Personal information | |||
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Full name | Jean-Pierre Junior Nsame [1] | ||
Date of birth | 1 May 1993 | ||
Place of birth | Douala, Cameroon | ||
Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Como | ||
Number | 77 | ||
Youth career | |||
2008–2012 | Angers | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2012–2016 | Angers II | 38 | (22) |
2012–2016 | Angers | 23 | (1) |
2013–2014 | → Carquefou (loan) | 22 | (0) |
2014–2015 | → Amiens (loan) | 34 | (7) |
2016–2017 | Servette | 31 | (23) |
2017–2024 | Young Boys | 175 | (109) |
2022 | → Venezia (loan) | 11 | (0) |
2024– | Como | 4 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2017– | Cameroon | 5 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 27 February 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18:40 29 August 2023 (UTC) |
Jean-Pierre Junior Nsame (born 1 May 1993) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie B club Como and the Cameroon national team.
Nsame made his professional debut in April 2012 for Angers in a 1–1 Ligue 2 draw against Metz. [2] He made 23 appearances for Angers over four seasons with the club and also enjoyed loan spells with Carquefou and Amiens in the Championnat National.
At the end of the 2015–16 season, having failed to break into the first team on a regular basis, Nsame was released by the club. In July 2016, Nsame went on trial at English League One side Walsall and played in a 2–1 friendly defeat to Norwich City. However, after negative details emerged about his past, he was released by the club. [3] [4]
On 23 August 2016, Nsame signed for Swiss Challenge League side Servette. He finished as the league's top goalscorer with 23 goals, helping the club to an impressive third place finish after their promotion the previous season.
His goals attracted interest from other clubs and in July 2017, after only one year in Geneva, he joined Young Boys of the Swiss Super League. In his first season, he was part of the Young Boys squad that won the Super League title for the first time in 32 years. [5] They clinched the title with a 2–1 win over Luzern on 28 April 2018, with Nsame scoring an 89th minute winner. [6] He helped the club retain their title the following campaign, scoring 15 goals in 31 league appearances.
On 14 September 2019, Nsame netted his first hat-trick for the club in an 11–2 victory over fifth division side FC Freienbach in the second round of the Swiss Cup. Five days later, he scored his first goal in European competition in a 2–1 defeat to Portuguese side FC Porto in the group stage of the Europa League. [7] On 24 November, he scored a hat-trick in a 4–3 win over FC Sion in the Swiss Super League; the match also saw Pajtim Kasami score a hat-trick for Sion. [8]
In the 2019–20 Swiss Super league season Nsame finished the season as the league's top goalscorer with 32 goals in 32 matches [9] and powered the Young Boys to winning the Swiss double, by winning the Swiss League for the 3rd straight time [10] and the Swiss Cup. [11]
On 31 January 2022, Nsame joined Italian club Venezia on loan until the end of the 2021–22 season, with an option to buy. [12]
On 25 January 2024, Nsame signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with Como in Italian Serie B. [13]
Nsame was called up to the Cameroon squad for the 2017 Confederations Cup. [14]
He earned his first cap for Cameroon when he started their match against Nigeria on 4 September 2017 in a qualifying match for the 2018 World Cup. [15]
On 9 November 2022, he was named in the final squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. [16]
His family name is correctly spelled Nsame, not Nsamé. [17] [18]
Club | Season | League | National cup [lower-alpha 1] | League cup [lower-alpha 2] | Europe | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Angers | 2011–12 | Ligue 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | ||
2012–13 | Ligue 2 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 19 | 1 | ||
2015–16 | Ligue 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 7 | 0 | ||
Total | 23 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 27 | 1 | |||
Carquefou (loan) | 2013–14 | Championnat National | 22 | 0 | 6 | 0 | — | — | 28 | 0 | ||
Amiens (loan) | 2014–15 | Championnat National | 34 | 7 | 2 | 3 | — | — | 36 | 10 | ||
Servette | 2016–17 | Swiss Challenge League | 31 | 23 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 31 | 23 | ||
Young Boys | 2017–18 | Swiss Super League | 31 | 13 | 5 | 2 | — | 9 [lower-alpha 3] | 0 | 45 | 15 | |
2018–19 | Swiss Super League | 31 | 15 | 4 | 1 | — | 5 [lower-alpha 4] | 0 | 40 | 16 | ||
2019–20 | Swiss Super League | 32 | 32 | 6 | 7 | — | 8 [lower-alpha 5] | 2 | 46 | 41 | ||
2020–21 | Swiss Super League | 30 | 19 | 1 | 0 | — | 11 [lower-alpha 6] | 7 | 42 | 26 | ||
2022–23 | Swiss Super League | 33 | 21 | 4 | 5 | — | 6 [lower-alpha 7] | 4 | 43 | 30 | ||
2023–24 | Swiss Super League | 18 | 9 | 3 | 3 | — | 4 [lower-alpha 4] | 0 | 25 | 12 | ||
Total | 175 | 109 | 23 | 18 | — | 43 | 13 | 241 | 140 | |||
Venezia (loan) | 2021–22 | Serie A | 11 | 0 | — | — | — | 11 | 0 | |||
Como | 2023–24 | Serie B | 4 | 0 | — | — | — | 4 | 0 | |||
Career total | 300 | 141 | 33 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 43 | 13 | 378 | 176 |
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