Personal information | |||
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Full name | Pierre-Emmanuel Ekwah Elimby [1] | ||
Date of birth | 15 January 2002 | ||
Place of birth | Massy, France [2] | ||
Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) [1] | ||
Position(s) | Central midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Sunderland | ||
Number | 39 | ||
Youth career | |||
2009–2011 | RC Arpajonnais | ||
2011–2016 | Bretigny FCS | ||
2016–2017 | CFF Paris | ||
2017–2018 | Nantes | ||
2018–2021 | Chelsea | ||
2021–2023 | West Ham United | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2023– | Sunderland | 56 | (5) |
International career‡ | |||
2017–2018 | France U16 | 13 | (1) |
2021–2022 | France U20 | 5 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17:40, 4 May 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 13:42, 5 August 2021 (UTC) |
Pierre-Emmanuel Ekwah Elimby (born 15 January 2002) is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for EFL Championship club Sunderland.
Born in Massy, Essonne, just outside of Paris, Ekwah began his career with amateur sides RC Arpajonnais, Bretigny FCS and CFF Paris, also spending two years in the INF Clairefontaine academy. [2] [3] He joined Nantes in 2017, spending one season before moving to England to join the academy of Chelsea. [4] He signed his first professional deal with Chelsea in April 2019. [5]
After three years with The Blues, in which he played in the UEFA Youth League and trained with the first team, he was linked with a move away from the club in 2021, going on trial with Portsmouth. [4] He also trialled with West Ham United, playing the last two Premier League 2 games of the 2020–21 season for The Hammers, scoring once against Arsenal. [6]
On 9 June 2021, West Ham United announced the signing of Ekwah from Chelsea on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee. [6] [7]
After a year and a half, in which he was unable to break into the West Ham United first team, featuring in the EFL Trophy for the club's under-21 side, he was linked with a loan move to EFL Championship side Sunderland in January 2023. [8] On 23 January 2023, he moved to Sunderland on a permanent transfer, penning a four-and-a-half year deal. [9] [10]
Ekwah is of Ghanaian and Cameroonian descent. [11] [3] Ekwah has represented France at youth international level. [2]
A powerful figure, standing at 1.89 m tall, he has stated that his favourite role on the pitch is as a box-to-box midfielder, and lists Zinedine Zidane as his childhood idol. [3] He has also played as a defensive midfielder, as well as dropping in to the back line to play as a left-back or centre-back. [3] [6]
Ekwah is the cousin of the footballers Paul-Georges Ntep, Ludéric, Romaric and Emeric Etonde, and the brother of the rugby player Charles-Edouard Ekwah Elimby. [12] [13]
Club | Season | League | FA Cup | EFL Cup | Europe | Other | Total | |||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
West Ham United U21 | 2021–22 | — | — | — | — | — | 2 [lower-alpha 1] | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
2022–23 | — | — | — | — | — | 3 [lower-alpha 1] | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||||
Sunderland | 2022–23 | Championship | 14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 2 [lower-alpha 2] | 0 | 18 | 0 | ||
2023–24 | Championship | 42 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 44 | 5 | ||
Total | 56 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 62 | 5 | ||
Career total | 56 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 67 | 5 |
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