Gustave Bahoken
Personal information
Full name Gustave Baheten Bahoken
Place of birth Douala, Cameroon
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Centre back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–1999 Cotonsport Garoua 18 (0)
1999 FC Sion 7 (0)
1999 Le Havre B 10 (0)
2000 Le Havre AC 1 (0)
2000–2001 Valenciennes FC 22 (0)
2001–2002 FC Rouen 17 (2)
2002–2005 Livingston 33 (0)
2003–2004 → Angers SCO (loan) 17 (0)
2005–2008 Aalesund 48 (1)
2009 Botev Plovdiv 4 (0)
2011 Persela Lamongan 0 (0)
2012 Mitra Kukar 6 (2)
International career‡
2003 Cameroon 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 2 June 2012
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11:29, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Gustave "Gus" Baheten Bahoken is a Cameroonian football player, who last played for Mitra Kukar in Indonesia.

Career

Bahoken moved to Aalesund from the French team Angers SCO in 2005.[1] Prior to playing for Angers, he had spent two seasons with Livingston in the Scottish Premier League.[2]

Bahoken accidentally broke former Celtic striker Henrik Larsson's jaw at Celtic Park in an unfortunate head-to-head collision in a game in 2003.[3]

In January 2009, he was given a trial at English League Two side Bradford City in a reserve game with Scunthorpe United.[4]

International career

He was part of the Cameroonian 2004 African Nations Cup team, who finished top of their group in the first round of competition, before losing in the quarter-finals to Nigeria. Bahoken was part of the Cameroonian squad that went all the way to the final in the FIFA Confederations Cup 2003 in France.[5] He played only one full cap for Cameroon.[6]

Personal life

His younger brother Stéphane Bahoken plays for OGC Nice in the youth side.

Honours

Club honors

Cotonsport Garoua

References

  1. ^ Gustave Bahoken on footballplus.com Archived 2009-01-08 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Gustave Bahoken : "I’m always proud to play for my country." (Livingstone) Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Bahoken heartbroken
  4. ^ Parker, Simon (20 January 2009). "Gustave out to prove a must have for McCall". Telegraph & Argus. Retrieved 20 January 2009.
  5. ^ FIFA.com - FIFA Player Statistics: Gustave BAHOKEN
  6. ^ Gustave Bahoken - Scottish Football Archive Archived 2009-12-13 at the Wayback Machine

External links

Cameroon squad – 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup runners-up
Cameroon squad – 2004 Africa Cup of Nations
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