Merlin Tandjigora
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Merlin Koumba Abdoulaye Tandjigora[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 6 April 1990 | ||
| Place of birth | Port-Gentil, Gabon | ||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1998–2004 | Stade Mandji | ||
| 2004–2008 | ENF Port-Gentil | ||
| 2009–2010 | Metz | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2008–2009 | Stade Mandji | ||
| 2010–2011 | Metz | 6 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | Metz B | 24 | (0) |
| 2011–2014 | Carquefou | 70 | (2) |
| 2015 | Istres | 7 | (0) |
| 2015 | Leixões | 15 | (3) |
| 2016 | Meizhou Hakka | 25 | (0) |
| 2017–2018 | Belenenses | 8 | (1) |
| 2018–2019 | Belenenses SAD | 0 | (0) |
| 2019–2020 | Vila Real | 7 | (0) |
| 2020–2021 | US Vimy | 4 | (0) |
| 2021 | Djoliba AC | ||
| 2021–2023 | US Vimy | 35 | (0) |
| International career | |||
| 2008 | Gabon U20 | 2 | (0) |
| 2010– | Gabon | 28 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 20:47, 23 November 2023 (UTC) | |||
Merlin Abdoulaye Tandjigora (born 6 April 1990) is a Gabonese professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder.
Career
[edit | edit source]Born in Port-Gentil, Tandjigora was a player of the national football school located in his hometown.[2] On 9 July 2010, he became the first player from the academy to sign a professional contract with a European club after signing a one-year contract with Metz.[3][4]
Tandjigora arrived at Metz in 2009 and joined the club's Championnat de France amateur 2 team for the 2009–10 season. He played in 21 matches and scored two goals as the reserve team of Metz were crowned champions of the league finishing with 107 points.[5] After the season, Tandjigora signed his first professional contract and was, subsequently, promoted to the senior team and assigned the number 12 shirt by new manager Dominique Bijotat. He made his professional debut on 30 July 2010 in a Coupe de la Ligue match against Clermont. Tandjigora started the match and played 76 minutes in a 3–1 defeat.[6] He made his league debut a week later in a 2–0 defeat to Évian.[7]
Tandjigora was formerly a Gabonese youth international having earned caps with the nation's under-20 team in qualification for the 2009 African Youth Championship. On 30 September 2010, he was called up to the senior team for the first time by coach Gernot Rohr for matches against Oman and Saudi Arabia.[8] He competed for Gabon at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[9]
On 13 December 2019 it was confirmed, that Tandjigore had joined S.C. Vila Real.[10]
Honours
[edit | edit source]Club
[edit | edit source]Stade Mandji
References
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- ^ Merlin Tandjigora é reforço do SC Vila Real, desportivotransmontano.com, 13 December 2019
External links
[edit | edit source]- Merlin Tandjigora profile at fcmetz.com
- Merlin Tandjigora – French league stats at LFP – also available in French (archived)Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- Merlin Tandjigora – FIFA competition record (archived)Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- Merlin Tandjigora at SoccerwayLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- 1990 births
- Living people
- People from Ogooué-Maritime Province
- Men's association football midfielders
- Gabonese men's footballers
- Gabonese expatriate men's footballers
- Ligue 2 players
- Liga Portugal 2 players
- China League One players
- Primeira Liga players
- Championnat National players
- Championnat National 2 players
- AS Stade Mandji players
- FC Metz players
- USJA Carquefou players
- Istres FC players
- Leixões S.C. players
- Meizhou Hakka F.C. players
- C.F. Os Belenenses players
- B-SAD players
- S.C. Vila Real players
- Djoliba AC players
- Olympic footballers for Gabon
- Footballers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- 2017 Africa Cup of Nations players
- Expatriate men's footballers in France
- Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal
- Expatriate men's footballers in China
- Expatriate men's footballers in Mali
- Gabonese expatriate sportspeople in France
- Gabonese expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
- Gabonese expatriate sportspeople in China
- Gabon men's international footballers
- 21st-century Gabonese sportsmen