Clotilde Essiane

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Clotilde Essiane aka Junior [1] (born 6 August 1985) [2] is a Cameroonian boxer, mixed martial artist and a retired footballer, [3] who currently lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. [4]

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Football career

Clotilde Essiane
Personal information
Date of birth (1985-08-06) 6 August 1985 (age 38)
Place of birth Cameroon [5]
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) [3]
Position(s) Centre-forward [3]
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2004 TKC (17)
2006 Las Vegas
International career
2006–2007 Equatorial Guinea (5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

Essiane scored 17 goals for Cameroonian club TKC in 2004. [3] In October 2006, she was registered as a player for Equatorial Guinean club Las Vegas. [1]

International career

Essiane was going to play for the Cameroon national team at the 2004 African Women's Championship, but she missed it due to a tear in her left thigh. [3] Two years later, she was naturalized by Equatorial Guinea to play for its national team.

International goals

Scores and results list Equatorial Guinea's goal tally first

No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
128 October 2006 Oleh, Delta, Nigeria Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria 2–22–4 2006 African Women's Championship
23 November 2006 Oghara Township Stadium, Oghara, Nigeria Flag of Algeria.svg  Algeria 3–3
33–3
411 March 2007 [6] Caledonian Stadium, Pretoria, South Africa Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 1–1 [7] 2–4 2008 CAF Women's Pre-Olympic Tournament
52–2 [7]

Mixed martial arts career

Clotilde Essiane
NicknameJunior [5]
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Division Featherweight [5]
Fighting out ofSouth Africa [5]

In 2016, Essiane defeated Bunmi Ojewole from Nigeria and Rushda Mallick and Ansie Van Der Marwe, both from South Africa. [5]

Boxing career

Clotilde Essiane
Born (1985-08-06) 6 August 1985 (age 38)
Cameroon
NationalityCameroonian
Other names
  • Junior
  • Francisca Mbang [8]
Statistics
Weight(s) Middleweight
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)

Essiane represented Cameroon at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and she was their flag bearer at the Parade of Nations during the opening ceremony. She lost to Tammara Thibeault from Canada in the women's middleweight competition quarterfinals. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "5e CAN féminine: la sélection equato-guinéenne" (in French). RFI. 30 October 2006. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Boxing | Athlete Profile: Clotilde ESSIANE". Gold Coast 2018 Commowealth Games. Archived from the original on 3 May 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Moadougou, Priscille G. (5 November 2004). "Cameroun: Clotilde Essiane : Mains de velours, poings de fer" [Cameroon: Clotilde Essiane: velvet hands, iron fists]. CAMLIONS.COM (in French). Retrieved 3 May 2018. The best female boxer in the 75 kg is also a footballer.
  4. ↑ "Clotilde "Junior" Essiane". LFS. Archived from the original on 6 July 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Clotilde Essiane at Tapology.com
  6. ↑ "Live Scores - Equatorial Guinea - Women's - Matches (2007)". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on April 30, 2018.
  7. 1 2 Ndibi, Kushatha (12 March 2007). "DRC referee blows up a storm" . Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  8. ↑ Clotilde Essiane at BoxRec.com


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