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Amadou Ba Zeund Georges Mvom Onana (born 16 August 2001) is a professional
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who plays as a
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for club Everton. Born in Senegal, he plays for the Belgium national team.


Club career


Hamburger SV

Onana joined
2. Bundesliga The 2. Bundesliga ( ) is the second division of professional football in Germany. It was implemented 11 years after the founding of the Fußball-Bundesliga as the new second division for professional football. The 2. Bundesliga is ranked below ...
club
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in mid-2020. He made his professional debut for the club in the first round of the
2020–21 DFB-Pokal The 2020–21 DFB-Pokal was the 78th season of the annual German football cup competition. Sixty-four teams participated in the competition, including all teams from the previous year's Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga. The competition began on 11 Se ...
on 14 September 2020, coming on as a substitute in the 60th minute against 3. Liga side
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. He scored a header in the 89th minute of the match, which finished as a 4–1 away loss.


Lille

In August 2021, Onana joined Ligue 1 club
Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Pref ...
on a five year deal. He made 32 league appearances in 2021–22, scoring once.


Everton

Onana signed for
Premier League The Premier League (legal name: The Football Association Premier League Limited) is the highest level of the men's English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Foo ...
club Everton on a five-year contract on 9 August 2022 for a reported £33m including add-ons. He scored his first Premier League goal for Everton, a header from a corner, in a 2–1 home defeat against
Southampton Southampton () is a port city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. It is located approximately south-west of London and west of Portsmouth. The city forms part of the South Hampshire built-up area, which also covers Po ...
on 14 January 2023.


International career

On 18 May 2022, Onana was named in the Belgium senior squad for the four
2022–23 UEFA Nations League The 2022–23 UEFA Nations League is the third season of the UEFA Nations League, an international association football competition involving the men's national teams of the 55 member associations of UEFA in Europe. The competition is being held ...
matches in June 2022 against
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,
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(twice) and
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respectively. Onana made his full international debut against the Netherlands on 3 June 2022. On 10 November 2022, Onana was named in the final 26-man squad for the
2022 FIFA World Cup The 2022 FIFA World Cup is an international association football, football tournament contested by the men's national teams of FIFA's member associations. The 22nd FIFA World Cup is taking place in Qatar from 20 November to 18 December 2022 ...
in Qatar. He made two appearances at the tournament, appearing as a substitute in the first group game against
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and starting against
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in the second. He was suspended for Belgium's final match, as the team drew 0–0 with
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and were eliminated.


Personal life

Onana was born in
Dakar Dakar ( ; ; wo, Ndakaaru) (from daqaar ''tamarind''), is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The city of Dakar proper has a population of 1,030,594, whereas the population of the Dakar metropolitan area is estimated at 3.94 million in 2 ...
, Senegal to a Senegalese mother and a Cameroonian father. At the age of 11, Onana, with his mother and sister, moved to
Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
,
Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...
to join his father. Onana is a Muslim. He is fluent in five languages:
Wolof Wolof or Wollof may refer to: * Wolof people, an ethnic group found in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania * Wolof language, a language spoken in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania * The Wolof or Jolof Empire, a medieval West African successor of the Mal ...
,
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,
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,
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and
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.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Onana, Amadou 2001 births Living people Footballers from Dakar Belgian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders S.V. Zulte Waregem players RWS Bruxelles players R.S.C. Anderlecht players TSG 1899 Hoffenheim II players Hamburger SV players Lille OSC players Everton F.C. players Regionalliga players 2. Bundesliga players Ligue 1 players Premier League players Belgium men's youth international footballers Belgium men's under-21 international footballers Belgium men's international footballers 2022 FIFA World Cup players Belgian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in England Expatriate men's footballers in France Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Belgian expatriate sportspeople in England Belgian expatriate sportspeople in France Belgian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Belgian people of Cameroonian descent Belgian people of Senegalese descent Senegalese emigrants to Belgium Naturalised citizens of Belgium