Japhet N'Doram
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 27 February 1966 | ||
Place of birth | N'Djamena, Chad | ||
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Youth career | |||
Tourbillon | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1984–1988 | Tourbillon | ||
1988–1990 | Tonnerre Yaoundé | ? | (33) |
1990–1997 | Nantes | 192 | (72) |
1997–1998 | Monaco | 13 | (1) |
International career | |||
1989–1997 | Chad | 36 | (13) |
Managerial career | |||
2007 | Nantes | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Japhet N'Doram (
His 14-year senior career was mainly spent with Nantes, which he represented in several capacities. He was nicknamed The Wizard.[1]
Club career
Born in N'Djamena, N'Doram begun his career with local Tourbillon FC, then spent three seasons in Cameroon with Tonnerre Yaoundé, one of the biggest clubs in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 1990 the 24-year-old signed for FC Nantes in France, scoring two goals in 19 games in his first season in Ligue 1; his first professional contract arrived as Argentine Jorge Burruchaga was recovering from injury and accepted to be given an amateur licence on behalf of his teammate.[2]
N'Doram became something of a cult hero at
Aged 31, N'Doram left Nantes and signed for fellow league side AS Monaco FC, winning the 1997 Trophée des Champions,[4] but retired at the end of the season following a persistent injury sustained during a match against his former team.[3] He then joined his last club's technical staff, working as a scout.[2]
N'Doram returned to Nantes on 28 June 2005, replacing
Personal life
N'Doram holds Chadian and French nationalities.[7] His son, Kévin, is also a footballer. He played for Monaco.[8]
Career statistics
Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Total | |||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Tourbillon | 1984 | Chad Premier League | ||||||||
1985 | ||||||||||
1986 | ||||||||||
1987 | ||||||||||
1988 | ||||||||||
Tonnerre | 1988 | Elite One | ||||||||
1989 | 15 | 15 | ||||||||
1990 | 32 | 18 | 32 | 18 | ||||||
Nantes Atlantique | 1990–91 | French Division 1 | 19 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 3 |
1991–92 | 25 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 4 | ||
1992–93 | 31 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 10 | ||
1993–94 | 26 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 31 | 8 | ||
1994–95 | 32 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 41 | 16 | ||
1995–96 | 24 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 33 | 19 | ||
1996–97 | 35 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 21 | ||
Total | 192 | 72 | 17 | 3 | 16 | 6 | 225 | 81 | ||
Monaco | 1997–98 | French Division 1 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 3 |
Career total | 237 | 91 | 18 | 5 | 18 | 6 | 273 | 102 |
Honours
Nantes Atlantique
AS Monaco
Individual
- 1995 Ballon d'Or:nominated
References
- ^ Japhet N’Doram, le sorcier tchadien (Japhet N’Doram, the Chadian wizard); Afrik Foot, 10 October 2010 (in French)
- ^ a b Japhet N'Doram, le buteur sensible (Japhet N'Doram, the sensible scorer); at Foot Nostalgie (in French)
- ^ a b Japhet N’Doram: le sorcier de La Beaujoire (Japhet N’Doram: the wizard of La Beaujoire) Archived 22 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine; at Tchachadi (in French)
- ^ "Béziers, 17 ans plus tard". ogcnice.com. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ Japhet N’Doram, l’ancien international tchadien de Nantes et Monaco (Japhet N’Doram, former Chad international of Nantes and Monaco) Archived 21 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine; Journal du Tchad, 5 November 2010 (in French)
- ^ N'Doram, la voix des champs (N'Doram, the voice of champs); Ouest-France, 26 August 2016 (in French)
- ^ https://www.ligue1.fr/joueur?id=japhet-ndoram
- ^ Germain et N’Doram, tels pères, tels fils (Germain and N’Doram, like fathers, like sons); Le Figaro, 18 May 2017 (in French)
- ^ "Japhet N'Doram" (in French). Pari et Gagne. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
- ^ "Japhet N'Doram". Footballdatabase. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
External links
- Japhet N'Doram at L'Équipe Football (in French)
- Japhet N'Doram – French league stats at LFP – also available in French (archived)
- Japhet N'Doram at National-Football-Teams.com