Jean Onana

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Jean Onana
Onana with Beşiktaş, 2023
Personal information
Full name Jean Emile Junior Onana Onana
Date of birth (2000-01-08) 8 January 2000 (age 23)
Place of birth Yaoundé, Cameroon
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Defensive midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Beşiktaş
Number 71
Youth career
Nkufo Academy
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2019–2020 Leixões 1 (0)
2020–2021 Lille B 1 (0)
2020–2021 Lille 1 (0)
2020–2021 → Mouscron (loan) 28 (2)
2021–2022 Bordeaux 26 (3)
2022–2023 Lens 21 (0)
2023– Beşiktaş 4 (0)
International career‡
2020– Cameroon 10 (0)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Cameroon
Africa Cup of Nations
Third place 2021 Cameroon
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:10, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10:10, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Jean Emile Junior Onana Onana (born 8 January 2000) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Turkish Super League club Beşiktaş and the Cameroon national team.[1][2]

He has no relation to his international teammate André Onana.

Club career[edit]

On 31 January 2020, Onana joined Lille from Leixões.[3] Onana made his professional debut with Lille in a 2–1 Ligue 1 loss to Marseille on 16 February 2020.[4] In August 2020, he joined Belgian club Mouscron along with some Lille players on loan,[5] where he received a red card in a Division A match defeat to Kortrijk on 13 September.[6]

On 30 August 2021, Onana moved to Ligue 1 club Bordeaux on a five-year contract.[7] On 1 September 2022, he signed for his former club Lille's rivals Lens on a five-year contract.[8] He made his first appearance with Lens on 4 September 2022 against Reims.

On July 21, 2023 Onana moved to Turkish Super League club Beşiktaş.[9]

International career[edit]

Onana made his Cameroon national team debut on 8 October 2020 in a friendly against Japan.[10][11]

Career statistics[edit]

As of match played 30 June 2023[12]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Leixões 2018–19 Liga Portugal 2 1 0 — — 1 0
Lille 2019–20 Ligue 1 1 0 — 0 0 1 0
Mouscron (loan) 2020–21 First Division A 28 2 1 0 — 29 2
Bordeaux 2021–22 Ligue 1 23 3 0 0 — 23 3
2022–23 Ligue 2 3 0 0 0 — 3 0
Total 26 3 0 0 — 26 3
Lens 2022–23 Ligue 1 21 0 2 0 — 23 0
Career total 77 3 3 0 0 0 80 3

Honours[edit]

Cameroon

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Player". Ligue1. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Biography of Jean Onana | BeSoccer". www.besoccer.com. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  3. ^ "Le milieu camerounais Jean Onana est Lillois | Lille LOSC". www.losc.fr.
  4. ^ "Lille vs. Olympique Marseille - 16 February 2020". Soccerway.
  5. ^ "Royal Excel Mouscron sign Ivorian and Lille centre back". Goal.com. 18 August 2020. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  6. ^ "KV Kortrijk vs. Excel Mouscron - 13 September 2020". Soccerway.
  7. ^ "Junior Onana rejoint les Girondins" (in French). Bordeaux. 30 August 2021.
  8. ^ "Jean Onana, du coffre dans l'entrejeu" (in French). RC Lens. 1 September 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
  9. ^ "Jean Onana switches to Beşiktaş". bjk.com.tr. 21 July 2023. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  10. ^ "Japan v Cameroon game report". ESPN. 8 October 2020.
  11. ^ "Cameroon - J. Onana - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Soccerway. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  12. ^ "Jean Onana". Soccerway.
  13. ^ AfricaNews (6 February 2022). "Cameroon beats Burkina Faso to end AFCON 2021 in third place". Africanews. Retrieved 6 February 2022.

External links[edit]

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