Honours
Club
- Canon Yaoundé
Runners-up (1): 2002 - ES Sétif
- Runners-up (1): 2009–10
Champions (1): 2009–10
- Runners-up (1): 2009
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Francis Idriss Ambane Moubourou [1] | ||
| Date of birth | 8 November 1984 [2] | ||
| Place of birth | Douala, Cameroon | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder/Play-Maker [3] | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2002–2003 | Canon Yaoundé | 14 | (7) |
| 2003–2004 | KSC Lokeren | 17 | (6) |
| 2004–2007 | Union Douala | 20 | (4) |
| 2007–2008 | Canon Yaoundé | 19 | (5) |
| 2008–2011 | ES Sétif | 16 | (5) |
| 2011–2012 | ASO Chlef | 17 | (6) |
| 2012–2013 | WA Tlemcen | 21 | (7) |
| 2015–2017 | AS Fortuna | ||
| 2017–2018 | Gokulam Kerala FC | 3 | (0) |
| International career | |||
| Cameroon U-23 | 7 | (2) | |
| Cameroon | 4 | (0) | |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 00:00, 31 May 2012 (UTC) | |||
Francis Idriss Ambane Moubourou (born 8 November 1984 in Douala) is a Cameroonian professional footballer, [4] who last played for Gokulam Kerala FC in the I-League. [5]
Ambane started his professional club career with Elite One outfit Canon Yaoundé, where he appeared in 14 league matches and scored 7 goals. He was in Yaoundé's 2002 Super Coupe Roger Milla Runners-up squad.
He later moved to KSC Lokeren a Belgian association football club in 2003–2004 season. [6] After just one season Ambane returned to Cameroon and joined another MTN Elite one club Union Douala. [7] He spent 3 seasons there before he returned to his youth club Canon Yaoundé. [8] In 2009–2010 Ambane Francis was sold to ES Sétif. [9]
On 14 July 2011 Ambane signed a two-year contract with ASO Chlef, joining them on a free transfer from ES Sétif after terminating his contract with the club. [10] On 19 January 2012 Ambane signed a one-year contract with WA Tlemcen, joining them on a free transfer from ASO Chlef
With ES Sétif, he won the 2009–10 Algerian Cup. [11] He was also in Sétif's Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 and 2009 CAF Confederation Cup Runners-up squad.
On 11 October 2017, newly-formed I-League side Gokulam Kerala FC announced that they have secured services of Ambane for the 2017–18 I-League season. [12] [13] [14] Gokulam finished 7th in the season and Ambané has appeared in only 4 league matches for "the Malabarians". [15] On 14 January, he was released by the club. [16]
Ambané has represented Cameroon U23 in 7 matches, scoring 2 goals. He featured with the Cameroon 2004 Olympic team in Athens.
Ambane was the only home base that was selected 3 times for the Cameroon national team games in 2006–2007. [17] He made his senior international debut on 23 December 2012 against Niger in a 1-0 friendly win. [18]
He has also represented Cameroon in the 2016 African Nations Championship, where they lost 3-0 to Ivory Coast in the Quarter-finals.
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