Annette Jacky Messomo (born 1 March 1993) is a footballer who plays as a midfielder for Kosovan

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KFF A&N KFF A&N ( sq, Klubi Futbollistik për Femra A&N) was a women's football club based in Prizren, Kosovo. The club competed in Kosovo League which is the top tier of women's football in the country. Their home ground was the Boka-Boka Studium which ...

. Born and raised in Cameroon, she is a naturalized citizen of Equatorial Guinea and has played for that women's national team.

Early life

Messomo was born in Ebolowa, into an Eton family. She grew up in Cameroon where she fell in love with football. She has played football since she was 6 years old, mostly with co-ed teams, due to Cameroon not having an organized structure for women's football.

Club career

Messomo has played for Franck Rholiceck Douala, Louves Minproff Yaoundé and Panthère Security Garoua in Cameroon. She has made appearances at the UEFA Women's Champions League for FK Union Nové Zámky, ŽFK Spartak Subotica and BIIK Kazygurt, clubs from Slovakia, Serbia and Kazakhstan, respectively.

International career

Despite being born in Cameroon, whose women's national football team had pre-called up her in March 2014, Messomo began to play for

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in 2016. She had previously been called up for them in 2011. In September 2018, Messomo was declared by FIFA as ineligible to play for Equatorial Guinea because there were allegations of her not being eligible to represent Equatorial Guinea since she was born in Cameroon. The decision was later overruled by the Appeal Board of CAF.

Personal life

In 2015, Messomo began studying at University of Yaoundé II, pursuing a degree in

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References

1993 births Living people People from Ebolowa Cameroonian women's footballers Women's association football midfielders FC Energy Voronezh players FK Union Nové Zámky players ŽFK Spartak Subotica players BIIK Kazygurt players Cameroonian expatriate women's footballers Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Expatriate women's footballers in Russia Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Slovakia Expatriate women's footballers in Slovakia Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Serbia Expatriate women's footballers in Serbia Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan Expatriate women's footballers in Kazakhstan Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Expatriate footballers in Kosovo Naturalized citizens of Equatorial Guinea Equatoguinean women's footballers Equatorial Guinea women's international footballers {{EquatorialGuinea-women-footy-bio-stub