Mathieu Assou-Ekotto
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Mathieu Assou-Ekotto | ||
Date of birth | 8 April 1978 | ||
Place of birth | Sainte-Catherine, France | ||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
1989–1995 | Lens | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1995–1998 | Lens B | 44 | (1) |
1998 | Lens | 3 | (0) |
1998–2000 | Mouscron | 4 | (0) |
2000–2001 | Créteil | 18 | (1) |
2001–2003 | Valenciennes | 31 | (4) |
2003–2004 | Grenoble | 3 | (0) |
2004 | Louviéroise | 29 | (0) |
2005 | Standard Liège | 25 | (0) |
2006–2007 | Willem | 32 | (1) |
2007–2009 | Mouscron | 74 | (0) |
2010–2012 |
Boussu Dour Borinage | 56 | (3) |
Total | 319 | (10) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Mathieu Assou-Ekotto (born 8 April 1978) is a French retired footballer who played mainly as a midfielder.
Over the course of nine seasons, he amassed Belgian Pro League totals of 132 games and two goals, mainly in representation of Mouscron.
Football career
Born in Sainte-Catherine, Pas-de-Calais, Assou-Ekotto spent nine years with local RC Lens all levels comprised but played mainly for the reserves during his spell, only appearing in three Ligue 1 games with the club. Released in the 1998 summer, he moved to Belgium and joined R.E. Mouscron.
In the 2000 off-season, Assou-Ekotto returned to France and played for three teams in three-and-a-half seasons, competing in the
Assou-Ekotto contributed with 11 matches in the first half of the
The following February, Assou-Ekotto resumed his career at
Personal life
Assou-Ekotto's younger brother, Benoît, was also a footballer. A defender, he too started his career at Lens, going on to spend several years in the Premier League with Tottenham Hotspur, and represented their ancestral Cameroon at international level.[3]
References
- ^ Assou-Ekotto définitivement à Mouscron (Assou-Ekotto permanently with Mouscron) Archived 2014-07-24 at the Wayback Machine; Foot Goal, 15 June 2007 (in French)
- ^ "Assou-Ekotto retourne à ... Boussu-Dour" [Assou-Ekotto returns to ... Boussu-Dour] (in French). Walfoot. 8 February 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
- ^ Belgique: Mouscron dit adieu au championnat (Belgique: Mouscron says goodbye to league) Archived 2009-12-30 at the Wayback Machine; Sports.fr, 28 December 2009 (in French)
External links
- Mathieu Assou-Ekotto at Soccerway
- Mathieu Assou-Ekotto at FootballDatabase.eu