N'Gemo, Landry

N'Gemo is a native of the small Cameroonian city of Dschang , located in the west of the country. He started playing football in a local team. At age 13, he moved to Yaoundé with his family.

Nancy

Speaking for the city team of the capital of Cameroon, Landry was spotted by scouts of the French club Nancy , after which he was invited to watch, after which N'Gemo signed a reservist contract with a team from Lorraine . At this point, he was only 15 years old. At the same age, Cameroon made its debut for the first Nancy roster. This happened in a French Championship match in which the Olympic Club was opposed by Olympic Lyon . A month later, in the game with the Troyes , N'Gemo first came out in the starting lineup of Nancy.

In January 2009, after reports appeared in the French and English media about interest in the player from Arsenal , Sunderland and Everton , Landry announced his desire to leave Nancy ^[2] .

On January 31 of the same year, in a duel with Le Havre , N'Gemo scored his first goal for the French team - the Cameroonian struck an exact shot in the 90th minute of the meeting, and this goal was victorious for the Landry club. On May 23, the African player scored for the second time - also in the last seconds of the match he hit the goal of Marseille , but this time Nancy lost with a score of 1: 2.

Celtic

July 16, 2009 N'Gemo moved to the Scottish Celtic under a lease. The agreement between the clubs was concluded under the following conditions - the 2009/10 season Cameroonian stands for the “Celts”, after which the Glazgovites have the right to redeem Landry’s transfer. His play number, the African chose the "six" ^{[3] [4] [5]} . N'Gemo's debut for the “Celts” turned out to be successful - he was recognized as a player of the match, where his team met as part of their pre-season training with Cardiff City ^[6] .

In an official meeting, “Celtic” cameroon made his debut home game “white-green” with the Moscow “ Dynamo ”, which the “Celts” lost 0: 1. It was a game of the 2nd qualifying stage of the Champions League . Landry also participated in the return game in Moscow, where, having won by a score of 2: 0, the Scots went to the London Arsenal.

In the Scottish Premier League, N'Gemo made his first appearance in the club's white and green T-shirt in an away Celtic winning match against Aberdeen on August 15, 2009.

In total for the 2009/10 season, Landry played 43 matches.

In late May 2010, a Cameroonian said in an interview that he was happy with everything in Glasgow, and he would not mind staying in Scotland ^[7] . In the offseason, the Celts tried to redeem the rights to the player from Nancy, but the sum of 1.8 million pounds was too big for Celtic, and N'Gemo was forced to return to France ^[8] .

Return to Nancy

In the first match upon his return to Nancy, which was the French championship match against Nice , N'Gemo, appearing as a substitute in the 64th minute of the meeting, was removed for two yellow cards at the end of the match ^[9] . On March 12, 2011, having hit the gates of Cana , the Cameroonian scored his first goal for the Lorraine team after returning from Scotland ^[10] .

Bordeaux

At the end of the 2010/11 season, the midfielder contract with Nancy expired and he became a free agent. On July 1, 2011, Landry reached an agreement in principle with another club of the French League 1 - Bordeaux ^[11] . Three days after a successful medical examination, N'Gemo signed a 3-year contract with the Girondins ^[12] . On August 7, Landry defended the colors of Bordeaux for the first time in an official match - the Saint Etienne club was an opponent of his team that day ^[13] . On May 2, 2012, the Cameroonian opened the scoring for his goals for the Girondins, hitting the “nine” goal of the Rennes club with an excellent long-range strike ^[14] .

Club statistics

(updated as of January 23, 2013)

For the national team of Cameroon, Landry played 35 matches, scored three goals. Member of the Cups of African Nations 2008 and 2010 .

May 12, 2010 N'Gemo was included in the preliminary composition of the Cameroonian team for the 2010 World Cup ^[15] . On May 30, when the final composition of the national team for the World Cup was announced, Landry was among the 23 players who went to South Africa ^[16] .

  Nancy

• French League Cup Winner: 2005/06

  "Bordeaux"

• French Cup Winner: 2012/13

N'Gemo is an ardent fan of falconry . He has a small collection of hunting birds, in which his favorite is a white-tailed eagle named Mr. George, named after Landry’s childhood idol, the famous Liberian football player George Weah .

• Player profile on soccerbase.com
• La fiche de Landry N'Guemo (Statistics of the performances of N'Gemo in the French championship) (fr.)
• Player profile on Transfermarkt
• Soccerway Profile
• Worldfootball.net profile
• N'Gemo's profile on footballdatabase.eu