Personal information | |||
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Full name | Darlin Zidane Yongwa Ngameni | ||
Date of birth | 22 September 2000 | ||
Place of birth | Douala, Cameroon | ||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Left-back | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Lorient | ||
Number | 44 | ||
Youth career | |||
EFBC | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2019–2020 | Niort II | 14 | (0) |
2019–2022 | Niort | 66 | (0) |
2022– | Lorient | 69 | (3) |
International career‡ | |||
2022– | Cameroon | 8 | (0) |
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 23:03, 10 May 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 17:28, 13 November 2024 (UTC) |
Darlin Zidane Yongwa Ngameni (born 22 September 2000) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Ligue 1 club Lorient and the Cameroon national team.
On 28 February 2019, Yongwa joined Niort from the Cameroonian club EFBC. [1] He made his professional debut with Niort in a 2–2 Ligue 2 tie with Auxerre on 27 July 2019. [2]
On 24 June 2022, Yongwa signed a four-year contract with Lorient. [3]
Yongwa debuted with the Cameroon national team as a late substitute in a friendly 2–0 loss to Uzbekistan on 23 September 2022. [4]
Club | Season | League | Coupe de France | Coupe de la Ligue | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Niort B | 2018–19 | National 3 | 3 | 0 | — | — | — | 3 | 0 | |||
2019–20 | National 3 | 11 | 0 | — | — | — | 11 | 0 | ||||
Total | 14 | 0 | — | — | — | 14 | 0 | |||||
Niort | 2019–20 | Ligue 2 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 12 | 0 | |
2020–21 | Ligue 2 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — [a] | 2 [b] | 0 | 30 | 0 | ||
2021–22 | Ligue 2 | 31 | 0 | — [c] | — | — | 31 | 0 | ||||
Total | 66 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | 72 | 0 | |||
Lorient | 2022–23 | Ligue 1 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 17 | 1 | ||
2023–24 | Ligue 1 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 22 | 1 | |||
2024–25 | Ligue 2 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 33 | 1 | |||
Total | 69 | 3 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 72 | 3 | ||||
Career total | 149 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 159 | 3 |
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Cameroon | 2022 | 1 | 0 |
2023 | 4 | 0 | |
2024 | 3 | 0 | |
Total | 8 | 0 |
Lorient