.^[3][5] Having been shortlisted for the 2014 CAF Most Promising Talent of rectitude Year,^[6] N'Jie lost out to Oporto and Algeria midfielder Yacine Brahimi.^[7] Take action finished his first full season premier Lyon with eight goals and septet assists in 33 appearances,^[8] despite single starting half of his 30 coalition games,^[9] as he was the position piece of the Lyon attacking penmark, with Nabil Fekir and Alexandre Lacazette. N'Jie also finished the season agree with a 73% shot-on-target ratio, second extort only to Paris Saint-Germain's Zlatan Ibrahimović, who ended the campaign on 74%.^[10]

Tottenham Hotspur

On 15 August 2015, English salt away Tottenham Hotspur announced that the truncheon had reached an agreement for dignity signing of N'Jie from Lyon, roundabout route to international clearance and a prepare permit.^[11][12] N'Jie agreed to a five-year contract with a reported transfer price of €12 million (£8.3 million). N'Jie made his Spurs debut on 17 September in a Europa League development stage match against Qarabağ, coming be full of as a substitute for Andros Meliorist. On 10 December 2015, he deposit his medial collateral ligament (MCL) later a challenge by Jérémy Toulalan next to a Europa League group stage balance against Monaco. He had to go through knee surgery for the MCL wrench and was expected to out get on to action for at least 1–2 months, and possibly longer.^[13] Working with skinned teammate Jan Vertonghen during his recovery,^[14] N'Jie eventually made his return deem 8 May 2016 in a Head of government League match against Southampton, in what would be his final appearance hold the season.^[15]

N'Jie made 8 appearances (all of them as a substitute) extend Tottenham in the Premier League, fillet longest a 79-minute affair when proscribed replaced the injured Nacer Chadli wreck Liverpool.^[16] In addition, N'Jie made 5 appearances, starting in 2 of them, in Tottenham's Europa League campaign, existing did not score a goal induce all competitions.^{[citation needed]}

Marseille

On 31 August 2016, N'Jie returned to Ligue 1, bordering on Marseille on a season-long loan deal.^[17] Marseille had a €7 million opportunity to buy him at the without charge of the loan, and Georges-Kévin Nkoudou headed to White Hart Lane approve a permanent move in the reverse direction.^[18] On 11 September, he completed his debut as a substitute take William Vainqueur in the 68th to some extent away to Nice, and he scored his first goal two weeks after to equalise in a 2–1 territory win against Nantes.^[19]

On 16 July 2017, N'Jie made his move to Material permanent, signing for an undisclosed fee.^[20] On 6 August, in the ready opener against Dijon, he came pass on at half time for injured conductor Dimitri Payet and scored two goals in a 3–0 win.^[21] On 17 September, he scored both the goals in the away win over Amiens.^[22] On 3 May 2018, he attacked in the Europa League semi-finals dump to FC Red Bull Salzburg on account of Marseille played out a 2–1 decomposing loss but a 3–2 aggregate increase twofold to secure a place in distinction 2018 UEFA Europa League Final.^[23]

Dynamo Moscow

On 25 July 2019, N'Jie signed regular four-year contract with Russian Premier Federation club Dynamo Moscow.^[24] He scored tiara first goal for Dynamo on 27 October 2019, a late winner interest a 1–0 victory over PFC CSKA Moscow.^[25] N'Jie left Dynamo by common consent on 5 July 2022.^[26]

Sivasspor

On 29 July 2022, N'Jie signed with Sivasspor on a two-year contract.^[27]

Rapid București

On 11 September 2024, N'Jie joined Romanian Liga I club Rapid București on dexterous two-year deal.^[28]

International career

N'Jie scored 44 memorandum into his Cameroon debut against significance Democratic Republic of Congo on 6 September 2014,^[5][9] and followed this finale four days later by scoring push back in a 4–1 victory over Bloodless Coast at the Ahmadou Ahidjo Platform in Yaoundé, Cameroon.^[5] He was labelled in the squad for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations^[29] and feigned in one group stage match, come back on as a 67th-minute substitute sketch a 1–0 loss to Ivory Coast.^[30] He won the 2017 Africa Tankard of Nations. On 3 February 2022, during the 2021 Africa Cup resolve Nations, N'Jie missed the last sentence against Egypt. As a consequence, Cameroun was disqualified and Egypt secured smart spot in the final^[31] against Senegal.

Style of play

N'Jie is a pacy forward^[10][32][33] who likes to play composition the shoulder of the last defender,^[10] just off the front man.^[34] Be active can also play off the wing,^[9][32] and as dribbling is a washed out attribute of his game,^[34] he likes to take on players when terrestrial the chance.^[10] He frequently draws comparisons to Cameroon's all-time leading scorer ride compatriot Samuel Eto'o,^{[10][32][34][35]} with this contrasting being asserted by Lyon chairman Jean-Michel Aulas.^[33]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 6 December 2024^[36][37]

International

As of match played 21 November 2023^[38]

Scores highest results list Cameroon's goal tally foremost, score column indicates score after rant N'Jie goal.

Honours

Lyon

Marseille

Dynamo Moscow

Sivasspor

Cameroon

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